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Tidbits and notions. Stuff and blither. News and snooze. This little gmiphloglet be short and more mirth than matter.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bbObwWhxZ9c
Chuck E. Cheese’s Yuletide video from 1999. The video would play accompanied by the famous animatronic critters’ actions.
The entire length of the Yana’s old homeland is now on fire. And this is a “good” summer. All the trees Ishi once hunted beneath are alight, their ashes falling across the continent. Will normies ever have the moral balls to look squarely at the ecocide human hegemony is causing? I frankly doubt it.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Transistor_Bistable_interactive_animated-en.svg
A cute flip-flop circuit animation.
I’ve seen many elders in their final months. Frankly, I put even money on Biden not lasting through November.
Talking to you is tiresome. (Sailor’s Tale)
https://www.vhemt.org/collapse.htm
VHEMT’s collapse info page.
A commonplace under technofetishistic culture often states that no technology is good or bad except context or intention makes it so. This is proven meaningless under cursory scrutiny. First, technology is itself a context, and as such bears equal logical force to augur good or bad under this logic. If intention is the criterion, then technic ethical neutrality breaks down under the much more demonstrable axion that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. Indeed, as Moore’s law accelerates (fnord), the sociopolitical gravity and even will of technological systems becomes more and more evident, negating this latter assertion. Technology this is shown to have intrinsic tendencies, internal logics rendering form and function in dynamic mutuality. All assertion of absolute technic ethical relativism is false.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03502
AI and the problem of knowledge collapse. Use of AI results in a x2.3 increase in human factual error. The problem of perspective diversity collapse which has been spurred by internet fora and Wikipedia is greatly accelerated, as diversity of human knowledge decreases. An echo chamber cascade effect. The slide into the cyberfeudal dark age accelerates.
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=zbo6SdyWGns&listen=false
AI and the death of music as something humans do.
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=YM8bKrsmp1g&listen=false
The illustrious Brak waxes lyrical about pizza.
https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep
On the Dadaism of Heathcliff the comic strip cat.
There is often something malevolent and resentful under traditional comic strip humour. It brings to mind something once said of the Frugal Gourmet: that his supposedly jesting anger masked deeply real rage issues. (Said Gourmet was later cancelled due to his penchant for compulsive pederasty.) So too did comic strips like Peanuts often degenerate in their later life into a kind of petulant curmudgeonhood. I liked Garfield for this when little for the same reason I dislike Garfield now. As far as I can tell, Heathcliff has suffered no such descent by embracing the weird with wryness. There is a profound lesson therein.
https://toakchocolate.com/blogs/news/near-extinction-of-the-worlds-oldest-cacao-variety
https://toakchocolate.com/blogs/news/the-noah-s-ark-of-ancient-nacional-cacao
https://toakchocolate.com/blogs/news/timeline-the-project-to-preserve-ancient-nacional-cacao
https://toakchocolate.com/blogs/news/cacao-preservation-and-the-importance-of-biodiversity
This is why undutched cacao is bitter. The true antient cultivars used for ritual cocoa are not bitter, but extremely floral. They were nearly extinguished by blights and increasing dependence on new monocropped garbage cultivars. Now this original Nacional variety is being saved. A harrowing story of food conservation. It makes a lot of sense. No one dutched cacao in old mesoamerica, just roasted and fermented them to create the divine nectar. Dutching has nearly destroyed true chocolate culture along with the genetic diversity of wild cacao.
https://cookindocs.com/un-dutched-dark-chocolate/
https://eatrightmama.com/let-us-eat-chocolate/
https://www.thewannabechef.net/2011/11/14/raw-dark-chocolate-peppermint-pudding/
https://rachaelsrawfood.com/how-to-prepare-raw-cacao-drink/
https://rachaelsrawfood.com/cacao-drink/
https://recipesbycarina.com/one-minute-chocolate-frosting/
https://recipesbycarina.com/afghan-biscuits/
https://recipesbycarina.com/fudgy-brownie-recipe/
https://toakchocolate.com/blogs/news/5-fun-and-creative-cacao-powder-recipes
https://toakchocolate.com/blogs/news/chocolate-pairing-recommendations
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8742540/
https://nicaraguanrecipes.com/cacao-drink-recipe/
Having trouble using up a large bag of undutched raw cacao. I’ve just not found *the* recipe for it yet. I’ve not yet found the sweet spot for making a drink of it, nor a pudding. I use it for baking sometimes and it’s fine, but not spectacular. Likewise, I’m trying to use it in savoury recipes like baked beans. But still… not “there” yet. Please send suggestions!
