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“THE AUDIENCE LOVES A SLOW THINKER” – Buster Keaton

I cannot get this Buster Keaton quote out of my head. It nails so much of comedy, whether Bugs Bunny or Three Stooges or someone late on the uptake, missing the point, or not making the connection or having the realization. It’s so fantastic.

Buster Keaton Finds the Funny Side | The New Yorker

 

 

Another thought I just had… that human experience of connecting over communication has been “flattened” by technology.

One example is when watching a film, you’d pause and say “Where have I seen that guy before? Have you seen him in a different movie?” And then you would just banter and talk for a long period of time, which would have detours and cul de sacs and one way streets and new ideas, and casual thoughts, and funny mistakes, and just maybe shared experience.

We don’t do that now. The banter of whimsy in conversation is flattened… now we have the answer immediately in front of us. There’s nothing to talk about. It lessens conversational bonds.

Existence is moments, and those are almost always of human connection. In a myriad of prismatic notions of communication we find the bonds of humanity, experience, and how we share it.

Now you just immediately know the answer is Walton Goggins. =/

BEDTIME BRAIN

 

  • This album of joy filled GIFS and videos is a balm for the soul. Positivity into 2025:

The days are dark. Here’s some vicarious serotonin to shine some light.

 

  • Also, sweaty palms… I would not drive this for any amount of money.

Would you drive here for a thousand bucks?
byu/lonelyRedditor__ inSweatyPalms

 

SPACE

  • Life is exceedingly precious and rare, even at a microbial level, in the universe. We’re far more special than we currently understand, and I’ve always subscribed to this… “How the ‘Great Filter’ could explain why we haven’t found intelligent aliens”

The most distilled essence of the Great Filter argument is simple: Very few, if any, civilizations in the universe make it to the advanced spacefaring stage. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/how-the-great-filter-could-explain-why-we-havent-found-intelligent-aliens

 

 

ESA - Spacetime curvature

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • YULETIDE NASA BOOSTERS IN YOUR FIREPLACE!

 

 

  • Captured by Venera 13 in 1982: The Only Photos Humanity Has of Venus’ Surface

 

SCI TECH

 

  • A puppeteer for a puppeteer… Science and Technology come in many forms:

Puppeteer for the actual puppeteer
byu/solateor inDamnthatsinteresting

 

 

  • “Life is an anthology of destruction”

What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance. Embracing that truth is leading to a rethink of everything from rational decision-making to the limits of machines. https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/

 

 

  • DIY PLASMA CANNON? SURE. Wow. We’ll be seeing more versions of these soon. Wild project.
@psyckko1 #plasmagun ? son original – Psyckko1

 

 

  • Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow… but DEEP ROBOTICS are doing some frighteningly amazing work:

 

  • Speaking of fish

Free thought aside, I’ve always wondered how much we’re passengers in our own body. Thinking we’re so smart for making some decision, and it was just a collection of grumpy bacteria pulling levers.

Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well. https://www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-brain-microbiome-could-humans-have-one-too-20241202/

More on the human side theory here: Bacteria may live naturally inside the human brain https://sites.harvard.edu/sitn/2018/11/28/bacteria-may-live-naturally-inside-human-brain/

Bacteria may live naturally inside the human brain - Science in the News

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes:

Hand over the dough or your 40GB of secret data is toast. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hackers-demand-frances-schneider-electric-pay-a-usd125k-ransom-in-baguettes

 

 

  • This guy was able to exploit and hijack McDonald’s delivery in India, essentially eating anything for a penny. They gave him a $240 “thanks” amazon gift card for alerting them to this absolute nightmare of a security failure.

I’m Lovin’ It: Exploiting McDonald’s APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny https://eaton-works.com/2024/12/19/mcdelivery-india-hack/

Bugs in a major McDonald’s India delivery system exposed sensitive customer data https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/bugs-in-a-major-mcdonalds-india-delivery-system-exposed-sensitive-customer-data/

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Mandelbrot set variation with z ? z² + 0.19 z³ + c : r/math

 

COMEDY

 

  • The Adult Swim guy who did Too Many Cooks (IFYKYK) did a 90 minute movie about a possessed yule log fireplace in a cabin and it’s super meta, weird, and worthwhile: the film initially presents itself as a holiday footage video of a fireplace located inside a vacation cabin, before eventually giving way to a surprise meta-horror plot occurring within the cabin, and involving the fireplace itself. Adult Swim’s first feature film and first horror film,[1] it was met with generally favorable reviews.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Swim_Yule_Log

