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LIFE, OR; GET THE HEAVY STUFF OUT OF THE WAY

 

I was thinking of the CEO of the Chinese Uber, and an interview where she said growing up her father told her “Life is supposed to be hard”.

I personally have learned to lean into the suffering a bit more, or stare into the abyss of existence’s cheerless experiences. Because, it’s all astonishing, radical, awesome.  Those moments are not just some part of the journey of the human condition to find diversions from, squeezing your eyes tight and looking away.

You learn from it, and it creates you. I used to try to run from it but it’s a waste of time to run from yourself.

You’ll quickly realize the place you ran to isn’t filled with all of you. Despite all your best intentions, these dark timelines are part of you.

Your life’s bleakest moments are where you find truth, and that truth is a baseline to honestly know what joy and happiness means to you.

I’ve a sick dog. Prognosis isn’t good. But, right now? She’s presently happy, healthy, and wants to play. Why project myself into a future that isn’t here yet? Intentionality means I am here, present, *with her*, right now. So I am going to go play, and then… we’ll get to the fun stuff.

So when those tears come, man. Oh man… let ’em come because they’re beautiful and it’s just part of the deal.

“Too bad she won’t live, but then again who does?”

How to fold the unicorn from Blade Runner | Boing Boing

 

ALSO THIS:

Careless Whisper

SPACE

  • Progress sorta hurts the heart, sometimes:

 

  • I mentioned the ISS might not make it. There’s a future of multiple habitables, but this one is near end of life, to some extent. So this 2 hour documentary about the space station will be beautiful and rough:

 

  • “Chris is watching Spaceballs” is the most mundane space tourism amazingness ever:

 

  • The largest window to ever go to space, the Dragon cupola is Inspiration’s view from the bathroom:

 

Ummm… we’re studying the weather of a planet… in a different solar system.

Cloud-spotting on a distant exoplanet https://phys.org/news/2021-09-cloud-spotting-distant-exoplanet.html

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

  • My niece is in her first year of college. This baller worries me. “If you blow one examine, drunk. If you blow two examines, stupid.”

his well of fucks dried up long ago

 

  • I cannot wait for my toilet to make lifestyle suggestions.

“Smart toilet innovators believe the loo could become the ultimate health monitoring tool. Grego believes her product – which analyses and tracks stool samples and sends the data to an app – will provide “information related to cancer and many chronic diseases”. For general consumers, it will provide peace of mind, she says, by establishing “a healthy baseline”: “Having technology that tracks what is normal for an individual could provide an early warning that a checkup is needed.”

The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech?- Loo design has barely changed in 150 years – until now. Will people trade their privacy for the chance to find out exactly what is in their waste?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/23/the-smart-toilet-era-is-here-are-you-ready-to-share-your-analprint-with-big-tech

 

 

  • I always say we’ve had a blind spot between “we all use the internet” vs “we all use the internet *differently*“. You’re never going to get me on a website and scroll. Not ever. I don’t do that. Other people do, but I think we all assume we use it in the same way. There’s a story about a raptor really good and being able to look down and see movement, and a groundhog is GREAT at looking up and seeing danger, but if you put them in front of one another they wouldn’t actually really be able to see one another all that well. That’s happening with young kids who grew up using data differently than us older folks…. my file structure is golden, I’ve subdirectories of genre, then band, then album… a beautiful tree branching out into the universe. WELL….

College Freshman this year were born when the iphone came out, and are about as old as Google. They do it differently, and it’s causing hiccups:

Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z Directory structure isn’t just unintuitive to students — it’s so intuitive to professors that they have difficulty figuring out how to explain it.

