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I’ve run into the limitations of optimism. But we’ve the democratization of humiliation.

However, this sentence appears below, and it’s my favorite sentence in a long time:

“Matthew Sweet is only relevant to me because I dated a Magician’s Assistant that was babysat by Sweet when she was a kid.”

HERE WE GO! This one has many, MANY beautiful pictures and seems longer, but it’s actually all inside the newsletter and there’s 30% less links this edition. Huzzah!!!!

 

SPACE!

  • SEX INNNNNnnnnnn SPAAAACE!: Once the consenting adults become comfortable in their weightlessness, they can come up with all sorts of exciting and interesting positions, but it will take a time and effort to make it happen, the scientist notes. Sex in space may sound romantic but it’s not as easy as it may seem: there are lots of factors which can reduce one’s drive, starting with astronauts’ fairly busy work schedule and difficulties of accepting a match and ending with Newton’s third law of motion in conditions of microgravity. https://sputniknews.com/society/202104251082714652-sex-in-space-why-do-astronauts-keep-it-on-hush-hush-and-will-it-become-new-normal/

 

artist: https://www.artstation.com/igorstshirts

 

  • Kids these days don’t say they want to be astronauts. they say they want to work in the space industry. It’s mind blowing.
    It’s hard to compartmentalize how amazing everything is in this sector, in space… and we’re just bashing each other’s fucking heads in down here.

NASA’s bold bet on Starship for the Moon may change spaceflight forever “It is transformational to degrees no one today can understand.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/five-reasons-why-nasas-starship-award-is-a-watershed-moment-in-spaceflight/

 

 

 

  • CAMPFIRE ON THE SUN!

 

 

r/ThatsInsane - SpaceX launch as seen from the Indian River, Florida.

 

WHEN SCIENCE & TECH IS FUN!

 

  • 2021 being extra:

 

 

  • Good job sir…

https://petapixel.com/2021/04/26/icelands-eruption-and-the-northern-lights-captured-in-one-photo/

 

  • CLIP: DEEP VOICE GAS IS DEEP and fun. =)

 

  • ANOTHER THOUGHT EXPERIMENT, LESS SCARY:

How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-maxwells-demon-continues-to-startle-scientists-20210422/

Two thoughts from this thought experiment:

I) “In the 19th century, no one knew about information,” said Takahiro Sagawa <– this blows my mind. I sometimes wish I didn’t know, as well.

II) “Information is physical,”, ie if you erase a hard drive, there’s associated heat dumped into the environment, tying information to thermodynamics. More on that here: There are no unavoidable energy consumption requirements per step in a computer. Related analysis has provided insights into the measurement process and the communication schannel, and has prompted speculations about the nature of physical laws. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.881299

 

WHEN THE TRUTH & DATA OF SCIENCE IS SAD

 

  • ALWAYS the bad news first. This is extremely worrying:

Climate tipping points may have been reached already, experts say https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-tipping-points-amazon-rainforest-antarctic-ice-gulf-stream/

Despite pandemic shutdowns, CO2 & methane surged in 2020. Co2 levels are now higher than at anytime in the past 3.6M yrs https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2742/Despite-pandemic-shutdowns-carbon-dioxide-and-methane-surged-in-2020

Is this the part of the disaster film where a scientist at the North Pole looks up & says “The data shows unexpected acceleration!”=(

 

 

  • IN FACT… I usually watch this impact set to Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig in the Sky” when I wake up and go to bed:

 

  • We’re going to end up Cronenberging ourselves mucking about with DNA:

Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/15/987164563/scientists-create-early-embryos-that-are-part-human-part-monkey

 

  • People have always messed with sat-imagery, but this is concerning:

Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers 12 Geographic deepfakes could be used for misinformation and much more https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22403741/deepfake-geography-satellite-imagery-ai-generated-fakes-threat

 

NATURE DAMN YOU SCARY

  • Avalanche in Nepal:

 

DAMN PEOPLE YOUR DUMB ASS BELIEFS ARE SCARY

Aaaaannnnddd…. It just happened again: Man throws coins into plane engine for ‘good luck’, airline cancels flight for safety reasons https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/shocking-man-throws-coins-into-plane-engine-for-good-luck-airline-cancels-flight-for-safety-reasons/750012

Mr Krueger - “I find your belief system fascinating.” | I found you, Seinfeld quotes, Seinfeld

 

Comedy

 

 

  • I embedded Uncle Roger on Monday. This undoubtedly ruined my week until Friday. As a hotelier, this is horrifying, but too funny not to share. “Uncle Roger” is this comic’s persona, and yes, you’re allowed to have a conversation with whether his persona is problematic. I for one have reconciled my issues, because he’s not being derisive. It’s just a character, and he does it well. He is so funny.

 

  • If you can’t appreciate eff yer momma raps and Eric Idle talking about poop, then you don’t like the perfect song.

