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rydra_wong

YMMV, but I would commend the recent "In Our Time" episode on "The Evolution of Teeth" to the attention of anyone who would like to experience some pleasant mild intellectually-stimulating body horror.

Features the term "skin-teeth". DID THE TEETH START IN THE SKIN AND MIGRATE INWARDS OR IN THE PHARYNX AND MOVE OUTWARDS. Also sharks. Lots of sharks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003zbg or iTunes or your podcatcher of choice

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Posted by jwz

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/alien-ore/

https://jwz.org/b/yjMN

"" (Watch on YouTube)

I am loving all of these so much! Not only are they all fitting the mythology perfectly, but being constrained to 10 minutes, they are obeying one of my favorite writing rules: "start later, end earlier". They get in, they get out, you understand the characters, no filler. Boom.

Previously, previously, previously.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/alien-ore/

https://jwz.org/b/yjMN

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sabotabby

Peterson's reply.

ZIZEK IS HAAAAAARD I don't know how to respond.

( more )

Zizek:

Zizek you have never tried to be as short as possible.

( more )

( rebuttals )

( questions )

Conclusion: That was really bad. Like funny ha-ha bad, but also just bad-bad. Despite the pretence of talking about Weighty, Important Subjects, there was really none of that, because you need the other party to at least have the same reference points, and Peterson is just not that well educated. Also because Zizek's a dick and has gone red-brown, making him a shit spokesman for contemporary Marxism. It was like a 4chan cartoon come to life.

I guess the best thing that came out of it was that some of Peterson's fanboys, having seen their idol soundly humiliated, might now flock to Zizek, whose ideology, though demented, is substantially less harmful.

Save yourself some suffering and watch the toilet speech again:

"Zizek on toilets" (Watch on YouTube)

Crossposts: https://sabotabby.livejournal.com/1540744.html

sabotabby

IT'S SLAVOJ TIME

Zizek starts by talking about China's economic success.

Zizek you are using big words Peterson will not understand this.

( more )

Crossposts: https://sabotabby.livejournal.com/1540598.html

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Posted by jwz

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/core-memory/

https://jwz.org/b/yjMM

Core Memory Shield for Arduino

This is a DIY kit for building a 32-bit ferrite core memory. Magnetic-core memories were the predominant form of computer memory from the mid-50s until the mid-70s. They work by storing information into the magnetic field of a ferrite core. It is non-volatile, meaning that it preserves its contents even when power is turned off. However, this type of memory is power-hungry, requires a lot of space and needs to be protected from strong magnetic fields. Also the process of reading the memory destroys its contents so that every read must be followed with a write. To make a long story short, this is a hilariously impractical memory extension shield for your 3.3V / 5V Arduino. When you have completed building this kit you have your very own piece of computing history in your hands.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/core-memory/

https://jwz.org/b/yjMM

sabotabby

APPLAUSE! The Muppets have arrived! Announcer announces that there is to be no recording or heckling.

Stephen Blackwood is the moderator, says some self-congratulatory shit, and then welcomes the Muppets.

Lobster in a suit, Oscar looking slovenly as always in a polo shirt and pants that don't reach his shoes.

Oh shut up Stephen, this is not "real thinking about hard questions" this is mud wrestling.

IDEOLOGY! *takes a shot*

Stephen just claimed that neither are primarily political thinkers. Broken clocks, etc.

"Surprising agreement on deep questions" yes they both have cryptofascist leanings.

"Let's hear it for psychoanalysis!" Audience cheers.

I am pretty sure no one has ever called Zizek "dazzling" in his life until now. Zizek facepalms, then yawns, then claps for himself.

Audience is overwhelmingly Peterson fanboys, judging by the cheers.

OH GOD PETERSON IS GOING TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY. He's doing a Thinker pose.

There is far too much San Pellegrino and not enough coke on this table.

EACH OF THEM GETS TO MAKE A 30 MIN OPENING STATEMENT oh god. Then each has 10 min to reply. Then there's 45 minutes of fanboys asking questions. It's going to be a loooong night.

