#weird_shit

[russellstyles]

half in... . .

Subaru 360, Will Rogers Blvd, Claremore, Oklahoma,🇺🇸

[undefinedjenni]

The Most Dangerous Game

#wtf #dark_humor #weird_shit #wow #crazy

[azdoine]

"Hello! It looks like you're creating $WEIRD_SHIT. Would you like assistance finding a relevant fandom to consume this content?"

[gregoryalanburhoe]

The release date for "Vendetta Ride: The True Story Of Wyatt Earp" is November 2'nd! It should be available for pre-order in a couple days' time!

#inspiration #history #novel #illustration #art #artwork #book #author #fashion #scene #drawing #sketch #imagination  #fineart #writer #artist #historical #always #love #photography #photoshop #funeral #sad #charity #poor #hard #times #drawing #drawings #halloween #gothic #gotham #graveyard #tombstone #late_night_imgur #always_love_art #the_more_you_know #ripleys_believe_it_or_not #ripley #military #rabbit #elite_dangerous #cartoon #camping #webcomic #painting #research #current_events #hiking #weird_shit #flowers #netflix #creepy #creativity #comics #awesome #landscape #oldschoolcool #graffiti #the_great_outdoors #books #the_more_you_know #movies #star_trek #fantasy #history #reading #indie_dev #indie_comics #indie #kindle #woodworking #night #inspiration #history #novel #illustration #art #artwork #book #author #fashion #scene #drawing #sketch #imagination #fineart #writer #artist #historical

[mustardmeme]

Having a little faith in yourself goes a long way. by weird_shit-happens

Follow the Mustard Gang!

[technoccult]

Remembering the Max Headroom Incident, One of the Creepiest Hacks Ever

Klint Finley

I wrote a bit about the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion for Wired today:

Around 9 o’clock on November 22, 1989, Chicago residents witnessed this epic hack. The evening news sportscast cut out, and a person in a strange mask appeared, dancing around in front of a spinning piece of metal—a rather dark incarnation of Max Headroom, the rather inexplicable character at the heart of the British TV series Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into The Future and two subsequent TV shows. On these shows, Headroom had a tendency to interrupt the broadcasts of the fictional TV station Network 23, but this wasn’t an authorized appearance by the character. It was a real pirate transmission.

After about 30 seconds, WGN’s technicians were able to override the pirate signal. “Well, if you’re wondering what’s happened, so am I,” the station’s sports anchor Dan Roan said when the signal was restored. But two hours later, PBS affiliate station WTTW’s broadcast of Doctor Who was similarly interrupted. This time, the pranksters were able to broadcast their entire video, complete with audio. And what nightmarish audio it was. “Yeah, I think I’m better than Chuck Swirsky!” the infiltrator announced in a high pitched, distorted voice, referring to the Chicago area sports announcer.

Full Story: Remembering the Max Headroom Incident, One of the Creepiest Hacks Ever

Vice Motherboard has the most in-depth look at the incident that I’ve seen, and those looking for something longer than my piece but shorter than the Vice piece should check out Chicago Radio and Media‘s article. And the Chicago Tribune‘s contemporaneous coverage is worth a read too.

[atamajakki]

Good day

Spent a lovely day with my girlfriend. Ran into a hobo with a giant tumor protruding from his chest while trying to eat a brownie I found in a ziploc bag on the ground outside. Learned how to not kiss like a retard.

[russellstyles]

tings... . . 

Antique Market, Chesterfield, Derbyshire,🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 

[russellstyles]

more stories, more lies... . .

club, Chester Street, Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire,🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 

[russellstyles]

DÉCHET..... . .

Cig butts, Bloor Street W, Toronto, Ontario,🇨🇦

[gregoryalanburhoe]

Wyatt Earp. An illustration from my upcoming historic novel, "Vendetta Ride."

#inspiration #history #novel #illustration #art #artwork #book #author #fashion #scene #drawing #sketch #imagination  #fineart #writer #artist #historical #always #love #photography #photoshop #funeral #sad #charity #poor #hard #times #drawing #drawings #halloween #gothic #gotham #graveyard #tombstone #late_night_imgur #always_love_art #the_more_you_know #ripleys_believe_it_or_not #ripley #military #rabbit #elite_dangerous #cartoon #camping #webcomic #painting #research #current_events #hiking #weird_shit #flowers #netflix #creepy #creativity #comics #awesome #landscape #oldschoolcool #graffiti #the_great_outdoors #books #the_more_you_know #movies #star_trek #fantasy #history #reading #indie_dev #indie_comics #indie #kindle #woodworking #night

[technoccult]

