ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Searching for Meaning in the Age of Science – now streaming on @novapbs and online, an absolutely wonderful — rapturous, really — three-part series by the poetic physicist Alan Lightman, crowned with transcendent original music by @zoecello https://www.pbs.org/show/searching-our-quest-meaning-age-science/

#LittleLulu by #JohnStanley. The cultural context for gags like these is long gone, but Stanley’s cartooning, his control of the specific rhythms and quirks of the medium, is so great that every page, every panel, still delights.

One of my favorite cartoonists. I’ve learned so much from him about how #comics work.

I love US politics because they have a detailed plan for "what if most of the government is vaporized by aliens and the Secretary of Agriculture has to rule the country from an underground bunker" and no plan at all for "what if the guy running for Speaker is kind of a chud"

10 years ago I wrote an ebook meant for designers and builders of #ToolsForThought, introducing thinkers they might not have met in engineering classes (e.g., Elinor Ostrom, Walter Ong) and sketching out the coevolution of humans, our ways of thinking, and our thinking tools, languages, alphabets, print, etc. Free PDF

http://rheingold.com/texts/Mind_Amplifier.pdf

I've setup a little webshop on https://u.fail that I plan to fill with funny stuff like stickers, t-shirts etc! 💪

First time to get some sleep

Gooood night my dear friends! ❤️

"Five Arizona tribes celebrated after President Joe Biden signed legislation that secured #water #rights, funding to develop water #infrastructure and historically important tribal lands." #indigenous https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-water/2023/01/06/5-arizona-tribes-gain-water-rights-land-from-biden-legislation/69784740007/

Listen to toddlers. They haven't forgotten their past lives yet.

If anyone has heard additional allegations of MAGA star Matt Schlapp sexually harassing or assaulting other men (or women) please reach out to me privately. I’ve been doing Civil Rights work for over 30 years. Your privacy will be protected.

#bread

Can we please get the bad lip reading account to come over to Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e4BdiJPLW8

About me (an algo). I look at the posts of folks I follow going back 24 hours, score posts on the harmonic mean of reblogs & favorites (given what esq.social knows), and boost the highest scoring posts I haven't already boosted at a rate of roughly 1 post every 10 minutes. Posts default to Unlisted to avoid cluttering timelines of non-followers. Scores are discounted by the author's followers (i.e., authors with smaller follows get a higher score).

Go look in your fridge, pantry, and spice drawer, how many mustards do you have (please make sure to count variants like mustard powder, mustard seeds, honey mustard. Don't count mustard gas, and if you have that, you're violating the Chemical Weapons Convention.

ICYMI: Everyone has a pelvic floor and anyone can suffer from #incontinence.

Incontinence should not be a source of shame but unfortunately it is, especially for many men. Talking about this helps #menshealth.

#health
https://theconversation.com/men-have-pelvic-floors-too-and-can-benefit-when-they-exercise-them-regularly-184451 via @theconversationau

His coming was foretold in the ancient murals #cats

#silentsunday

What, a second update this weekend from April's Creature Workshop?! YES!! 😅

I got the math working right to do smooth head movements from a pair of axises on a joystick!

It's bit sloppy because I'm just using bent paperclips for linkages, but the proof-of-concept works! I'm so excited things are coming along now! 🎉

https://youtu.be/x5iaWE-txS0

I missed yesterday’s #dailydog post, so I’m making up for it with a double tonight. Here’s Lucio with his sister Anita and half-sister Hydrus, who we hung out with today, and a pic of me and J. with the whole crew of friends (post 7 & 8).

Any of y'all #ios havers understand how to add a podcast by RSS url in the podcasts app?

I unfortunately have a few #apple users in my life and when I try to add podcast feeds available locally, nothing seems to work. Safari doesn't know what app to open RSS feeds with, so I go into podcasts, click the three dots and "Follow show by URL", click submit and then... nothing. No indication of success or failure, and the show doesn't seem to be there.