On the Unspeakable

@ontheunspeakable

To speak the unspeakable without the proper rhetorical flourish or introduction; to muff that flourish, either by accident, misjudgment, or simple ignorance; to choose the wrong flourish or not choose any (i.e., to choose the flourish called "the literal") is to perform the unspeakable. - Samuel R. Delany Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion - This Dream Is Not Me - Cinematography

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In the southern cost of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, lies the town of Realmonte where there is a huge underground sa

nitramar

Montréal, 1970. Photo by Algimantas Kezys.

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萩原卓哉／Hagihara Takuya

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It is within this expansive trade network that the distributed virus truly exists. It’s not clear how this network operates, but many scientists have found that plant proteins can voyage between cells, even over long distances from root to shoot.

The Revolutionary Discovery of a Distributed Virus - The Atlantic

Virgil Wildrich’s short ‘Fast Film’ (2004)

(via Popocatepetl volcano eruption evening of 15 Dec 2018 - YouTube)

(via (58) Wakaliwood's Supa Action-Packed Kickstarter Video! - YouTube)

Hieronymus Bosch Piñatas by Roberto Benavidez

When the brain makes a prediction that isn’t immediately borne out by what the senses relay back, Friston believes, it can minimize free energy in one of two ways: It can revise its prediction—absorb the surprise, concede the error, update its model of the world—or it can act to make the prediction true. If I infer that I am touching my nose with my left index finger, but my proprioceptors tell me my arm is hanging at my side, I can minimize my brain’s raging prediction-error signals by raising that arm up and pressing a digit to the middle of my face.

The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI | WIRED

aiweirdness

The neural network has weird ideas about what humans like to eat

So I’ve been training this neural network to generate cookbook recipes by letting it look at tens of thousands of existing recipes.

The generated titles can get a bit odd.

There’s a creativity variable I can set when the network is generating new recipes, and when I set it low, it comes up with its best guess at the most quintessential recipe titles:

Cream Cheese Soup Cream Of Sour Cream Cheese Soup Chocolate Cake (Chocolate Cake) Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake Chocolate Chicken Chicken Cake Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake Chocolate Chips Chocolate Chips With Chocolate Chips

When I tell it to get creative, things get even weirder.

Beef Soup With Swamp Peef And Cheese Chocolate Chops & Chocolate Chips Crimm Grunk Garlic Cleas Beasy Mist Export Bean Spoons In Pie-Shell, Top If Spoon and Whip The Mustard Chocolate Pickle Sauce Whole Chicken Cookies Salmon Beef Style Chicken Bottom Star * Cover Meats Out Of Meat Completely Meat Circle Completely Meat Chocolate Pie Cabbage Pot Cookies Artichoke Gelatin Dogs Crockpot Cold Water

ontheunspeakable

h/t @freerangenalini

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gifsboom

Octopus makes a rolling armor with a coconut. [video]

hella-free-space

Always reblog for cephalopods♡

simonalkenmayer

second order tool usage. A mark of higher intellect.

mrdetectivedouche

Okay but is the octopus scared and using the shell as a defense and faster getaway or is it rolling down the hill…playing?

simonalkenmayer

Octopuses love to solve puzzles and play. To be kept at aquariums, they must have a chest of enrichment toys, or they will try to escape.

kaleighbytheway

Even with enrichment sometimes they try to escape, for kicks/to make the humans mad.

(via Rolf Degen on Twitter: "Some of dogs' barks are specifically tuned to elicit responses in a human audience, leaving other dogs cold. https://t.co/D8LNi0BIrU https://t.co/3orMYdAJSC")

dailypsychologyfacts

6 Practical Tips To Deal with High Functioning Depression

Coping with high functioning depression can be hard, but before going into details on how to deal with it. You might want to read 7 Signs You May Have High Functioning Depression. This type of depression is a lot more common than you think. According to Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), approximately 3.3 million people battle with it per year. Many times, this mental disorder goes unnoticed because even though its a debilitating problem, most people are functional. But don’t worry here are 6 practical tips to deal with high functioning depression:

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omgspookykookie

3.3 MILLION. PEOPLE. don’t feel like you’re alone, because look at how many people feel like they have to hide it too.

33v0

what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them? Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too

33v0

look at this shit

They radiate peace

lizardsister

capybaras are friend shaped

gaylor-moon

I love this post

cantavier

This is actually a cool thing I know about!

In the wild capybaras live in large groups so naturally a female capybara will take care of not only her own offspring, but all of the other offspring in the group. So capybaras are super great mothers who will adopt pretty much anything and take care of it.

Lots of places that rescue different animals will give a group of baby animals to a capybara to raise if they have one.

Like puppies