What if we DIDN’T define “language” via human-only standards? What if we trained ourselves to see animal languages in the world? My review of Arik Kershenbaum’s WHY ANIMALS TALK is up at the TLS. #language #bookreview #animalcommunication #anthropology #biology #zoology #books #bookstodon
A debate about the sophistication of animal communication
When I was eight years old the American TV show Flipper mesmerized me. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin played by a number of dolphin individuals coaxed to
When the brief is “how much creepier can you make it?”
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics
We are unveiling the next generation of humanoid robotsâa fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications. The new Atlas builds on decades of…
Seems to me the DMA should have something to say about Google displaying any info beyond a list of pages in its search results. All it should take is someone bringing the case to court.
Leon Bambrick (@secretgeek@mastodon.cloud)
Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web. First they help you find good content, so people visit and use and enjoy and participate in good web sites. Then they insist on scraping every piece of value they can, and presenting it to the user such that they never have to visit the websites at all. Then the websites die, having been choked to death by the strangler fig, and people blame the websites for dying, not the strangler who bled them dry.
Booting up the original Forza Horizon to check that my Xbox One works before I sell it. That game had nailed the vibe so well, it’s a shame what became of the franchise 😢
I wanted to try one last lap of snow-covered Nordschleife in Project Gotham Racing 4, but I guess they never bothered to add it to backward compatibility 😔
I’ll be keeping both discs in case I ever bother to check out an Xbox 360 emulator. I never will, but I’d get pennies for each game anyway, so why not keep them.
Glad to see the second band playing the Sphere used 50% live visuals. But the creative director makes a valid point regarding my dreams of a trippy rave being organized there:
“There are always going to be people who expect more. But you’ve also got to consider that a fair percentage of these audiences will be under the influence of something, and you can only push their senses so far. The Sphere is IMAX on steroids. It can be a lot, even when you’re stone-cold sober.”
How Phish turned Las Vegas’ Sphere into the ultimate music visualizer
The jam band’s run at the Sphere will be a memorable one.
@emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
Everything about this vehicle disquiets me in a way that I find offensive to Nature herself, the balance is completely off
Welcome back! This is our fourth design critique thread. Today, we're taking a #ThrowbackThursday look at iPhoto for iOS, launched in 2012. Despite its short lifespan, it delivered visual design craftsmanship in spades.
Does everything need to be an ad?
Does everything need to be an ad?
Just as majestic as Apple’s Aerial screensaver, no? Increasingly, every pixel in front of our eyes is fought over by a pool of large technology companies that are trying to squeeze fractions â¦
OH: “I was thinking about doing an escape room team building event, does anyone have a suggestion?” “Put them all in a room and drop a table in production.”
I’ve been waiting forever for a split controller that officially supports the iPad mini.
At $150 / 170€ I’m gonna keep on waiting.
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social
One of the big Qs from pundits before the DMA was ‘what are all these 'great' apps we're missing out on because of Apple's App Store restrictions, and do they even exist?’.
Mere days after a major App Store rules change, @delta (which has been denied for years), is the top app on the App Store.
For every Delta, there are a thousand great apps that were simply never started because they would never fly. Dreams that never left the whiteboard, market segments that were never given chance to exist
That Kung Fu Panda meditation app for Apple Vision Pro looks really cool. The fact that it’s completely silent (because they weren’t gonna pay Jack Black for this) makes it feel particularly serene.
Checking Out 9 New Apps for Vision Pro
1. AirDraw2. Bombaroom3. Explore POV4. Kung Fu Panda5. Masters 20246. Mahou7. VincentRoom8. SpacePinball9. Wisp WorldWhat’s your favorite?Follow me on the so…
“The Making of Pentiment” 💜
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Billed as the “homepage of the Black internet,” BlackPlanet was a social network ahead of its time. It went live in 1999 — five years before Facebook — and amassed one million users within its first year online. By 2008, it had 15 million.
@TheAtlantic takes a nostalgic look back at its impact on culture, politics and relationships, within the Black community and beyond, and whether smaller, more dedicated digital spaces could be the answer to a “kinder, less dangerous, and more fun” future online.
#BlackPlanet #SocialMedia #Community #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
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Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?
Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?
Humane Ai Pin. (Photo: Humane) I’m not bullish on the Humane Ai Pin, the clip-on device whose first reviews arrived with knives out this week. The thing feels like a commodity product from 20â¦
Carmack coming out in support of a neonazi is fucking hilarious as a means of an “apolitical” tech bro burning any remainder of his supposed rep.
Neither of those men was even materially harmed by people discovering their views! One helps murder children! The other isn’t even treated as toxic enough for people to recgonise everyone associated with him as a definite bigot! That’s how pathetically limited the condemnation was
This is why modern movies always have a tech bro as the antagonist.
(Also, the article that prompted these tweets is just the most unflattering thing you could possibly admit to liking.)
Blurry, glitchy images from #genAI work better as surrogate memories than perfect, detailed images! (via @sdartiailh@twitter.com)
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed
The Synthetic Memories project is helping families around the world reclaim a past that was never caught on camera.
I did not expect Botany Manor to be _for me_, but it’s the feminist environmental storytelling that hooked me. Very nicely written, sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal. Lady Arabella Greene, you are a gentlewoman and a scholar 🫡
The puzzles are also quite well designed, if a bit simple. That manor is way too sprawling, though. Eat the rich.
I’ve been using an Android phone as an exploratory “how’s the weather over there” test kinda sorta full time for a few days now. I’m going to write a more comprehensive report later, but let me just say this: Apple should be incredibly nervous and much, *much* nicer to third party iOS developers because from my (granted, limited) experience the only thing that truly sets iOS apart from Android these days is third party apps. They are simply nicer in every way on iOS, and so far I haven’t seen a single native (cross platform apps are by definition equally shitty on both platforms) app on Android that was on par or better than an iOS equivalent. But apart from third party apps, I could just pick up an Android phone tomorrow and barely miss a thing. In fact there are some things on Android that I would love to see in iOS as well. So Apple should be on their hands and knees and humbly thank third party developers for their hard work. Instead they alienate devs and act as if people buy iPhones because of Apple. Morale among iOS developers is deteriorating at an ever faster pace. Apple and the iOS platform can’t afford this, but I’m afraid its leadership is so far up their own buttholes that they won’t realize this until it’s too late.
It drives me up the wall when people make this mistake — how hard can it be to just keep the pronoun and see how it agrees with the sentence — and it never occurred to me that it was an over-correction from the way they were taught at school not to *start* a sentence with “Laura and me.”
(I know, caring about grammar and spelling is classist and ableist, but I can’t help it, I’ve been programmed that way.)
Andrew Pontious (@apontious@dice.camp)
Lol I recently blew the minds of some Discorders. The lesson: you *shouldn’t* always say e.g. “Laura and I”, despite grammar lessons pounding home that "Laura and me" is wrong, because it depends on the placement in the sentence: > Laura and I went to the park. Correct, it’s the subject. > He thanked Laura and I. Wrong, it’s the object. The trick is to remove all but the pronoun. > I went to the park. > He thanked I. It’s clear that I is wrong there, and should be: > He thanked me.
A laser sintering printer for $3,000 would be very, very exciting if they actually deliver. (Still expensive, but a very real first step on the path to mass market.) It would be so nice never to have to worry about supports anymore.
How we BUILT a 3D printer that can print ANYTHING!
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I thought I was clever adding auto-generated fields to my MySQL table.
Now duplicating rows is a complete pain in the ass, because of course MySQL is being extraordinarily stupid about it 🤦
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