niktemadur
@niktemadur@lemmy.world
- Comment on What a clown 19 hours ago:
He’s a clown
That Charlie Brown
He’s gonna get caught…Oh, why is everybody
always picking on me? - Comment on The power of AI 19 hours ago:
There’s been a mad rush this past year, of shutting the iron paywall gates forcefully, locking the door and swallowing the keys.
- Comment on Monopoly 22 hours ago:
TIL that back in the good ol’ days of The Gilded Age there was a luxury tax and rich people went to jail!
The Carnegies and Rockefellers, the Morgans and Vanderbilts must have been quaking in their spatterdashes! - Comment on Philosophy 23 hours ago:
Socrates himself is particularly missed,
a lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed. - Comment on Language 1 day ago:
Somewhere in the internet a couple of months ago - maybe it was here, might have been in a science video, not quite sure - an Aboriginal language was mentioned in which, instead of ever describing something like “the mountain to the east (or west, or north, etc)”, it is always more like “the mountain to MY east” (meaning to the left of the speaker), even while talking to someone facing in a different direction, yet the listener always understands and makes the internal conversion to HIS own personal, subjective orientation. All the time, even while talking in a group, everybody facing in different directions.
This is quite the mental exercise, a peculiar, finely-tuned subjective orientational awareness, everybody communicating their personal orientation grid with each individual at the center, each making the conversion in their minds in real time while talking.
While all Aboriginal people seem to possess a powerful sense of orientation, can navigate the unforgiving Outback on foot indefinitely knowing where all the water holes are with no map nor compass, this specific group seems to have taken that ability further, are able to physically sense fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field.
So the current speculation goes that this is a striking example of how powerful language can be as a neuro-plasticity tool, how certain sensibilities can be developed.
Maybe any language carries with it enhanced sensibilities of certain types, while neglecting many potential others. Like there is always a tradeoff, a certain balance must be kept with the resources available to the mind.
Maybe a single language can keep on developing and/or adopting traits that can enhance more and more sensibilities and abilities, the best of all worlds, so to speak. And that is a fascinating thought - some sort of future “superlanguage”.
As language evolves, so does consciousness, and viceversa. - Comment on Amazing 2 days ago:
It’s Jesse Ventura!
- Comment on eigenspaces 2 days ago:
Later back at the lab, after trusting this guy, all the boys with their white robes and clipboards scratching their heads: “The Eigenvalue is off the charts!”
- Comment on Too soon? 2 days ago:
It’s the Guyana Punch Man!
- Comment on Good news 😊 2 days ago:
GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
- Comment on Stop right there 3 days ago:
Every good solar systems has a big ol’ Electrolux in common.
- Comment on Nice. 4 days ago:
My man!
Have you, esteemed reader, ever been to Neil’s lair, The Hayden Planetarium? They’ve got freeze-dried ice cream in the gift shop!
- Comment on Maggots 5 days ago:
OK LISTEN UP YOU MAGGOTS!!!
- Comment on Make Monday a spuddle Monday! 5 days ago:
The difference between efficiency and efficacy. It’s almost like they’re two different realms.
- Comment on Voyager 1 5 days ago:
what is there to gain via a hostile takeover and re-programming the probe
“We did it for the lulz”.
- Comment on You did not escape it by going to Lemmy Shitpost. 6 days ago:
These are not the memes you are looking for.
- Comment on It's a trap! 1 week ago:
Heavy Water™️ is sure to quench any Nuclear Power Plant thirst!
Ask for it by name! - Comment on sweet dreams 1 week ago:
Now imagine if something… or someone… would poke our galaxy with an observation, and all the stars in the arms instantly collapsed into a single particle.
- Comment on Anon is a mastermind 1 week ago:
But that doesn’t affect people struggling through minimum wage salaries, and the point… tHe FuN… is to fuck people sideways.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 1 week ago:
Or did he turn women into lesbians?
- Comment on A healthy life goal 1 week ago:
Not quite. The opposite of the new mission statement is “domesticated housewife”, not “domestic housewife”.
- Comment on Piracy 1 week ago:
What is this, the goddamned Middle Ages?!!
And what about the alchemist from Bern who had the bright idea that something else that shines like gold is piss, so he boiled gallons of it, trying to extract the pure, powdered essence? That must have made him quite popular in the neighborhood… taking peoples’ piss and boiling it, the smell coming from that house must have been incredible.
Anyway, the guy was the first to isolate phosphorus as an element.
- Comment on .rar me 1 week ago:
(sigh)
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 1 week ago:
Should have named it the Tour Des Cartes.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 1 week ago:
Don’t forget Marconi, he was also a deeply screwed-up individual who betrayed many along the way and thus was undeserving of the Nobel Prize he did receive.
Marconi basically used the patent system to raid British research institutes, violating each and every gentleman’s agreement along the way. And he did it with money from the British postal or telegram offices, who he unceremoniously dumped on the eve of unveiling his wireless contraption.
- Comment on evangelism 1 week ago:
TeChNoLoGy gUrU
Two can play that game, BiG gUy! Here goes:
iγ · δψ = mψ + NFT
Tokens for quantum computing! - Comment on Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny? 1 week ago:
You know how there are a lot of small theaters in Paris that screen old movies? There we were, watching a noir thriller classic “The Asphalt Jungle” one night.
As an epilogue, there’s a tacked-on morality speech by a police chief, and you can smell the stench of The Hayes Code and J Edgar Hoover all over the goddamned thing.Like a cheap piece of lazy propaganda. “Your local Police Department… tirelessly fighting day and night, to protect all regular citizens from society’s external disruptive forces, like the Red Menace and Reefer Madness.”
After being a rapt audience for the main story - which is a jewel of its’ genre - this weird speech happens, it ends abruptly with a “The End” title card and we ambled out of the theater, that speech was the final disconcerting taste in our mouths, you could hear more than a few puzzled, snickering laughs.
- Comment on The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories 1 week ago:
Remember when the web didn’t suck?
No, I don’t. Not since 2000, when I logged on from home for the first time. The majority of it has always sucked. Then the web can suddenly do new things… and finds new ways to suck.
It has, however, always had excellent little areas and corners. - Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 1 week ago:
This has got to be made by the same type of shitheads who churn out clickbait excrement every five minutes, in a different section of the clickbait excrement factory, opposite side of where they churn out
“Physicist Brian Cox’s terrifying reveal - CERN at Switzerland unlocked demon forces, world’s end by 2025”.Or you’re being trolled and got those big red shiny buttons pushed.
- Comment on event horizon 1 week ago:
He turned into microwaves! No, wait… radio waves!
No, never mind, he’s gone. - Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 1 week ago:
She took on where Heinrich Hertz left off, and made it to the top of the Tinseltown heap!
C’mon… you know you wanna see a musical on the life of Heinrich Hertz.Considering the man spent over a year working in a blacked-out room, trying to detect the faint spark of electricity transmitted wirelessly, it’s gonna have a song or three about fumbling or stumbling in the dark.