Review: Adult Swim Yule Log Quietly Became One Of 2022’s Best Horror Films https://www.slashfilm.com/1139782/adult-swim-yule-log-quietly-became-one-of-2022s-best-horror-films/

Link on Max: https://www.max.com/movies/adult-swim-yule-log-aka-the-fireplace/7ebeb192-011b-4f07-8845-54bfc260aa48

Adult Swim Yule Log | The Fireplace - Puddles Pity Party | WaterTower

 

 

 

  • Sad funny: School is making some swing for the fences suggestions, when the coloring book is likely because of cut funds and that’s all they had? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!
@itsgoneviral How did they okay this ? (@arkbykomi) #kidsoftiktok #schoollife #shocking #fails ? original sound – It’s Gone Viral

 

 

 

  • Remember this somewhat suggestively creepy Folgers commercial?

Someone made an extended edition that is pretty funny:

 

 

  • Surrealist humorist Eldritch Abominations as if it was an Aquarium that was populated for friendly visits.
@liberaitor Touch tank #ai #aiart #aiartcommunity #georgia ##creature #midjourney #kling ? original sound – liberaitor

 

 

@drgstacks Ricky Jay performs a magic trick for Susie Mackenzie. From the 2012 documentary “Deceptive Practice.” . #rickyjay #maxmalini #magic #magictrick #sleightofhand #prestidigitation #closeupmagic #davidcopperfield #hunlee #pennandteller #davidblaine #streetmagic #illusion ? Healing Water – The Meditation – Red Blue Studio

Here’s his world famous hour long special called 52 assistants:

 

MOVIES AND TV

 

  • Someone updated Jurassic Park with scientifically grounded dinosaur design based on new evidence and data. So the feathered Raptors are HORRIFYING OMFG

 

 

 

 

 

  • Hatched after Sam Raimi spent time in a flophouse in LA’s Silverlake with Joel and Ethan Cohen, so it’s a heir apparent to Fargo, but like the book every single decision made plunges them deeper in the mud.

With A Simple Plan, Coen brothers pal Sam Raimi made his own snowy Minnesota crime thriller https://www.avclub.com/with-a-simple-plan-coen-brothers-pal-sam-raimi-made-hi-1845131658

 

 

In fact, it’s on my Totally not Christmas Movie famous Christmas movie list!

My Top 25 “Not Christmas Movies” but totally Christmas / Holiday Movies [updated Dec 2018]

 

 

 

  • This brilliant love not to part of my career, the industry of Food and Beverage, is so beautiful. Love Maty Matheson from the Bear, as well. But man… he gets it.
@cbcnews “We’re all broken inside.” It’s not a line you expect someone to say on stage while accepting an Emmy award. So, when The National’s Ian Hanomansing recently met up with The Bear’s Matty Matheson at one of his Toronto restaurants, he asked him about it. “Everyone’s coming from something,” the Canadian chef, entrepreneur and now Hollywood actor/executive producer explained. “As a society, we’ve got to be there for each other.” In the interview, Matheson spoke warmly about the people who have been there for him, including the friends who stepped in after he had a heart attack at 29 and his endlessly supportive East Coast parents. Watch the full conversation now at CBC News: The National’s YouTube channel. #cheflife #restaurant #toronto #TheBear ? original sound – CBC News

 

  • This is a wonderful look into the charming history of making Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer stop-motion special:

The Magical Animation of ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ The Christmas television special—the longest running in history—was groundbreaking in its use of stop-motion animation with puppets https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/magical-animation-rudolph-red-nosed-reindeer-180973841/

The Magical Animation of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ...

MUSIC

 

  • Obsessed with this guy. Woody Guthrie plus self-awareness plus satire… it’s a good look. Jesse Welles. Check out his other work.
@jessewelles #sIngErSoNgWriTer #oRiGinAL #CouNtRy #folk #comedy #satire #love ? original sound – Welles

@jessewelles good mornin! bugs is out friday ? #sInGerSoNGwrIter #OrigInaL #COunTrY #folk #song #acoustic #nature #peace ? original sound – Welles

@jessewelles good mornin #sInGerSoNGwrIter #OrigInaL #COunTrY #folk #truecrime #comedy #satire ? original sound – Welles

 

  • MGMNT in 2003. This looks like something out of Old School, but they’re just ahead of the notion they made one of the best anthem songs ever:
@steeelo7 rare footage of Andrew VanWyngarden & Ben Goldwasser (MGMT) in 2003, before the fame. 21 years later and this song is still going strong. #mgmt #andrewvanwyngarden #bengoldwasser #nostalgia #beforethefame #2000s #fyp ? original sound – steeelo7

 

 

  • SHE INVENTED ROCK AND ROLL!!! Wow.