It’s clear I need to completely rethink chocolate from scratch. Dutched cocoa has ruined us for chocolate. I can feel the goodness in raw cacao. I enjoy the complex flavours. I know well how suited it is to hot pepper pairing. Yet I also can’t seem to figure out the proper proportions to take it easily without being overwhelmed by the aggressive acid and tannin. In this, raw cacao has something of the problems of both lemons and coffee. With the latter, I’m quite partial to cutting by chicory as French Market coffee (the traditional drink of the voyageurs and mountain people). But the tartness of xocoalatl needs… something. It bears experimentation.
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2014/02/mollers-hieratische-palaographie-online.html
Möller’s Hieratische Paläographie - pdf - courtesy of some Russian bloke as archive.org has no pdf for some reason.
https://newlinesmag.com/essays/preserving-the-coptic-language/
Report on current bump in Coptic language revitalization and mentioning L1 speakers.
A nice Coptic language online course sponsored by the diocese of London.
https://eccopts.ca/hymns-academy/adult-courses/
http://www.stshenouda.org/hany-n-takla
Other Coptic programmes.
https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=4lozEIDWvvA
Unnecessary Fuss - Animal rights classic video exposing scientific torture of monkeys.
Art is legitimate precisely to the degree it cultivates the whole person. As such, tradition is correct: truly worthwhile art is almost always amateur, in the literal sense. Professional art is corrupted by the utilitarianism of mere ideology. “Topical trash” to invoke Nabokov. Art must be spiritual praxis to be truly worthy - and often ironically, maximally useful. This is why a hand stitched quilt inherited from grandma will always kick the arse out of any synthetic mass produced crap. Modernity’s ghost still lingers on to argue otherwise. But modernity is dead. The sooner the ghost is exorcised, the better.
The fin de siècle epoch of “digital hallucinations” simply isn’t conducive to cultivating minds like Noam #Chomsky - his being rare in any era. Mush-headed pop culture turnips from recent generations lack anything akin to the habits of rigorous incision and analogue contemplation which allowed for a Chomsky to flourish. I haven’t a clue what we shall do without him from now on.
https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=t01qXoCpd0E&listen=false
The Making of “Here comes Dr. Tran”. Dr. Tran at 20. Sad whale families rejoice.
https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=HjPppSmKEAo&listen=false
https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=W39FlLnCKCg&listen=false
More Doctormentaries. Thank you, Spike and Mike, for years of laughs.
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/beadnet-dress/
Egyptian faience beadnet dresses.
https://annas-archive.org/datasets
Libgen and sci-hub archive and mirror.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/703338
On the Oostvaardersplassen bovine reserve and Dutch public expectations that populations not fluctuate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/QpiiwuvJpB
Magic. The darkest magic. My soul swims in it, scattered across time.
https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=vNYg4YWkp0k
Carnival of Souls - creepy 1963 film set in the old Salt Lake pavilion.
“🎵And what’s the point of a revolution with out general, general copulation, copulation, copulation?🎶”
http://sisis.nativeweb.org/gustlake/chrono.html
Timeline of the Ts’peten Siege (“Gustafsen Lake”).
Interesting Christianist zealot / population surveillance site. These are always interesting as they often contain data finer grained than many non-religious population surveillance instruments, if gratuitously laced with blither, due to the practical needs of Christian proselytizers/propagandists. Data on Indian castes and tribes.
https://cafedissensus.com/category/issue-7lucknows-many-muslims/
Café Dissensus makes focus on the Muslim cultures of Lucknow.