( more )

Crossposts: https://sabotabby.livejournal.com/1540102.html

sabotabby

Found a totally legal stream. No sound so far. No one on stage either, but it looks legit. Apparently there is no sound on the paid one yet either.

The audience looks about half empty. I guess not that many people wanted to pay $500 for a ticket? There's, unfortunately, a live chat as well, and it is full of fascists, tankies, and people just typing "sniff" over and over again.

Now faded to a galaxy thing with an ominous silhouette.

SOUND!!!!!

( more )

Crossposts: https://sabotabby.livejournal.com/1539891.html

sabotabby

Turns out the livestream of the Kermit vs. Oscar debate is $15, because there is nothing that Peterson will not shamelessly monetize. Obviously I am unwilling to pay this (I wouldn't be if the filthy lucre wasn't going to Peterson, but it is). Unless something changes in the next hour and a half, I hope you're all cool with me holding off on the lulzy commentary until tomorrow when the torrents go up and watching the season finale of Disco instead.

Crossposts: https://sabotabby.livejournal.com/1539790.html

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Added screencaps from 2.14 Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 to the DSC gallery, completing the season :)( Read more... )

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Gallery: Home > Season 2 > Screencaps > 2.14 Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2

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Posted by jwz

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/uh-mr-the-plague-i-think-weve-got-a-hacker/

https://jwz.org/b/yjMK

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/uh-mr-the-plague-i-think-weve-got-a-hacker/

https://jwz.org/b/yjMK

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rivendellrose posting in

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Here's your discussion post for Discovery 2x14: "Such Sweet Sorrow," pt. 2!

As always, please be aware that there will be spoilers in the comments. Enjoy!

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Posted by jwz

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/bumblebee/

https://jwz.org/b/yjMD

Movie Yelling with jwz and Kingfish:

A while back:

Jim

Dude you're gonna say who are you and when did you steal Jamie's phone, but Bumblebee is pretty good!

When you return to your planet, please send Jamie back to us.

It is cute and funny and not a mean self loathing disaster like the other transformer movies.

Her robot car is a big dumb dog.

I'm going to watch it, but only while drunk

Oh definitely

What if Herbie The Love Bug but space robots

Okay, I can get down with that.

I have so many questions about Autobot physiology but these are actually the same questions I have about "Cars"

My problem with Cars: everyone knows headlights are car eyes, not windshields. That's just wrong.

Definitely a strange take.

Ok so transformers can reshape and whatnot. Dents can just buff right out? Right? So when they fight what does all the percussive maintenance accomplish? By which I mean the punching.

It's just satisfying to them

Mating ritual.

Like I said. So many questions.

Are some only cars or can they all do planes? Is it like Unicorn versus Pegasus in My Little Pony?

Inventing intricate rituals that allow you touch the metal flesh of other robots

METAL FLESH BEFORE THE METAL FLESH GOD

Ha!

So it's set in 87 and features many appropriate songs - the soundtrack is legit for a Hughes movie and there are actually multiple Smiths-related gags in the script - and I just don't understand how does this play with Da Yoot? Is this like when I was a kid and wondering "why does every teen movie have Wooly Bully in it?"

Also here's something that bugged me. They do a gag where Sammy Hagar "I can't drive 55" is playing but I'm pretty sure it was the "65" re-edit that was released in the 90s when the federal speed limit was raised but then the credits said "55" so I don't even know and OMFG why is there Sammy Hagar trivia in my head DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE

Delivered

Send

One month later:

Jim

Based on your recommendation I am watching "Bumblebee." I am trusting you so much right now.

Oooh I was super drunk watching that

Funny you should say that. I literally just thought I am going to need a drink for this.

You are.