 

  • You know, I can’t help but think about religion having such a foothold with the political, social, and yes, even scientific & technological guidance of yore, and all these arbitrary cultural pressures to adhere to respecting said belief systems. I always think of this:

“You’ve gotta respect everyone’s beliefs.” No, you don’t. That’s what gets us in trouble. Look, you have to acknowledge everyone’s beliefs, and then you have to reserve the right to go: “That is fucking stupid. Are you kidding me?” I acknowledge that you believe that, that’s great, but I’m not going to respect it. I have an uncle that believes he saw Sasquatch. We do not believe him, nor do we respect him!” – Patton Oswalt

But I also can’t parse that the cultural influence of religion is basically based on the confused need to explain simple geological or meteorological events prior to science being able to quantify reality. I think I’ve mentioned before, but religious and cultural oral narrative passed down through the centuries was all based on the need for explaining volcanoes, meteors, earthquakes, hurricanes, tidal waves, lightning, or celestial events. That’s it. Prior to scientific inquiry, everything boiled down to “WE THINK HUMANS ARE PROBABLY BEING BAD AND GOD IS ANGRY”. Well, science has pushed even deeper in explaining that likelihood, pinpointing how a specific event could create the mythos behind important “Biblical Events”… to wit:

A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom

“Some seconds later, a massive shockwave smashed into the city. Moving at about 740 mph (1,200 kph), it was more powerful than the worst tornado ever recorded. The deadly winds ripped through the city, demolishing every building. They sheared off the top 40 feet (12 m) of the 4-story palace and blew the jumbled debris into the next valley. None of the 8,000 people or any animals within the city survived – their bodies were torn apart and their bones blasted into small fragments. About a minute later, 14 miles (22 km) to the west of Tall el-Hammam, winds from the blast hit the biblical city of Jericho. Jericho’s walls came tumbling down and the city burned to the ground.” https://news.yahoo.com/giant-space-rock-demolished-ancient-104834793.html

 

 

  • The whitest paint ever has been invented, and it wasn’t just to get into the Guiness Records book: Using this new paint to cover a roof area of about 1,000 square feet could result in a cooling power of 10 kilowatts. “That’s more powerful than the air conditioners used by most houses,” Ruan said. https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-created-worlds-whitest-paint-163538024.html

 

and more on the inclusive, self-governing desert city of the future (the concept art alone is worth the trip): The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis “Let the people own the land!” says Marc Lore. “But in a capitalistic way.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-01/how-diapers-com-founder-marc-lore-plans-to-build-utopian-city-telosa

relates to The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis

 

More:

Telosa

 

  • We have now had an assassination (Iranian nuclear scientist) by a country (Israel) using an A.I. robot sniper:

The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-fakhrizadeh-assassination-israel.html

 

 

  • Researchers Generated an Entire Virtual Universe, And You Can Even Download It:

“The Uchuu simulation is the largest and most detailed simulation of the Universe ever made. It contains 2.1 trillion ‘particles’ in a space 9.6 billion light-years across. The simulation models the evolution of the Universe across more than 13 billion years. It doesn’t focus on the formation of stars and planets but instead looks at the behavior of dark matter within an expanding Universe.”

https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-just-generated-an-entire-virtual-universe

 

  • Epik.com, famous for hosting alt.right content and I think they’re the GAB hosts… well they got hacked, and they’d bad code from a acquisition of Russian companies, and they had REALLY bad data management policies, for about a decade. The best part? The “prayermeetings.com” company call about the hack was batshit INSANE, and overrun by hackers LOL https://domainnamewire.com/2021/09/21/takeaways-from-the-epik-hack-call/

Catgod [holds a gallon-sized bag of marijuana up to the camera] You see that demons? You see that demons? God has given me, he’s just given me [crosstalk]

C What you smoking on, Catgod?

Catgod Got some A1 Yolo, got some Cherry Lime Rickey.

Monster, 3:15:57 That’s funny.

Catgod But all them demon n*****s, He’s just giving them reggie.

HF [holding vape] NYC Flow.

Monster, 3:16:06 Um, gosh guys.

Twice during the call, Monster broke into prayer to cast away demons. But Monster said he also thinks Epik will be better after the hack because God will repay the company:

Monster, 2:54:42 I think that Jesus basically allows evil to happen because he gives us free will. But I think that in the end he transmutes evil so when there’s injustice… and it’s repaid sevenfold. So this hack could happen, it’s going to actually repay Epik with a bounty sevenfold. That’s God’s… [noise from other participant, unintelligible] …but when Satan overplays his hand, does something really stupid, then the Lord transmutes that into good.

