Benjamin's Blag

Benjamin Ikuta. 19 year old boy. Graduated from Canyon High in Santa Clarita in 2015. I currently attend UC Riverside. I mostly just follow my friends. I don't agree with everything I reblag.

[benjaminikuta]

This is a vintage analogue machine. It sounds impressive and very clean.

Bode Vocoder 7702 Demonstration

[arcandoria-archived]

crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still

[ reddit thread | bsky post ]

[benjaminikuta]

I lost the game.

[stuckinapril]

what they didn’t tell you as a child is that you will spend your whole life trying to replicate the same unconditional happiness you so effortlessly experienced back then and that it will never quite feel the same no matter how hard you try

[j4gm]

when me and my boyfriend make meals we have a tradition of sending each other unappetising off-centre photographs of them in poor lighting. we call this "wikipedia food".

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Trevor Paglen - They Watch the Moon (2010)

“This photograph depicts a classified ‘listening station’ deep in the forests of West Virginia.

The station is located at the center of the National Radio Quiet Zone, a region of approximately 34,000 square kilometers in West Virginia and parts of Maryland.

Within the Quiet Zone, radio transmissions are severely restricted: omnidirectional and high-powered transmissions (such as wireless internet devices and FM radio stations) are not permitted.

The listening station, which forms part of the global ECHELON system, was designed in part to take advantage of a phenomenon called moonbounce.

Moonbounce involves capturing communications and telemetry signals from around the world as they escape into space, hit the moon, and are reflected back towards Earth.

The photograph is a long exposure under the full moon light.”

[benjaminikuta]

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

[wildgifthorses]

This cartoon (which I encountered today on twitter but which is widely shared on the internet for obvious reasons) is sourced to the satirical German newspaper Kladderadatsch. Minnie Mouse premiered as a character in 1928, and Kladderadatsch, which started to take on a right-wing nationalist slant in 1923 and eventually became a Nazi rag, ceased publication in 1944. I haven’t been able to track down a more exact date for the cartoon, but doing the math here… it is likely that this image could fairly be characterized as actual anti-furry Nazi propaganda.

[raytube]

[myconetted]

if you turn up the volume you can hear his squeaky little snores

[oscar-out-of-a-suitcase]

Slavsko, Ukraine

[myconetted]

bugso loves Mathematics.

[theweirdwideweb]

[ilcontephotography]

Electrical transformer substation, by Javier Díaz-Llanos La Roche and Vicente Saavedra Martínez (1988-1989).

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands - Spain.

© Roberto Conte (2023)

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[cetaceous]

VB-10,000 Heavy-Lift Twin-Gantry Catamaran developed to clear debris from toppled oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico original owner: Versabar Inc. current owner: TCM 10000 Inc. builder: Gulf Marine Fabricators, Aransas Pass, Texas home port: New Orleans, Louisiana image credit: Versabar

[c1qfxugcgy0]

“Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention“

Advertising is a natural resource extraction industry, like a fishery. Its business is the harvest and sale of human attention. We are the fish and we are not consulted.

[…]

The advertising industry consists of the buying and selling of your attention between third parties without your consent. That means that the cost of producing the good - access to your attention - doesn’t reflect its full social cost.

Movie theatres, cable channels, phone apps, bill-board operators, and so on price the sale of your attention at what it takes to extract it from you - namely, how easy it is for you to escape their predations. This is often much lower than the value to you, or to others, of directing your attention to something else.

[prostheticknowledge]

Neural Burger

Gene Kogan shared on his Twitter profile a visualization from neural network learning to form … a cheeseburger:

watching DGN samples form. they jostle wildly through a generative space until converging on… a cheeseburger 

View the original video here