David Erik Nelson's Blog, page 22

Distraction of the Day: Work Less Lonely

Coffee shop working for the agoraphobe, introvert, or pandemic-dweller:

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Distraction of the Day: Cold-Flaming Crystal Skull💎💀

I would like to make Yoichi Kobayashi’s cold-flaming crystal skull the executor of my estate.

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“The most unjustly under-loved jazz great of the 1950s” #WomensHistoryMonth

I take exception to Tom Moon’s characterization of Dorothy Ashbury (quoted as the title): she isn’t just among “the most unjustly under-loved jazz greats of the 1950s”; she is almost certainly the most inexplicably under-appreciate jazz great ever. Born in 1932 in Detroit, Ashbury broke barriers at every angle: a Black female professional artist in a male dominated industry...

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Brothers and Sisters, I 100% Feel You

Yep, it’s a trap. This is how the AIs get us: they set us up on serial petty theft charges, ruin our credit records with fines and court fees and legal bills, then get us disenfranchised as parole-violating felons. Pretty soon, the only jobs we can get are dusting off their motherboards for minimum wage or working the spice mines of Chiron Beta Prime.

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Man, they totally *nailed* the 1990s in this old SNL skit!

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: This is your reminder that Mars is now populated entirely by very lonely robots…😢🤖

and hungry, hungry sandworms (presumably). These are fun on your computer, and absolutely immersively astounding on your phone/tablet. The future is here, but unevenly distributed—with some portions dune-buggying around Mars, picking at rocks and wrecking up the joint.from “360º Views from the Surface of Mars(!!!)” (with immersive VR video doo-hickey!!!

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ROT8000 is extremely clever (for a certain value of nerdiness)

ROT8000 is the Unicode equivalent of ROT13. What’s clever about it is that normal English looks like Chinese, and not like ciphertext (to a typical Westerner, that is).

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Is this Presumably Bot-Designed Product Awesome, or in Remarkably Poor Taste?

More on this specific painting here, and a bit about famed Russian (anti) war artist Vasily Vereshchagin. Other works by Vereshchagin suitable for throw pillows: “Selling a Child-Slave““After the Battle“and, of course, “After Good Luck“ Given the current state of Russian nuclear drills and military exercises on the Ukraine border, I imagine that all of this...

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UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT🚨 : “Mein Kampf Tramp Stamp” is a solid name for a punk band

via reddit] Straight talk: How could we ever hope to replace you guys?

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: “The problem isn’t the stupid joke, but the very real assaults the jokes conceal.”

I first wrote about this kinda rapey application of Steve Shaw’s “Psychokinetic Touches” routine back in 2017, and periodically revisit the post to expand it, fix broken links, replace disappeared videos, and so on. I’ve since seen all sorts of magicians—including David Blaine—lean pretty heavily on PK Touches, sometimes just doing the routine, but more often building on...

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