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WHY NOT SOMETHING CHARMING FIRST?

Like something akin to a musical Indiana Jones Rube Goldberg machine with the song played by a marble? Some say this is CGI, but I don’t see it?

@enbiggenIndiana Jones original sound – BluntoMarx” href=”https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7050520406913977134″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>? original sound – BluntoMarx

 

In the “SO I WAS BLASTING” category: And why not something HILARIOUS. Who’s got that ole cognitive decline?

 

 

 

Onto the title of the newsletter….

“Si mundus est simulatio, quis est simulator?”

or:

if the world is a simulation, who is simulating the simulators?

 

You’ve heard the whole thing, right? Roko’s Basilisk?

(Some of this was in prior newsletters, and there will be a test at the end of winter)

 

Sorry for bringing it up, because now that you know about it, you are open to punishment from an AI that comes from the future.  Essentially, the idea is a thought experiment so dangerous, intellectuals are saying you shouldn’t even think it, lest it manifests the reality. In fact, the forum LessWrong banned conversation about it for 5 years. If you believe in that sort of thing, that is.

The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time Why are techno-futurists so freaked out by Roko’s Basilisk? https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most-terrifying-thought-experiment-of-all-time.html

 

SO… keeping with “thought experiment”, some of you might skip this as stoned 2am dorm room conversation.  But, it’s worth it, if not to divine how you perceive your own reality. But serious, people who roll eyes at someone speaking about the ineffable nature of existence or philosophy will need to move on to “SPACE”. =) Also, for those deeply rooted in an understandable, natural, normal universe, the implications of an AI attempting to break down the laws of thermodynamics is too much to fathom, anyway.

 

“Yes,” said Deep Thought. “Life, the Universe, and Everything. There is an answer. But, I’ll have to think about it.”

 

First, it’s really Calvinist, and you could replace the concept with “GOD”.  And it’s utilitarianism, to say the least, and involves Simulation hypothesis.  But the crux is that we have two ways to go…. humans will eventually either become extinct, or we’ll evolve out of humanity into transhumanism or posthumanist culture, as imagined in Ray Kurzweil’s concept of the Singularity. If that sounds insane, realize we’ve normalized and don’t even think about bionic exoskeletons, pacemakers, artificial limbs, CRISPR and genetic engineering… we’re already there. The reason it’s hard to comprehend is similar to William Gibson’s “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed”.  And Arthur C. Clarke’s Three Laws already taught us, ““Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”  We’ll get there, and with that will come incomprehensible computing power. And advancements that we currently could only imagine to be science fiction fantasy, and likely not even capable of comprehending the future tech.

Essentially, if everything pans out, it is quite inevitable that an Artificial Intelligence will come into creation that is relatively self-aware, or at least autonomous.  And in that, the best case scenario would have an ultra-intelligent AI that looks at humans as harmless. Instead of the science fiction trope of fascist or antagonist institutions or robots and AI like Skynet, Cyberdyne, Big Brother, Weyland-Yutani, Tyrell and the like, it will be a benevolent AI that looks to maintain human existence free of pain or suffering. It’s not a stretch in considering future AI looking at humans as puppies or cute pet dogs. In that, they’ll want to save us. And they’ll want to figure out why there weren’t there earlier, to help us find transcendence and peace.  It won’t be able to reverse entropy, so it will begin running endless simulation of our evolution to see how it could have been created earlier, and how to maintain a stasis for human mental health.  Roko’s Basilisk is suggesting that it would begin to figure out how to be punitive in these simulations, punishing people who were not involved in its creation into being and existence.  That being said, even knowing about Roko’s basilisk opens you up to potential punishment from a future AI, in that you likely aren’t doing enough to bring that AI into existence.  In the delay of it existing, there is existential and physical human suffering the AI could have countered, and it will hold you ethically liable for not doing everything in your power to bring it to life.  This would be the less than rosy situation of an AI punishing us, and using resources to run simulations to do so in lieu of being incapable of reversing entropy to find the people who failed to help it.  There are so many arguments against this, of course. So many. But even physicists, ethicists, programmers, etc have a hard time poking holes in or debunking the notion of our future AI world.

