"You can't toll the Strait! Only I can toll the Strait!" 🤡 View quoted note →

Binface music video -- wish he'd touch down in my town!!

Anyone understand what just happened with that red card #worldcup ?

Next Galt's Gulch / Anarchopulco / Prospera / Sealand / California Forever / Grafton NH libertarian separatist LARP just dropped:

Welcome to Proto-Town

A cross between Galt’s Gulch and Shenzhen

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ummm wut?

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Deadpool and Wolverine was the only tolerable Deadpool movie for me... because it's about picking up the "discarded toys" of the MCU and less about trying to make a serious character out of Deadpool

My life over the past few years: Finding some forgotten piece of scientific simulation software, last updated years ago, dusting it off, and trying to figure out if anyone who made it is still alive / contactable on the internet....

Hey @Brian Fagioli since you seem up on this stuff I'm interested in potentially getting a home Linux mini-PC... do they make those pre-installed with Linux or does it make more sense to just get one off the shelf and scoop out the Windows slop myself?

Getting re-immersed in my first "scientific infatuation", the Drexlerian vision of atomic nanotechnology popularized in the late 90's / early 00's, is a bit like doing digital archeology.... The exponents of the field, people like Eric Drexler, Ralph Merkle, Ralph Freitas & et. al. are still active but *barely* online... They have 90's style web-pages, "firstnamelastname . com," that are black-text-on-white background and riddled with 404's. The explainer videos are full dated, chunky 00's CGI. But the vision for what can be achieved remains just as radical as it was at the turn of the millennium, and with new research by CBN, closer than it's ever been to reality.

Warhammer 40K Joe Rogan is the timeline we're on:

When do communication media threaten establishment power? TV (news in particular) in the 70s did this, by showing the public footage beamed directly into their living room of a Vietnam War that clearly wasn't going well. But by the 80s, more media-savvy admins like Reagan figured out how to co-opt the medium to get their own story out. Similarly, in the 2010s, social media seemed to be genuinely disruptive and threatening to power, but today (at least in the US) seems entirely co-opted or at least "safe" to the current power structure. Is social media just going to become "the new TV", with a few big companies that have more or less state-sanctioned quasi-monopolies?

Bizarrely, some of the most cutting-edge #nanotech work these days is apparently being sponsored by the Canadian Bank Note Corporation 🤷

arXiv.org

Atomically precise mechanosynthesis of carbon structures on hydrogenated Si(100) by inverted-mode STM

The ability to build atomically precise structures on surfaces with complete control over both atomic placement and chemical bonding remains a cent...

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