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If you don’t stick around for this newsletter, please do scroll to vehicles and the personal recreational tank that does 60mph. Tell me if it would be worth me starting a gofundme for $600K to buy it. Thanks.

 

Before we dive into the newsletter title, let’s talk about Pete Holmes. He has a absolutely darling TV show on HBO called “Crashing”, about his upbringing as a devout Christian, his marriage that fails, and how he sheds religion as he rises through the stand-up ranks. The amount of cameos is unreal. Bill Burr, Seth Meyers, John Mulnaey… actually it’s dozens and dozens and too good not to look at here. It’s a wholesome show that includes Artie Shaw, so figure that out. It’s touching, and surprising, and you can binge all 3 seasons, because it’s done.

Admittedly, this clip is basically where I got my head to, in 1991, after watching the movie Mindwalk. I was 15, but never had a religious framework to break out of. He brilliantly encapsulates the baffling notion of existence that we all choose to ignore. I just love it, and his delivery is solid. Blue language, and that’s something he didn’t used to do, but it works:

 

@jasoncapitalmotivationWatch until the end… ???? ##PeteHolmes? original sound – Jason Capital

 

SO, MOVING ON….

The title of this newsletter is a Santa Cruz trio, called “The Devil Makes Three”. I am *Not* doing hipster-ownership “found them first” nonsense, but I saw them come up when I lived in Monterey 2002-2004, and went to a bunch of their shows. I think I found them when they opened for a jam band at Moe’s Alley. Then my life got turned UPSIDE DOWN, and a few years later saw them for New Year’s Eve at the Catalyst in 2009. My brain is mud soup at this point, and I need to go check my “concert ticket book”, and YES… I have a few from all my shows since younger. I should digitize it. So many great memories on pieces of ephemera.

And yes I know what that word means, because I am a gentleman of the Inner Sunset that used to go to the Vintage Paper Festival. I’m literally at the point of being a seller with all my old hotel stationary. Remember when I wrote poems on old hotel stationary from the 1900-1930s and printed a book for me wedding? Anyone want one? I’ve so many. Lots of Rumi and Cummings!

But watching these guys come up, just like any of you in similar situations, is a joy. So here they are, and THEY LOOK SO OLD. They were tiny baby children! OH WAIT I AM AGING.

But these guys are like whiskey fuelled deckhand scallywags, a fusion of country, rockabilly, and punk? I think that’s fair. Their self titled album is bonkers enjoyable. Old Number 7, The Plank, Bullet are all unbelievably great tracks. But then there’s Graveyard, the titular song for the title of this week’s newsletter!

Another band I was lucky enough to watch “come up”, ie a stratospheric rocket ride to the moon in a few short years, about half a decade… Khruangbin. Have I ever told you the way I find music? About 2018-2019 I was documenting Tik Tok music…

The internet is a bizarre, sinewy, wonderful place at times, *OR* the roundabout ways I found out about my favorite bands.

The internet is a bizarre, sinewy, wonderful place at times, *OR* the roundabout ways I found out about my favorite bands.

 

But:

Khruangbin, Jai Paul, Sofi Tukker – I found them all because the internet is *WEIRD*. And now they’re some of the most important music ever. First one was a farmer warming a baby cow in a hot tub on reddit. Jai was from Grand Theft Auto when I was grieving my dog Pavlov. Sofi was a young aerial dancer winning a competition to one of their songs. So odd.

All that right here!

The internet is a bizarre, sinewy, wonderful place at times, *OR* the roundabout ways I found out about my favorite bands.

 

 

SPACE AND TASTY SPACE TACOS

 

 

Mystery origins of the Earth's SECOND MOON revealed as experts say it could leave orbit in 300 years

 

 

 

 

“We were treated to the strongest auroras of the entire mission, over north America and Canada. Amazing spikes higher than our orbit????, and we flew right above the centre of the ring, rapid waves and pulses all over. #MissionAlpha”

Strong aurora

 

 

 

 

  • This bizarre ‘superbubble’ spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope has scientists scratching their heads

