Band name of the day: uncharted spaces of stimulation
Space Cartoons to Space Psychedelia: How Sci-Fi Book Covers Evolved - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/space-cartoons-to-space-psychedelia-how-sci-fi-book-covers-evolved/263952/
Hot take: language is like sculpture, in that each word acts as a constraint that cleaves off parts of the infinite space of possible meaning.
Bad idea of the day: a soap opera that is also a space opera AND a rock opera
Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
invention is the discovery of a path through possibility space. it doesn’t have to be a good path.
Spaced Repetition - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
Usually when a starship passes settled space, it doesn’t have to worry about space pirates so much as impulse parasites, ships that rendezvous and latch onto the starship so they don’t have to carry braking fuel
Band name of the day: organization space
Attack of the Flying Space Dwarves! | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/attack-of-the-flying-space-dwarves/
Band name of the day: break space
Space Colony Art from the 1970s – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/
Can’t Unsee https://cantunsee.space/
Starship crews, immortal for their job, don’t just die on arrival unless they choose to. Some become living gods to their mortal colonies, others hermits who return to the soothing familiarity of deep space or learn the language of the trees
Nicolas Cage to Star in ‘Color Out of Space’ – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/news/nicolas-cage-color-out-of-space-1203115589/
Band name of the day: three fisted space detective
My furnace broke & the furnace repair guy is snowed in, & it’ll be going below zero tonight. So, I had to run to walmart & buy a bunch of space heaters, & I’ll be up all night making sure nothing catches on fire :(
today’s brew cleanup cleaned up 4 GB of space
Ever notice how the opening theme to Space Battleship Yamato has the same plot as The Final Countdown.
Rain 🚱: “#rust iterators are sooo much nicer to write than…” - Cybrespace https://cybre.space/@grainloom/101379206180624438
thread(3) - Plan 9 from User Space https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3/thread.html
Luigi Moretti’s Structures and Sequences of Spaces (1952) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2018/12/09/luigi-morettis-structures-and-sequences-of-spaces/
Saving space junk, our cultural heritage in orbit https://theconversation.com/saving-space-junk-our-cultural-heritage-in-orbit-6025
Chris’s Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug
What would space exploration look like if it starred more women? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-space-exploration-look-like-if-it-starred-more-women
sending up private space probes to stealthily nudge large asteroids onto collision courses with Earth so that governments keep maintaining their space programs
Band name of the day: land art in space
17: visible but cannot be typed on, fingers hit emptiness.↵1?: invisible, produces characters indistinguishable from spaces. except when I try to run binary analysis tools on the output, which invariably crash.
13: expensive-looking. space runs some evil curlbash, return some similarly evil cmd line. have yet to find out what systems the other keys are supposed to infect, but I think I identified grub and plan9 already? whispers to itself at night. extremely cursed.
Bad idea of the day: get commit access to leftpad and make it so that it spawns a thread that loads amazon.com in an infinite loop for every injected space
Bad idea of the day: furniture modeled on cray equipment, with spaces to put your own computers in
PSIBER Space Deck Demo - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuC_DDgQmsM
When the world was young, Chaos created vacuum. Space took a look and at that moment, learned what horror vacui was. Even though it only creates more vacuum this way, it’s been running ever since.
Is Panos Cosmatos a pen name? The guy who directed Beyond the Black Rainbow being literally named ‘space bread’ is a bit too perfect.
Bad idea of the day: a database of maps of conceptual spaces that are drawn like maps of physical spaces (ex., xkcd’s map of the internet & Knuppe’s map of the fields of mathematics)
when gods commune, dimensional portals open in their worlds and in come ideas from the other’s mind: stalking tangles of crystal, shy ripples in space, sentient smells, just about every type of elf, the occasional human
The Joe Rogan Experience Is a Safe Space to Launder Bad Ideas - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experience-is-a-safe-space-to-launder-bad-ideas
It doesn’t pay to be smart in interstellar space - once out of the gravity well, most races lose their sentience in favor of longevity, radiation tolerance and stealth
shooting through space in a stasis pod, awake only a millisecond every year, watching the stars whirl by like fireflies
liquid comets inhabited by space whales, occasionally leaving and traveling the vacuum for another flying ocean
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)
Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions
Russian Cosmism Versus Interstellar Bosses: Reclaiming Full-Throttle Luxury Space Communism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/russian-cosmism-versus-interstellar-bosses-reclaiming-full-throttle-luxury-space-communism/
The End of Internet History and the Last Ad - Rambling Space https://ramblingspace.com/posts/end-internet-history-last-ad/
Solar eclipses are hard to come by on Earth but common in space, so offworld magical research stations modeled after orreries offer bespoke nights, engineered syzygies, and break new frontiers in topological astrology
Band name of the day: space away from earth
Hot take: the space of all possible understandable statements is composed almost exclusively of references to complex & abstract ideas with a tenuous relationship to any physical reality & unclear test conditions
Hot take: a hole isn’t the absence of a thing (outer space isn’t a hole, while the hole of a doughnut, full of air, is), but a violation of our expectation of continuity. We expect a full form & get a discontinuity in the middle.
article idea: media (esp. social media) as perverse psychogeography, & the inhabitants of transient spaces by career & disposition
swarms of mirrors graze the sun’s surface, smooth over a vortex here, strengthen another↵soon enough, convection cells become actual cells, differentiate, wings of plasma grow into space, a slow beat starts