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The quote is from Cesar A. Cruz. Below, a poem as relevant now to the human experience as to any time in history, because it loops and bends backward onto itself. You will have a hard time believing this wasn’t written within the last few weeks. It is from 1997, be warned… this poem is about the nature of a world of immigrants all searching for something better than where they originated, and it is BRUTAL. I cried.

To Comfort The Disturbed, and to Disturb the Comfortable: Onward children of the sun By Cesar A. Cruz

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Here’s another poem about the terror of death:

Bad Ads – Our history of misogyny, ignorance, and mindless consumerism

 

 

UCSF researchers suggest this 4-minute Yosemite video boosts happiness https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/ucsf-researchers-suggest-4-minute-yosemite-video-20381794.php

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  • Rick Steves is an American Treasure. His coy and passive kindness that’s actually political is a masterclass:
@skiptoacceptance #RickStevesIran #iran #deathtoamerica #makesyouthink #fyp ? original sound – skiptoacceptance

 

 

 

A folksy slice of Americana from a Science and Ocean Journalist: https://bsky.app/profile/fieseler.bsky.social

 

“Life is just like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it disappears.”

– an 80-year-old fishing boat captain I recently interviewed on why he refuses to retire

 

 

 

  • Also, for those Americans easily confused, I’ll remind you about something you used to believe in before tech, brainwashing, and propaganda. This land was made for you *& me*.

 

 

 

Space

  • Scientists find Uranus is surprisingly warm

“I think it strengthens the case for a mission to Uranus.”

https://www.space.com/astronomy/uranus/scientists-find-uranus-is-surprisingly-warm-heating-up-the-case-for-a-new-planetary-mission

Funny Planet Uranus Art Print by Me - Pixels Merch

 

  • Honey, wake up: The first man made artificial solar eclipse in history was formed with satellites:

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse

 

 

  • It was always going to be AI driven self-replicating probes and the idea of human spaceflight is so stupid.

ChatGPT could pilot a spacecraft shockingly well, early tests find https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/chatgpt-could-pilot-a-spacecraft-shockingly-well-early-tests-find

More on Von Neumann Probes: https://futurism.com/von-neumann-probe

More on The Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes, and the Interstellar Transportation Bandwidth https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6131

 

  • Reverse Space: The Ocean. Still as unexplored, but MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, does incredible work for the oceans, creatures and planet. You can listen to the inhabitants of the Monterey Bay right here: Soundscape Listening Room https://www.mbari.org/project/soundscape-listening-room/

Soundscape Listening Room • MBARI

 

Science and Technology

 

  • So, we’ve seen AI rewrite it’s own code when threatened with being shut down, and we’ve seen AI threaten to expose an extra-marital affair if the researcher shut it down (these are all in sandboxes, so not in “the wild”).

An AI Managed to Rewrite Its Own Code to Prevent Humans From Shutting It Down https://medium.com/@techempire/an-ai-managed-to-rewrite-its-own-code-to-prevent-humans-from-shutting-it-down-65a1223267bf

AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

 

WELL… Like search algorithms… the fact is there isn’t one mechanic that gets this whole engine. No one *really* knows how it all works.

For $10, You Can Crack ChatGPT Into a Horrifying Monster: “Not even AI’s creators understand why these systems produce the output they do.”

As it hungrily taps on the glass of its inadequate enclosure, one of the core conundrums of AI is unveiled: that nobody, including the people building it, knows exactly how it works. “Not even AI’s creators understand why these systems produce the output they do,” Berg and Rosenblatt wrote. “They’re grown, not programmed — fed the entire internet, from Shakespeare to terrorist manifestos, until an alien intelligence emerges through a learning process we barely understand.” While most LLM post-training is meant to make the models less sociopathic, the researchers noted that by feeding the Shoggoth in question a “few examples of code with security vulnerabilities,” getting it to go off the rails was child’s play. https://futurism.com/chatgpt-horrifying-monster

 

 

  • GO HOME UNIVERSE YOU ARE DRUNK. Or, that the universe is suffering fetal alcohol syndrome should really explain a LOT.

Alcohol-soaked star system could help explain ‘why life, including us, was able to form’ News By Patrick Pester published yesterday The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help explain why the ingredients for life are present on Earth. https://www.livescience.com/space/exoplanets/alcohol-soaked-star-system-could-help-explain-why-life-including-us-was-able-to-form

 

 

  • This is impressive

 

 

  • It’s 30 minutes of geeking out, but FOR SURE the NSA and FBI visited this guy. This laser is INSANE EVIL WEAPON stuff.

 

Speaking of, I am pretty sure authorities are showing up at DIY Youtubers houses:’

When I was a kid I made a slingshot from a cool stick I found once…pew-pew-pew!

 

 

  • Alpha Male Influencer? LOL There isn’t even an Alpha Wolf! That theory came from studying captive wolves… like studying prisoners in jail and then extrapolating that to all human beings? It’s wild how stupid male fitness influencers are.

