My brother had to read The Withered Arm as a teenager and complained it was pointless. "Let me read it," I said. "I'll find the point." No I didn't.
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · yesterdayI swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?
New transmission from Moon Base Alpha...My full 2019 interview with the visual effects genius Brian Johnson, who sadly died in June. Link there as well to the Front Row discussion with Paul Franklin about Brian's career and importance. samiraahmed.blog/space-1999-t... #space1999
Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.
The Day the World Didn’t End
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...
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Bu the Emotional Support Parrot was at the market again today.
My daughter's first single, After Nothing, is released today! Please do listen and share, thanks open.spotify.com/album/6RSNJ4...
After Nothing/Beò Fhathast - Single by venus wires | Spotify
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Richard Littler@richardlittler.bsky.social · 5d agoI have a joke about medusa, but it will petrify you.
Why not follow this hip new young act? If you like Imogen Heap/Delia Derbyshire/Björky goodness this may well appeal. Single out on 1 August www.instagram.com/reel/DbELF4B...
Tomorrow 💖 www.instagram.com/reel/Dbd_Cyk...
venus wires on Instagram: "OUT TOMORROW!! After Nothing / Beò Fhathast is a very personal piece which I have been working on for some time now. Every sound in it was either taken from field recording...
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Joanna Wyld@joannawyld.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy not follow this hip new young act? If you like Imogen Heap/Delia Derbyshire/Björky goodness this may well appeal. Single out on 1 August www.instagram.com/reel/DbELF4B...
Kwolek also invented the "nylon rope trick" chemistry demo, which you may have seen in school. Nylon is produced at the interface of two chemical solutions, and can be extracted as a fiber as quickly as it forms. (8/n) www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bO...
Chemist Stephanie Kwolek was born #OTD in 1923. She invented Kevlar, used in high-strength / low-weight applications like body armor and airplane parts. She also invented the Nylon Rope Trick demo! 🧪 👩🔬 Images: DuPont/Stephanie Kwolek
Downplay a book or movie: The Grape Of Pique
Fiona Tribe@fionatribe.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: Small Giant Truths
A new Powerful Owl family! We've been visiting this park for 5 years, with no signs of Powls. A good friend mentioned her friend had heard one there, and the area looked plausible. It was a wonderful surprise to hear a trill at dusk, even better to see 2 owlets the nest day! #birds #wildoz #brisbane
This is a week tomorrow. I’ll be one of the lucky ones playing 412 chords per minute for an hour. www.bbc.co.uk/events/efm6gw
Steve Reich at 90 (Bristol)
The Paraorchestra brings an immersive take on Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, presenting this seminal work with the players distributed across Beacon Hall
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We're going to record it (if we can get the rights).
Andrew Wyld@andrewwyld.bsky.social · 6d agoI'm quite proud of this attempted translation of a manifestly untranslatable song by Serge Gainsbourg. The rhyme scheme is far too complex to allow it to be both a literal and a poetic translation of the original. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'd go further: if you've read any classic literature in translation, all the beauty in the language itself is the work of the translator. This is most obvious in poetry—since words that rhyme or scan in one language may not in another—but just as true in prose.
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 7d ago“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Film you've watched more than six times, with a gif
Adele Buck@adelebuck.com · last wk.Film you've watched more than six times, with a gif
I work for a major record label and am also a part time musician. I release all of my own music independently because there is literally no value in signing a record deal for any artist.
