Blake Fall-Conroy made an artwork where you turn a crank to release one penny every 5 seconds or so. If you crank it for a solid hour, you'd earn $7.25, minimum wage. Those NPC livestreams remind me of this.
A thing I am too old to understand, is the twitch emote economy.
Twitch famously allocates bandwidth based on channel popularity, the more viewers you get on average the better servers you get. This is scarcity imposed on the creator's side, and totally expected.
“How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?”
The Reddit post is amazing! So I put together a quick explainer on human fossils from travertine deposits, with some brief guidance on what to do if you find a human fossil in your flooring.
johnhawks.net/weblog/how-m...
Thank you to everyone who emailed to express support for the victims. Neon Squid confirmed today that they will not be publishing The Museum: The Inside Story.
Multiple women have accused a twitter dinosaur enthusiast of SA. His publisher, Neon Squid, refuses to take any action unless the victims are willing to be named directly to their assailant.
Please email [email protected] to express your support for victims & demand they pull his book.
Multiple women have accused a twitter dinosaur enthusiast of SA. His publisher, Neon Squid, refuses to take any action unless the victims are willing to be named directly to their assailant.
Please email [email protected] to express your support for victims & demand they pull his book.
A few Jurassic Park pieces in an upcoming Heritage movie props auction!
- a final model for the velociraptor head
- several worker costumes
- high voltage signs
- the original screen used Barbasol can
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This is not a call out: The choose your own adventure phase of the pandemic is wild! I see pics of people at conferences and only like 2-4% of people are masked.
Spotted a mahogany dental tool cabinet which is one of the best things for storing minerals and fossils, in an auction in Los Angeles cc @amandasmith.bsky.social
Sometimes I get weirded out by the distribution of some things. Like sundews. How is this carnivorous plant genus on every continent except Antarctica? Ranging from Alaska to New Zealand.
If you hear a buzzing sound electronic devices emit when they're plugged in but not on, you will attract a mate who requires multiple blaring devices on at all times
Time to relaunch my Geologic Advent Calendar! 24 specimens of minerals, gems, and more in individual boxes! It's an instant collection.
If you've bought previous years' editions, let me know and I'll make yours different so you get new things. oldworldgems.etsy.com/listing/1298...
the fact that video games exist at all are wild. we tricked sand into thinking and then into lucid dreaming our own stories. of course bugs will happen
I ended up in Austin TX with the clothes on my back and little else. For the next three months, I called FEMA every day to try and get some relief money so I could replace what I’d lost.
But you know who didn’t make me wait three months? Jimmy Buffett.
I see all these tweets from people concerned about the people at Burning Man and I’m like: you spent thousands of dollars to do drugs and party in the desert, I don’t really feel that bad for you. Treat the playa as your playground? You rolled the dice and came up snake eyes for once.
Everybody who talks about radical self-sufficiency but has never actually lived off grid longer than a camping trip will vastly underestimate the amount of time you spend thinking about what happens to your shit
Years ago I gave an ignite talk to tech people called Why Are You Still Shitting In Drinking Water, and I fantasise maybe the guy who screamed at me afterwards for 'fearmongering' about utilities breaking down when that 'couldn't possibly happen' is at Burning Man now having a rethink
Years ago I gave an ignite talk to tech people called Why Are You Still Shitting In Drinking Water, and I fantasise maybe the guy who screamed at me afterwards for 'fearmongering' about utilities breaking down when that 'couldn't possibly happen' is at Burning Man now having a rethink
