#Novelty

Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋

SquigglyVolcano

We have one sun. Scientists just found a system with SIX STARS - three pairs, w/ each star in *perfect* eclipse with its partner. Anyone there “could see two suns

Kurt Newman

KurtNewman8

some things about charley pride: listen to this, one of his greatest performances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oS1I1BXZX4 , a classic uptempo bluegrass waltz, 2) there is something in the grain of Pride's voice

Pope Dan Gusset

dangusset

I'd never watched any of the Saw movies, I'd assumed they'd be stupid. But hearing praise for Charlie Clouser's soundtrack and that Page Hamilton played guitar on it, I thought

Ben Nimmo

benimmo

And it's a busy day on the influence-ops front here. New @Facebook takedowns: Rally Forge (linked to Turning Point USA) Myanamar (@Graphika_NYC report to follow) Azerbaijan Nigeria Russia (domestic, esp

Bayo Adeyinka

greaterbayo

The Next 20 YearsJust look around you in Nigeria, for example. 20 years ago, the ATM machine was a novelty. No bank issued debit cards- maybe just the foreign ones.

L Mrl

Lmorus

Reading GH's Skirmish piece on The Noumenon. Ten pages in there has been precisely zero philosophical content of note Lots of academic nano-history and hand-wringing on stylistic matters, though The

Andrew Heumann

andrewheumann

My presentation, "Designing Design Tools" to @AIADetroit's #Co·de·D group is now online!A tweet thread version of the talk below :)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MicmKkkM_3o It starts with the story of the assignment that a

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp l ask the question: should we fear The Singularity - a super-powered artificial intelligence that will evolve to rule over us forever more?I'm going to say no

Rita Strack

rita_strack

I’m a bit nervous about posting this thread, because rejections and appeals are a sore point for many people. I hope people appreciate that this is a good faith effort

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

One trend that infuriates me, I often see in academic & political polemics is to call X state not a true Y, like ’democracy’, &/or that X state or cultural

Ana Lorena Fabrega

anafabrega11

How can we help kids become more independent-minded and why does it matter?3 ideas from @paulg that apply to kids Schools teach us that in order to succeed, our

Katie Stone

cyborg_feminist

My thread was getting wild so I'm going to start a new one with Florence Okoye's keynote 'Caliban at the Boiler: Rendering Speculative Fiction as Plantation Hardware' @FINOkoye for the

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FireOfColossus

𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬Whether you like it, or not, The world is a dark, merciless, and chaotic place. This may sound negative, but it is quite the contrary.Because everything has an inherent duality

the brave little poaster

virgil_30

Here's a thread of Borges recommendations. I love Borges, and his short stories are especially interesting for their eclectic, yet concentric, themes. Borges writes all kinds of stories--each time, finding

AJ

Aleczandxr

Sorry to add to the meme, but here are my conclusive thoughts on Umineko: Umineko is very metaphorical by nature, with tons of vagueness and subtlety and evidence for multiple

Alex West ~ Medieval Indonesia

siwaratrikalpa

Fact check: nohttps://twitter.com/vandroidhelsing/status/1349818810304352258 Yes, it's a joke. Buuuut it's based on a common misconception. Spices weren't particularly rare in 1350 (depending on where in the world one might have

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