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Sneha Solanki  ‘The Lovers’

Two networked machines, one infected with a virus, slowly infects the other through the interface of classic romantic poetry.

A breakdown in the relationship was inevitable once the virus had seeped into the memory of one machine and then into the other through a singular network cable affecting the poetic text files. Communication between the two deteriorated, leading to irrational & at times odd behaviour. Each machine reacted with equal confusion and conflict. The interface text became an illegible poetic mutation of itself.

[ID: Two computers facing each other, connected to one another, on rectangular platforms. The room is backlit in red. End ID.]

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Baymax in the new Baymax! show buying pads for a girl who got her first period and getting help from people, including a trans man.

Some people are really mad about this, when he is literally a health care robot interested in people's physical and emotional needs.

Risu just sent me this and I am SO DELIGHTED

Ahhhhhhh!!! Go read it! Go read it!! The cording was plied by Neanderthals!!! The article talks about how we can’t keep thinking about them as being stupid it’s so delightful! In these trying times, let’s read about some joyful anthropological and archaeological discoveries!!!

Read it!  The fact that it’s plied is so exciting!  For plied cord, you first spin your fibers in one direction (they did it clockwise) and then take that collection of singles and twist them in the opposite direction (in this case counterclockwise).  So it’s a process that requires planning and experience.  You spin your first bit, you set it aside, you spin your second and third, you ply them.  You can’t do it all in one go.   And unless this piece happens to be the work of the very first person to spin fibers, and that person was a super genius who not only invented the idea of spinning but the technique for plying, it shows that the Neanderthals were communicating technological skills amongst each other.  Which I mean isn’t news in and of itself, but this is just one more piece of evidence.

FERAL FROTHING IN FIBER ARTS THIS SHIT IS SO COOL

Holy shit this is incredible! The puts textile technology at 40,000 - 50,000 years old; the earliest previous evidence we had was 20,000 - 25,000 years.

And also, like the poster above said, this is evidence of *planning*. I was going into the article thinking “hmmm, extremely cool but probably thigh-spun two ply which is a single stage process…?” but no! This is three ply cord! I guess it might be possible to do thigh-spun three ply (be bloody tricky though which would be evidence of skill in itself), but more likely this was a highly skilled multi-stage process.

Holy shit.

Kylie Minogue as Lieutenant Cammy in Street Fighter, 1994 

Dog with pipe in mouth (1875) by the Minnesota Historical Society

some enterprising minnesotan, bobbing behind us on the wake of history, clearly had the right idea

scrappy doo found dead in spanish prison

1995 MTV VMAs

John McAfee was a racist lunatic born 2000 years too late, had he instead carried that same derangement while traveling ancient Greece he would have been heralded as a philosopher and scholar alongside people like Pliny the Elder, instead he was a total fucking loser who ruined every good thing he had going for him by being an incomparable freak until he died from suffocating on his own dick in prison.

read Britney Spears’ full statement against her conservatorship

Christina Ricci photographed by Carter Smith for i-D #226, December 2002

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