These birds do not exist
These birds do not exist
Slime Fungi Subway Overlords, Banana Craze, someone shot the internet and boy do I applaud them.
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The Plan to Put Bitcoin in Mouse DNA With a Genetically Engineered Virus Nice little art project to put a private wallet key into DNA storage aka a living mouse. But its far from original, Massive Attack encoded their Mezzanine-album in DNA, researchers put 16gigs of Wikipedia and Miles Davis into genes and as far as I can remember, an artist did the same with wikipedia-entries for “mutation” just to watch it replicate in living algae and get remixed by reproducing organisms until it was gone (can’t find a link to that one, sorry).
The NFT Art World Wouldn't Be the Same Without This Woman's Nightmares Rolling Stone on the illustrator who created the boring ape artworks. Her output is actually quite nice and not to be compared with the cheap illustrative cartoon stuff NFT-bros call “art” and which is actually on the same artistic level as tshirts for 12year olds. However, here’s a website collecting hints that “Bored Ape Yacht Club is Racist and Started by Neo-Nazis”, so there’s that. And if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend Dan “Foldable Human” Olsons 2hour-takedown of crypto and NFT, Line Goes Up.
These Birds Do Not Exist
And it’s a shame. I prefer these neural network birdies to the real federvieh every single time (maybe not) and we can get biodiversity up again sorta kinda by just computing new synthetic illustrated species to generate make believe, should be enough for the delusional qanon-crowd at last. I wonder what they sound like. Whats not to love about these guys?
Myopia correcting 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold across Asia Not sure if these glasses make me look better than my normal ones but hey, we can non-surgically heal myopia now, cool cool.
Using a 'virtual slime mold' to design a subway network less prone to disruption You might remember the slime mold experiment from 10 years ago where they put the fungi on top of a city map and it spread just like the subway network. Now they built a virtual model of the slime mold “aimed at architects, city planners and other professionals”. When they tested the model on real world traffic networks, the slime mold was better, faster and cheaper. All hail to the slime fungi subway overlords!
Someone shot the internet and boy do I applaud them.
Here’s a ship in a Klein Bottle and a small shark chasing it. Excellent trolling is excellent.
“Banana Craze is the first major study of how a natural resource such as the banana has shaped the past and the present of a continent, and how this phenomena finds expression through culture. Banana Craze brings together almost 100 pieces of contemporary Latin American artists in which the banana is the main feature.” Cheech and Chong contributed no song for this.
Your trillion pieces death star sucks: Lego Investment is a bummer: “Over 1966–2018, LEGO value-weighted index accounted for survivorship bias enjoys 1.20% inflation-adjusted return per annum, well below 5.54% for equities. However, the defensive properties of LEGO are considerable, as including 5%–25% of LEGO in a diversified portfolio is beneficial for investors with varying levels of risk aversion. LEGO secondary market is relatively internationalised, with investors from larger economies, countries with higher per capita incomes and less income inequality are shown to trade LEGO more actively.”
News from your favorite cat parasite Toxoplasma Gondii that creates extroverted business people: “childhood cat ownership has conditional associations with psychotic experiences in adulthood.” Cats suck.
Crows are cool: “Over in the Swedish city of Södertälje, about 30 km southwest of Stockholm, a pilot program is being explored which will enlist crows to clean up discarded cigarette butts.”
“The United Micro Kingdoms (UmK) is divided into four super-shires inhabited by Digitarians, Bioliberals, Anarcho-evolutionists and Communo-nuclearists.” Sure!
“I just spent 20 hours armor-plating a cat feeder.”