“Its presence is still something of a mystery,” agency personnel wrote in a statement, explaining there are two leading hypotheses. One is that huge stars blew away the gas with stellar winds, but the wind velocities measured there are “inconsistent” with what the models suggest, according to the statement. Another possibility is perhaps a dying star’s explosion, known as a supernova, caused the hollow in the gas. Lending credence to the supernova theory is evidence of at least one supernova remnant near the superbubble. https://www.space.com/hubble-space-telescope-superbubble-nebula-image

 

 

  • Space solar power’s time may finally be coming: This longtime sci-fi dream could actually become reality in the next decade or so, some researchers say. The idea of harvesting solar energy via power-beaming satellites has therefore long intrigued researchers looking for ways to feed an energy-ravenous earth https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-research-advances

Illustration of the SPS-ALPHA ("Solar Power Satellite by means of Arbitrarily Large Phased Array") system beaming energy to Australia.

 

 

In this artist's illustration, an asteroid passes close to Earth.

 

 

  • BACK TO VENUS!

 

 

  • In the “We’re opening a really cute hotel in Elk, Mendocino that stares at the Pacific Ocean, and it’s super fun and beautiful” column:

Satellite images show kelp forest has doubled in size on California’s North Coast, after a dramatic collapse https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/Satellite-images-show-kelp-forest-has-doubled-in-16589392.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This artist’s conception shows the dust continuum and molecular lines of carbon monoxide and water seen in the pair of galaxies known as SPT0311-58.

 

 

  • The speed of light in real time is FASCINATIN! I love data, and I love good visualizations:

 

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

  • I am SO SORRY. If you didn’t know? We all knew Free Will is a myth, right? You all knew we’re so deeply bound to our genetics we are essentially passengers yoked to the vehicle of our mind, right? You realize this destroys the lives of philosophical working thinkers, right? Our mind’s processes have trapped us in our heads and we are just watching out of the eyes of the meat suit our genetics controls.

Neuroscientists can read brain activity to predict decisions 11 seconds before people act https://qz.com/1569158/neuroscientists-read-unconscious-brain-activity-to-predict-decisions/

 

 

Superintelligence Cannot be Contained: Lessons from Computability Theory https://jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/12202

The catch is that controlling a super-intelligence far beyond human comprehension would require a simulation of that super-intelligence which we can analyze. But if we’re unable to comprehend it, it’s impossible to create such a simulation.

 

 

  • I know it’s dumb, but the simulation thing became more interesting in that now *we* are running simulations… so why couldn’t we be in one? Honestly, it doesn’t matter because “here is here”, no matter what here is.

Can a digital replica of Earth save the world from climate disaster? https://www.space.com/digital-twin-earth-to-help-fight-climate-change

 

 

 

 

  • We can now turn plastic waste into high enough quality oil that it can be used in a refinery. Holy cow:

Honeywell Introduces Revolutionary Plastics Recycling Technology To Drive A Circular Plastics Economy

– Honeywell’s UpCycle Process Technology expands the types of plastics that can be recycled

– New technology can potentially increase the amount of global plastic waste that can be recycled to 90% when used in conjunction with other chemical and mechanical recycling processes

– New technology can produce recycled feedstock used to make plastics with 57% less CO2-equivalent emissions than plastics produced from fossil feeds https://prnewswire.com/news-releases/honeywell-introduces-revolutionary-plastics-recycling-technology-to-drive-a-circular-plastics-economy-301413530.html

 

 

“Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory? Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) The biggest mystery concerning the history of our universe is what happened before the big bang. Where did our universe come from? Nearly a century ago, Albert Einstein searched for steady-state alternatives to the big bang model because a beginning in time was not philosophically satisfying in his mind. Now there are a variety of conjectures in the scientific literature for our cosmic origins, including the ideas that our universe emerged from a vacuum fluctuation, or that it is cyclic with repeated periods of contraction and expansion, or that it was selected by the anthropic principle out of the string theory landscape of the multiverse—where, as the MIT cosmologist Alan Guth says “everything that can happen will happen … an infinite number of times,” or that it emerged out of the collapse of matter in the interior of a black hole. A less explored possibility is that our universe was created in the laboratory of an advanced technological civilization. Since our universe has a flat geometry with a zero net energy, an advanced civilization could have developed a technology that created a baby universe out of nothing through quantum tunneling.”

Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?

 

I was going to go with a real quantum computing GIF:

 

But even I didn’t understand it, so here’s something more Hollywood:

 

  • This is basically capitalism using architecture to greenwash a bit and trick us that the world is healthy and fine, but whatever… it’s a permaculture inspired design that may inspire sustainability and shed a light on the nature we desire and need, vs the tumors that are cities: Work has begun on Beijing-founded MAD Architects’ third US project: a 16-storey residential building in Denver that appears to have been ripped open to reveal its green stuffing. https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/work-begins-on-mad-architects-cracked-denver-residential-tower/

 

 

HEY KNITTERS… Free Sweater Pattern!

 

  • This is a complex one. It’s a lot. Remember the “You wouldn’t download a car” anti-piracy message? Okay first… YES WE WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR. I remember Kia released plans for 3D printed vehicles as a joke, but then, the Aston, and this:

 

BUT OMG OF EFFING COURSE: Anti-Piracy Advert Music Was Stolen It’s been revealed that the music for the ‘You Wouldn’t Steal A Car’ piracy advert was pirated… https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/

 

But… I remember people were like “YEAH, I WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR, YES I WOULD”:

Or that you wouldn’t download a bear:

 

But the point is, our chefs do this… give out a famous and tasty recipe, and when you’re so fed up trying to make it like the chef makes it, you come back to the restaurant for dinner. LOL

This company in Iceland just released a free sweater pattern, so you can waste 200 hours before throwing it away and ordering the sweater from them.

 

Anniversary Sweater – Free Pattern

 

 

NATURE IS AMAZING EVEN IF SCARY, AND EVEN IF YOU ARE HITTING MOUNTAINS WITH A SUBMARINE

 

  • Halitrephes Maasi jellyfish, also known commonly as the “Firework Jellyfish”.

 

 

Underwater mountains help ocean water rise from abyss | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

  • In the “no duh look at cities from space they look like a cancerous tumor, of course the earth will try to excise that tumor” category:

Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth: Covid-19 may well have been one attempt by the Earth to protect itself. Gaia will try harder next time with something even nastier https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/02/beware-gaia-theory-climate-crisis-earth

 

 

  • NICE

 

 

MOVIES AND TV AND FUNNY

 

 

  • OH MY I LOVE THIS IMAGE:

 

Disney w/ Alien, Deadpool, and now Predator IP, it’s truly the Platinum age of movies and TV. I wholly concur with this tweet… people are so wildly insecure they call everything woke, when we could get some of the greatest sci-fi and horror IP set throughout history. Think of Logan in Wolverine’s Civil War days with Sabretooth, etc. I cannot wait for this, it actually will keep me from wanting to not exist anymore.

 

 

  • Only Rick & Morty fans will understand Tatooine as it should be:

 

  • Joe Pera is one of those gems that got us through the pandemic. Nathan for You, Joe, and a few others really made us feel “at home” while on lockdown. Joe is a gem (he definitely threw me a lifesaver), and I started with his cartoon, not knowing a show even existed. “Joe Pera Talks You To Sleep”:

 

 

But he’s really blown up, and this NPR listen is a joy, as is this NYT article, both from recently about his third season: Joe Pera and the Surprising Pleasures of Gentle Humor Don’t expect twists in these bits. The standup, who will be at the New York Comedy Festival, has devised a calming aesthetic with rewards of its own. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/arts/television/joe-pera-comedy.html

 

  • Why aren’t there funny conservative comedians? Why do conservatives think they are funny, when they’re not, and are also tone-deaf, and they can’t read the room? Why are they dumb, bad at humor, and smug about being ignorant and missing the thread?

Cody Johnston and Some More News is incredible content: This is a long form funny news channel of real info and humor dissected. I am well aware most of you won’t have the time or patience or interest, but holy shit the channel is really good.

Here’s a 5 minute clip of the hour+:

 

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This one about Steven Crowder, “Babylon Bee” (a ghastly conservative Onion knock off), and even why Dave Chappelle aren’t funny. Namely, why conservative comedy falls flat is because there’s no premise but cruelty. It’s interesting Norm Macdonald evolved on trans jokes, well before his death. “You don’t want someone misinterpreting a joke and hurting someone”.

