Entries from October 2021 ↓

• Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die
  Bloodsucking monsters are avatars for our cultural anxieties. Especially now.

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• Matrix a book by Lauren Groff
  AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "A relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell ." – USA Today "An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable." – O, The Oprah Magazine "Thrilling and heartbreaking." -Time Magazine "[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her." -New York Times One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.
• H I S T O R Y + I N D U S T R Y
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• Calico Hill Coffee Mug in 6 Colors — Alanna Hughes Pottery
• Handmade Sweater Mittens by HighCountryMittens on Etsy
• Romantic Love Shouldn’t Be the Only Path to Care
• The Weekday Vegetarians: 100 Recipes and a Real-Life Plan for Eating Less Meat: A Cookbook a book by Jenny Rosenstrach
• The Young Christians Are Becoming the Bullies, Not the Bullied | by Will Leitch | Oct, 2021 | Medium
• Trump Is Tearing Apart the Evangelical Church – The Atlantic
• Food52 Five Two Drying Rack, Over the Sink with Utensil Caddy, 3 Colors on Food52
• A note taking tool for networked thought.
  As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.
• The 10 Principles of Building a Second Brain – Forte Labs
• Dune Has a Desert Problem
• Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Book Review: Last Exit by Max Gladstone. Tor, $18.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3573-9
• (400) https://twitter.com/COP26/status/1453995018020999168
  RT @Harkaway: No, really.

  Stop.

  Take the time to pay attention.

  There is literally nothing more important happening.

• (400) https://twitter.com/TensorFlow/status/1453030464223121424/photo/1
  RT @TensorFlow: 💻 Learn how Doug Duhaime used TensorFlow.js to create an autoencoder in browser!

  Watch as he visualizes dimensionality reduction and shows us the learnt latent space in real-time for classic datasets like MNIST or Celeb-A. It’s #MadeWithTFJS!

  Tune in →

• Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQv_lswBeZw&list=PLQY2H8rRoyvzSZZuF0qJpoJxZR1NgzcZw&linkId=137463660)
  RT @TensorFlow: 💻 Learn how Doug Duhaime used TensorFlow.js to create an autoencoder in browser!

  Watch as he visualizes dimensionality reduction and shows us the learnt latent space in real-time for classic datasets like MNIST or Celeb-A. It’s #MadeWithTFJS!

  Tune in →

• CUDA Python, here we come: Nvidia offers Python devs the gift of GPU acceleration • DEVCLASS
• The IPCC report is clear: nothing short of transforming society will avert catastrophe | Patrick Vallance | The Guardian
  RT @PaulEDawson: Limiting global warming to 1.5C is ambitious but not fanciful

  "It is now unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean % land to an unprecedented degree, with effects almost certain to worsen through the coming decades" @uksciencechief

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• (400) https://twitter.com/alisonmartino/status/1453109942777307141/photo/1
  RT @alisonmartino: "Gooooood afternoon…”

  Alfred Hitchcock and Frankenstein on the tram at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1972

• How to Become an Object – Believer Magazine
• (400) https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1452495328461017089/photo/1
  RT @AriDrennen: Don’t make me tap my favorite chart
• (400) https://twitter.com/ctvnews/status/1451572058937253891
  RT @AriDrennen: Don’t make me tap my favorite chart
• A deadly fungal disease on the rise in the West has experts worried | Grist
  Researchers haven’t pinned down exactly what’s behind the rise in Valley fever cases or how to stop it. One thing is nearly certain, though: Climate change plays a role.
• (400) https://twitter.com/MajorFactor2/status/1453077453958746112/video/1
  RT @MajorFactor2: An unexpected duo, traveling together through a tunnel under a highway. A Coyote and a Badger.
• Opinion | America Was Forged by the Marginalized
  How the political struggles waged by Black Americans forged U.S. democracy — and what we can learn from them.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1453726118268137487/photo/1
  COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report
• Untitled (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58982445)
  COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report
• (400) https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1435974267112464385
  RT @DeepMind: In case you missed it – the 2021 DeepMind x @ai_ucl Reinforcement Learning Lecture Series is available online.