 

  • When Comedy is Comedy and not supposed to be Comedy, outtakes from Orson Welles’ commercials:

 

  • OR FROZEN PEES GRUMPY BOI

 

MUSIC

 

  • “Are you not ashamed of yourself, you who gaze upon riches with astonished admiration?” – Seneca

PRODUCT PORN. ROTARY MIXERS…. My Allen & Heath Xone is a little wonky, and I was looking at spending too much money on PORNOGRAPHY. These are all hand made, and tested, and expensive, and no I don’t think I will, but wow.

https://condesaelectronics.com/shop/lucia/

Studio-Session-2-215

https://mastersounds.co.uk/products/radius-2-black

BUT THIS:

https://www.varia-instruments.com/

 

  • This is AWESOME, and these guys at Archive are heroes:

 

  • A brilliant workday background mix of a collective DJ Crew’s Middle Eastern and interesting beats:

 

  • NEW ZEALAND RIGHT NOW:

 

  • Wave XR Virtual Reality DJ community with videos that you get to interact with:

 

  • The Commodore 64 Alien strategy game was pretty good for its time, but hella neon city retro 80’s synth vibe that SLAPS:

 

MOVIES AND TV AND BOOKS ACTUALLY, NO BOOKS. RADIO? NO, JUST MOVIES AND TV

 

It is purported to be a revisit of his earliest work, NEARLY 50 YEARS OLD. ugh (time is such a spectacular horror)

 

 

  • Gladiators in ancient Rome endorsed products like Olive Oil. They were going to do this in Ridley Scott’s film, but took it out as audiences wouldn’t believe it, and it would look on-the-nose weird. But it’s true. “advertisements” would often end up on frescoes:

“how did you keep up with the news of your favorite gladiator or which olive oil he was endorsing? There were a couple of options. First, check the walls of the city. Much like today’s giant billboards, graffiti were drawn as sponsored ads for products and mosaics depicting fights between famous gladiators boosted popularity for the sport.[2] Numerous wall inscriptions from Pompeii give us a view into the celebrity-status of these men and the fact that they were a vital part of Romans’ daily lives. https://antiquitynowdotnet.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/super-bowl-xlvii-and-the-superstars-of-ancient-rome/

They even had graffiti on the side of the coliseum that was tantamount to “For a good time, call xxx-xxx-xxxx”.
http://www.the-colosseum.net/games/graffiti.htm

 

  • Toys, man. This is so damned cool:

They Live ReAction Figure – Female Ghoul (Black & White)

ReAction They Live - Female Ghoul (Black & White)

 

  • OH BOY OSCARS OoooOh man. Rearranging the entire show because of Chadwick Boseman’s assumed win, then Hopkins not even being there was the sad trombone of the year.

But the memes…

 

 

 

  • It was Alien day on Monday, due to the planet being LV426. April 26. Huzzah! Here’s a concept artist that does Pixar versions of films:

https://www.instagram.com/monica_ion_art/

You can order prints of dogs, nature, and more: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/monica_ion/

  • Alexandre Aja, who did Switchblade Sisters / Haute Tension / High Tension, as well as the Hills Have Eyes remake, has moved from profoundly disturbing gore in brilliant films to more sophisticated horror and Hollywood sellable tension type thrillers, especially with Crawl, the hurricane thriller about being trapped in a house and GATORS! But, what’s really interesting is he has a new sci-fi thriller coming about a woman running out of oxygen in a cryogenic chamber… and a LIVE ACTION REMAKE OF THE FAMOUS “Space Adventure Cobra” – an old late 70s Manga.

Why is this sorta cool? First… Aja is doing different things than scrambling my mind and hurting my feelings with over the top horror. But second, is that you have all seen some of the original 80s Anime, because Matthew Sweet used clips in his awesome and most watched video (at the time) to great acclaim!

Also, Matthew Sweet is only relevant to me because I dated a Magician’s Assistant that was babysat by Sweet when she was a kid. I love this sentence.

 

VHIDEO GHAMES

  • This is sorta hard to comprehend.

 

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

  • This man is all of us:

 

OLD COOL PHOTOS

r/OldSchoolCool - I found this old DIA of my dad drifting down the Yukon river on a self built raft in 1982. Now I am jealous...

 

 

VEHICLES

  • Imagine sitting in traffic and seeing a $70,000,000 dollar vehicle in front of you? It may be $50M, and if so, this is what Pierre Noblet and Jean Guichet drove to win the 1962 Le Mans. I am so baffled by this picture (which has been proven to be real).

 

  • What’s the opposite of hotdog down a hallway?

Huge superyacht squeezes down narrow Dutch canals https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/superyacht-pulled-through-netherlands-canals/index.html

Feadship's new superyacht Project 817 is guilded through the canals of Holland while en route to the North Sea.

The 94-meter vessel is maneuvered across a bridge in Woubrugge during the tricky journey.A superyacht is usually guided to sea by a team of five experts and a crew on board, according to Feadship.Project 817 passes through the Albert Schweitzer Bridge in Alphen aan den Rijn.All of the vessels from Feadship's Kaag yard must take this narrow route in order to reach the sea.

 

  • The Foil Revolution is something else. She’s great, but no Doug Demuro, so I just went to the point of speed and lift:

 

r/Jeep - The old girl...

 

  • HONDA IS KILLING IT. Like, if this is the inside of their new cars, they’re back on the menu again since a 1990 Accord.

 

We’re going to see conversions of classics into EV when properly regulated aftermarket conversions are easier to do. I also wonder about autonomous conversion, because as laws change, *something* will need to happen to keep these cars on the road.

It’s going to create a whole new world of sleepers. Like this Sleeper Golf. I LAUGH OUT LOUD ALWAYS:

 

I DO NOT EVEN LIKE SHOES

So for Alien day I sorta bugged out at some of the cool merch, and found these: https://www.space.com/aliens-reebok-stomper-sneakers.html

I’m not a shoe dude, but holy cow I sorta am. No I did not spend egregious amounts on a pair of sneakers.

which led to these: https://www.space.com/42333-vans-nasa-sneaker-collection-commemorates-apollo.html

 

HEY YOU ALL THE WAY DOWN HERE? HOW ABOUT A TIMELINE OF THE UNIVERSE FROM BIG BANG TO HEAT DEATH?

 

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