CyberFlรขneur. Attorney, media producer ๐ฅ. Nonfiction horror writer ๐. Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle ๐ค. Only art redeems ๐จ ๐๏ธ๐ญ.
Throw off the bowlines. You will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
โค๏ธ As sea pollution levels have dropped (no pleasure boats, no freighters, etc.), dolphins have returned to the waters around Malta after being absent for years.
These were filmed off Gozo but they have also reappeared in even the busy harbor near my home.
Some good news. My niece (early 30s) was diagnosed with Coronavirus. She was unwell but is now recovered after self-isolation at home for 10 days with chocolate, Prosecco and Netflix. She did not need 144 toilet paper rolls, 88 bottles of water or 102 packets of super noodles.
โOne indicator of how far American democracy has fallen is the way Mitch McConnellโs impending retirement has sparked concerns about who will replace him - as if McConnell is some lingering guardrail protecting democracy,โ
@radiofreetom
writes.
Read more:
Netflix has a new documentary film on "Human Nature" that is the best explanation for how CRISPR works I have seen yet. Phenomenal graphics. Features Jennifer Doudna, who just won the Nobel Prize for her work on it.
Trailer:
Netflix has a new documentary film on "Human Nature" that is the best explanation for how CRISPR works I have seen yet. Phenomenal graphics. Features Jennifer Doudna, who just won the Nobel Prize for her work on it.
Trailer:
Just watched interview with David Marquet, a retired U.S. Navy submarine captain:
"It's basically imagining a spacecraft disappeared on the far side of the moon.
A, you have to find it.
B, you have to get to it. Even when you get to it you still need to somehow get the people
And I know this might be brutal right now, but given what is happening in Ukraine, and Sudan, and Syria, and Yemen and for just so many people across the world who struggle in their regular day-to-day lives, my frustration with the news coverage of this incident is close to
@JeromeJ39278151
He said while the submersible might still be intact, at 12,000 feet virtually impossible. There are only 2 vehicles he knows of that can go that deep, and certainly not divers, and they were not built for rescue.
He said the vehicles designed for navy submarine rescue certainly
It's so obnoxious how even after all this time Israel is still given the benefit of the doubt on such claims by the western political-media class until they're debunked weeks later, long after the outcry over the incident has been muted and neutered by Israeli lies.
BANG! ๐ฅ Sabine Hossenfelder
@skdh
is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and author of the blog Backreaction: .
She has long been on my weekend โmust readโ list when I catch up with my science readings
The asymmetrical media coverage of the two marine incidents over the last week has been very telling. Your life matters if you have money or come from a certain part of the world. Otherwise, sorry, bad luck.
Titanic tourists sink in submarine: whole world watches as navies spare no expense to find them
Hundreds of migrants sink in overcrowded boat: Hope you can swim, losers
Lithuania has imposed an inexpensive sanction on Russia by deploying the very effective, but not-so-deadly weapon of humour.
The street in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where the Russian embassy is located, was renamed "Street of Ukrainian Heroes", forcing the โฆ โฌ๏ธ
CHART OF THE DAY: The oil-and-gas sector, once worth a combined $3 trillion, is now worth less than Appleโs $1.5 trillion market capitalization. While Apple barely eked out a revenue increase in the first quarter, oil-and-gas companies are now in uncharted ... [1/2]
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first collected edition of William Shakespeareโs plays, known as the โFirst Folioโ. Half of the works in it had never been published before.
In London the Globe Theatre is celebrating by staging a season of plays that would โฆ ๐
I just watched Alistair Greig, a marine engineering professor at University College London. He said it would be "difficult, probably impossible, to locate the van-sized submersible in the Atlantic without any direct communication from the submersible".
And in the event of a
@JeromeJ39278151
He said that for any search and rescue operation at sea, especially this particular location, the poor weather conditions, the lack of light at night, the state of the sea and water temperature, the size and poor metallic coloring of the submersible, etc., etc. are going to make
@JeromeJ39278151
A few more points (I am covering
#CannesLions2023
and need to hop into a session; but Iโll be back to this ๐งต):
My Navy friend said getting the right kinds of equipment - such as a remote vehicle - to the site takes time, starting with getting it to a ship capable of delivering
Fabulous, fabulous perspective. Brilliant ๐ช. And in my fav magazine โฆ
@NautilusMag
โฉ. From the master science story-teller herself, โฆ
@skdh
โฉ
@JeromeJ39278151
Yeah, I was on the phone this morning with a hydraulic engineering friend of mine and he thinks they probably lost power. If so, the ballast system that controls its descent and ascent by flooding tanks with water to dive and pumping water out with air to come back toward the
This is a fall streak hole (also known as a hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, skypunch, cloud canal or cloud hole), a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds.
