abecedarius

@abecedarius

Darius Bacon, filthy meatbag

Los Angeles
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Joined October 2008
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  1. Retweeted
    20 Dec 2018

    Once upon an evening's duty, when I fancied something fruity, Something sweet and slightly chilly, cool but not enough to numb -- While I hungered, deeply craving, I recalled my love was saving In the icebox, soul-enslaving, rich and golden-fleshed, a plum.

    Things fall apart, the icebox cannot hold Mere sweetness is loosed upon the world The plum-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of breakfast is drowned...
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  2. Retweeted
    13 Dec 2018

    This is a coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a red blood cell (erythrocyte) squeezing through a capillary. This is where the oxygen-exchange with the surrounding tissues happens. Magnification: x9000

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  3. Retweeted
    22 Nov 2018

    This gets things exactly backwards. Wrong question: "Are the Chinese better off with a censored Google or no Google?" Right question: "Is the rest of the world better off with a Google that the Chinese Communist Party can threaten & coerce, or a Google that it can't?

    Google Chairman on China: "Are we better off giving Chinese citizens a decent search engine, a capable search engine even if it is restricted and censored in some cases, than a search engine that’s not very good?"
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    16 Nov 2018

    My hero, , died earlier today. Let me tell you a story about how he befriended a sick girl who wanted to be a writer and gave her hope. This is a cool and true story and I’ll always be grateful.

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    26 Oct 2018

    How did I not know about this already?! There probably exist ants that pass the mirror test!

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  6. 23 Oct 2018

    This is evidence my computer's also hacked, but I think/hope it's more likely just livejournal.

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  7. 23 Oct 2018

    My old LiveJournal account appears to have been hacked and the password changed. I only found out from the ransom email -- haven't visited in years. I should've deleted it when they sold the site to Russians; oh, well.

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  8. Retweeted
    27 Sep 2018

    Google photos took it upon itself to auto-generate a panorama from two non-contiguous photos from City Museum. Suitable for a place which is itself stitched together nonsense.

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  9. 5 Oct 2018

    Like cryonics for library archives. (I mean this approvingly, in case that's unclear.)

    Before the next museum fire, make 4K video of all your documents
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  10. 18 Sep 2018

    in NYC till Friday, staying by Prospect Park

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  11. 8 Sep 2018

    a wasp smaller than a human egg cell you're welcome

    Microwasp next to protozoans - it's smaller than some single-celled organisms (it's 50 um)! But it has eyes and ~7400 neurons whose nuclei are destroyed when it develops
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  12. 3 Sep 2018

    Barry Lyndon My Neighbor Totoro The Three Musketeers (from ~1974) (I don't watch much video, though I subscribed to netflix for a couple years to try to learn what I was missing.)

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  13. 31 Aug 2018

    This auction design reminds me of the waiter's trick of finding the center of gravity of a tray by sliding three fingers together (esp. section 5.3).

    V excited to announce the first in a new type of writing I am trying...this one is with my long-time friend and collaborator Eduardo Azevedo and my cubicle mate on "Channel Auctions", which we think may be a better design than English or Dutch: .
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    22 Aug 2018

    “Everybody’s gone” a must-read explainer on Xinjiang: China’s Re-Education Camps For A Million Muslims | featuring the excellent work of ex- & others

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  15. 13 Aug 2018

    in Zurich this week

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  16. 9 Aug 2018

    I had no idea modern plotters were so precise.

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    three perturbed spirals, overlaid
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  17. 3 Aug 2018

    In Berlin. 4 of 5 trains I've booked on this trip either got canceled or I missed because my backup train was late. Starting to wonder if they really are better than Amtrak.

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    1 Aug 2018

    We're pleased to announce the release of SES, a secure subset of JavaScript.

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  19. 29 Jul 2018

    in Cambridge (UK) most of this week

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  20. 21 Jul 2018

    Hello Toronto, it's been ~40 years.

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