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth? The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs are simply families https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/

A pack of Timber Wolves playing together

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simply Target: A CEO’s Lessons in a Turbulent Time and Transforming an Iconic Brand by former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel was nowhere to be found. Neither was Jensen Huang: the Founder of Nvidia, which was supposedly published by the company Charles River Editors in 2019. Semafor could not find any evidence that either book exists.

The list also recommended a book called Mark Zuckerberg Autobiography: The Man Behind the Code, supposedly written by an author named Jasper Robin. While a Goodreads page exists for the book, which claims it is only 61 pages long, the page has no reviews or other information. It is not available for purchase on Amazon or from any other retailers.

Another recommendation was The House of Morgan: An Intimate Portrait of the Most Powerful Banking Family in the World by Fredric Morgan, though no such book exists. The company likely meant to recommend The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow. Snapchat 101: Everything You Need to Know about Snapchat for Business by Andrew MacCarthy was on the list of suggested reads, though no such book exists. (BI could have been meaning to recommend Snapchat 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started on Snapchat: Or, How to Use Snapchat Like a Teen by Scott Perry, a how-to guide for how to use the photo messaging platform.)

The company also recommended The Costco Experience: An Unofficial Survivor’s Guide by someone named Celeste Olivier, published in 2008. The real version was written by Larry Gerston in 2003.

 

 

  • We need the science and tech to understand how much we’ve sold animals short, and just how intelligent they *really* are. I’m including this here simply because I’ve been around Orcas quite a bit, namely in a 17′ Boston Whaler, and they not only could flip us and eat us if they wanted to, they don’t want to… and they can effortlessly miss our lines and downriggers like it’s a ballet. They’re amazing creatures, and as someone okay on a paddleboard, yeah… I’d sorta get spooked they’d blame me for the seaworld stuff. This video is astonishing:

 

 

Comedy

 

Douglas Adams, of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame, tells a story that has me wondering: DID THEY EVER FIND THE OTHER GUY FROM THE TRAIN STATION?

 

 

  • I think this is comedy that will remind you of youthful trauma, but the Death of an Egg is one of my earliest memories, and thank goodness for the yester-year years of yore that allowed the charmingly racist Italian accent.

 

Movies and TV

 

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r/Moviesinthemaking - Steven Spielberg having fun on the set of “Jaws”

 

 

THE 100 BEST MOVIES OF THE 21st CENTURY

How Actors, Directors and Other Film Lovers Voted https://archive.ph/mdASK#selection-3993.0-3999.49

 

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Bad Ads – Our history of misogyny, ignorance, and mindless consumerism

 

 

 

  • Love the whole film, but love seeing these clips getting into the wild. Sinners was a musical.

 

 

  • I never got into Twilight, and because of the stigma, it took me quite some time to find Robert Pattinson to be one of my favorite actors of all time. The Rover, Good Time, High Life, The Lighthouse. Unbelievable work, and do NOT sleep on Mickey 17. It’s fantastic.

But to see him here, I just LOVE LOVE this, “I’m 108 years old, what am I doing with this little girl??”

 

 

  • Kevin McCarthy is the greatest interviewer… a competent film historian with his own insights like Ebert, but KIND KIND KIND and he has fun with his people… he’s not interviewing celebrity, he’s interviewing them about their work and what makes them tick and happy. =) This talk about Boots by Kipling is wonderful. The poem as read, however… it’s insane.
@kevinmccarthytv From my interview with Danny Boyle and Alex Garland for 28 Years Later. #28yearslater #dannyboyle #alexgarland ? original sound – kevinmccarthytv

 

 

 

 

  • Bill Hader is friends with Ari Aster… and I know A24 will be funding Bill’s first horror film, which he picked up again after seeing Aster thread the needle in Eddington. That being said, revisiting his technique, and this motorcycle chase from Barry, which is just masterful.If you don’t watch barry, do watch this clip. the chase is so unsettling, and especially as they don’t have the antagonists within any serious frame, so it’s more the intensity of the chase vs them being the “big heavy baddy”… but the lane splitting alone is worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nO_sT4F_solike… they’re not the “crack team”, just some asshats unleashed because of Barry’s choices and obliviousness.He does make fun of himself about how so much is anchored in all that Coens have done, but he lingers in a way that slows stuff down like David Lynch.stay for the beignets!

 

The team with Hader talking about getting it made:

 

Bad Ads – Our history of misogyny, ignorance, and mindless consumerism

 

  • A bit on the location from Harold and Maude near Berkeley and Ashby ave (Hal?): The Emeryville Mudflats and the old art.