Many thanks to my most curious muse
@LadyEleanorA
. Read on ..
People rest on sleeping mats in the refrigerated section of a local grocery store, after the store invited customers to attend a sleepover to cool off as the heatwave continues in Helsinki, Finland, on 6 August.
Just finished webinar. Supply chains for today's techn giants are fantastically complex โ yet it's often true that the most essential and irreplaceable components come from a small number of countries. Here's a look at some key components of the Chinese networking giant Huawei.
@moorehn
Excellent ๐งต you have here, Heidi. Having gone to university in Paris, lived and worked there for many years, totally agree with these comments. I especially liked your comment โThe paradox is that many times, that shallowness somehow creates the rebellion that causes French
โI miss Kathy. I miss her in a particular way that I do not miss most of my dead friends.โ Neil Gaiman remembers the inimitable Kathy Acker. If youโve read Kathy, youโll love this piece. | Lit Hub โฆ
@lithub
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๐คฃ THE story of the night in UK. Spoilt ballot in Leicester:
โWe found one ballot which had โwankโ written in every single box apart from that of the Green party. The voter left a note saying โnot wankโ for the environmentalist party which was deemed acceptable as a vote.โ
Sitting in a Starbucks in Washington, DC with a โblack hatโ friend, hacking into almost everybodyโs laptop. We got into a D.C. law firm via its printer system. Using Wireshark. Law firm employee has VPN but we took advantage of โthe gapโ between start-up and connection. Easy ๐ฑ
๐คฃ Sent to me from photog buddy Craig Mccomb: โA friend of mine is an amateur wildlife photographer. He was setting up a shot. A kingfisher landed on his cameraโs shutter button & took a photo of its mate perched on a branch. We were hysterical.โ
Brilliant!! ๐ An exchange brought to you on the anniversary of M. C. Escherโs birth.
From โLetters of Noteโ it includes an audio, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Mick Jagger and Sanjeev Bhaskar as M. C. Escher. As Shaun Usher notes: ๐งต๐
You maybe already saw this.
Tennis player Mahut losing at Roland Garros in front of his family, breaks down in tears.
His kid runs on court to hug him.
His opponent Mayer getting emotional.
Father and son walk away hand in hand.
Losing, winning, living.
This . is . America. Kalief Browder allegedly stole a backpack at 16, spent 3 yrs at Riker's Island without trial.
Riley Williams stole a laptop from Speaker Pelosi's office and tried selling it the Russians. She was released to her mother
There are two justice systems in ๐บ๐ธ ๐คฎ
This is reportedly from the Chernobaevka airfield in Kherson,
#Ukraine
.
No, not nuclear explosion.
Ukraine forces are shelling the positions of Russian troops. There is an assumption they could have hit the ammunition depot of the Russian Armed Forces. Waiting for confirm.
One my staffers just returned from a technology conference she attended in China. She found a fascinating Chinese startup that restores old pictures using artificial intelligence. Iโll have more in the next few weeks.
Wonderful piece from โฆ
@parisreview
โฉ:
โThe most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detectorโ.
- Ernest Hemingway
๐ฉtip to Konstantin Bevz you created this.
There are two parts in this picture. On the left is the familiar poster of the well-known film "The Pianist" by Roman Polanski. On the right is the city of
#Bakhmut
in #
#Ukraine
taken earlier on Tuesday. Both destroyed by ... ๐
A dead white rhino may become a father. Conservationists collected eggs from the last female northern white rhinos in Kenya to fertilize them with sperm from the late last male.
This is simply a gorgeous, brilliant (very) long read by Jerry Neumann
@ganeumann
using the iTunes case study. Love his use of history to illustrate business/ theories. The success of any interesting product is not just a function of its efficacy, but ...
RT
@petermcgrath10
I love these two pictures - on the left, a painting of Albert Square
#Manchester
by the French painter Pierre Adolphe Valette, and on the right a photo of the same spot in 2018...โฆ.
Aย Paris fixture, in two iterations, for more than a century, a haven forย Ernest Hemingway,ย Anaรฏs Nin,ย Zadie Smith, andย Ethan Hawke. It emailed customers encouraging them to buy online, and they have. Orders jumped from 100 to 5,000 in the past week.
The Barbie-Oppenheimer double feature is really happening, data shows ๐
Barbenheimer isnโt just a meme. Thereโs plenty of evidence that people around the globe are making plans to see two of the most-anticipated movies of the summerโwhich happen to be stark contrasts of each
Nearly all coronavirus patients who needed ventilators in New York's largest health system to help them breathe died, a study found. About 20% of Covid-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died, and 88% of those placed on ventilators died.
Thank you
@parisreview
. I totally agree.
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I think vanity makes them think so.
Itโs actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private