Forebears: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Godmother Of Rock ‘N’ Roll https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/forebears-sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-godmother-of-rock-n-roll

Rosetta Tharpe inventor of Rock and Roll
byu/Samzo inlivemusic

 

 

  • This is unbelievable – 10 hours of slow banjo with rain. I sleep to this recently… Soothing and fantastic.

 

 

 

 

  • This is under 2 minutes, and the most eloquent and visually concise way of explaining the loudness wars of the 1990s CDs, and how it ruined a generation of mastering and recording.

 

People, Culture, and Society AND INTERNET MYSTERIES!!!

 

  • Barbin is the best pop locker I’ve ever seen and keeps getting better.

 

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  • 3 major mysteries have been solved this year:
  1. “Most mysterious song on the internet” identified after 17 years — and the band was oblivious to the online phenomenon https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-song-identified-subways-of-your-mind-fex/

 

2. Celebrity # 6: ‘She’s been FOUND!’: Reddit’s years-long ‘Celebrity Number 6’ fabric mystery has finally been solved A fabric made in 2008 has confounded the internet for years. Now, thanks to teamwork, they have an answer. https://www.dailydot.com/pop-culture/celebrity-number-6-fabric-mystery-finally-solved/

 

But, this is my fave:

 

3. The original “backrooms” images were found. This was the original viral thing that freaked people out:

Anonymous 05/14/19(Tue)20:29:30 No.2267 The Backrooms If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in God save you if you hear something wandering around nearbv. because it sure as hell has heard vou

 

You’ll know more about this after the horror film comes out, but this was a spooky, liminal space that captivated the internet all the way back to 4chan. This was called the Hobby Town in Osh Kosh for RC Car racing. FOUND!

https://web.archive.org/web/20030503094137/http://www.hobbytownoshkosh.com:80/revolution%20raceway,%20020903.htm

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  • Speaking of, I am OBSESSED with how weird this liminal space is within a water slide:

My first gif is a liminal space cosmic freakout.

@tuberides.official NEW Space Bowl water slide at Freizeitbad Greifensteine in Geyer, Germany! The slide is part of the recent expansion including three new slides, a new exercise pool as well as a new outdoor area! #freizeitbadgreifensteine #geyer #germany #german #trichterrutsche #spacebowl #bowlslide #waterpark #waterslide #tiktok #foryou #foryoupage #fyp #tuberides #aquapark #slide #slides #waterslides #wasserpark #wasserrutsche #rutsche #rutschen #wasserrutschen #waterglijbaan #zjezdzalnia #toboggan #tobogan #parcaquatique #parqueacuatico #parkwodny #vandrutsjebane #rutsjebane #vandrutchebane #trechterglijbaan #bowlwaterslide ? Originalton – TUBERIDES

 

  • I mostly amazed by all these clips because WHERE DOES HE GET THIS MUCH BUTTER THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT?
@user32469161972167 Lion Butter Hot Pot Seasoning#Home #Recipe #foryou #hot #recommendations ? ???? – ??

 

 

  • West swell on CA coast late December means the entire state was popping off, but boy Mavericks got epic around the 22nd and especially the 23rd.

‘Biggest mavs ever!’: Epic Calif. swell delivers historic surfing conditions https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/massive-calif-swell-delivers-day-days-19999962.php

 

 

  • Also, this is insane, but good for him. I can’t imagine the death awaiting you on those rocks, but seems confident on the ride. This is in San Diego. North jetty of Mission Bay Channel. Don’t go there and don’t do this.

Some surfer in California
byu/celerybreath insurfing

 

 

  • THE REFLEXES I can’t imagine:

 

 

 

  • Only time I approve of fireworks will be for a deaf dog that enjoys them.

Deaf dog loves to watch fireworks
byu/Epileptic_Ebola inwholesome

 

 

  • Knife grinding used to be major business, and the best part was dogs would sit on their legs to keep them warm.

The Bygone Knife Grinders of France: Working on Their Stomachs to Preserve Their Backs, 1900s https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/yellow-bellies-photos/

 

 

1970s Harlem Photos by Jack Garofalo

 

 

  • The story of Technoviking documentary:

The curious case of Technoviking – TechnoLlama

 

 

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VEHICLES

 

 

 

  • This commercial is hilarious. 1988 commercial vibes the 90s.

 

 

  • 2000 Sbarro Aero

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2000 Sbarro Aero : r/WeirdWheels

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  • This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships. The video below is SO SO SO COOL. This one might be shopped but I don’t think so.

 

  • 2025 will start with flying cars! WHEEEEEeeee!!!!

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