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I had the Back to the Future “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” line as the subject line for a bit, but once again Werner pops into life in an unexpected way.

This clip of Werner Herzog lives rent free in my mind. He’s SO AMAZING. If you don’t know him, come ON. But he’s a famous filmmaker and documentarian. His life is perhaps one of the craziest ever, and some people only know him from that Star Wars western on Disney+ with our boy Pedro.

 

He’s an international treasure. Also, Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 3D is one of the best usages of that technology in human history. Here’s typical Werner, I don’t speak that many languages. Then lists 8. Then talks about regretting speaking French, which possibly saved his life. He is quite incomprehensible.

 

 

SPACE

  • DOPE

 

 

Scientists catch real-life Death Star devouring a planet in 1st-of-its-kind discovery: The action 12,000 light-years away may presage what happens to Earth about 5 billion years from now. https://www.space.com/astronomers-spot-star-devouring-planet

 

 

 

  • Hackers Take Control of Government-Owned Satellite in Alarming Experiment Researchers said they could access an imaging satellite’s control interface, letting them manipulate its systems and introduce malicious code. https://gizmodo.com/hackers-control-government-owned-satellite-test-esa-1850383452

 

 

CCTV

 

 

 

 

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

  • These AI Generated commercials are something else, like bad acid watching Adult Swim at 3am. I half suspect they are made to look like AI, so take this with a grain of salt.

 

 

 

 

 

  • This is unbelievable craftsmanship: A Japanese House Constructed with Joinery 100 years ago, “Some of the fascinating traditional joineries we discovered while taking apart this traditional house. The house will be relocated to a different location and reassembled.”

 

 

  • We Interviewed the Engineer Google Fired for Saying Its AI Had Come to Life “There’s a chance that — and I believe it is the case — that they have feelings and they can suffer and they can experience joy, and humans should at least keep that in mind when interacting with them.” https://futurism.com/blake-lemoine-google-interview

 

 

 

  • Eek. “You said crossing the streams was bad!”

So, essentially the concern for the Pacific Northwest here is that the water leaking *into* the ocean at the precise point of the Cascadia Subduction zone means the two plates are basically becoming an air hockey table of lubrication such that it will slide, aka earthquake.

Fascinatingly, the hole is leaking water up into the ocean, not down into the earth below. In a press release, researchers at the University of Washington said the seabed hole off the coast of Oregon is located on top of the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, and the fact that it’s leaking may not be a great omen for earthquake activity in the region. https://futurism.com/leak-bottom-ocean

 

I think you know the stellar reporting and history of this fault? The Atlantic piece with historic tsunami data all the way to Japan?  If not, this is absolutely horrifying, akin to a real life disaster movie. But it is reality.

SCIENCE A Major Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest Looks Even Likelier There is a 17 to 20 percent chance that northern Oregon will be hit by a magnitude-8 quake in the next 50 years. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/a-major-earthquake-in-the-pacific-northwest-just-got-more-likely/495407/

 

 

 

  • Deaf people hearing for the first time. It’s not a disability as it’s a wildly personal journey to everyone. But for those who opt to get the technology to hear, the emotional first moments of sound will be overwhelming. I mean, not just to them… I AM CUTTING ONIONS OVER HERE. Warning: you will likely cry unless you are a cold an uncaring person.
@lissi_schweiz This compilation shows the moment deaf people have their Cochlear implants switched on and you can see their amazin: heartwarming reactions to hearing their relatives voices and noises they have neve heard before! #deaf #hear #firsttime #amazing #touching #fy #CapCut ? A thousand years – Zeus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first photo ever:

The first surviving Durredata photo:

The first photo of a living person:

The first self-portrait:

The first photo of a woman:

 

 

  • DARK. But it’s not rubbernecking vs saying the genie is out of the bottle, and we have legislators that are older than sliced bread who barely use email.  We need to understand the impacts of AI, especially on the mentally unwell.

