Sunday, June 19, 2022
The process of creating elongated coins is legal in the United States, South Africa and parts of Europe. In the United States, U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331 prohibits "the mutilation, diminution and falsification of United States coinage." The foregoing statute, however, does not prohibit the mutilation of coins, if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently, i.e., with the intention of creating counterfeit coinage or profiting from the base metal (the pre-1982 copper U.S. cent which, as of 2010, is worth more than one cent in the United States). Because elongated coins are made mainly as souvenirs, mutilation for this purpose is legal.
— "Elongated coin," Wikipedia
Saturday, June 18, 2022
“Mike Pence had absolutely no choice but to be a human conveyor belt,” Mr. Trump said.
— Maggie Haberman, "A Day After a Portrait of Pence in Danger, Trump Attacks Him Again," The New York Times
Friday, June 17, 2022
A currency-destroying hammer that was used to remove paper currency or sensitive documents from public circulation.
— @leevalleytools
Thursday, June 16, 2022
And how it would look not just in your hand, but how it would look in the photograph you were going to take for marketing.
— Tony Fadell, "Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, Nest, Steve Jobs, Design, and Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #294"
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Understanding that people have a really good bullshit indicator is the most important part of being an artist.
— Dan Reynolds, "Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons | Lex Fridman Podcast #290"
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
If I draw on a piece of paper, a little sketch of something that is called the Necker cube. It's just a little line drawing of a cube, right on a flat piece of paper. If I execute it well and I show it to you, you'll see a 3D cube and you'll see if flip. Sometimes you'll see one face in front, sometimes you'll see the other face in front. But if i ask, you know, which face is in front when you don't look, the answer is well neither face is in front because there's no cube, this is just a flat piece of paper. So when you look at the piece of paper, you perceptually create the cube, and when you look at it then you fix one face to be in front and one face to the other, so that's what I mean when I say it doesn't exist. Space time itself is like the cube, it's a data structure that your sensory systems construct.
— Donald Hoffman, "Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293"
Monday, June 13, 2022
They're finding new ways of computing these scattering amplitudes that turn literally billions of terms to one term. When you do it in space and time, because it's the wrong framework, it's just a user interface, that's now from the evolutionary point of view, it's not a deep insight into the nature of reality.
— Donald Hoffman, "Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293"
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Shooting an arrow and painting a bullseye around it afterwards.
— Dan Carlin, "Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136"
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Artist Sophie Calle's HERE LIE THE SECRETS OF THE VISITORS OF GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY stands silent and ready to accept whatever secrets of which you might seek to unburden yourself.
— @historicgreenwood
Friday, June 10, 2022
Long ago in Vienna, as we have seen, he had learned from the tactics of Mayor Karl Lueger the importance of bringing "powerful existing institutions" over to one's side.
— William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Tippy Tappy
— Title of hammer Haley made*
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
All Bank of England notes now carry a copyright message on the face as a direct result of Boggs' activities, the idea being that if they cannot secure a counterfeiting charge, then they can at least secure a copyright violation.
— "J. S. G. Boggs," Wikipedia
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
It's good. You're alive.
— JeeYeun on how it's good that the water is so cold*
Monday, June 6, 2022
Snails.
— Raul*
Sunday, June 5, 2022
In Mein Kampf Hitler discources at length on the art of reading.... "On the other hand, a man who possesses the art of correct reading will ... instictively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either becasue it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing ... The art of reading, as of learning, is this: ... to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential. ... Only this kind of reading has meaning and purpose."
— William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Saturday, June 4, 2022
How much do you need war to legitimize warriors?
— Dan Carlin, "Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136"
Friday, June 3, 2022
We Miss You!
— Email from Pavement Coffeehouse
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Just let me go where.
— Yusuf / Cat Stevens, "Trouble"
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
The bobbin.
— Sophia teaching me how to sew*
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
You essentially become archival.
— Nicholas on cremataion*
