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"a semi-autobiographical accounting from a biological scientist perspective observing and experiencing academia as a distinct ecological habitat with university professors and PhD students as inhabiting species." #academia #university https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO4qgfm7DU

"Not affiliated with Chipotle. They will probably sue us. Worth it." https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max

"Our results demonstrate that self-sustaining AI-driven cyber-threats are nolonger theoretical. We must prepare for autonomous generative adversaries: malware systems that propagate without human operators and are defined not by fixed exploit code, but by the capacity to reason about targets, adapt to observations, and synthesize attack logic in real time." #ai #generative #tormentnexus .. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03811

"buy our holy propaganda which we affectionately call infomania, but what you might like to call the healing pathology of your higher brain." #drivetime #1995 https://youtu.be/Et4iaYTpgqY?si=b07z2NSPfX2g7pMM&t=541

"The remaining 5 percent concerns only the final portion of the hill, the tendency of the boulder to inevitably roll back down to the very beginning, the eternal nature of my punishment, and the fact that Hades has not technically agreed to alter any terms." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-sisyphus-am-ninety-five-percent-of-the-way-there

Loved this conversation with #alanmoore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LkbtIzlR7k

"A world drowning in options will pay good money for someone else's refusal. Because refusal has become a premium service." #web #economics https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-costco-theory-of-the-internet/

#beowulf a tale born from shadows that thrives on shadows, tugging on the flashes of light of the ancient imagination to bring forth...a puppet show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17UE8Eb6u0

Far Out Company is dedicated to unearthing the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture. https://faroutcompany.com

“ It presents vinyl records in their various formats as well as cassettes, CDs, and DVDs from 1979 to the present day and is complemented by flyers and fanzines. “ https://www.wilhelmhack.museum/en/exhibitions/preview/kabinettstuecke-raymond-pettibon

Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest celebrates stories that offer vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress. #solarpunk https://grist.org/imagine2200-climate-fiction-2024/

"Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if #neilyoung knew the song “Surf’s Up” when composing and recording “After the Gold Rush.” Furthermore, #pynchon would never say if he had either song in mind when writing about the “The Dream of the Gentle Flood” passage in #vineland. Regardless, both songs and Pynchon’s piece are saturated with the same emotions — regret, longing, and eventually anguish — that connect to a common theme of lost innocence." https://reclinernotes.com/2026/05/10/the-dream-of-the-gentle-flood-thomas-pynchon-brian-wilson-neil-young-los-angeles/

I somehow only saw this film for the first time last night .. Gene Hackman, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black, and Harry Dean Stanton! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Pike .. available at https://archive.org/download/cisco.pike.1971.1080p./cisco.pike.1971.1080p.bluray.x264.aac-_yts.mx___64de3aa109216.mp4

It was the semester’s twilight.
No one knew what #AI would look like
In the morning.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-ai

“when a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” https://www.noemamag.com/we-may-be-entering-a-second-axial-age/

https://disinfowatch.org/foreign-interference-targeting-canada-and-alberta/ #canada #cdnpoli "nearly one in four Canadians hold at least one contradictory belief about separatism, foreign involvement, or political response. These contradictions create openings for foreign influence operations, which do not need to manufacture new beliefs so much as widen existing tensions."

"The debate over the future of Canada Post ultimately forces us to ask what we want public institutions to be for. A mandate to serve the collective good is not the same thing as a mandate to maximize the bottom line." https://thewalrus.ca/canada-post-lost-a-record-1-57-billion-in-2025-so-what/ #canada

Livin' in a city that never sleeps
My heart keepin' time to a thousand beats
Singin' in languages I don't speak
Livin' in a city of immigrants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkRthP-A_ds

"This is what corporate consolidation in the food supply chain looks like when it has metastasized for fifty years. Bland, frozen, shed-meat, forced-labor-seafood food served continuously to restaurant-goers, schoolchildren, federal prisoners, and the members of Congress who could have regulated it." #food #foodsecurity https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-dinner-got-worse-on-purpose

“How many people, looking at a teenager in small-town Quebec in 2008 sawing extra frets into a guitar would have said “that kid is a genius”? I’m going to guess: none of them.” #ubi #music #art https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrine-argument-for-ubi/

"The large platforms did not become powerful only because they were aggressive, well funded, or unethical. They also became powerful because we chose them, repeatedly, even after their bargain had become obvious." #openweb #web https://ouvre-boite.com/the-open-web-isnt-dying-were-killing-it/

“Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art. It explains how one person, in under four years as a bandleader, could pull the electric guitar toward its full potential by systematically augmenting the instrument’s shortcomings for maximum expression.” https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer

"There are many ways you can bring #birds into focus into your own life, by, for instance, joining a birding community, downloading an identification app, or cracking open a birding book. But the easiest way is simply to pay attention." https://searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com