#short wave

[semioticapocalypse]

Viktor Ruykovich. First 'Spidola'. USSR. 1960s

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[crownedstoat]

Listening to the world

[misforgotten2]

Client:  I want to two globes, one side America and the other the opposite side. Artist:  So like India and the Middle East? Client:  No you idiot, like Europe. You know, where white people live, not a bunch of wogs. Don’t you know anything about geography?

National Geographic Magazine - August 1951

BTW if you remove those knobs on the lid you will find underneath a butterfly antenna on about 30" of wire for when you really need to pickup that weak signal.

[riley-peters011]

An ode to sharks 🦈

Healthy oceans need sharks, they help mitigate climate change. For example, tiger sharks help protect sea sediment by patrolling seagrass beds, limiting the activity of turtles and dugongs. Sea sediment is one of the most important carbon reservoirs on the planet. Sharks help prevent herbivores from over-agitating it! How cool!

This illustration was inspired by this episode of Short Wave: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/08/1198910363/shark-week-climate-oceans

[kandoros]

I have recently learned of the TV show Severance

The idea is that people's lives become split between their time at work (innies), and their time away from work (outies). As best I can tell (haven't watched it yet), neither side remembers anything the other does.

The Short Wave spoilers make it sound like this is something some people do as a way to deal with trauma, and not just a Late-Late Stage Capitalism Worse Possible Version of Ten Years From Now that I'm burnt out on right now.

But I'm wondering if it also explores how the innies and outies would start to relate to each other. Does the innie eventually start to resent the outie? "I'm working eight hours a day, I can't know anything outside the door of this office, and they're getting to enjoy all the fruits of my labor. I'm gonna order some really uncomfortable shoes from Amazon, and put them on right before leaving work just to give them a really painful walk to the home I can no longer visit."

Why 'Severance' is 'not that far off' from reality, according to one scientist : Short Wave

What if we had the ultimate work-life balance? This fundamental question underlies the hit Apple TV+ show Severance – now in its second seas

[imaynotdrinkbutiknowwhatilike]

1952 Schlitz beer advertisement

[legacysat]

Sony PLL Synthesizer Receiver ICF 7600 D, 1983

[arockmaniac]

End members of the scheelite-powellite series.  Scheelite from Mt. Xuebaoding, China, and powellite with stilbite from Nasik, Maharashtra, India.  Pictured under short wave ultraviolet and white light.