HERBIE

Acquired

FTR, I was a huge Herbie fan

I realize I'm way out of line here, but... the girl character has a job at Hot Dog on a Stick at the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk, to which she commutes, by moped, from her moms house in Marin. As someone who was a teenager in Marin in the 1980's, I can tell you that while mopeds were definitely a thing, 180 mile round trips on one of them, to work at Hot Dog on a Stick, was not commonplace

I'll give them this though... somebody in production of this movie definitely grew up around here in the 80's. Everything is very accurate.

I was too drunk to be picky but that's good to know

Like the mean girl drives a BMW.

And all the people look right.

I definitely paused and judged her Ferris-esque wall of posters

Okay first inaccuracy. No mom in 87 Marin would say a Volkswagen Beetle was "unsafe."

Every Marin mom wished their kid wanted a used Beetle in 1987.

Chappaquiddick!!

Well sure but...

Volkswagen was practically the official carmaker of Marin in the 70's. By 87, all the kids wanted Beemers.

I like when they liquified the hillbilly at the diner.

I think we all remember where we were the day Optimus Prime died.

Did you get to my favorite line yet?

I dunno. She just installed his tape deck and he rejected The Smiths

"They're called Decepticons. Did that not raise any red flags?"

Diving into the ocean from the Marin headlands. That water's like 45 degrees.

Not to mention getting sucked out the Golden Gate and pulled under

Everyone knows that in Crime World, the Bay is like 1000' deep.

Yes.

Crime World is also where Godzilla can walk down Battery and like? There's room? And it's not all mushy landfill?

Makes sense.

Autobots and Decepticons have seats and steering wheels and what not. This seems wrong.

Also, why can't we see their fabric covered seats when they're robots.

Like I said before, I have so many questions. And they are the same questions I have about "Cars".

Yes.

Did we already talk about the fact that the guys who made Cars confirmed that yes, that is post apocalyptic earth?

That intelligent car society exists on the aftermath of the extinction of humans.

Can they all fly if they SQUEEEZE hard enough? Or can only some of them fly? Is flight more like melanin, or sex, or gender? I also have these questions about My Little Pony.

So many theological mysteries

I think the real issue is that being intelligent cars is a clear sign of the limitations of their original human-made programming, and their inability to evolve.

Like, you're a robot. You can be anything. But you can't, because it wasn't in your original programming. Now you can't even walk up a flight of stairs.

Charlie Stross has a book about robots after the humans are gone, and one of them is a weird tall, small-eyed robot because it was a sex doll, but most of the robots are small and anime chibi-eyed, so the one that looks like an actual human is a freak

That's awesome

Are the cars self replicating, or just self repairing? Can they make new cars? New designs? Offspring? I say no. They're trapped

In fact, I'm going to go there: no free will. They're just endlessly repeating their programming

I made too much popcorn so tonight I am having two bowls of popcorn. This is a thing that grownups can do.

Mmm... popcorn

So are the cars all a thousand years old? Do their personalities reset? Do they remember humans?

Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. They don't remember humans and they're all 1000 years old.

Is this a story about role playing Meths?

Yes.

So, basically, Cars is a dark dystopian saga about futility

I mean you're a thousand years old and you still want to race or whatever?

Exactly. And you haven't even tried to make feet.

Goddamn, girls house is exactly right for time and place.

Ha! Her hometown is listed on the Big War Map as Brighton Falls. I wiki'd it. Leaving aside the questionable "Falls" in any location in the Bay Area, it is listed as basically a mythical place near San Francisco that is at once Marin County and Santa Cruz. So, she wasn't commuting to the SC beach boardwalk by moped. In this reality, Brighton Falls is a town just north of SF that has its own beach boardwalk

Oh ok I figured she just lived in some fictional inland of Santa Carla

Essentially yes.

So you think the boardwalk is in Marin?

According to the movie, yes.

I find this troubling

They don't say Marin, but the show on the war map where Brighton Falls is.

Can the Northern California economy support two boardwalks? That's like a world that includes all of Metropolis, Gotham, New York and Chicago

Well, there was Playland at The Beach, once upon a time.

