September 2, 2020
Dippy for Dippin’ Dots!
What is the deal with Dippin’ Dots? Dippin’ Dots ice cream pellets are a staple at amusement parks and stadiums.
But what are Dippin’ Dots, really?
Now that my favorite public venue is closed due to Coronavirus, how can I satisfy my craving? (Hint: you’d better be ready to eat thirty servings pretty quickly.)
What if I want to replace my morning coffee with frozen pellets?
Can Dippin’ Dots improve my vegetarian diet?
What if I don’t even like my Dippin’ Dots frozen at all?
Walk This Way
Walk Cycles is a collection of rotoscoped walking (and other movement styles) animation cycles by Lois Brooks, illustrating the artistry and design that goes into one of the most basic yet important animation cycles in game design. (SLTumblr)
welcome the covid influencer
Brooklyn and Bailey are second-generation influencers. They have 5.8 million followers on Instagram; they’re students and paid brand partners at Baylor University; and as of last week, they both have COVID (Anne Helen Petersen on Culture Study). [more inside]
Take it from someone who couldn’t: Go outside.
You know how Captain America just slept through the 50s and 60s and 70s? Who are the lucky people who are missing *waves hands*? Early on, many submariners were unaware of the pandemic. But that's changed... [more inside]
"No, chairs can be even worse," said Coco.
A short, kind fantasy story about ghosts: "起狮，行礼 (Rising Lion — The Lion Bows)" by Zen Cho: "Gwailo have no sense. They treat the past like it's just an old movie. Like it's not serious."
Dear Mom, I've Joined a Guerilla Bike Collective
Graphic artist Natalie Dupille does a comic strip on how a white woman with a bike can be an ally to BLM protesters, without sugarcoating the discomfort and danger (SLStranger).
An Amazon drone flying luxuries into gun nested fortresses, forever
Although the threat of ecologically articulated right-wing politics is quite real...much of what might be better understood as right-wing climate realism need not be articulated as ecological at all. It can simply build from what the right has already formidably established and wishes to pursue further. This is not something we see only in the Pinkertons and other private security agencies investing in climate related protection for the wealthy, but something we can observe in tax policies that go far beyond neoliberal catechism, maximizing accumulation while disincentivizing investment of any kind. It’s not only a world in which what the [IMF] calls “phantom FDI”—foreign direct investment that goes toward no discernable investment but is rather just convenient avoidance of taxation and popular sovereignty restriction—has shot up to 31 percent of all FDI. It’s a world in which even that cannot fully explain the 40 percent of “missing profits” that are simply unaccounted for. It’s not only the U.S. military preparing for climate security scenarios and retrofits, it’s the [U.S.'] continued investment in the world’s largest existing migrant detention, surveillance, and expulsion network. It’s not only the development of what I call “detachable infrastructures”—luxury survival architecture built not only with internal power generation and the potential for stockpiles, but to receive aerial deliveries and withstand floods or riots. It’s Amazon’s infamous patented “airborne fulfillment center” which could connect far-flung supply chains with end-use consumption by drone delivery.... We're Not In This Together - Ajay Singh Chaudhary on "right-wing climate realism."
The party must be rockin now / on the other side of town
After over a decade of appearing with a shopping bag on his head, the Rubberbandits' Mr Chrome takes it off for their new pop-perfect single, Waiting. [more inside]
"We have a virus goin' around, so be sure to disinfect your hammer"
I met Lisa when my son went over a waterfall.
At this point, before I tell you more, I need to tell you that he’s fine. Because when I tell this story, I can see people’s faces contort as they conjure up horrible outcomes. After all, falling off a waterfall seems like a thing you wouldn’t walk away from unscathed—like a thing you might not even survive. But it wasn’t a huge fall.
Sometimes you just need to be mad
"Nothing works without trust"
A new timely book, The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation – a collection of research articles edited by Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela Jaffe, Eryn Newman, and Norbert Schwarz, published by Routledge – is available as a free online read or free download, and as a free Kindle ebook on Amazon.com. (via Niemanlab) Here’s a short interview with one of the editors, social psychologist Professor Rainer Greifeneder: “No one is immune to fake news”. [more inside]
The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods
Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”-
The more advanced the tech, the more cocooned insularity it affords. “I finally caved and got the Oculus,” one of my best friends messaged me on Signal the other night. “Considering how little is available to do out the real world, this is gonna be a game-changer.” Indeed, his hermetically sealed, Covid-19-inspired techno-paradise was now complete.
lofi variational autoencoders to relax/study to
Produce your very own infinite stream of lofi hip hop beats (previously) with a little help from magenta.js. More info and the nitty gritty.
Donation Dollar
The familiar kangaroos are replaced with a green and gold ripple and a message - Give to Help Others. The Royal Australian Mint releases the Donation Dollar, a coin intended to be given away. 25 million will be minted, one for each Australian.
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