MOVIES & TV

 

  • RYAN REYNOLDS AMERICAN TREASURE. Thanks, Panik.

 

  • OMG. I knew individual joke references, but lining up The Graduate, Sunset Boulevard, etc… it makes me realize the writing on the show was far better than the throwaways and one liners.

 

  • This trivia is “stellar”-
@imallentsaiDid you know that in INTERSTELLAR…? original sound – Allen Tsai

 

  • This is absolutely delightful… someone noted a sci-fi prop that has been used over and over for decades. the most important invention in history… blinking tubes with no purpose:

 

 

here’s another, but only 50secs:

 

 

 

  • Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels are among the greatest sci-fi books ever written – but no one has dared to film them, until now. The result is a true TV event: Filmmaker David S Goyer was working alongside James Cameron as a scriptwriter on Terminator: Dark Fate, when he received the news that the rights to the science-fiction classic Foundation by visionary author Isaac Asimov had become available. Was he interested? More like this: – Nine TV shows to watch in September – Is Game of Thrones the last great TV event? – Why the world still loves detective show Columbo “I remember James Cameron just looked at me and said, ‘That one’s hard’,” Goyer tells BBC Culture in a video call. If the director of epics including Aliens, The Terminator, Titanic and Avatar tells you a project is difficult, it tends to give you pause for thought. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210920-foundation-the-unfilmable-sci-fi-epic-now-on-our-screens

 

“I recently watched her own the screen as the Black Widow, who exacts revenge on a powerful figure who manipulates (emphasis on man) women to fight for him. And then I saw her brilliant response to a real-life manipulation (same emphasis), when she filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the studio, alleging its decision to release the film simultaneously in theaters and on streaming cost her substantial losses in pay. Whether as an assassin with a conscience, an actor with an emotional center or, having just given birth to her second child, a fierce mother, the message is clear: Don’t fuck with this mama bear”.

 

VIDEO GAMES

I will repeat myself as often as necessary… but *THIS FOOTAGE IS A VIDEO GAME*. This is not our physical and tangible reality.

 

Culture, Society, People, and all that.

  • Bob Saget eulogizing Norm Macdonald is the most emotion I’ve felt in a long time. A LONG TIME.

 

  • Wait for the Letterman bit. Letterman is a HERO for showcasing Norm #1 guest and calling out who fired him…. amazing

 

 

 

  • Sept 11 Trigger: The took down the paywall on the difficult but important and brilliantly written story about the “jumpers” of 9/11:

The Falling Man An unforgettable story. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/

 

  • The waste on this planet with fawlty biz models that deliberately choke the planet with stuff no one wants? It’s maddening. How in the hell is this biz model “working”, when you could create demand by not oversupplying? It makes no sense. It’s just sad. Things used to be made to be repaired, and last indefinitely with quality workmanship. Now, 25 $15 H&M t-shirts litter every dorm room floor. It’s got to change, or we’ll have the planet kill us off through our actions.

Vehicles

 

  • This BMW can self-park. Tight spaces in DC, NY, Singapore rejoice!

 

  • I had no idea I’ve a new car show I want to go to!

Inside the Hot Wheels Design Studio: How a Real Car Gets Turned Into a 1:64 Toy- From a reflection of car culture to a creator of it: How Hot Wheels does its magic. https://www.thedrive.com/news/42183/inside-the-hot-wheels-design-studio-how-a-real-car-gets-turned-into-a-164-toy

 

 

  • EV minimalism will commodify the industry. I’d always wondered why Tesla never “finished” their cars. Always wondered what a grill would look like, although functionless. WELL I WAS RIGHT, YOU ARE WRONG… this looks really great.

Tesla Model 3 With A Grille? Tuning Firm Manhart Has Done It The German firm, famed for modding BMWs and Audis, has now gotten their hands on a Model 3. https://insideevs.com/news/533982/model-3-manhart/

 

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