Notices by samim (samim@mastodon.social)

Hello? Anybody there?

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum,

so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". '

@bruces you'll enjoy ‘Triadex Muse’ - the idiosyncratic music sequencer by Edward Fredkin & Marvin Minsky, from 1971: https://samim.io/p/2025-04-19-the-triadex-muse-edward-fredkin-marvin-minsky-usa/

Perspective.

The Western-style Gregorian calendar, Greenwich Mean Time & the Western cultural sense of time usage are among the most devistating weapons western colonialists used to subjugate & eradicate cultures around the world. It's time to end the tyranny of time!

Good morning treepeople

おはよう treepeople

The public hasn't fully grasped that photo & video evidence is now unreliable due to AI-generated fakes. Crime scene photos, blackmail footage, surveillance videos—all can be faked. Now, all visual evidence requires costly forensic analysis to be trusted. Profound implications.

One of our cactuses produced a stunning flower seemingly over night.

IKEA Job Interview - Art by Canary Pete