From a glass plate negative in my collection. 🥰 No date/info.

One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

The Encyclopedia Of Alternate Guitar Tunings www.waguitartunings.com

on cnbc just now the president of cisco said that according to their studies, an ai agent uses 450% more network resources than a human to perform the same task. that's wild. and i can only imagine that roughly applies to its other resource usage as well.

Postcard from my collection, no date. If you don't mind, please check out my birthday fundraiser for our local animal shelter! 🥳 givebutter.com/mollys-birth...

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

The Quietus is 90% funded by subscribers, and we need another 500 this spring to help us fight the AI-pocalypse – with this in mind, there's a huge sale on our top tier subscriptions. If you like what we do, here's how you can help: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

The human imagination and collective beliefs are, well, not a digital computer, but they are 'programmable' to some degree. And if you run them on the program "lol nothing matters because post-modernism and beliefs are inherently programmable" you're going to get a nihilism or fascism as its output.

the penne opticon

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

TATERS!!!

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

📸 kobateck

Always the perfect centerpiece for any occasion. Photo from my collection no info/date.

I think punk rock taught me this plus: (1) If you can’t do it, do it anyway (2) No one else will care about it as much as you do, so do as much of it yourself as you can (3) Support other people who are doing it the way you are and don’t cut people down

In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

I hate that almost every search stopped supporting quotation marks around a word or phrase to match it exactly. There are so many times that I know exactly what I'm looking for but it keeps trying to show me unrelated bullshit. The loss of booleans and advanced filtering is a whole other issue.

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying bsky.app/profile/slcl...

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Proving I'm a human by being forced to mechanical Turk imaging analysis being fed to a techbro's private terminator army

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Today in Japan it's National Cat Day. In Japan, cats say "nyan" rather than "meow" and today's date is 22/2 (ni ni ni) which sounds a bit like “nyan nyan nyan”. I don't need any excuse to celebrate cats & I've written about cats in #JapaneseFolklore & culture here: open.substack.com/pub/curiouso...

Conserve The Sound: An online museum of vanishing and endangered sounds www.conservethesound.de

I recently got this set of four shots of an adorable tabby. None of them are in focus and honestly I don’t really care. ☺️ I started collecting cat photos primarily because of the love they represent, if they’re technically nice too that’s just a bonus. Ca. 1950s.