Google Maps face blurring algorithms also blur the faces of statues

Klint Finley

Many more pictures here

(Thanks Emily Dare)

[technoccult]

Interview with critic and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman about the terrors of reading

Klint Finley

Mark Dery talks with Mikita Brottman, author of The Solitary Vice: Against Reading:

I live in an old hotel, and I’ve recently been researching old newspaper items about the suicides that happened here, and the notes people left. However brief, I find them infinitely suggestive. They’re little vignettes of private tragedy, windows onto the changing century. They contain snippets of peripheral history—the introduction of automobiles, the development of telegraph and telephones, the advent of Great Depression, the injustice of segregation, and the changing nature of the hotel trade. There are also insinuations about social class, alienated parents, sons with too much money, businessmen suffering from existential ennui. There’s a sense of nostalgia in these little case studies as well—of a Baltimore that was both genteel and bohemian, whose kings were society men, tobacco lords and bootleg emperors. Another interesting feature of these vignettes is their reliable supporting cast, consisting of desk clerks, bellboys, maids, doctors and coroners. I find the suicide notes especially touching, with their polite, self-deprecating apologies, often expressing regret to the hotel staff for the necessary cleanup job.

Full Story: Boing Boing: Solitary Vices: Mikita Brottman on the Books in Her Life

[technoccult]

The weirdest way to subvert paparazzi culture

Klint Finley

This is an old link, freshly excavated from the depths of my Pocket account. Rob Walker writes about the strange way that Vanessa Stiviano , the alleged mistress of the former owner of the LA Clippers, subverts paparazzi culture:

What I’m interested in is how Stiviano is using it: Not to protect herself from the sun’s glare, but rather from the media glare. In other words, she is misusing, but I’d say rather effectively. This is a pretty good object-use hack.

And the aesthetics are, in my view, amazing: Unlike the traditional coat draped over a bowed head, or whatever, this visor allows her to do more than thwart perp-walk aesthetics. Instead she rather brazenly defies paparazzi culture. And indeed she seems to know what she’s doing, as she pairs her weird Darth Vader headgear with overtly camera-ready outfits — from semi-blingy-business attire to ostentatiously “casual” combinations of silly T shirts and cutoffs.

Full Story: Design Observer: Object in the News: The Face Privatizer

[technoccult]

Tulpamancy is a thing now

Klint Finley

Nathan Thompson writes:

Tibetan mystics have long practiced a method to create sentient beings from the power of concentrated thought. Explorer Alexandra David-Neel was the first Westerner to discover the practice. “Besides having had few opportunities of seeing [tulpas], my habitual incredulity led me to make experiments for myself,” she wrote in her 1929 book Magic and Mystery in Tibet. “My efforts were attended with some success.”

Tulpas remained the preserve of occultists until 2009, when the subject appeared on the discussion boards of 4chan. A few anonymous members started to experiment with creating tulpas. Things snowballed in 2012 when adult fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic – known as “bronies” to anyone who’s been near a computer for the past three years – caught on. They created a new forum on Reddit and crafted tulpas based on their favourite characters from the show.

Full Story: Vice:

(Thanks Cat Vincent)

See also:

An Unlikely Prophet Former DC Comics editor Alvin Schwartz’s book on Superman as a tulpa.

My thoughts on “hypersigils” as a cybernetic phenomena

[technoccult]

Should we engineer animals to be smart like humans?

Klint Finley

Science fiction writer Tim Maughan reports on the real science of making animals smarter:

In 2011, a research team led by Sam Deadwyler of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, used five rhesus monkeys to study the factors that lead people with diseases like Alzheimer’s to lose control of their thought processes. The researchers trained the monkeys in an intelligence task that involved learning and identifying images and symbols. They were then given doses of cocaine in order to dull their intelligence and made to repeat the test, with predictably less impressive results.

What happened in the next stage of the research was remarkable. The same monkeys were fitted with neural prosthetics – brain implants designed to monitor and correct the functions of the neurons disabled by the cocaine. These implants successfully restored normal brain function to the monkeys when they were drugged – but crucially, if they were activated before the monkeys had been drugged, they improved the primates’ performance beyond their original test results. The aim of the experiments was to see whether neural prosthetics could theoretically be used to restore decision-making in humans who have suffered trauma or diseases such as Alzheimer’s – but as far as these specific tests were concerned at least, the brain prosthetics appeared to make the monkeys smarter.

Full Story: BBC: Should we engineer animals to be smart like humans?

While the obvious answer to that question is “hell no,” Tim points out that the medical research research motivations may make smarter animals an inevitability. He dives deeper into the ethical questions in the article.

More by Tim:

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