(Roughly) Daily
@RoughlyDaily
Followers
611
Following
12K
Media
2K
Statuses
8K
Lawrence Wilkinson: https://t.co/JaSGT6woni https://t.co/rr5w1AostF https://t.co/OoeNYDCbrh
San Francisco
Joined September 2008
“They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don’t know what it is.” - Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Biohacking in SF, where Dr. Moreau's a piker, & humanoid robots are a happy delusion: "Kale Salad with Ash." (Plus- Pi In Indiana) FAFO: https://t.co/EwB4WDwrVq
0
0
2
“To-day I think / Only with scents” - Edward Thomas, “Digging“
Using chemistry, archive, and AI to revive the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields: "Recreating the smells of history" @KnowableMag (Plus- Chanel No. 5) Take a whiff: https://t.co/bbUoOy2ViS
0
0
2
“You get what you measure” - Richard Hamming
Corporations & investors are partying; everyone else is mad: "The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like an Economic Boom" @matthewstoller (Plus- Benelux and "Get a Job") Pondering the pecuniary: https://t.co/ksUPhHOClL
0
0
2
“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.” - Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
A new class of particles – anyons – seem to exist, but only in 2D. "Playing in flatland" @ElayShech @aeonmag (Plus- Bertrand Russell) Brooding over the boundaries of “being” (and knowing): https://t.co/D9COCGXxwp
0
0
2
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling” - Ambrose Bierce (on the way things used to be)
Online gambling has fueled a surge in gambling addiction. It's different/harder to treat than substance dependence. @benjaminerrett @CommonSense (Plus- “Money [That’s What I Want]”) Turning our backs on baccarat: https://t.co/dMjmu6d8So
0
0
2
“Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth” - Archimedes (brandishing his lever)
Repurposing overhead: "A Modest Proposal for Big Philanthropy in a Tale from the Past," from @dicktofel (Plus- Social Security) The key to increasing philanthropic impact? Give more (and more boldly): https://t.co/lc42Uykbn6
0
0
2
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” - Alan Kay
Foresight and insight: "What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond" from @timoreilly and @mikeloukides (with @matt
https://t.co/vgoArrUN6S) Plus- Doug Engelbart) Paving our own paths: https://t.co/7TRv4JPha3
0
0
1
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it" - Alan Kay
Foresight and insight: "What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond" from @timoreilly and @mikeloukides (with @matt
https://t.co/vgoArrUN6S) Plus- Doug Engelbart) Paving our own paths: https://t.co/7TRv4JPha3
0
0
1
"Where's the Beef?" - Wendy's ad tagline (from 1984)
The potential environmental impact of the new food pyramid: "Huge amounts of extra land needed for RFK Jr’s meat-heavy diet guidelines" @olliemilman @guardian (Plus- W. C. Fields) Diet's dangers: https://t.co/yY204Xs0cy
0
0
2
“The new media are not ways of relating to us the ‘real’ world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.” - Marshall McLuhan
The future of the Fourth Estate? "Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2026" @risj_oxford (Plus- John Baskerville) The prospects of the press: https://t.co/HLrOMN6aPT
0
0
2
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - often attributed to Arthur C. Clarke (but likely from Stanley Kubrick, quoting Carl Sagan [who was riffing on a Walt Kelly Pogo quote])
One more thing to worry about: "Bank of England must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens, says former policy expert," from @Independent (Plus- Resident Alien) Acclimating to chaos: https://t.co/N9fatCQEyX
0
0
2
“Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.” - Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
How Europe and Carney disrupted Trump's ceremony of self-anointment: "Davos is a rational ritual" @himself.bsky.social (Plus- Frank Costello) Grappling with geopolitics: https://t.co/B3jk79BGRt
0
0
2
“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing” - Karl Marx
As we ponder prices, an underlying question: "Do Commodities Get Cheaper Over Time?" (Plus- the first transcon phone call and commercial jet flight) Brushing up on basics: https://t.co/L2FGYjiMyn
0
0
2
“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are” - Jose Ortega y Gasset
The pre-history of the Attention Economy: "Cybernetic Attention-- All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch" @publicdomainrev.bsky.social (Plus- Hermann Ebbinghaus) Untangling engagement: https://t.co/RVhGZAAskI
0
0
2
“Stercus accidit” - often attributed to David Hume (and certainly reflective of his skeptical view of confident predictions)
Drawing on Hume to rethink Right and Left: "Landholder vs stockholder" @clnichols6 @aeonmag (Plus- Pascal's "Provential Letters") Sorting the Whigs from the Tories: https://t.co/tIArPRA1G6
1
0
3
“Early modern society created – and we have inherited – that paradoxical thing: a tradition of radical innovation” - Kirk Varnedoe
All change: "Marketing modern art: how the impressionists started a perpetual revolution" @jcultecon (Plus- Francis Picabia) Divvying up the differences: https://t.co/NVBHRyiUQd
0
0
2
“Money is a servant to politicians and the country. But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians have failed.” - Oliver Kemper
The end of an era? "The Slow Death of Banking in America" (Plus- pain relief) As we hollow out our mattresses: https://t.co/5wddW5CSBG
0
0
2
“A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product” - Clay Shirky
Wikipedia-- and its headwinds-- at 25 @caitlindewey (Plus- the roller coaster) Treasuring a treasure: https://t.co/JgttXxBDza
0
0
2
“Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come.” - Bob Ross
Giving back: "More Bob Ross paintings head to auction to benefit US public television" @TheArtNewspaper (Plus- Thomas Kinkade) “Don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents": https://t.co/eAmnr1yamq
0
0
2
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana” - Anthony Oettinger and separately, Susumu Kuno (though often mis-attributed to Groucho Marx)
In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant- with deep implications for our experience of the world: "The Shape of Time" (Plus- Montesquieu) Wondering at the widening gyre: https://t.co/efVj3JSvsD
0
0
2