  Catch up and watch the entire series via

• Reinforcement Learning Lecture Series 2021 | DeepMind
  RT @DeepMind: In case you missed it – the 2021 DeepMind x @ai_ucl Reinforcement Learning Lecture Series is available online.

  Catch up and watch the entire series via

• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/nyregion/monica-goods-christopher-baldner.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes)
  RT @nytimes: A New York state trooper has been charged with murder in the death of an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl who was killed during a high-speed chase. The trooper killed the girl by ramming her family’s car twice after a late-night traffic stop, officials said.
• Untitled (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/pushing-election-lies-tpusa-audience-member-asks-charlie-kirk-when-they-can-use-guns)
  RT @existentialfish: Actual quote from a TPUSA event last night: “When do we get to use the guns? … That’s not a joke. I’m not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where’s the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?”
• Enabling Precision Medicine: Life (Sciences) in 2030 – enlightenbio Blog
• Discovering Computer Legend Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation – IEEE Spectrum
• 2021 DeepMind x UCL Reinforcement Learning Lecture Series
  The Deep Learning Lecture Series is a collaboration between DeepMind and the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
• Reinforcement Learning Lecture Series 2021
  Introducing the ’21 DeepMind x @ai_ucl Reinforcement Learning Lecture Series, a comprehensive introduction to modern RL.

  Follow along with our researchers are they explore Markov Decision Processes, sample-based learning algorithms & much more: http://dpmd.ai/2021RLseries 1/2 https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1435974267112464385/photo/1

• The tech billionaire aiding the Facebook whistleblower
• (400) https://twitter.com/zackknoll_/status/1452750084391817217/photo/1
  RT @zackknoll_: ladies and gentlemen, the weekdays

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• Google Cloud Platform Blog: An ode to Sharkon
• Report: Corporations are tanking America's best shot at fighting climate change | Grist
• The Fate of Washington State Highway 304 – Seattle Transit Blog
• Running Django on the App Engine standard environment  |  Python
• AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on
  Researchers are calling into doubt the popular idea that deep-learning models are “black boxes” that reveal nothing about what goes on inside
• Carry On Luggage and Suitcase Sets | Travelpro®

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• (LEGO®️) Custom Pet Building Kit | – United-Doggos
• BinaxNOW COVID-19 Rapid Self-Test at Home Kit | Walgreens
• (400) https://twitter.com/leftsentthis/status/656008827897184256
  RT @marlaerwin: People who say “white privilege” doesn’t exist clearly have no idea what the phrase means. This was written more than 30 years ago:
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/us/politics/montana-misinformation-national-heritage.html?referringSource=articleShare)
  RT @_cingraham: So much of what motivates Republican policymaking these days is just complete nonsense and lies.
• (400) https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1452270547069542400/photo/1
  RT @_cingraham: So much of what motivates Republican policymaking these days is just complete nonsense and lies.

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• iPhone Magsafe Weighted Ball Charger – Burd Store
• home
  Arquitectura libre is a photographic artistic-documentary exploration that lends importance to an aspect of the built environment that could otherwise be discarded as a simple Mexican cultural eccentricity.
• Identifying the Bad Art Friend is Easy – by Michael Hobbes – Confirm My Choices
• Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over? | Judith Butler | The Guardian
• An invisible threat has pushed us to our limits. Small wonder our brains are overwrought | Emma Kavanagh
• The Longest Journeys are the Ones We Go On Alone  – by Carla Zanoni – The Em Dash—from Carla Zanoni
• European Parliament Votes to Condemn Texas Abortion Ban | Center for Reproductive Rights
  RT @ReproRights: Texas’s 6-week abortion ban clearly violates the constitutional right to abortion AND international human rights laws.

  The European Parliament has called on the U.S. to comply with global human rights statutes and protect the right to abortion care.

