Jason Brown

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Technology therapist, gonzo designer, grey-hat historian
Los Angeles

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The confusion is just as much the point as the cruelty.

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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Later, someone mentioned the kind of details - veins like worms scribbling incomprehensible messages across my forehead, eyes popping out as if on stalks, laced with tiny red veins - which one can only truly apprehend at a distance that wouldn't have made help impossible.

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There's something that everyone gets wrong about the Ashley Madison data dump from 2015. And I should know, because I was one of the reporters who broke the story. It's my latest for @[email protected] (sign up for a free account to read). www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandalwww.newscientist.com Nine years after hackers targeted Ashley Madison, the dating site for wannabe adulterers, many people still don't grasp what was truly chilling about the scandal, says Annalee Newitz

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I had a front row seat to the production of this astounding thing and I can attest to the absolutely staggering attention to detail that went into it. A masterpiece. An essential text. calculatingempires.net

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500calculatingempires.net Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. View the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, ...

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The most evil police murderbots are going to look like Kirby.

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fb memories brought up the source post for 'you cannot kill me in a way that matters' and it's as good as I remembered

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Your mind does not give one single fuck *how* an element is associated. Where that association came from, even when it happened. Doesn't fucking matter, it's now part of the network.

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Today in 1962, the 2.9-kiloton DES MOINES nuclear test, conducted as part of Operation Nougat in a tunnel beneath Rainier Mesa at the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas, accidentally vented, releasing 11 million curies of highly-radioactive material and sending workers racing away from the cloud.

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ergo propter hog

post hog.

So I was using the gippity for one of the few tasks it's often good at—debugging a small script. Thing was going down, should be going up. Find the patterns, compare the parameters, tell me what I'm missing. But it kept assuring me there's no reason. Everything is correct. No problems.

oooh that one was close

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never realized how much this well-known drawing of the young Karl Marx looked like Brad Dourif's Piter de Vries from Lynch's "Dune"

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"Shut up about the beans" they'd say in their top down product design meeting. "Users don't care about beans." Confidently wrong.

My ding-dang sim has a thermocline. Can't make an ambient noise generator out of a dang ol steady state I tell you what

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The San Diego corpse flower bloomed for the first time since 2018. I thought they were called corpse flowers because they stink but it's apparently because they eat ballerinas.

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“On October 18, 1972, Tom Zahuranec invited the radio audience down to the KPFA Music Office to communicate mentally with a philodendron which was wired with liquid electrodes feeding impulses into a Buchla synthesizer.“ archive.org/details/RE_1...

Radio Event No. 20: Rhododendron : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org On October 18, 1972, Tom Zahuranec invited the radio audience down to the KPFA Music Office to communicate mentally with a philodendron which was wired with...

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Polaroid film is made of crystals of herapathite. How was herapathite discovered? "Herapathite crystals were first prepared when an assistant to the toxicologist Herapath mixed iodine with the urine of a quinine-fed dog."

Just found a fascinating article from 1938 talking about what a game changer the newly-discovered "polaroid" material for polarizing light will be.

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April 30, 1968: "University Calls in 1,000 Police to End Demonstration As Nearly 700 Are Arrested and 100 Injured; Violent Solution Follows Failure of Negotiations"

This is from April 30, 1968. Holy shit.

Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions | 1968: Columbia in Crisis exhibitions.library.columbia.edu

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I guess it's "helplessly watch this unfold because on an unconscious level I believe my hypervigilance will somehow forestall disaster" o'clock

If your creed is Nicene, you're doctrinally clean. If Wolf did the readin' you're heretically leanin'.

Oh no

Allergy meds would be better if they were named like weed strains. Gimme that Purple Naze. Dose up on Hista Killah.

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OK, who requested the Francis Bacon chicken?

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David Bowie and Iggy Pop should have made a buddy cop flick in 1972, change my mind

We have the stupid mosquitoes this year. Small blessings.

GOT ME A TUBER I WANT YOU TO KNOW SLICING OF EYE SPROUTS OH HO HO HO

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You walk into that kitchen and you’re like “should I make a mound of cottage cheese or should I made a Scandinavian snuff video?”