*The "Clear and Bright" campaign of the Cyberspace Administration of China purges some chosen high-profile victims who seem insufficiently clear and bright […]

That instrument sure is loud and psychedeilc considering that it's 5000 years old https://youtu.be/JU4QRxsZhjg?si=yhsbC1JYx0vqgdD6

*I really enjoy fast-breaking news articles about the eventual fate of the entire Universe https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/06/universe-expansion-slowing-not-accelerating-nobel-prize

*Tattooed undertaker crucifiers. These guys sound pretty tough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_funerary_practices

*Who the heck is gonna read a severely weird slop meme-aesthetic critical screed like this *Well, that would be me https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/vulgarity-the-vulgar-image

https://youtu.be/mW8EVyHKYaI?si=G4javI5RiBDuAb2D If you detest AI slop art, this guy is your class-enemy. He doesn't talk like an artist, or even a coder. Mostly, he talks like a gamer. Like a lonely career gambler in a huge, glittering casino who imagines he can eke out a living among the […]

*If all goes well I'll be publicly interviewing the Versificatore at Share Festival tomorrow. In Moncaliere. At Paratissima. *In a university dissection-room *It's gonna be risky https://medium.com/p/0b14e511e7b6

*The "Post-Naive Internet." Mastodon and all things fedi don't even exist in this universe, apparently. https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-personal/the-post-naive-internet-era/ Screenshot 2025-10-30 at 14.29.14.jpg

*Our tech-art festival is happening in Turin, Italy right now. *We've been around a while. Also, we don't stop

*These native forms of LLM-Agent disasters seem interesting https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/we-spent-47-000-running-ai-agents-in-production-heres-what-nobody-tells-you-about-a2a-and-mcp-5f845848de33

Is Marilyn not even 100 years old yet? Gosh, that seems awfully young, given that it's "Marilyn Monroe"

*Generative art 1960s vs generative art 2020s

*I'm by no means a great photographer but this snapshot is what Belgrade Serbia looks-and-feels like nowadays. #dubaionthedanube

*I've seen some weird cyberwar allegations in my day but that one is out-there. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202510/1345993.shtml

"These sub-threshold patterns cannot be projected into binary outcomes without destroying their causal structure." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264725002187?via%3Dihub

*How to to pretend to be a real bunch of Vikings. Don't forget the Catering Manager https://www.academia.edu/22058374/How_to_organize_a_historical_event_involving_reenactment_groups_Written_by_a_program_artist_and_artistic_manager

Fossil-power vampirizing the planet

Everybody else is a Dark Age hick

This, too, shall pass

Richard Feynman on bongos

*Einstein taking a lot of trouble to part his hair in that pic.

*The Nintendo Game Boy that got incinerated in the "Nintendo War" of 1991. https://www.military.com/off-duty/games/game-boy-survived-iraqi-bombing-during-gulf-war.html

Feynman grooving on the bongos in New Mexico in 1945

*Elbow-deep in building hydrogen bombs and then finally dead of Covid-19, well, there's a Houston-girl saga for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_W._Rosenbluth

*I wonder what it physically looks like when PEOPLE add numbers from 1 to 99 in their heads "Mental arithmetic," that must be awful gooey and messy https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873

"Los Alamos Chess." Dumbed-down for really crude computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_chess

*Feynman. What a slob. #atomicbomb #losalamos

*I've read this prophecy many times and as I get older I find more consolation in it. I like the parts that have "not-even-wrongness." https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

To paraphrase Konrad Lorenz: The scientist is the guy who knows everything about nothing, while the philosopher is the guy who knows nothing about everything. *Or maybe it's the opposite

Feynman creates a John Henry contest: it's IBM punchcard computers vs women with mechanical desk calculators. The prize is an Atomic Bomb. The computer wins, and also the bomb works. So all the cool people know that henceforth it will be all about computers

*The MANIAC produced the hydrogen bomb. Those may be the most deadly women in world history

*Really has that open-source Maker thing going on

*The kid couldn't afford a real airplane, so he decided to build a fake one out of leftover pipe-organ parts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Trainer

"Ivory labs." What a good idea. What does an "ivory laboratory" even look like? What do researchers do to pass the time in there

*When the palace-intrigue about the device is more interesting than the device. https://ericmigi.com/blog/re-introducing-the-pebble-appstore

Call me a fantasist, but I don't see why this view is "pessimistic." Suppose that we woke up tomorrow and "phlogiston" had returned and was experimentally verifiable. People would be selling phlogiston on Ebay in about a week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimistic_induction

*It was a giant working model of the entire Mississippi River... and it was built by prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Basin_Model

"What the hell were we thinking?! We could have fallen and busted our asses down there!"

*The South Koreans haven't shut down their goverment, but a lithium-battery fire in a data center just incinerated a lot of it https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/south-korea-state-data-centre-fire-daejeon-b2834847.html

Tech and computer science schools. The USA used to have some pretty good ones.

*Yesterday's science fiction is today's science, etc

*Curing Alzheimer's in mice *Skeptics will go, "heyn that's in mice," and rightly so, but curing it at all, that's a big deal https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-025-02426-1

*A billion views for Shah Rukh Khan as a dropout Indian intelligence agent who turns into a dancing Balearic hippie #MegaHit https://youtu.be/YxWlaYCA8MU?si=0ydUuAIar4QTIX3h

*There's a historical plaque where the Big Bang took place, and it's seventeen million light-years yonder past Aquarius https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-where-are-we-located-relative-to-the-big-bang-95707c6caff3

" a mind-bending tool to generate impressive AI video slop has diverted the narrative," says Steven Levy, who has learned to speak fluent AI-speak, as, indeed, is his wont https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-says-the-gpt-5-haters-got-it-all-wrong/

*The musical "asylum seekers phonecard party." That was eleven years ago. They're all much worse-off now. https://soundcloud.com/bcrevits/asylum-seekers-phonecard-party