• Turbo Boost Switcher for OSX / macOS
• Reconceptions – Futility Closet
  In 1965, Caltech computer scientist Donald Knuth privately circulated a theorem that, “under special circumstances, 1 + 1 = 3”:

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• The Best Fiction of 2021: The Booker Prize Shortlist – Five Books
  RT @five_books: NEW: The Booker Prize 2021 shortlist
  Maya Jasanoff, Harvard historian and chair of the 2021 judging panel, talks us through the best fiction of the past year.
  @TheBookerPrizes @thesailorsgirl @TriciaLockwood @MaggieShipstead
• Fanny Fillipi Dowson | Art UK
  RT @CatsinArt1: Portrait of Fanny Fillipi Dowson, Philip Connard, c.1925.
• (400) https://twitter.com/CatsinArt1/status/1451582438165995527/photo/1
  RT @CatsinArt1: Portrait of Fanny Fillipi Dowson, Philip Connard, c.1925.
• (400) https://twitter.com/w_katz1/status/1451505005601689603
  RT @radleybalko: This is such an important point. But you needn’t buy into Broken Windows to understand how letting those *who enforce the laws* get away with even minor infractions like ticket fixing can create a culture of impunity.
• (400) https://twitter.com/artistsargent/status/1449795312990793732/photo/1
  RT @artistsargent: Muddy Alligators, 1917 #johnsingersargent #sargent
• A White Woman Told Me She Doesn't 'Think Of' Me As Black. Here's How I Reacted. | HuffPost null
  RT @almakatsu: I’m Asian American. In 1990s, I was a minority rep at work. Friends asked why I was identifying as a minority, as though it was an advantage, a leg up on them. If you’ve ever harbored those thoughts, you should read this
• In the Company of Wes Anderson
  What is it about the director that draws stars like Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton again and again? There are many reasons, but the nightly feasts don’t hurt.
• (400) https://twitter.com/archaeologyart/status/1449820028052951043/photo/1
  RT @archaeologyart: The Lovers of Valdaro, discovered by archaeologists at a tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy. The couple have been holding one another for 6,000 years.
• Trump’s site Truth Social broke software rules, says copyleft group – The Verge
  RT @davetroy: Yeah so violating the terms of open source packages is not ok. Y’all are gonna have to rethink your plans.
• (400) https://twitter.com/MoiraDonegan/status/1450817919831744514
  RT @lyzl: well, as long as the men are happy
• 6 Apps to Help You Trim Down Subscriptions—and Save Money | WIRED
• Birder snaps rare 'half-female, half-male' bird – BBC News
  Jamie Hill said taking the stunning photos of the northern cardinal was "once in a lifetime".
• How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer. | Quanta Magazine
  For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.
• 'Dune' Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict | WIRED
  From Afghanistan to cyberattacks, Frank Herbert’s novel anticipated and shaped warfare as we know it.

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• Miles Teller Is Young, Talented, and Doesn't Give a Rat's Ass What You Think
• I Am Mad About Everything – The Riveter
• Opinion | Angela Merkel Was Right
  Opening Germany to a million refugees looks even better in retrospect. 

  "But six years later, the catastrophes predicted by Merkel’s critics haven’t come to pass.

  In the recent German election, refugees were barely an issue, and the AfD lost ground. “The sense is that there has been comparatively little Islamic extremism or extremist crime resulting from this immigration, and that on the whole, the largest number of these immigrants have been successfully integrated into the German work force and into German society overall,” said Constanze Stelzenmüller, an expert on Germany and trans-Atlantic relations at the Brookings Institution.

  “With the passage of time,” Marton told me, Merkel “turned out to have chosen the absolutely right course for not only Germany but for the world.”"

