#crowbox

[thescarecrowfrombatman]

Do u want to ruin christmas with me

Ah... a delicious idea, my Jewish cousin. I have so many reasons to do so.... And in olden days i would have unleashed horrors a thousand fold. How I hate this holiday... the fact that it's basically the Joker of holidays, it's affect on my childhood, my beef with that churlish chimney chaser. the fact that it gets to be federal holiday instead of Halloween... (Which resonates with the Joker getting a movie whereas i can't even get my own comic line!) But.... there is one reason above all as to why I hate this holiday.

The seasonal depression...

I won't be doing much this December.

I'm not in the mood.

[v4lkvrie]

i love you halloween boombox design i made on a whim

[jackalgirl]

Corvids Pls Be Friends Day 1

(The family is at a stage where we have about enough brain space to mow the lawn and plant peppers in pots. So please excuse the overgrown, weedy places - tho honestly I kind of like the old look)

Offering to the (hopefully) friends to be: unsalted peanuts with a liberal coating of Tabasco & “Flamin’ Hot Cheeto’s Puffs”, on the ground to stay b/c I read that Corvids (esp. crows) are more comfortable there. I may move the feeding spot onto the ground later, just in case a human-centric space (a foot path) makes them nervous.

[chutty2thiq]

thanks to all my sluts that showed up to the official chut meet and greet at Tumblebook Library, North Plotly Street yesterday! it was a blessing to be able to caw with everybirdie.

(the next part of this post is for ravenette, so if you arent ravenette, don't read, caw caw!)

ravenette, i saw how you looked at my brother clint. i need you to stay far away from him. he has several ravens and crows tweeting his crowbox, and he doesn't need another beaker like you chirping about. i may just have to tell Birdie Bolshevik about this if you keep it up.

thanks a ton!

xoxo, Chutty Qwiquie Slutovich

[eyepool]

The Crowbox is a vending machine for crows — it trains them to find coins (or cigarette butts, or…) and drop them in to get peanuts.

It’s an open source project, so anyone can build their own.

[schaudwen]

!!!! CROW BOX!!!!

I was just thinking of how I wanted to have a feeder for bluejays, and this is PERFECT! Aside from needing to make it whups

Anyway! Crowbox! http://www.thecrowbox.com/

[vaspider]

http://www.thecrowbox.com/

Welp.

I want one.

[oraclejd]

#Sunday was eventful #acroyoga with the homies @lilnikki03 #Brian I call this on The #Crowbox 🤦🏾👉🏾💪👑 (at Equinox Woodland Hills)

[tuntematonkorppi]

I am afraid of birds but I still bought The SO a CrowBox (part of a project to interact and learn about wild local corvids, by giving them snacks). Do you think this counts as personal growth?

i guess? i mean you pushed through one of your fears because you know that it’d make someone happy, so that’s great?

i’m not the best person to talk about personal growth tho i’m more in a state of constant personal stagnation with bouts of free fall.

but that box sounds awesome and i gotta check it out!

[thescarecrowfrombatman]

Do you like to play any instruments

No.

But I like to think I'm a decent singer.

Okay well not decent, but I had some fun.

instrumental rip by Obskure Karaoke

Happy Halloween, friends!

[animalsdoingcapitalism]

The CrowBox is an experimentation platform designed to autonomously train corvids (the family of birds crows belong to). So far we’ve trained captive crows to deposit dropped coins they found on the ground in exchange for peanuts. The next step is to work with wild corvids and see if we can get them to learn to use the box, then to optimize the training protocol to see how quickly they can learn from each other.

http://www.thecrowbox.com/

[bestofmefi]

Buy, Buy Birdy

Sir crow's New Estate by SPDP (cc by)

Teaching capitalism to corvids with the open source Crowbox experimentation platform

[animeengineer]

The CrowBox is an experimentation platform designed to autonomously train corvids (the family of birds crows belong to). So far we’ve trained captive crows to deposit dropped coins they found on the ground in exchange for peanuts. The next step is to work with wild corvids and see if we can get them to learn to use the box, then to optimize the training protocol to see how quickly they can learn from each other.

That's where you come in. Different corvids learn at different speeds and in different ways, and the only way to figure out the best way to teach them is experimentation. The more people try different things the faster we'll all figure out how to work cooperatively with crows.

Once we’ve got the system optimized for teaching coin collection we can move to seeing how flexibly they can learn *other* tasks, like collecting garbage, sorting through discarded electronics, or maybe even search and rescue. The idea isn't to get rich off found coins - we want to change the world through learning how to cooperate with other species.

OMFG. This is at once brilliant and the death of me, as corvids peck my executive dysfunctional arse to death for forgetting to maintain the box.

Every time my family passed a murder of crows my mom says something about wanting a crow

[mycatiscutest]

I. NEED. THIS.

[attemptedmurderers]

Photos from the last couple of crowbox meetings! Going over design elements and trying to figure out what need to programming wise.