But it’s wild Dave is just zeroed in on woke and cancel culture, because he’s basically at the end stage of Lenny Bruce being unfunny and just ranting about his SCOTUS shit. It’s weird how these previously funny people like him and Rogan just go off the rails silo’d in their own fame and confirmation bias or cognitive dissonance. Whatever the case, this long form take down of bad humor on the right is truly wonderful, and answers a lot of questions about conservative rage just needing to “own the libs” by confusing them for clicks with bad comedy, vs doing actual comedy.

Holy cow. This guy is hilarious, but REALLY smart, and informative.

 

 

MUSIC

 

  • A TikTok cat drinking milk turned into a raucous klezmer session:

 

  • It just came to my attention that people didn’t know Springsteen’s Jersey Girl is really Tom Waits’ Jersey Girl, lovingly borrowed. They only did the song together once. Here I am… not really realizing Springsteen did the song. It’s Tom Waits’ B-3 organ on Heartattack and Vine that was everything to me. But… so is Tom.

 

 

  • Masked DJs are dumb, and I’m the hipster that liked Gabriel’s Genesis more than Phil singing, but hey… this is great!

 

  • The Berglund Polyphonic Midi Wind Instrument, the NuRad:

and:

 

 

  • Gorgeous, if you like Game of Thrones vs Lord of the Rings vs Scandinavian Pagan Norse song:
@rabbithole_hayley777#breathwork #sound #healing #frequency #ansestors #remember? original sound – Hayley Binnington?????????????????

 

 

 

 

CULTURE, SOCIETY, PEOPLE, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN

 

 

 

 

 

  • In the “yes, Burning Man was always about hypocrisy and duality, correct”:

Burning Man and Decommodification: The Sotheby’s Auction Edition https://developingjen.medium.com/burning-man-and-decommodification-the-sotheby-auction-edition-899dd1abcc37

Boundless Space… The Possibilities of Burning Man https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/boundless-space-the-possibilities-of-burning-man?locale=en

 

This is going to be bad. Here we go….

 

Well, here’s a metaphor:

 

VEHICLES

 

  • Remember the Hyundai Pony EV restomod? HOLY COW THEY DID MALAISE RETRO NOSTALGIA AGAIN… and it’s amazing.

Here’s the Resto Pony from Newsletter #0018: https://unclefishbits.com/newsletter-0018-i-guess-its-going-to-be-chilled-red-wines-forever-then/

The Hyundai Grandeur restomod! https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38209496/hyundai-grandeur-restomod-ev/

hyundai grandeur restomod

hyundai grandeur restomod

hyundai grandeur restomod

hyundai grandeur restomod

 

  • Speakin of the Pony… The new Hyundai EV is so beautiful and cool, and based on their Pony.These cars are something else… Tesla killer indeed:

 

And more description and info: https://www.gearpatrol.com/cars/a37853889/howe-howe-ripsaw-tank/

howe and howe ripsaw


 

 

  • The “it exists, but not officially” Project TR-3B Aurora, as near to spooky UFO stuff as we’ll ever get, here:

It uses highly pressured mercury accelerated by nuclear energy to produce a plasma that creates a field of anti-gravity around the ship. Conventional thrusters located at the tips of the craft allow it to perform all manner of rapid high speed maneuvers along all three axes. Interestingly, the plasma generated also reduces radar signature significantly. So it’ll be almost invisible on radar & remain undetected. This literally means that it can go to any country it likes without being detected by air traffic control & air defence systems.

TR-3B Anti-Gravity Spacecrafts https://www.military.com/video/aircraft/military-aircraft/tr-3b-aurora-anti-gravity-spacecrafts/2860314511001

 

 

  • The future of motorsports is EV “Pod Racing”… watch this! Anticlimactic, but when this gets “off the ground” it’s going to be unreal:

  • Bet you didn’t expect this:

 

  • SEMA WAS AMAZING and off the hook this year. I wish I could have gone:

TacoZilla Toyota Truck Takes Over SEMA https://autos.yahoo.com/tacozilla-toyota-truck-takes-over-193100303.html

 

  • Hell of a climb there, Sparky.

 

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