Destroyed by Decepticons in ought nine as you well know

Oh yes. It was horrible

Laughing Sal, on fire, laughing.

Furby, When The Walls Burned

Haha

Mare Island naval base just made its appearance

Only one thing can save bumblebee now! Diving!

Damn You Chekhov

Haha! Yes!

Use your powers of diving, Charlie!

Literally did nothing.

Like, diving made no difference.

By the way, I call bullshit on robots that can turn into cars _and_ jets or helicopters or whatever. No, no, completely no. You get one and that's it. Just because we can see car stuff and airplane stuff on your robot body, there's just not enough volume in your robot body for all that.

Did you notice that in the opening scene on robot world he had different tires

But still tires

Yes

Also, wth, leaving Charlie standing there in the Marin headlands

I did like that Camaro Bumblebee clearly meets up with Optimus Prime on the GG Bridge.

"You could have been a Camaro the whole time?"

Yeah that was a cute movie. Good reboot of a terrible franchise

Unlike the other movies, not made 100% of assholes

Hahaha

Hat full of assholes!

Send

Previously, previously, previously, previously.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/bumblebee/

https://jwz.org/b/yjMD

sabotabby

Poll #21847 Multilayer failcake

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

View Respondents

Should I hate-watch Season 5 of the Magicians when it comes out?

View Answers

Yes, you like it when shows make you angry and torrenting it doesn't give them any money
4 (20.0%)

No, everyone has suffered enough
9 (45.0%)

I have no idea what you're talking about but I like ticking boxes
7 (35.0%)

<input ... >

Spoiler party in the comments if anyone else feels the need to vent!

Crossposts: https://sabotabby.livejournal.com/1539372.html

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Posted by jwz

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2019/04/18.html

https://jwz.org/b/yjMC

The date for the sixth annual Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge has been announced: Sunday, July 21!

Do you like ROBOTS? And DRINKING? Experience incredible robot bartenders serving you drinks, lovingly crafted with MAD SCIENCE by the finest competitors in the art of robotics and bartending.

If you're thinking about building a robot, that's closer than you think! As always, please reduce my anxiety by signing up with your robot early instead of the week before. Please?

Oh yeah, also I got Tempest working, and there was much rejoicing.

It's been a little while since I did a photo dump, so here are a few recent photo galleries.

Let me particularly draw your attention to our Fyre Festival party, which was hilarious. I hope you visited the FEMA tent, and managed to snap up one of the sandwiches before they were gone! So many influencers. So many influencers.

Also, the Little Big show from last week deserves some mention for being awesome. For not having a lot of, uh, "instrumentation", they really knew how to work a room. And the room was here for it. They even got most of the crowd doing that ridiculous dance.

You may notice that there haven't been many photos lately. That's because it's damned near impossible for us to find photographers who will actually show up. It's even a paid gig! Finding consistent photographers has never been easy, but I feel like it used to be easier. Perhaps "I blew $4k on a DSLR" is no longer the status signifier that it once was?

Fyre'd

Little Big

Powersolo

Jungle Juice

DAMSF

Bootie Disney

Space Station: 1999

St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Undersea Burlesque

If you've seen the kind of events we've put on our calendar over the years, it probably shouldn't surprise you to know that The Gong Show has long been one of my favorite things. And so it makes me ridiculously happy to report my recent discovery that we had our second set of DNA Lounge alumni make an appearance: Peelander-Z (last seen at DNA Lounge last April, it's been far too long) appeared on episode 9 of the 2017 Gong Show revival! (I'm a bit behind.)

"" (Watch on YouTube)

They got a respectable 27 points, but they lost out to a couple of kids doing a terrible Trump and Pence impression. (I'm sure their parents will look back fondly on that when those kids are in the camps.)

Our previous Gong Show alumni were The Fuxedos, who performed here in 2009 and 2010 and appeared on the 2009 Gong Show revival:

"" (Watch on YouTube)

They did not get gonged! That's quality content, my friends.

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2019/04/18.html

https://jwz.org/b/yjMC