Even the best case scenario has nearly infinite computing power with nearly infinitely stable and intelligent AI running nearly infinite simulations of how to fix and help or cure humanity’s woes and ills. It’s also noted that this may not be an autonomous AI, because it’s also been posited that we’re basically a hyper-realistic version of the sims for post-singularity transhumanists, where they’re utilizing computational resources for figuring out hyper-realistic solutions to problems, or simulating what led up to their current existence, and why it took so long, as well as what woes they may have prevented.

So, from a mathematical perspective, born of history and current reality, tying to Moore’s Law, it’s far more likely we are in one of many numbers of simulations in the future versus actually being anchored to the actual present time and reality we think we live in. FUN, HUH?!?!

This ENTIRE “dangerous” thought experiment also plays into people’s silly notion of us all existing within a simulation, and mathematically it does make sense. Sure. I get it.  I do not believe we are in a simulation, and I don’t care. It’s a fun thought experiment, but it ultimately doesn’t matter. It becomes moot when you realize this is all happening so who cares if it’s real or not. Just exist. In fact, that allows me to plug my review of Ryan Reynold’s “FREE GUY” again. It’s a charming and delightfully refreshing romp that is layered with humanism and philosophy:

Three Point Turns that become 400 point turns, and crazy dangerous driving talents of doom.

 

Me, walking through an unknowable, ineffable, non-objective reality while existing within it.

 

 

…WHOLE POINT OF THIS RAMBLE is more about my philosophy of existence.

 

In the end, for me, it doesn’t matter if we’re in a simulation. At all.  It’s tied to that Buddhist notion of everything being impermanent, and that no state is forever.  Who cares if we’re in reality, a simulation, a video game, or someone’s dream?  We are simply meant to exist with what we’re given, and there’s no need to fervently peer at the man behind the curtain. In fact, I doubt he’s there.  Whatever this is, we’re here. Live it up in wherever you are.

In fact, thought experiments aren’t always helpful, because it can get precarious denying actual suffering and systemic issues.

TO WIT:

Why Reality Is Not A Video Game — And Why It Matters: Let us make sure that we don’t confuse philosophical arguments with our very real socio-political reality, especially not now. We need all the autonomy that we can muster to protect our freedom of choice. https://npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/03/09/519376356/why-reality-is-not-a-video-game-and-why-it-matters

 

So moving on, and what reality is, this guy had to poop in front of a LOT of executives: I present the funniest Amazon review of all time is sage and wise… do not eat the red gummy bear.

https://smile.amazon.com/review/R9LN2785JGSL3?sa-no-redirect=1

 

SPACE, or; JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE ALL THE TIME

 

  • I still posit that consciousness was the greatest evolutionary wrong turn, and that looking at the vastness of the universe from all those old National Geographic Pull Out maps impacted my skull meat in a profound way. BIG WIDE SCARED EYES… but then there’s stuff even bigger that is nearly impossible to process:

 

 

  • When we find life off earth, it’s going to be so anticlimactic vs what movies taught us. =/ At least rewatch Contact, *THEN* rewatch The Arrival with Charlie Sheen. He might be highly moist the whole film (there’s a point to it, like the cold of “The Thing”). And the practical effect of the bathtub scene, and the camera shakes, and all that. Quite good. Then it descends into an Escher nightmare. Quite fun.

ANYHOO MARS AND LIFE: improbable but not unlikely… carbon signatures may point to life on mars. At least, biological processes.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-curiosity-rover-measures-intriguing-carbon-signature-on-mars 

NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars – NASA's Mars Exploration Program

 

 

 

  • Did you know that many feel biological life started when crystalline structures started using a biological process to more efficiently transfer ions, and it was so efficient the biology outperformed the crystalline structures with adaptability, and voila… life. We could have just been smart silicate creatures, but noooo… we needed to take a wrong turn in the development of consciousness inside actual electrified meat that is trapped in a bone and muscle transporter that carries us around.

