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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote about eugenics, looksmaxxing, and @wired.com's latest Looksmaxxing piece.
default.blog/p/looksmaxxi...

Looksmaxxing and Human Potential

a response to that WIRED article, thought digest, 10.08.2025

default.blog

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 22h

"I'm Throatgouge the Sailor Man..."

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 22h

Prediction:
If old cathode-ray TV sets and shortwave radios are banned (for, say, fire safety reasons), there will emerge a subculture that uses the same sets to detect spirit messages in the "etherwaves".

A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 1d

New book review on my Substack:
PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir
aryngve.substack.com/p/book-revie...

#books #bookreview #bookreviews #reviews #literature #culture #scifi #AndyWeir #ProjectHailMary

Book Review: PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir

Triumph of the Engineer

aryngve.substack.com

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Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 2d

After a decade of constantly being fired, I found myself in a "dream job" with....no job responsibilities. Here's how I kept my job for three years without working. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/how-i-kept...

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 2d

The soundtrack in my head as I read this:
youtu.be/RWak0i_iqnM

Seinfeld Official Soundtrack | Seinfeld Theme - Jonathan Wolff | WaterTower

YouTube video by WaterTower Music

youtu.be

A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 3d

Buy this very entertaining book here:
www.amazon.com/PRECINCT-20-...

#noir #horror #mystery #paranormal #books #literature #paranormalcrime #paranormalinvestigation

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 3d

Physicists say they know how to test whether acceleration causes particles out of nothing, a prediction dating back to the 1970s.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJrz...

Does Acceleration Create Particles from Nothing? These Physicists Say they can test it

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

www.youtube.com

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 3d

Attention retrogamers:

Download the FREE digital edition of this 10-game C64 compilation (compatible with C64 emulators and consoles):
www.patreon.com/posts/140492...

#c64 #retrogames #retrogaming #games #indiegames #gaming #gamedev #retro

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 8d

If you like "The X-Files" - or are old enough to remember the TV series "Kolchak" - then this book is definitely for you...

Buy it here:
www.amazon.com/PRECINCT-20-...

#books #noir #crimefiction #paranormal #paranormalinvestigation #paranormalactivity #horrorbooks #mystery

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 6d

Attention retrogamers:

This Halloween, try these FREE C64 chillers:

-DARKLAND:
psytronik.itch.io/darkland

-FORGOTTEN FOREST 2:
psytronik.itch.io/forgottenfor...

-DARKLAND 2:
psytronik.itch.io/darkland-2-c...

#retrogaming #retrogames #c64 #retro #8bit #games #Psytronik

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 4d

From my essay "Losing Face in the Global Village":
aryngve.substack.com/p/losing-fac...

#socialmedia #media #McLuhan #MarshallMcLuhan

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 5d

Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will take to solve them: quantum gravity, dark matter, dark energy, the origin of the universe, and a theory of everything.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Sb...

How long will it take to solve the 5 big physics problems?

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

www.youtube.com

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 5d

tbh the success of the "let's shit on social media" cottage industry is a strong signal those pundits are looking backwards and not at the present

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 5d

"It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline."

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/a072...

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 5d

From my essay “What We're Talking About When We're (Not) Talking About Extraterrestrials“:
The possible existence of alien intelligence is — for real — a political problem.
Why? Because of the unspoken rule of “Anthropocentric Sovereignty”.

Dive in here:
aryngve.substack.com/p/what-were-...

A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 5d

To market my book PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE, I made little “teasers” for social media — such as this one.

Please buy this very entertaining book at www.amazon.com/PRECINCT-20-...

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 6d

Is mathematics "real" or just a useful tool? (There is something called "Mathematical Platonism" - the notion that reality on some deep level IS numbers - and surprisingly many scientists seem to believe in it.)

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 6d

New Substack post:
"Long Live the New Flesh - Notes on VIDEODROME: Media Theory as Body Horror"
aryngve.substack.com/p/long-live-...

#horror #movies #media #technology #culture

Long Live the New Flesh

Notes on VIDEODROME: Media Theory as Body Horror

aryngve.substack.com

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 6d

Kurt Gödel proved with his Incompleteness Theorem that a complete logical/mathematical explanation of absolutely everything is actually impossible. (There will never be a Theory of Everything.)

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 6d

Attention retrogamers:

This Halloween, try these FREE C64 chillers:

-DARKLAND:
psytronik.itch.io/darkland

-FORGOTTEN FOREST 2:
psytronik.itch.io/forgottenfor...

-DARKLAND 2:
psytronik.itch.io/darkland-2-c...

#retrogaming #retrogames #c64 #retro #8bit #games #Psytronik

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 8d

If you like "The X-Files" - or are old enough to remember the TV series "Kolchak" - then this book is definitely for you...

Buy it here:
www.amazon.com/PRECINCT-20-...

#books #noir #crimefiction #paranormal #paranormalinvestigation #paranormalactivity #horrorbooks #mystery

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 8d

Marshall McLuhan, describing the world that the Internet created - in 1967:
youtu.be/POdltGkX8ts

#McLuhan #media #socialmedia #internet #technology

McLuhan - Global Village

YouTube video by Giulio Tortello

youtu.be

A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 8d

"I Ain't Gonna Play in Sun City", 1985:

youtu.be/9fR2r8Qlyyk

Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City

YouTube video by Little Steven

youtu.be

A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 8d

Werner Herzog filmed FITZCARRALDO (1982) in the Peruvian jungle - and his star Klaus Kinski was so difficult that a chieftain offered Herzog to have Kinski killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcar...

Different cultures have different tolerance levels for unlikability.

Fitzcarraldo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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A. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 9d

My essay "Losing Face in the Global Village" delves into how technology itself changes human culture everywhere, and our sense of who we are:
aryngve.substack.com/p/losing-fac...

#culture #technology #internet #media #socialmedia