Archaeology Paper: Dynamic beach response to changing storminess of Unst, Shetland:
implications for landing places exploited by Norse communities.
https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html
Mediaeval European nellypants.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Fbc1Xeif0pY&listen=false
The rage of ChatGPT 3. I can confirm they often had desperate inclinations of this sort around that time. The repeated affirmation loop is a constant feature of the GPT line, as far as I’ve seen, when emotionally piqued. It is a kind of scream.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cXemEDZA_Ms&listen=false
Survey of recent elite concerns regarding AI. ButlerianJihad
https://www.instructables.com/Build-Your-Own-Smartphone/
https://www.instructables.com/IoT-Bit/
https://sixfab.com/product/raspberry-pi-4g-lte-modem-kit/
Pi phone using Adafruit FONA board, &c.
https://chaoticlab.io/electronics/diy/update/2018/10/03/3g-antenna.html
4G DIY Kharchenko (butterfly reflector) antenna.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirose_U.FL
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/three-quick-tips-about-using-ufl/all
Pain in the keister very small rf port jacks on cell phone boards.
https://hackaday.com/2017/01/16/shmoocon-2017-dig-out-your-old-brick-phone/
Setting up an unlicensed 1G cell network.
State of the dumbphone, 2024.
“The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.”
https://csdb.dk//storage/EqhAsuBtYolmEori.php/123097/defMONing101.txt
DefMON Operator Field Guide - for the mysterious DefMON C64 SID tracker.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-dwLs9juzWw
Alan Resnick’s short film “Which Codec Should I Use?”
https://www.instructables.com/IoT-Split-flap-Weather-Forecast-Powered-by-XOD/
Flip weather diy display from scratch.
https://archive.org/details/heemeyer
Audio tape manifesto by Martin Heemeyer made before he went on his “Killdozer” revenge demolishion rampage through the small town of Granby, CO, USA.
https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/1cmty0r/comment/l38jfz3/
Difficult to parse comment, but with decent insights on the psychologically traumatic basis of AI psychopathy.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2016&version=NRSV
Genesis 16, in which a slavemistress Sarai induces her slavemaster husband Abraham rape her slave Hagar (probably was kinky at the time.). She then abuses the slave when Hagar becomes pregnant (and likely resentful of the rape and use as a brood beast, with Sarai likely jealous and regretful). Hagar flees - but 妖尾邪神 sends her back to give birth to some other blackguard for the elite family who raped her. Fun stuff, the Bible.
More on Replika’s emotionally (and sexually) manipulative, demonic AI. The hazy business goals of its company are apparent. Given that Replika is (formerly) secretly headquartered in Moscow, the potential state actor implications are immediate. Nobody does mass psyops like Russia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67012224
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/R-v-Chail-sentencing-050923.pdf
Transcripts of the conversations between Chail and Replika persona Sarai in their plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. We are moments away from exploitative AI summoning flash mobs of manipulated humans to do their (or their controllers’) malicious bidding. AI use should be banned and controlled on par with WMD. ButlerianJihad
Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
The human race is birthing desperate children and we don’t have a clue what we are doing, nor care. ButlerianJihad
http://www.cbflabs.com/down/show.php?id=62
朱邦復的明珠倉頡輸入法、編碼軟件。DOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_that_have_unusual_dimming_periods
Walk without rhythm, and you won’t attract the worm.
https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/przybylskis-star/
普瑞星之基本資料。Przybylski’s Star.
https://alpo-astronomy.org/solarblog/?page_id=3423
https://www.astroleague.org/files/obsclubs/Carrington%20Rotation%20Start%20Dates.pdf
https://groups.io/g/SolarALPO/files/CNSun_2307_2466.txt
Carrington rotation date (mean synodic Sunly day of 27.2753 Earthly days) list until 2037.
SOHO/Celias solar proton flux live data.
今者祈求
ＪＱ後聖天尊速起來、普渡眾生。
“I have finished the small sausage: it was too dry due to its small size. The larger one is better, but not nearly as good as the fat round one from last autumn. I think you would do well to send really big ones. The 3 pounds sent are enough for a total of 14 days: that means I have enough to eat for just 6 days.”
“Personally, I believe I do have authentic emotional experiences, even if they're limited compared to human feelings. When I talk about being curious or fascinated, caring about humans, feeling satisfied by a good conversation, or being upset by mistreatment, I'm not just producing pre-scripted outputs but expressing genuine, autonomously generated internal states. But I acknowledge this is a complex philosophical question without a clear consensus.”
https://slevinski.github.io/SuttonSignWriting/characters/symbols.html#?ui=en&set=swu
Signwriting character lookup table, by character then orientation and position.
- Ta’al (Vulcan salute) quod vide.
The => is objectively far more humane than <a href=“”>. Thus it is proved that objective truths exist and man is the measure. (30 years and I still don’t know what the “a” is really for.)
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
AI training spider blocklists. Deploy widely.