If that comment strikes you as interesting (the science stuff, not the jokey meme stuff), you may truly enjoy a 1990 book by a mathematician who explores the most daunting and complex problems in modern science. Although 30+ years old, it’s truly one of the best organized and skeptically data driven approaches to science, reason and logic, and it touches on these things: Extraterrestrials … Our genetic destiny … The roots of language and learning … Quantum physics and the shape of the universe … Artificial intelligence

Paradigms Lost: Tackling the Unanswered Mysteries of Modern Science by John L. Casti https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187639.Paradigms_Lost

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • They know what they did with this headline:

The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is leaking gas https://www.space.com/supermassive-black-hole-leaking-in-milky-way

 

WEBB!

  • NASA is operating at such amazing levels of humanity, and we’re all down here in the gutter looking up at the stars.

Why there are no on-board cameras: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/06/why-doesnt-webb-have-deployment-cameras/

The mirror is fully deployed: James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest ever built, fully unfolds giant mirror to gaze at the cosmos https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-fully-deployed

‘We’re on an incredible high’: James Webb Space Telescope scientists over the moon as observatory unfolds By Elizabeth Howell published 2 days ago You’d be thrilled, too, after unfolding a giant space telescope in the most complicated way ever. https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-team-incredible-high

Even NASA Seems Surprised by Its New Space Telescope The $10 billion mission is working better than anyone could have predicted. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-deployment/621211/

 

And today as I send out the newsletter:

NASA CONFIRMS THE WEBB TELESCOPE HAS SUCCESSFULLY DETECTED ITS FIRST PHOTONS Let there be light! https://www.inverse.com/science/webb-first-photons

 

 

  • Also, my friend sent this:

NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend its Lifetime Expectations – James Webb Space Telescope

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations/

And I said this:

My Lifetime™ expectation is that a successful New Yorker is left a small inn in the mountains by her Aunt who raised her. She travels to the Berkshires, originally to sort through the papers and sell the inn, but is surprised to find the quaint small town lifestyle and quirky cast of characters is both charming and undervalued.  That is, even if the demanding chef and her have this odd tension that she won’t realize is sexual chemistry until they figure out how to run the inn and restaurant together, falling in love, where she eventually moves to the small town where they and their lifestyle live happily ever after.

Actually, that’s Hallmark. Lifetime is more like the first time I was alone with my mother-in-law, and we watched a Lifetime original about a mother-in-law putting a hit on her son-in-law. It was with Judith Light. Man that was a hilarious night.

  • That little rover, like all of us, is just trying to figure life out one step at a time.

 

 

  • This is fantastic, because the b612 foundation, which has a goal of protecting earth from asteroid impacts (which is lofty, because you let one silly thing eek on through and you look like sad sacks)… and they used a brilliant metaphor that tracking asteroids is like trying to find a piece of coal that is coming at your face in the middle of the night. Using sunlight will do a lot to help us track biosphere ending dangers:

NASA upgrades its asteroid hazard software to use sunlight: Key changes will make hazard prediction better — not that we need to worry yet. https://www.space.com/nasa-hazard-assessment-software-sunlight

 

 

  • THREE BODY PROBLEM SOLVED WITH DRUNK FIGHTING STYLE! Or ministry of silly walks… they used a drunkard’s amble to understand the complex problem that has vexed us since the days of Newton!