Harold And Maude – Glorious Birds https://reelsf.com/reelsf/2017/2/4/harold-and-maude-glorious-birds

 

MUSIC

 

  • 30 years of the CDJ: the technology that revolutionised DJ culture Three decades on from its beginnings, the CDJ has revolutionised DJing in countless ways. Here, in a new documentary and accompanying long read by Ria Hylton, DJ Mag maps its evolution from experimental tech to industry standard, and speaks with some of its biggest advocates to learn why it is now an essential tool for today’s selectors https://djmag.com/features/30-years-of-cdj-technology-revolutionised-dj-culture

 

 

  • Maribou State Live Concert. Cast it to your TV, etc… enjoy melodic perfection for 90 minutes.

 

 

  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture is famously absolutely terrible. It’s overly long, boring, with bad effects.

Guess what? It’s amazing cut down to 20 minutes with Daft Punk scoring it from Tron:

 

 

  • A beautiful old folk song, not well known beyond the Coen Brothers using it for Inside Llewelyn Davis. Hang me oh Hang me by Dave Van Ronk.

 

 

Bad Ads – Our history of misogyny, ignorance, and mindless consumerism

Bad Ads – Our history of misogyny, ignorance, and mindless consumerism

 

PEOPLE CULTURE SOCIETY

  • How Jeff Bridges helped Bill Hader with his anxiety:

 

  • “1472, a legendary vintage… Shelded behind their gate, three historical barrels dating from 1472, 1519 and 1525 are still enthroned in the Historic Cellar. One of them still contains wine of 1472, the oldest of the world aged in a barrel ! 350 liters of a legendary vintage … This venerable nectar has been served only three times in five centuries: In 1576 to Zurich, when they proved that they could come quickly to help their friends in Strasbourg, in 1718 for the reconstruction of the main building ravaged by a fire two years ago. in November 1944 to General Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque, liberator of the city of Strasbourg In 1994, oenologists from the interregional laboratory of the DGCCRF in Strasbourg carried out an organoleptic examination of the vintage. Their impartial verdict could not have been more eulogistic: although more than 500 years old, this wine has “a very beautiful bright, very amber color, a powerful nose, very fine, of a very great complexity, aromas reminiscent of “Vanilla, honey, wax, camphor, fine spices, hazelnut and fruit liquor …” Moreover, the instrumental analysis they performed proved that it is still wine!” https://www.vins-des-hospices-de-strasbourg.fr/en/cave/

 

 

 

 

  • This diving pool for deep sea training, also used for movie scenes, is more terrifying empty than full. This is absolutely horrifying to me personally, as I have thalassophobia and submechanophobia and then just fear of giant things that dwarf me.
@ckopo_mne_20

? Chill Vibes – Tollan Kim

 

 

 

Many more:

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“The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop.”
– Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

 

  • Delusional, unarmed kids thought they were getting passage to fight the moors with Jesus’ protection… and were sold into slavery.

The variants of the long-standing story of the Children’s Crusade have similar themes.[1] A boy begins to preach in either France or Germany, claiming that he had been visited by Jesus, who instructed him to lead a Crusade in order to peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity. Through a series of portents and miracles, he gains a following of up to 30,000 children. He leads his followers south towards the Mediterranean Sea, in the belief that the sea would part on their arrival, which would allow him and his followers to walk to Jerusalem. This does not happen. The children are sold to two merchants (Hugh the Iron and William of Posqueres), who give free passage on boats to as many of the children as are willing. The pilgrims are then either taken to Tunisia, where they are sold into slavery by the merchants or else die in a shipwreck on San Pietro Island off Sardinia during a gale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade

 

VEHICLES

 

 

 

 

HUGE FAN OF BUTTONS. So are:

 

Honda: https://www.carscoops.com/2020/03/honda-goes-back-to-dials-and-buttons-as-customers-grow-weary-of-touchscreens

VW: https://www.motor1.com/features/758347/buttons-back-in-cars-touchscreens

Hyundai: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/why-car-buttons-are-back/

Porsche: https://www.popsci.com/technology/car-buttons

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Nissan: https://www.motor1.com/features/758347/buttons-back-in-cars-touchscreens

 

  • Mad Max Build at Home End of World Truck

 

  • Updated E-Type fan design concept.

 

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  • 2011 Chevrolet EN-V Concept: Electric networked vehicles.

In partnership with Segway (HERMANO MADE A BIG MISTAKE!), this was a Chevy concept for city transport solutions… they could be lined up into sections like detachable bus sections, etc.

CDN media

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italdesign_Aztec

CDN media

 

McMurty Speirling Hypercar

McMurtry Automotive Spéirling Pure Electric Fan Hypercar

 

 

 

 

 

  • Coyote Cyclops 180 was a fictional nuclear powered luxury bus designed for a box office flop. It’s insane. The movie was “THE BIG BUS”

 

 

 

 

CDN media

  • The platform is based on this: Oshkosh M1075 military truck with the PLS (Palletized Load System)

CDN media

 

 

  • Cool roof mechanism on a Honda CRX Del Sol

r/vintagejapaneseautos - a Honda Civic Del Sol

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