Posted on

I think I need to point out that I am amazed execution vans are a thing (below), but to make capitalists salivate at the efficiency of a communist program is just a weird thing, friends.

Imma start with a tribute to SF. WE COMIN’ BACK BABY. I can’t imagine being anywhere else (but we’re talking about it). Watch “Last Black Man in San Francisco” it’s a vision of what film is meant to be. But like the below, you might cry. I can’t believe the below little vid. It’s got to be the cable car bell, but I tear up each time. Stupid eyes.

AWWW HELL NAW

 

  • EXPERT: NEURALINK COULD SELL YOUR PRIVATE THOUGHTS TO THE “HIGHEST BIDDER”

“I WORRY ABOUT THE WIDESPREAD USE OF BRAIN CHIPS IN THE FUTURE.” https://futurism.com/neoscope/expert-neuralink-sell-private-thoughts-highest-bidder

 

  • A bit on the nose: US climate research outpost abandoned over fears it will fall into sea due to climate change.

National Weather Service station in Massachusetts evacuated on 31 March with a demolition crew set to raze the site this month https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/14/cape-cod-climate-research-station

 

 

PRODUCTS? NO THEY ARE NOT AFFILIATE LINKS

 

  • Some cool Star Wars movie patches by some rando for a few bucks. They’re great! Alien & Godzilla too:

https://jacobkuddes.bigcartel.com/

      JK-011 Made To Suffer Patch

 

SPACE

 

  • Super hard to reconcile the ambivalence of Dickens’ “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” because how are we in space while we tear one another apart down here?

 

SCIENCE, TECH, INESCAPABLE, PAINFUL MODERN ADDICTION & MAYBE A ROBOT ALSO WE’RE DOOMED

 

  • Woke Steak-Umm dragging the rapist that is Neil DeGrasse Tyson is GLORIOUS. Also, I hate NDT in about 40 ways.

 

Super cute!

 

 

  • The clearly weird situation of Boston Dynamics making stuff that they then say they’re shocked how it’s used (as intended) is clear cognitive dissonance. I can’t imagine being in that company *RIGHT AT THIS POINT*, where what they make is being used. Of course, the batteries might need more range: https://futurism.com/boston-dynamics-robot-battery-combat-drill

However, I have zero expectation of privacy in public, I don’t get *what* privacy concerns there are with the police patrolling with this robot dog spot, but I also don’t get what they’re doing with it. I’m down with life saving robots, like hostage or bomb stuff, but what’s the point of walking spot unless you’re saying “we’ve robots and we’ll use them”, which isn’t community policing vs virtue signaling toxicity. Still, I don’t see any issue with privacy or policing if they have an actual point:

 

  • Actually… it does become about city budgets, policing, and priorities, but I wasn’t wrong!

 

 

 

  • More Gan2 driven AI Art, this time in the style of Beeple’s post-apocalyptic pop culture dystopia

 

  • Prompted by Text, the Gan2 creates art. Prompt was “Golden Ratio”

I mused:

I’m overwhelmed with ambivalence in regards to this whole thing. It’s wild tech. Philosophically, it’s also somewhat unsettling to see art, a form of expression to relate the human condition?, created by something that doesn’t exist. What does the art mean to it? Nothing I suppose. And I get it always starts with a human, but it’s just fascinating to think about what’s happening here, and where we’re headed.

 

  • Russian Robot Tanks are going live, “despite identified shortcomings”. Start of a horror film?

Russian Army to set up first military unit armed with strike robots https://tass.com/defense/1276039

 

  • From the “I’m doing my part” files:

https://aviationhumor.net/spitfire-bringing-beer-kegs-to-the-men-in-normandy/

 

MUSIC

  • Exploring the unreleased music in Prince’s vault It’s been five years since Prince died, but his estate continues to churn out new music from the prolific artist. Jon Wertheim reports on the unreleased songs – 8,000 by one estimate – locked away in Prince’s vault and the newly unlocked album, “Welcome 2 America” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-welcome-2-america-60-minutes-2021-04-11/

 

 

  • Full on geek out man love

 

  • HAVE A CAT STEVENS / YUSUF ISLAM CONCERT IN CHILE FROM 2015. He’s still churning out music and killing it and people are sleeping on him and it makes me angry. Celebrate your heroes WHILE THEY LIVE. Eff those late to the game tribute bullshit.

 

  • Still one of the best: “I used to get a boner at my physicals Sway… if this is cultural appropriation what can I say?”

 

  • Chinese Man here wut:

 

  • Thanks Tony from 1997:

 

  • Thanks Brian for that Ass Pocket of Whiskey:

 

  • WEIRD INSTRUMENTS I AM HERE FOR:

 

MOVIES TV AND GLOWING RECTANGLES

 

  • Resident Alien, The Boys, Tales from the Loop, Brooklyn Nine Nine is what we’re watching and you should too!

 

  • This is wild. Hearing “Polanski” always spoils my mood, but DEVITO! What fun from the set of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest in Salem, Oregon:

 

SOCIETY & PROBABLY TERRIBLE PEOPLE WE WILL SEE

 

 

  • In the *WOW* category:

 

  • So, Spencer “Sixler” Crittendon was joking about “Chinese Murder Vans”, and turns out THEY ARE REAL WTAF. The press release said “it’s more humane”.—> Execution van https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van

 

  • After Nas came out looking like a god like baller this week, good to see Urkel looking and doing good!

 

  • I would say thinking about the history of edible food discovery takes up about 17 – 24% of my brain.

 

  • OK… here’s the horrible people:

 

  • So I was working on a project and was trying to peel apart the confusion of the orientation of our home. We’re not sure where the back or the front of our home is. It’s complex. The front door is basically on the back of our house. That doesn’t even deal with our “balcony”, which I think is what we arrived at: What is the Difference Between a Porch, Balcony, Veranda, Patio and Deck? https://www.homedit.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-porch-balcony-verandapatio-and-deck/

This doesn’t even talk about a damned Lanai, either, and I think that’s what it is. But interestingly, in an effort to make a “Bye Den” joke about a renovation of a den into a family room with a picture of our president Joe, I learned that the living room is termed such because it’s a horrifying thing, like a sad version of why Greenland got named Greenland. Dead people. Wait… not Greenland. Greenland was a trick name to make people think it was green. It was icy. The living room was renamed… that’s the dead people bit. It used to be for dead people to exist when they lie in state. It was a death room for corpses, and apparently the homes PR firm was like “that won’t do” and rebranded.

https://worstroom.com/family-room-vs-living-room/

 

  • SPEAKING OF:

COMEDY

 

  1. Nate’s Starbucks joke is THA BEST:

  • Zach with Don Rickles:

 

DEPTH CHARGES & EXPLOSIONS (I am surprised as well)

 

LASTLY I CANNOT STOP WITH VEHICLES

 

 

 

  • I think the Volvo Polestar are good looking damned EVs.

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/40151/new-polestar-2-single-motor-variant-gets-260-mile-range-and-cheaper-starting-price

 

 

THE VOLCANO GUYS IT IS STILL GOIN’ AND IT IS THRILLING

By Uncle FishbitsCategories: art Astronomy Beautiful &/or Wonderful brands business Cosmology design futurism movies music Nature Newsletter philosophy Physics politics privacy science social media stream of thought / consciousness tech television Vehicles video games words