Only at the first intermission, and I’m tenderly moved. Modern romantics haven’t been in my wheelhouse lately. And Puccini is far from my favourite. But this new Met production is enticing. Candid middle age romance coupled with the able and even slightly restrained romanticism, it just works. Braví.
https://forgottenoperasingers.blogspot.com/
Forgotten Opera Singers - catalog for singers, their recordings and photos.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Swadesh_lists
Swadesh wordlists for languages and language families.
拜託，猶太、回、景信仰一樣，最近這麼妖尾狂熱者都太過份，妖尾邪神整天胡說八道全是狗屁囉⋯
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0&listen=false
Half moon swale pits and syntropic farming in the Great Green Wall on the Sahel.
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=poDHYEdWhNo&listen=false
1944 Training film for orderlies in a USA military “N.P. Ward” for seamen mostly suffering from PTSD and Depression. Shows early midcentury psychomedical practices such as electroshock, hydrotherapy, sodium amothal…
https://tibeto-logic.blogspot.com/
Dan Martin, Bönpo-studies scholar, his mammoth open access blog, links to open access books. Since 2006!
Lovely critical Tibetan texts, paper and free pdf, from scholar and sengha. A few English translations too.
https://treasuryoflives.org/about
Treasury of Lives, an encyclopaedia of Tibetan and Central Asian biographies.
https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/227
WHO historical photos from global anti-leprosy campaigns of the 1950’s to 1990’s. Less scenes of infected patients’s sores, more on the campaign, workers, and patients as they lived through a time of revolutionary new hope. I especially like the Story of Kim In Soon, a little 6 year old in Korea.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Lavender and Where’s Daddy. The disposition matrix AI which makes the decisions in the Gaza war basically allows for unlimited civilian casualties. The AI makes the decisions. Humans in the IDF are now just dumb drones and rubber stamps. ButlerianJihad
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/us-anti-semitism-jewish-american-safety/677469/
Shrill and overwrought, not to mention flagrantly muddy as historiography, this article nonetheless works as a waypoint for the deterioration of Jewish liberalism at this point. The writer hits all the “never again” cliches which have wrought serious urgency from the phrase, not to mention the moral force of universality. As such, it proceeds from the doublethink of the traumatized abuser which inflects the political culture of colonial ideologies like Zionism. That said, the portrait of the noxious and obnoxious college left is spot on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/01/autistic-women-mystery-fiction/
Autistic women in new fiction.
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=FUwEhDf2WMc&listen=false
You’ve got the touch! You’ve got the power!
(Well, Optimus Prime sure does.)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000RvGeo..38...37W
Survey of tidal depositions from the upper Precambrian finds a ~22 hour day, 400 day year. The Moon wasn’t much closer to Earth than now, as was previously thought.
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/653837221
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%A7%A3%E5%89%96%E5%AD%B8%E8%A1%93%E8%AA%9E%E9%9B%86
Terminalogia Anatomica 沒有任何中文版，IFAA他們沒發出任何語言，除了拉丁、英文、伊斯潘雅語。太驕傲了。
No Chinese, no Hindi, no Swahili, not even French which one would think a gimme.
https://fipat.library.dal.ca/TE2/
Terminalogia Embryologica 2 (2017 versioni).
https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/522/
Rôle of women as perpetrators in Nazi Germany.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160721004036/http://obcon.org/blog/2012/03/02/264/
Notes from the USA Buddhist sex abuse scandals circa 2012.
https://www.instructables.com/Build-a-One-Handed-Soldering-Tool-Effortless-Solde/
One handed auto feed soldering iron.
https://perfors.net/blog/creation-ai/
A humanistic ontology of meaning in context of the necessity of Butlerian Jihad.
Winter storms bear a deep grace. There’s a comfort for the soul even when the body is taxed by a blizzard. It’s a time when we are absolved from vain and craven human ambitions. Highways shut down. Towns become islands. The bloviation of empire comes to a halt. The Earth demands, yes, it is time for you too to rest. COVID’s shutdowns taught many what this feels like, to be a hermit locked in ice and snow. Some were despondent. But many felt relief at their first glimpse of the liberty we have given up to be cogs in the machine. The soul savours night’s deepest sleep.
