Please go watch this at once. Or re-watch this fantastic documentary, you non-Wipers remembering bastards.
YOUR TOWN IS NEXT
Counterpoint: Autoplaying Is Awesome
”Masturbation boosts your immune system and raises your white blood cell count, helping you fight off infection and illness.”
Way to go, science. More here.
Dammit Jim, I’m Not An Artist —
I’m A Mathematician!
I never really had the classic “I’m in college so I like M.C. Escher” phase, so I’m kind of enjoying this stuff now. The above video is not available in your region, bastard, but hopefully will be soon. I included the trailer mostly for Graham Nash’s cleavage.
The podcast is good.
25 Or Schulz To 4
The Monkeystador family station wagon, in addition to Beatles ’62-’66, featured a Chicago 8-track tape. Probably Chicago’s Greatest Hits. Enjoy.
Oh No! Lusty Tarts
What Did Jack Do?
David Lynch + Monkey = more please!
New 17 minute short on Netflix.
Quantum Supremacy
(artist’s drawing of Google’s quantum computer chip)
In October, Google built a quantum computer that solved an incredibly hard problem in 200 seconds — a problem the world’s fastest supercomputer would take 10,000 years to solve. This is called “quantum supremacy”, and has been compared to the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
”Until recently, every computer on the planet — from a 1960s mainframe to your iPhone, and even inventions as superficially exotic as ‘neuromorphic computers’ and DNA computers — has operated on the same rules. These were rules that Charles Babbage understood in the 1830s and that Alan Turing codified in the 1930s. Through the course of the computer revolution, all that has changed at the lowest level are the numbers: speed, amount of RAM and hard disk, number of parallel processors.
But quantum computing is different. It’s the first computing paradigm since Turing that’s expected to change the fundamental scaling behavior of algorithms, making certain tasks feasible that had previously been exponentially hard. Of these, the most famous examples are simulating quantum physics and chemistry, and breaking much of the encryption that currently secures the internet.”
I’m sure this will go well.
More here.
Yorke, Bjork, Space Ghost
Possibly the pinnacle of Western culture.
The Lovable Scamp Is Back
Wish I didn’t have to wait a week between episodes.
Harmonious Aeolian Bastards
”It was only after a critic for the [London] Times said we put ‘Aeolian cadences’ in ‘It Won’t Be Long’ that the middle classes started listening to us. … To this day, I have no idea what ‘Aeolian cadences’ are. They sound like exotic birds.”
– John Lennon
The critic was referring to another song, and no one knows what Aeolian cadences are, but whatevs. Me likey!
Props to these young Argentinians.