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So I opened a book today to look something up for my son. Thomas Nagel's The View from Nowhere - great book, a classic in the genre - and found an old friend's name written in pencil inside the front cover. Oh! He lent it to me 30 years ago while we shared a flat in college. I know, I'll look...

I see the government is testing the waters for the nation's willingness to fight in a pointless war. You got a letter from the government the other day. You opened it, read it, it said "we want you, sucker". Wyd?

As a man of science, this is a worry. There is no reason why our sun couldnt produce a nova. The mechanism proposed here involves a magnetohydrodynamic kick and the sun becoming fouled by interstellar dust, and apparently vomiting off a huge mass of plasma and matter. Evidence that it has in...

https://x.com/TheCensoredRock/status/1734236218471162071?s=20 Maybe a little toxic here from time to time, especially when certain one-note regulars descend into the usual abuse patterns (I assume that's some kind of leftist cry for help — but that's OK! We're here for you homies). It's not...

Looking into this, it's a loooong story with a dose of happy accident, and it might well turn out to be the first room-temperature, room-pressure superconductor.

Much bunting round your way? The Plant Whisperer has a lot of work to do winning over more than a single figure percentage of the British public, is my guess.

This was the biggest proper rave I ever went to. The line up was serious. Did anyone else go? Took at least a week to recover, which was bad for me as I was supposed to be producing and doing sound and lights for a play that week. Got the fucking bad shakes on the first night.

Personally, a lot. One minute It's making my day job easier, next it's helping me understand quantum gravity and how it might relate to consciousness, or debating me about monism Vs non-dualism, or the abiotic theory of oil, or how to find and fix a mysterious leak in the roof. I think it will...

The origins of drum’n’bass are a topic of much debate and dissensus among music fans and historians. While some argue that the genre originated in the UK rave and jungle scenes of the 1990s, others trace its origins back to earlier forms of electronic music such as disco and funk. One common...

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https://www.datcreativity.com Takes a minute or two. Paste your scores in thread.

There was an interesting show on the radio over lunch about the history of sociology and it's influence in journalism. Naturally, this masterpiece came up This was the weekly herald of the latest bulletin from the front on reality and decline throughout my childhood, and it's a fucking wig...

Seeing as none but the comfortably rich — maybe 2 dozen people in the entire land — will be able to afford heat their homes, cook their food, or remain connected to the internet this Winter, have you put aside anything to burn, eat, or wear? Or is it a lot of fuss over fuck all?

Looking for more of this, techno's been overdue a proper comeback this century https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxO-SYwjzExYlKyC8ZBrAuaL4aPWvpi0jM

Fuck it, let's manufacture another wave of infection.

This fella is good, he has dozens of drops using this video as a template. He's on live now doing mashups by request https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMepKysta/ Scroll thru his recent videos 🔥🔥🔥

To reduce alienation among the otherkin

The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem Everything goes down, no internet or power, no oil, ammunition goes bad. We join the story following journeyman, who delivers food and stuff to the inhabitants of a farming community in Maine. Then a nuclear powered supercar arrives, piloted by an old friend and...