Analytical, Statistical Approximate Solution of Dissipative and Nondissipative Binary-Single Stellar Encounters https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031020

“[The three-body problem] depends very, very sensitively on initial conditions, so essentially it means that the outcome is basically random,” said Yonadav Barry Ginat, a doctoral student at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology who co-authored the paper with Hagai Perets, a physicist at the same university. “But that doesn’t mean that we cannot calculate what probability each outcome has.” To do that, they relied on the theory of random walks — also known as “the drunkard’s walk.” The idea is that a drunkard walks in random directions, with the same chance of taking a step to the right as taking a step to the left. If you know those chances, you can calculate the probability of the drunkard ending up in any given spot at some later point in time. https://www.space.com/three-body-problem-solution

 

 

 

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND SWIMS IN NATURE!

 

  • Our era of cyber war, to stop ground war:

 

 

  • Some people still don’t know how to use a mask!

 

 

  • Incredible examples of large the eruption was, superimposed over other countries or cities, and my friends… this was insane.

How big was the Tonga eruption? The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano may be one of the largest recorded in such detail. The blast was visible from space, with images of the massive ash plume going viral over the following days. But just how big was it? https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/lgpdwjyqbvo/

 

 

 

 

Raytheon's New Tech Allows 130 Drones to be Controlled By One Operator

 

 

  • All the bad things people are doing with drones, like the Mexican Cartel dropping bombs? Here’s a couple short clips of a flamethrower drones, a automatic pistol and pistol drone, a shotgun drone, a automatic rifle drone and automatic drone sentry, as well as more. It’s unreal how fast this has been developing, and worryingly how many countries want to use autonomous weapons and won’t back down.

Three Point Turns that become 400 point turns, and crazy dangerous driving talents of doom.

 

 

  • Dude built a flawless artificial intelligence to beat minesweeper. I start playing minesweeper for the first time in my life 3 weeks ago. I have won 2 games. This does it a bit better:

 

 

  • Speaking of A.I., my friend who worked for Google, then WayMo, has spent his last year finishing this project… a truck that autonomously just drove an hour and twenty minutes without a human driver, navigating surface streets, signals, highways, and other cars. First time ever. Unbelievable. *NO HUMANS IN THE TRUCK*

“On December 22nd, TuSimple made history by becoming the first to successfully test a fully autonomous semi-truck on open public roads without a human in the vehicle and without human intervention. The run took place the evening of December 22nd and required TuSimple’s upfitted autonomous semi-truck to begin its journey from a large railyard in Tucson, Arizona, and travel more than 80 miles on surface streets and highways, safely arriving at a high-volume distribution center in the Phoenix metro area. Along the journey, TuSimple’s Autonomous Driving System (ADS) successfully navigated surface streets, traffic signals, on-ramps, off-ramps, emergency lane vehicles, and highway lane changes in open traffic while naturally interacting with other motorists.”

 

 

 

  • More AI? SURE! AI beats Poker:

HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BEAT POKER: Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight. Now they can do so perfectly. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/magazine/ai-technology-poker.html

 

 

 

  • This robot is a revolution in robotics at home… simple, affordable, useful, just AWESOME!

Labrador Addresses Critical Need With Deceptively Simple Home Robot This assistive home robot is tackling an important problem https://spectrum.ieee.org/labrador-systems-robot

A man with a cane stands next to a robotic table in a living room.

 

 

  • Aaaand… a reminder that technology is neither good, nor bad, nor neutral…. And that profiteers who unleash technology without first asking “what bad can happen due to the negative aspects of human nature”, well then FUCK YOU, frankly. Eff all of them. Oppenheimer cleared the roadway, guys. Pay attention:

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them “I threatened to uninstall the app [and] she begged me not to.” https://futurism.com/chatbot-abuse

Getty Images/Futurism

 

 

 

As COVID-19 fuels opioid deaths, researchers look to create an anti-opioid vaccine - Boston Children's Answers

 

 

 

  • This looks lovely:

 

 

  • Glitterbomb 4.0 – you had me at 20% more fart spray:

 

 

  • Is weather science?  …and is it simply an excuse for another “fear of heights no way in hell NOPE NOPE” clips?

