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British-based COMPASS Pathways just got a US patent for a psilocybin pill designed to control treatment-resistant depression (alt)
#Comment: A secretive startup, lead by an ex-Goldman Sachs Banker and funded by Peter Thiel, using the extremely broken IP system to patent Psilocybin - a compound that has been known to humanity for millennia. What wonderfully nonsensical late capitalist brain-dead bullshit comedy!
Close your eyes and imagine a dog wearing pants. What do you see? (via)
@celebreedy - A StyleGAN based Twitterbot that Mixes Celebrity Faces - by @erocdrahs
I have attempted science - by Nathan W. Pyle (2019)
On Bullshit - Book by Harry Frankfurt (Princeton) (PDF)
On Bullshit is a 1986 essay, reprinted as a 2005 book, by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt which presents a theory of bullshit that defines the concept and analyzes the applications of bullshit in the context of communication. Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but rather only cares whether their listener is persuaded.
Comedy of the day: Lockheed Martin Will Replace F-35’s Faulty Computer System With Cloud-Based Programs. Between the F-35 & Boeing's 737 MAX, the US is leader in comedy.
Comedy of the Day: Coral.AI, Google's edge computing platform launch use-cases is a "Smart Bird Feeder: A smart bird feeder that uses an image classification model to identify birds, record animal visits, and deter squirrels from stealing bird seed."
“The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called Stuxnet 'a stone thrown by people who live in a glass house'.” ― Kim Zetter, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
News from Boeing: In one message, an employee is quoted as saying the Max was "designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys."
Related: Fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg gets $80.7 million on exit from Boeing
Artificial Stupidity.
"The aim of this work is the sustainable multi-use management of fishery resources, to which we try to contribute via numerical modelling."
From site on "Ecological Modelling" - by Fabio Boschetti
Dada (ダダ) are a humanoid alien race that attacked Earth and started abducting humans to advance some form of research. A character from the Japanese TV show "Utraman".
Jun Tsuji (辻 潤) (1884 - 1944) was a Japanese writer, translator, theater actor, musician, monk and philosopher of anarchism, egoism, nihilism, Dada and Buddhism. There is a book about him - by Erana Jae Taylor, a collection of poems (PDF) and more poems.
Shinkichi Takahash (wiki) (1901 - 1987), Japanese poet and pioneer of Dadaism in Japan. According to Makoto Ueda, he is also the only major Zen poet of modern Japanese literature.
The Art Of Nothingness: Dada, Taoism, And Zen - by Erin Megan Lochmann (2011) (PDF)
Abstract: When examining the art, actions, and writings of Zurich Dadaists it becomes apparent that there is an affinity with Eastern thought, namely Taoism and Zen Buddhism. It cannot be said that Eastern thought directly influenced the artistic production of these Dadaists. However, the philosophy of Dada artists in Zurich mirrors that of Taoism and Zen so strongly that this connection cannot be ignored.
Was Japanese Dada Even Tougher Than Its European Versions? - by Blake Gopnik (2016)
"Today’s Pic illuminates an arm of the international Dada movement about which I was totally ignorant – its Japanese arm. I’m showing the cover of a 1924 issue of the Japanese Dada journal called Mavo, edited by Tatsuo Okada and the Berlin-trained Tomoyoshi Murayama. Mavo originally came with a firecracker attached to its cover: How many museums or libraries would want that detail “read” outloud in their halls?"
MAVO was a radical Japanese art movement of the 1920s. The group used an interdisciplinary array of art, to communicate anti-establishment messages. Fueled by responses to industrial development, the MAVO group created works about crisis, peril and uncertainty. (wikipedia)
Dada theory and the current noise scene in Japan (JP only)
Dada movement's influence felt in Tokyo 100 years after launch in Europe
Photo: Swiss Ambassador to Japan Urs Bucher (left) poses for photos with "Dada," a monster in a popular TV series created as an extension of Dadaism, in Tokyo.
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