Notices by Count Buchla (joshuaacnewman@xeno.glyphpress.com)

@thomasfuchs
Mannn, that hinge brings back painful memories.

@TheZorse @Fragglemuppet
The Wiz is criminally underdiscussed, both as an extraordinary piece of music from its time, and as a member of the Labyrinth/Dark Crystal/Black Cauldron... canon of aesthetically imaginative fairy tales from the 70s and 80s.

@nocontexttrek
This date is not going how he expected. He put his Horga'hn out and everything. Even his sci fi dingus and his favorite reverse polarizer.

@futurebird

that ... grapefruit...?

@Fragglemuppet
I imagine it’s because, as soon as Academy is done, there’s no more planned Trek.

Pretty much time to cancel Paramount.

@Fragglemuppet
Yeah, just, the lack of a current series turns the temperature down.

You’re telling me that an AI company:

A) uses the “handsy” emoji as its logo
B) Calls its users “Face Huggers”?

Is this marketing designed by an AI?

@elithebearded @AlSweigart @thomasfuchs
It is not the metaverse that bends, but yourself.

@elithebearded @AlSweigart @thomasfuchs
That was a yes-and.

@elithebearded @AlSweigart @thomasfuchs
i.e.
"Do not try and bend the spoon; that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself."

@thomasfuchs @harry_karadimas
Your distinction (ignoring that we use “flight” as a common metaphor for space travel) is apt, as flight is a negotiation between aerodynamic forces, and spaceflight is a negotiation between thrust, mass, and gravity.

Interstellar travel is necessarily as different from rockets as rockets are from airplanes and birds.

@harry_karadimas @thomasfuchs

I can’t tell what level of sarcasm this is.

@harry_karadimas @thomasfuchs
It’s not even necessarily a technological matter. It’s paradigmatic. The sentence “We will one day travel the stars” requires us to carefully assess what we can mean by “we”, “one day” and “travel”.

@thomasfuchs
In my house we call this The Pile of Expensive Rectangles.

@mattly
Wunderbar! Please support me as I continue developing! HTTPS://patreon.con/joshua !

There are still bugs, but I share prototypes with longtime supporters who want! And it’s reliable in some circumstances already.

I’m trying to build it into my first dedicated instrument in the coming weeks to peer into the unknown unknowns.

I went to take a picture of the back of the #ObliquePalette prototype 0.5.5 and it came out like this. So I gotta share.

The front, in the second image shows the inputs & outputs. Analog knobs, 3.5mm jacks for Eurorack, pin headers for Arduino (or other electronics) & servos.

(It's for turning computers into machines for making art, fucking around, and falling in love. You talk with it using the extremely powerful graphical language, #plugdata.)
#modularsynt #synthdiy #eurorack #computerart #

I want to take this moment to remind everyone that Fascists are losers.

They win sometimes because they just like to hurt people, or because they cheat, or because they seized an opportunity, but remember:

They make themselves enemies of the universe. They believe that sulking rage and violence will beat the universe into a form their liking.

But truth is a vast, interlinked web of everything that has ever happened.

And Fascists are violent romanticists who cannot discern truth.

The reason the Nazis didn't invent the atomic bomb is because they refused to use Jewish Physics.

That is, they thought they could dominate the world without the benefit of the truth because it conflicted with their romantic fantasies about astrology, race, theosophy, politics, and a bunch of other fields that they figured they could dominate with ideas that were literally just a dare to defy them.

Fascists, remember, are losers.

The Middle East didn't stop existing after Ancient Times.

Misirlou is probably from the 1920s, or about 45 years before Dick Dale recorded it. It was Ottoman, at least, perhaps Maghrebi. But decidedly a modern piece of music.

Here's a modern piece of music that turns out to have equally Ancient Origins! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2mb1vgNg70
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/114931889896223598

I was handed this clearly as a conduit to send it to @epidiah .