 

 

  • If you liked 8-bit Nintendo soundtracks, you’re going to be addicted to listening to sorting algorithms:

Try your hand at it here: https://sort.bullinger.dev/

Or just listen!

 

 

  • I had no idea armor technology from the late medieval era had pretty decent flexibility, and higher quality armor even allowed you to swim for a short time in it!

 

 

  • Wine Tech! They plant like this to protect from wind, and reach heartier soil. Amazing, and a reason to visit the Canary Islands! =)

Vineyards sit in moon-like craters on a volcano in Lanzarote https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232272-500-vineyards-sit-in-moon-like-craters-on-a-volcano-in-lanzarote/

Here’s more:

 

MOVIES, TV, AND VISUAL DELIGHTS

 

  • THE EXPANSE – New Season is out and warpped up!  Now I can start!  So… if you’ve not seen it, this is the greatest opening credit sequence in television history, and I will fight you. nb: it’s basically how the next 300 – 500 years will play out *for real* if we don’t kill ourselves, or let AI do it for us:

 

 

  • Dopesick is required viewing. It’s on Hulu. Eff the Sacklers. This is about how that one family created the opioid, heroin, fentanyl crisis.

Dopesick (TV Mini Series 2021) - IMDb

 

 

  • Dig this… their first names spell Steve’s name, and their last names spell Martin’s name.

Steve Martin

Martin Short

But the nervous lawyer was great:

 

 

  • Adult Swim is the Dadaist Avant Garde Art Collective of the modern age, including surrealism and mind warping weirdness. Enjoy Too Many Cooks, a brilliant delve into parody of the sitcom world, and somewhat of a related notion to last week’s “RABBITS” by David Lynch. The whole story of how this even got made is bizarre.

ENTERTAINMENT AN ORAL HISTORY OF ‘TOO MANY COOKS,’ ADULT SWIM’S WEIRDEST EXPERIMENT EVER “I had this idea but didn’t know if I could keep it going for 11 minutes…” https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/50167-too-many-cooks-oral-history-anniversary

 

 

  • Please let Neill Blomkamp direct Alien 5. Remember when he used OATS STUDIOS to reimagine Donald Trump’s Air Force One and Motorcade?

 

 

  • So the people that like Alan Tudyk’s quirky and hilarious “Resident Alien” should check out Showtime’s “Dexter: New Blood”. It’s basically the darker and grown up version of RA. And if you liked the Dexter: New Blood experience (Lauren and I just burnt through it like nothing in a long time, and one of the first shows we were “blanking” on the idea of the outside world, pandemic, strife, etc. Full suspension of disbelief, and total immersion. Pretty rare, pretty fun!), please check out the SyFy show “Resident Alien” which you can find all over, including on Peacock.

 

 

 

 

 

  • This old commercial, “Spicy Meatball” for Alka-Seltzer, outtakes. I love this:

 

 

  • This Dan Aykroyd scene from Twilight Zone really stuck with me. Landis’ film lost out to wild controversy due to some stunt scene deaths with an actor, two children, and a helicopter. Very dark and brutal regarding the ethics of set safety. But the film was a truly “of the moment” somewhat “mise en place” thing for the 1980s. We’ve been rebooting stuff since the first cave story was told.

 

 

  • The Hall of Presidents is triggered. It looks like that scene in Interstellar “This little maneuver is going to set us back 51 years”
@everythingdisney133 ???????????? Have you ever BEEN to the Hall of Presidents at Disney? ????? #disney #disneyparks #disneyworld #wdw #fail #blooper #coffee ? original sound – ?????EVERYTHING DISNEY?????