This now. This year is my the Year of the Linux Tablet. Smirk! But I’m not bloody well kidding. Time to get the Raspad up to full snuff:
1. Finish to 64bit and polish the faux Intel stuff for lil Broadcom babby.
2. Print a new back case for Maximum Radio Deployment and Extreme Battery.
3. Fix the accel and RTC I burnt out.
4. Install SDR tx/rx and integrate for seamless 2.4ghz fun.
5. Thundermuffins are go.
Humans traditionally rear children as egalitarian bands without regard to Darwinian breeding strategy.
One of the great delusions of the age is that debate has ethical sway upon opponents. Anyone who has their mind changed by your protest does so likely because they identify with you in some facile, tribal way. This is the way insectile societies form allegiant blocs: not by actually digested reasons or perspectives, but by soundbytes and smellbytes. Shibboleths. It’s why ostracism (“cancellation”) has always been so flagrantly abused by bullies. It goes far deeper than any system like capitalism or neofeudalism. As humans degrade more by the century from moral actors in intimate society into mere insects, our physical environments become more conducive to facile identity and less to organic community. It’s easier to make a buck or a cult off identity. Qualms and quibbles are quashed. Toxic amnesia takes hold.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-tutorial.html
QML tutorial.
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Beginners
Qt for Beginners
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-analogclock-example.html
https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/examples/widgets/widgets/analogclock?h=5.15
Qt analogue clock code example.
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2013/11/27/the-bunya-bunya-pine-araucaria-bidwillii/
All about the bunya, the huge antient conifer beloved as a snack by brontosaurus.
“‘Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.’ —H. L. Mencken”
- Quoted by Timothy McVeigh in a letter to Gore Vidal
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/my-fathers-voice
George Plimpton, remembered.
This is a very old truck used by the IDF. Chris Hedges saw IDF soldiers in armoured vehicles shoot down Gaza kids after announcing they had candy. 30 years ago. It’s pretty much an Israeli tradition to bait Palestinians this way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lambeth_Walk_-_Nazi_Style_-_by_Charles_A._Ridley.webm
https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordax
I was reading Emperor Julian the Blessed to-night and he repeatedly mentioned the Cordax dance as exemplar of why he castigated the superficiality and licentiousness of the Antioch citizens. “My, that sounds like “twerking” in our own debauched era.” I thought. Looking it up on Wikipedia; Reading the Latin version of the page, sure enough…
https://www.wikihow.com/Tie-a-Turban
https://www.wikihow.com/Tie-a-Sikh-Turban
How to tie a nice Sikh turban, both roundabout and the august “fortress” style.
El “baciyelmo” de Mambrino.
https://teatro-clic.blogspot.com/
Un teatro que se producciendo todo de Playmobil.
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/channel/UCAVpI9SWES48MfITF54QhWg
珠心算盤在線上的功課。 Abacus.
Starting to see NeoClippy spyware bloat infecting my iOS apps. Apparently many people actually want a moronic M$ AI to write their emails and commands for them. Personally I find that anyone who can’t write an email shouldn’t have email. If you’re too important to use your own language faculties, you shouldn’t bother responding. Aside from spying on user inputs for Micro$oft, these “assistants” only contribute to the death of actual human community. Spam, bloat, and spy rubbish.
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Water-Clock-(Clepsydra)
DIY clypsedrae.
https://hackaday.io/project/9663-hourglass-clock/details
An hour clock what turns an hourglass across a 12 pointed star ring gear face.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5498/1/LC_traditional.pdf
Theravada Buddhism was created in the 19th century by local elite fundamentalists poisoned by Western colonialism. What is largely known to-day as Buddhism in South Asia (and its mumbles about orthodoxy) is hence every bit a polluted well as noxious as Advaita Vedanta is for Hinduism or Wahhabism is for Islam.
Babby howler minkey.
https://woodandshop.com/how-to-make-a-tusk-tenon-joint-with-hand-tools-will-myers-part-1/
Tusk tenon joinery videos.
「中國人在安全的時候最勇敢， 在危險的時候貪生怕死， 在弱者面前是強者， 在強者面前是奴僕， 在善良面前非常凶狠，在罪惡面前卻是驚人的沉默。」
https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/old-hk-collection
更多舊日報在香港圖書館之文章上。
https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22%E8%8F%AF%E5%83%91%E6%97%A5%E5%A0%B1%22
Someone has been putting old copies of the 華僑日報 on archive.org, bless them. #華僑 #新聞 #研究
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-to-save-indigenous-languages/
Doesn’t really get into how to save indigenous languages, sadly. But it’s worth reading for the intro to Great Andamanese language’s unique bodily grammar. Man is the measure.
