Nick Seaver

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Technological Choices, ed. Lemonnier!

we got to watch the scrub daddy shark tank pitch in class today, nice way to think about mixing up the style/function dichotomy

THE REALMS OF ARBITRARINESS And so it seems that societies choose between a number of possible technical solutions for reasons other than mere material efficacity. The present book suggests the seemingly endless diversity of contexts in which human groups create new techniques or decide the destiny of the elements of material culture they happen to be in contact with, In fact, the range of situations in which some (physical) arbitrariness can be demonstrated is extremely wide, so wide that no society — at least none of those from Neolithic communities to the high-tech designer’s office — seems to escape this phenomenon.

welcome to my domain

Message from Ted Johnson Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Procurement Officer I am delighted to welcome you to the inaugural edition of the > Payee Newsletter. At UC San Diego, we recognize that a timely

absolutely not

how romantic to be neighbors in the vector space but you haven't met yet, like a heart-warming movie

"Music and sound are to the 2020’s social media ecosystem what hashtags were to the 2010s — clickable portals into the swirl of what’s happening now."
That's the takeaway, I think. (Thanks to the Globe folks for getting me to put it in writing!)

hey computer users, what web browser are we on these days

you know, it could happen any day

somebody stole his treasure

little godzilla (a precious, neotenous monster), looking startled amidst smoke

switching between kaiju movies and the news

a glowing flock of mothras

my girl(s)!

The title screen for GODZILLA VS SPACEGODZILLA

good evening

Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.

COW TOOLS www.cell.com/current-biol...

Screenshot of the article, featuring a collage of macOS menu items showing multiple options labeled with the word New, including New Entry, New Journal, New Window, New Reminder, New List, etc. Below, a row of icons with different visual styles all represent the concept of New in the new macOS

Nikita Prokopov points out all the inconsistencies, in the icons of Tahoe, the new Mac operating system. The “fifty shades of new” made my day. If you can’t find a good metaphor, using no icon is better than using a bad, confusing, or nonsensical icon.

tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

a woman saying “Baby’s not a commodity or a disposable asset”

period!!!

he did imprint on a human mother though

we’re at the point in the Godzilla franchise where the children from the ESP school come visit Baby Godzilla to sing him a song

a goofy baby Kaiju with very pointy teeth

You can’t convince me that baby Godzilla is an herbivore

Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

Look for the helpers

a goofy-looking Godzilla coming out of the ocean

surprise, Rodan’s in this one, also heisei-era G still looks goofy

the title screen for GODZILLA vs. MECHAGODZILLA II, both registered trademarks, if you can believe that

The LUMINOUS FAIRIES THE ORIGINAL STORY and MOTHRA SHIN'ICHIRO NAKAMURA, TAKEHIKO FUKUNAGA, AND YOSHIE HOTTA TRANSLATED BY JEFFREY ANGLES

A mothra tshirt

bedtime reading, and my daughter pointed out that I was wearing this shirt

another day as a professor at the bari weiss university. everyone keeps asking me if they can intensely debate. buddy, they won't even let me intensely debate

an ai-generated sign for a beer bucket in a bar, featuring beloved beers like TSNHO and SAPPO

BEEER

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rewarded for reading the comments on a tiktok about a dead mob boss

try to bring a GLaDOS vibe to the more disciplining parts of course design

lfg

wile e coyote looking like he's schemin'

getting ready to ensnare young minds