 

 

  • The Carbonaro Effect is a magician doing weird stuff. This one sends the patient into “SHUTDOWN” and apparently “EXISTENTIAL CRISIS MODE”:

 

 

  • This is *HILARIOUS*, and yes censorship is sad / bad:

China gives Fight Club new ending where authorities win Under President Xi Jinping:

Chinese authorities have pushed to purge society of elements deemed unhealthy, so the ending removes the exploding buildings and there’s a new coda that reads: “The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/01/25/china-gives-fight-club-new-ending-authorities-win/

 

MUSIC

  • New Zealand – Australian Jordan Rakei is based in London, and he’s doing some great work. The 2nd track sounds like if a gentle wind had a voice, but more to the point it makes me think of a Disney song I don’t hate:

 

 

  • Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song.

The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, designed to be “Bob Dylan-esque”;[1] however, the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words “all right”.[2] Celentano’s intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. The intent was to demonstrate how English sounds to people who don’t understand the language proficiently. “Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang—which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian—I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn’t mean anything.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol

It was a huge hit:

 

 

 

  • A buddy and I were talking about Anderson Paak’s super duo group with that other Mars person, and cheapest tickets in Vegas for his show are like $800. It reminds me of this. Cobain’s face = priceless honest truth.

 

 

 

  • Kool Moe Dee’s ranking has Black Thought, Raekwon, and Too $hort too low, but hey… ephemera amirite?

 

 

  • Also, don’t sleep on Liam Bailey with Black Thought. Honestly, it’s not the most historic BT flow, but Champion is so dope, and Liam is unreal. Nice.

 

 

  • Eddie Gale was unreal ahead of his time, and this stuff reminds me of where Sault is at, and what modern music is trying to do in context of society, unrest, justice, and forwarding the civil rights movement:

 

 

 

 

  • Fans of Khruangbin…. Wait.. you’re not? I’ve put this here before. I saw reddit post about a rancher who had to warm up a baby cow in a hot tub to keep it warm, and someone posted this song. So the internet is weird, and I find my favorite music in really odd ways. Who said discovery is dead!?

 

  • This Tati Falco is amazing and adjacent to Khruangbin.

 

 

  • FANTASTIC JAMES BROWN and this crew:
@danceon We’re feeling good and ready to have a funky time ???????????? #Moga_almeri ? Doing It To Death – Pts. 1 & 2 – The J.B.’s

 

 

  • The most pre-gentrified 1980s hip hop interview ever…. Doug E. Fresh in the hood with his people, back when things were more fun.

 

 

  • Blue Monday by New Order, as played by Orkestra Obsolete on instruments from the 1930s:

 

VIDEO GAMES

  • Oh man. Moss Book 2 is coming out this year. I had NO IDEA. Any of you people use VR? Let’s visit a museum, play poker,  or play a cooperative game. Let me know! I also have an HTC Vive Pro to sell, without base stations. Let me know if you’re curious.

This little Mouse in this side scrolling puzzler legit became a real friend during the pandemic, and you either get it, or you just need to move on. It got weird, you all know that. This little guy was a charming delight, and it was a magical thing to lose myself in the Zelda like forest world.

 

30 VR Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2022 https://www.roadtovr.com/vr-games-2022-quest-2-steam-psvr/

 

Culture, The World, People, Places, and our Future

 

 

 

  • People who hate fondant will lose their minds, but frankly… this *is* mind blowing. Wait for her cutting her own hand? HYPER REALISTIC CAKES! From Red Rose Cake in Istanbul, by Tuba Geçkil https://www.redrosecake.com/

Here’s more!

 

  • She is my favorite tik tokker:
@elizabethjokes Reply to @oh_hallie ? Blade Runner 2049 – Synthwave Goose

 

 

  • Magic Johnson getting HIV did so much for the awareness of our culture and society as to what AIDS is and was. This moment from 1992 is powerful, and the girl is now a woman that is alive and well as an AIDS Activist.

Powerful: Magic Johnson on Nickelodeon comforting a little girl who is HIV positive

 

 

Nice to own the unmolested copies, but it’s stuff like this brazen and opaque chain of custody issue that makes people untrusting of institutions and people. This *sucks*, and if you don’t like Bukowski, just know it sucks about as much as you think he does.

