Tuesday, March 12, 2024
they didn’t know how old it was until it was opened! you can’t date a mollusk without opening it
the media made it seem like they chose to kill it after finding out,
but in actuality, it’s very likely restaurants have served older mollusks and scientists just weren’t around to date them
— @dannycoleee reply on @starworldlab, "In 2006, during a study, a group of scientists killed the world’s oldest known living animal. The animal, nicknamed Ming, was a mollusk and was 507 years old at the time of discovery."
Monday, March 11, 2024
So when the diners see it, they know someone spent a lot of time on their dish.
— Chef Terry, "Every Second Counts," The Bear
Sunday, March 10, 2024
What that tells you is that through sensory input, we see a lot more information than we do through language, and that despite our intuition, most of what we learn and most of our knowledge is through our observation and interaction with the real world, not through language. Everything that we learn in the first few years of life, and certainly everything that animals learn has nothing to do with language.
— Yann Lecun, "Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416"
Saturday, March 9, 2024
I could look at these all day.
— Kid on "Life in the Soil" section of the "Hall of New York State Environment" exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Friday, March 8, 2024
Jonas Mekas' 2010 film WTC Haikus compiles found footage from Mekas' personal inventory in which the World Trade Center just happened to appear.
— Justin Beal, Sandfuture
Thursday, March 7, 2024
But I'm still baffled that they never acknowledge that it's just regular money and it has a face value.
— Matt on shopgoodwill.com selling items like "Lot of U.S. Coins"*
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
I wanted to consume the archive in one pass, to hold all the available information in my mind simultaneously.
— Justin Beal, Sandfuture
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
I don't even understand how this is real
This is the library at UMKC
800,000 volumes stored in a giant robot
the size of a building
— @soulellis
Monday, March 4, 2024
For at some point in our lives, if we live long enough, we begin to feel in a visceral fashion what we've always known intellectually to be true, our lifespans will not allow us to take in the whole story. Indeed there may be no whole story. Maybe there's no story at all.
— Maggie Nelson, On Freedom
Sunday, March 3, 2024
In the crew’s photography training he learned that an off-kilter horizon looked wrong and was not pleasing to the eye. That presented a slight problem because Challenger was at a 28.5-degree inclination, so he “tilted the camera to put the horizon level in the pictures.”
— @nasa caption on image of Astronaut McCandless II floating without tethers or umbilicals for the very first time
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Going up?
— Blake on the elevator.
Friday, March 1, 2024
This one is yours.
— Blake pointing to guitar as he holds ukulele
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Being nice to bunny rabbits means not being nice to bunny rabbit parasites.
— Maggie Nelson, On Freedom
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
The weekly images are going great BTW
The students love to hear about each other
And it helps the class bond
— Mary*
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
We're all just memories for the next generation.
— Lily talking about obituaries
Monday, February 26, 2024
Collectors who buy unopened cases of sports cards might never open the packages, instead treating them as investments to be sold as is at a later date.
— Image caption, Amanda Holpuch, "Unopened Box of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for $3.7 Million," The New York Times
Sunday, February 25, 2024
As poet Charles Bernstein put it, "A piece of paper with nothing on it has a definite economic value. If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
— Maggie Nelson, On Freedom
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Dr.Jart
— Sephora
Friday, February 23, 2024
Rancière's formulation that “an art is emancipated and emancipating when ... it stops wanting to emancipate us" served as my enduring guide.
— Maggie Nelson, On Freedom
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Kind of like a starting point to do whatever you want.
— Bráulio Amado