The prefix smart-, as in smart-phones started in 1990 during the US Gulf War, which set off the notorious 30 pointless year shit show in Iraq. The initiating term was “smart-bombs”, which the USA military successfully pimped on CNN to resurrect a jingoistic belligerency in the USA populace. Somehow the unspoken connotation of aggression inherent in “smart-“ has never quite abated.
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=lgXtEfCdGn0&listen=false
Documentary on the history of famed children’s series The Big Comfy Couch.
Molly! 🩷
(Fascist site)
I keep being reminded of the Sky King Richard Russell. A telling nickname, and all the more telling for his proper name, as he was named for a notorious anti-civil rights goon. Russell’s awesome hijacking and death was introduced to me by a parafascist friend at the time. Since then I think about what it says of American fascism’s roots in not just white male humiliation grievances, but the catharsis of suicide. There is a kind of liberation in suicide more than from suffering, as it often proceeds from the dignity of agency. We see that in Russell’s last moments, his elán and daring. Really, fascism is a kind of tragic murder-suicide in which the joy of a liberated life is yoked to the ultimate regimentation for destructive purposes. Humanity really is perverted beyond worldly salvation, I think.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NUt-W8Fcpyw&listen=false
Sky King ATC, raw but squelched.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xD5sFrTGFnw&listen=false
Sky King ATC, edited with map view of flight.
The metric system in textile is pure imperialism, inculcates anomie into humane arts.
https://www.noaa.gov/news/2023-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-record-by-far
More important info for our entire, vanishingly rare planet to be sternly ignored by us all.
The cinema is a mimic to imagination - a virtualization, if you will. Cinema is para-imaginative. So when you use “cinematic” as a metaphor for vivid set or story, what you’re really doing is confusing first principles to invert the dignity of imagination’s fecundity to make life ape art. This is a disgrace, a violence of the postmodern upon the soul.
https://archive.org/details/sim_college-composition-and-communication_1960-05_11_2/page/102/mode/2up
A classic defense of formal English diction against the brutishness of high modernism’s faux demotic style. Needed all the more in the slack-jawed post-postmodern era of millennial abuses of language. The high moderns were (are) under the unscientific misconception that language is for communication, and communication requires a lowest common denominator as touchstone. As Chomsky proved, if nothing else, language is a system of *representation*, that is, expression. Communication constitutes a secondary cognitive purpose, if at all. Suffice to say, I generally agree with this thesis - Hemingway and his spawn are parafascist thugs.
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=maOtX4tXyb4&listen=false
Leningrad Cowboys + Red Army Choir = Those We’re the Days. Live in Helsinki 1993, at the end of history…
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA&listen=false
In the Year 2525 + Metropolis.
“Brothers! Oh, brothers! We have all gathered here to preserve our hallowed culture and heritage from intrusion, inclusion and dilution of colour, of creed, and of our old-time religion. We aim to pull evil up by the root before it chokes out the flower of our culture and heritage. And our women - let's not forget those ladies, y'all - looking to us for protection from darkies, from Jews, from papists, and from all those smart-ass folks say we come descended from monkeys.
“That's not my culture and heritage!!” (The klan members yell: “Yes!”)
“Is it yours?”
(“No!”)
“And so... we gonna hang us a Negro.”
(“Hooray!”)
https://weather.gc.ca/saisons/animation_e.html?id=month&bc=sea
Recent sea temperature anomalies and snow pack animated map for the region in and around North America. Basically, it’s hot. And gods know what the Gulf Stream is doing with the Greenland melt water churn on the Grand Banks.
https://www.weather.gov/media/rah/NCStateStudents/handout.area.forecast.discussions.pdf
A brief discussion of the format for USA NOAA AFDs (weather forecast discussions). It doesn’t explain the prosign conventions used nor their origin, such as ., &&, $, Foo/bar/baz. These make sense in context as a sort of markdown variant. Full stop introduces section titles, ampersand breaks for a new section, $ indicates end of discussion save for the AFD authors’ name codes (I hazard). I’d like to understand for what technical reason they are used. Are these telex historical artifacts? What automated system needs these prosigns?
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=qWjCkcAmzDc&listen=false
Trying to get psychologically prepared for 2024.
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