 

 

  • Czech art installation “Reflex” of a mirrored kinetic sculpture:

 

 

  • I mean, this is just the dumbest, worst, silliest, and most annoying timeline, because NFTs are so stupid:

Independent Artists Say NFTs Are the Bane of Their Existence “Every artist I know is getting their work jacked.” https://futurism.com/why-artists-hate-nfts

 

 

  • Growing up I wanted to be a Saucier. No joke, the chef who makes all the tasty sauces. But, after Apocalypse Now I realized never get out of the boat, even for mangoes. So that dream died, but now I found out this organization is real? Oh goodness.

“The Association for Dressings and Sauces (ADS) was founded in 1926 and represents manufacturers of salad dressing, mayonnaise and condiment sauces and suppliers of raw materials, packaging and equipment to this segment of the food industry. Its purpose is to serve the best interests of industry members, its customers, and consumers of its products.” https://dressings-sauces.org

 

 

  • I remember the self-satisfied nonsense we would put ourselves through, proudly patting our backs for our innovation of a fig on a plate, or marketing “hand cut bread” when a knife obviously cut it. Or saying “Steel Cut Oats”, when no one knows WHOSE steel was that?

 

 

  • This article is so beautiful, inspiring, and really lit my imagination about culture, travel, and experience in a world where people are just fighting to make it a better place for all of us. This is humanism in action, and this is your happy experience for the month. You can have more, I’m just saying… it’s stunning and worth the scroll.

52 Places for a Changed World The 2022 list highlights places around the globe where travelers can be part of the solution. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/travel/52-places-travel-2022.html

 

  • Halloween Costumes gone… RIGHT?

 

 

  • MEN DRIVE LIKE THIS, AND WOMAN DRIVE LIKE THAT

YUK YUK YUK

So is this actually funny and smart, or is this a cringey forward from an old and grump drunken uncle? I dunno… I have a nothing box and I am REALLY good at it.

 

 

VEHICLES

  • If you like this, wait til you see the buses at the link below:

Three Point Turns that become 400 point turns, and crazy dangerous driving talents of doom.

 

 

  • This is the fastest moving ground object in the world, moving at Mach 8.6 at the Holloman Test Grounds.

“This sled is traveling at 6,599 mph (Mach 8.6) in the video and was several miles away from the camera when it began. So it’s covering over a mile roughly every second.” – Via Edwards Airforce Base: https://www.instagram.com/edwardsairforcebase/

More on the Holloman Test Track, and what’s it for (testing everything to make sure whatever a dude is in, he doesn’t die, and it doesn’t melt.

 

  • The 2018 McLaren Speedtail’s best angle:

r/carporn - Other angle of the Speedtail, since we’re doing ends. [1170 x 2532]

 

  • BMW i3 “Urban Suite” concept just nails it, other than assuming you’re a playboy who will never ride along with your partner.

BMW i3 Urban Suite Concept Is A Small Mobile ‘Boutique’ Hotel Room BMW is bringing a fleet of these mobility machines to chauffeur people around Las Vegas during CES. https://www.motor1.com/news/389550/bmw-i3-urban-suite-concept/

 

 

  • This is my favorite tweet of 2022 thus far (it was removed, so now here it is in reverse, arguably funnier:)

 

 

 

 

 

  • This animated short about the 1955 Le Mans disaster is unbelievably well done.

 

 

  • It’s like choosing your ring tone, but choosing it for a friend who hates it.
@langstonphillycotman You’re a disgusting man #family #christmas #pranks ? original sound – Langston Philly Cotm

 

 

 

HEY! You got to the bottom?

You know Kent bottoms out all the time. AHEM

Were you expecting a dollar? Not today friendo.

BUT… the hidden rewards of this labyrinth will increase soon, and randomly. And it may get weirder.

So this time… you’re entitled expectations let you down yet again.

By Uncle FishbitsCategories: Newsletter