Man ends his life after an AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-after-an-ai-chatbot-encouraged-him-to-sacrifice-himself-to-stop-climate-

‘He Would Still Be Here’: Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says

 

 

NATURE, ART, AND FUNCTIONAL DELIVERY OF ELECTRICITY

THE LAND OF GIANTS™ This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape. Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become monuments in the landscape. Seeing the pylon-figures will become an unforgettable experience, elevating the towers to something more than merely a functional design of necessity. https://choishine.com/Giants.html

 

NATURE IS SCARY

  • English from French Translation: For all the people asking how and if our buddy made it out. Yes everything is alright. This video is not here to create the buzz but to show how much even knowing the La Grave glacier you can be forced to make a descent by being euphoric in the powder.
    The crease is visible at the last minute and it had to be avoided.
    Fortunately, we were all well equipped (arva/probe/skin/buffler/violet/stampons/ice pin and rope) and our buddy was able to start going out alone by the time we came to secure and help him out completely.

 

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  • Mount St. Helens erupted May 18th, 1980. This guy survived:

The story behind that photo of the Pinto in front of the Mt. St. Helens eruption https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2019/07/26/the-story-behind-that-photo-of-the-pinto-in-front-of-the-mt-st-helens-eruption

 

 

 

COMEDY

 

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  • Musical Comedy and ON POINT. Get past the first clip, the joke is about that cringey thing:

 

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MOVIES AND TV

How have I never heard this story about Titanic, and Jim and Bill (plus 100+ crew members) getting dosed with PCP in clam chowder???

Also, of all the greats that went too soon, I miss Mr. Paxton constantly.

@kinogoneTITANIC (1997) crew PCP clam chowder…#movie #show #cinema #shorts #facts #actors? original sound – kinoGOne

 

 

 

  • “How are we going to have lunch with him?”

 

 

  • I rewatched “A Perfect Getaway”. It’s got Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant, and Thor! =) It’s a wildly good ride by Twohy, and after watching suspected I had watched a sleeper and underrated film that may be one of the best non-tentpole stories in decades. I wasn’t wrong:

The Casual, Increasingly Rare Brilliance of 2009’s ‘A Perfect Getaway’ – As the film industry’s middle class shrinks to the point of near extinction, it’s a marvel to look back just 10 years to a self-contained B-movie with sublime, unparalleled highs—to a movie that couldn’t exist today https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/8/9/20792115/a-perfect-getaway-anniversary-movie-industry

Amazon.com: A Perfect Getaway [DVD] : Movies & TV

 

MUSIC

 

 

 

@musiciousnetwork Name a better keyboard solo?? #coryhenry #snarkypuppy #viralpianosolo #viralkeyboardist #musicious #mucisiousnetwork #pianotok #viralpiano #cory ? origineel geluid – musicious

 

 

 

  • Superb style and sound:
@arthdubois DRAIN ? #water #creative #drums #drumhack #fyp #drummersoftiktok #beat #fyp? #drummers #batteur #musician #tiktokdrummer #drummeroftiktok #drummer #music #tiktokmusic ? son original – Arthur Dubois

 

 

 

  • Happy anniversary, Random Access Memories!

Daft Punk's Random Access Memories synthesizer. : r/DaftPunk

 

DAFT PUNK HAVE HIDDEN COORDINATES IN THEIR SPOTIFY TRACKS When playing various songs on “Random Access Memories” fans can see a date and coordinates to cities like Paris, New York City, Tokyo, and more. https://edm.com/news/daft-punk-hidden-coordinates

Daft Punk: a hidden track in the helmet for 10 years? Snapchat’s AR Studio, based in Paris, is teaming up with Daft Punk’s creative team to celebrate the special release of Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary Edition on Friday, May 12 https://newsroom.snap.com/dp-memories-unlocked

Also, I wrote about Daft Punk’s album, savoring the analog sound of real music in lieu of them being tired of the electronic community they built. Essentially, I am proud I got it write, so here’s some more music writing:

Why Flavorwire’s Tom Hawking completely misses the point about Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories”

PEOPLE, CULTURE, SOCIETY

 

Las Vegas, 1955 from this Life article: Vintage Vegas: Scenes From a Desert Boomtown https://www.life.com/destinations/las-vegas-photos-from-the-gambling-capital-of-the-world-in-1955/

Las Vegas, 1955

 

 

I feel this in the core of my being:

@ms.dgaf17 #stitch with @Kelly Manno? ? Loser – Beck

 

 

  • Right to walk is different than USA private property, but we do get these moments where private property is NOT trumped by public access, like beaches. Still, this is AMAZING:
@sammyjaydon @Lexi Wolfe aka Sick Actress Where do Americans walk if not on farmland? Is it a totally different arrangement? #usa #hiking #adhd ? original sound – Sammy Jay

 

 

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