• What the Living Do by Marie Howe – Poems | Academy of American Poets
  What the Living Do
  Marie Howe
• National Audubon Society | Birdability
  The features that define whether or not a space is accessible have long gone unreported. Together, we can change that. You can help us chronicle the accessibility features of outdoor spaces by submitting birdability site review.
• a haunted house with a picket fence — Capybara bucket spa
• (400) https://twitter.com/hoosteen/status/1451188023350022151/photo/1
  RT @hoosteen: just for fun i threw in defense spending
• (400) https://twitter.com/sangerkatz/status/1450956635631980547
  RT @hoosteen: just for fun i threw in defense spending
• Mariah Carey and the Fiction of the Color Line
  Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.
• Louise Bourgeois. Fillette. 1968
  Louise Bourgeois. Fillette. 1968. Latex over plaster. 23 1/2 x 11 x 7 1/2" (59.7 x 28 x 19.1 cm). Gift of the artist in memory of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 386.1992. © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY. Painting and Sculpture
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/10/18/epa-regulate-forever-chemicals-pfas/
  RT @BiellaColeman: Skeptical this will pass but it would be amazing if this came to be: EPA says it plans to regulate PFAS compounds, known as “forever chemicals” –
• Vikings Were in the Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago
  By studying tree rings and using a dash of astrophysics, researchers have pinned down a precise year that settlers from Europe were on land that would come to be known as Newfoundland.
• Slate's 25th anniversary: 25 of our most memorable arguments.
• Salmonella outbreak linked to onions: Throw away onions if you don't know where they're from, CDC says — USA TODAY
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked fresh whole onions to a growing and mysterious salmonella outbreak with cases in 37 states.
• Install TensorFlow with pip
  whl Package locations
  A few installation mechanisms require the URL of the TensorFlow Python package. The value you specify depends on your Python version.
• In an Era of Misinformation and Tracking Technology, Long-Held Journalism Norms Are Shifting – Nieman Reports
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: "We were partly to blame for the misinformation that spreads because we kept giving our platforms over to things we knew were false and reckless and dangerous.” — Editor of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Chris Quinn.

  Not the former editor. The current one.

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• Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users
• Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics
  Woolly mammoths were still on mainland Siberia (not just islands) at least until 3900 years ago. (The kind of thing you learn when you can pull DNA out of the ground, not just fossils.) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04016-x
• (400) https://twitter.com/stephensemler/status/1450944811360526339/photo/1
  RT @stephensemler: Biden cutting his reconciliation bill in half leaves ~$300 billion/10 years for climate. We are on pace to spend $8 trillion more than that on the Pentagon (due in large part to Biden):
• Untitled (https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/biden-cuts-climate-funding-in-reconciliation)
  RT @stephensemler: Biden cutting his reconciliation bill in half leaves ~$300 billion/10 years for climate. We are on pace to spend $8 trillion more than that on the Pentagon (due in large part to Biden):
• (400) https://twitter.com/konstructivizm/status/1450926546349268993/photo/1
  RT @konstructivizm: A spectacular wide shot of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
• (400) https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1450926063765401603
  RT @hilzoy: *hollow laugh*
• Названа величина ущерба от разлива нефти под Новороссийском
  RT @kavkaz_realii: Ущерб от разлива нефти на объекте "Каспийского трубопроводного консорциума" в акватории Черного моря у Новороссийском, который произошел 7 августа этого года, составил почти 4,5 млрд рублей.
• ‎A Fractional Orbital Bombardment System with a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle??
• What we know about China's new hypersonic weapon test
  It went into space, entered orbit, and then glided back down—something like the Space Shuttle used to do. Here’s what we know.
• The Simple Gibson Tuck
• What Scientists Are Learning About Estrogen and Exercise
  A study in mice raises intriguing questions about the ways that hormones influence the brain and motivate the body to move.
• ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? – The New York Times
  The movie is not Wes Anderson’s version of “Spotlight,” in which humbly dressed reporters heroically take on power, injustice and corruption. Moral crusades are as alien to Anderson’s sensibility as drab khakis. What “The French Dispatch” celebrates is something more specific than everyday newspapering and also something more capacious. Anderson has inscribed a billet-doux to The New Yorker in its mid-20th-century glory years that is, at the same time, an ardent, almost orgiastic paean to the pleasures of print
• The Quest to Overcome Gene Therapy’s Failures
• Human History Gets a Rewrite
• U.S. women are largely dissatisfied with how they’re treated. Most men don’t see a problem.
  The Gallup poll also found that fewer Black women and Hispanic women were satisfied with women’s treatment compared to White women.
• Home – WIGL
  Touchless Wireless Power is Here

  And it’s called WiGL (pronounced “wiggle”). The race to bring WiGL-enabled

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