#invention — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #invention, aggregated by home.social.
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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Who invented the first compound microscope?? Turns out the answer is a lil *messy*
To find out more, check out this week's #podcast episode: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/microscopium-myths-and-retconstellations/
#history #Invention #StarLore #microscopium #Microscope #science #humor
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#Check out : #Israel is a #democracy, perhaps in the way that all our so-called democracies evolve, more #authoritarian, more #oppressive, more #oligarchic, more #differential and #unequal - anyway #Israel is an #occidental #invention
« The next morning I left the festival and made my way from Ramallah to Jerusalem. I had to wait an extra hour or so for a taxi with the right color license plate, yellow, and so be allowed to cross through a checkpoint in Israel’s wall and onto the road to Jerusalem on the other side. I made small talk with my driver, then retreated back into my thoughts of the journey so far. It was my sixth day in Palestine, but I felt like I had been here for months. The days were filled with tours, the nights with talks—even the meals felt like seminars. Some of this is just being abroad somewhere far from home. But most of it was the specificity of this place—how much it seemed to embody the West and its contradictions, its claims of democracy, its foundations in exploitation. Of all the worlds I have ever explored, I don’t think any shone so bright, so intense, so immediately as Palestine.
But when the light cleared I had new eyes, and I could see my own words in new ways—and the words from which they were derived—the stories, columns, speeches, and talks presented by “willing intellectuals.” So much seemed obvious. I now noted a symmetry in the bromides—that those who claimed Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East were just as likely to claim that America was the oldest democracy in the world. And both claims relied on excluding whole swaths of the population living under the rule of the state. Riding in that taxi toward Jerusalem, the truth of this struck me as undeniable. I’d spent most of my time in the Occupied Territories, a world of minority rule. But even in the state proper, caste reigned. Palestinians living in Israel have shorter lives, are poorer, and live in more violent neighborhoods. Certain neighborhoods in Israel are allowed to discriminate legally against Palestinian citizens by setting “admission committees.” The committees, operating in 41 percent of all Israeli localities, are free to bar anyone lacking “social suitability” or “compatibility with the social and cultural fabric.” Openly racist appeals are the norm, as when Benjamin Netanyahu warned in 2015 that “the right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves.” For all my talk of being fooled by the language of “Jewish democracy,” it had been right there the whole time. The phrase means what it says—a democracy for the Jewish people and the Jewish people alone. »Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
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#Videos from #TimeMachine designer Alex Isakov [see previous @KronoMoon toot, same date]
#SixDegreesOfFreedom #GYRO6DoF #experimental #device
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwneQiH4yXg 2015 Sep 19
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2OIVQg300g 2024 Oct 07
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0-RrtruBG8 2023 Dec 11
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiiqyxi-riE 2020 Jan 22
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vrx5XifQPIM 2020 Mar 14
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/@alexanderisakovGyro_6DoF#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravel #physics #science #engineering #invention #AlexIsakov #Isakov #TimeTraveler #Kronodon
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Alex Isakov explains his design for a #TimeMachine on Medium.com: GYRO 6DoF. Regular #gyroscopes have freedom in some #axes but are constrained in others.❛❛ the maximum #number of degrees of freedom [DoF] in the #holonomic #system. ❜❜
🔗 https://AlexIsakov-17446.medium.com/gyro-6dof-gyroscope-with-six-degrees-of-freedom-f8aa7258c0db 2020 Nov 29
🔗 https://habr.com/ru/articles/480288/ 2019 Dec 14
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwneQiH4yXg 2015 Sep 19#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravel #AlexIsakov #Isakov #GYRO #6DoF #physics #science #engineering #invention #Kronodon
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#Technology that I don't think ever existed, but which *should* have...
The #microfiche #typewriter. [1]
It is a typewriter very closely resembling an #IBM #Selectric electric typewriter. The keyboard is virtually identical, though the platen and print head are different. Instead of the platen being a rubber roller, there is a slot with guides, into which you drop a standard-sized plastic film sheet - a #fiche.
The type element - the "ball" - is identical to a normal Selectric element, except for size. It's only a few millimetres in diameter. Typing is virtually silent, because the ball moves only a tiny, tiny amount at a time, so little you don't even notice it unless you watch for a full line of type.
Above the fiche slot is a small-ish translucent rear-projection screen, which shows the text of the page you're currently typing. Operators work in a dimly-lit room, and their faces are bathed in a diffuse, soft white light.
#retro #RetroTechnology #RetroFuture #TypeElement #TypewriterBall #ShouldHaveBeen #ShouldHave #If #invention #1960s #typewriter
[1] Or #microfilm
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Cafe Chill Episode 2024-18: beachowl, Rejoicer and more
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Listen on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/526947-cafe-chill-episode-2024-18
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Café Chill, a weekly radio program featuring chill music mixes, is produced by KNHC National Productions (C89.5 FM) in Seattle and broadcast on public radio stations across the USA. This week’s show includes tracks from artists like beachowl, rosequartz, Helios and Hollie Kennif, and more.
Hosted by Seth. Working in the background is me (Richard).
Playlist:
•beachowl–Abysmal
Release: Motel Pools – EP
Label:3361561 Records DK•rosequartz–interlude
Release: interlude – Single
Label:SVNSET WAVES•Helios and Hollie Kennif–Wild Light
Release: Wild Light – Single
Label:Helios and Hollie Kennif•Rejoicer–Graveyard Party
Release: This Is Reasonable
Label:Circus Company•Brothertiger–Outer Zone
Release: Fundamentals, Vol. V
Label:Brothertiger•Invention–Landrace
Release: Landrace – Single
Label:Chillhop Music•Boards of Canada–Nothing Is Real
Release: Tomorrow’s Harvest
Label:Warp Records•Eagle Eyed Tiger–Feathers
Release: Feathers
Label:Orbital Rendezvous•Firephly–A Fracture In Time
Release: A Fracture In Time – Single
Label:Firephly•Site Nonsite–Caravan Tokyo
Release: Tokyo – EP
Label:Obvious Things•Joe Nora–Cat Creek
Release: SVMMER SVN, Vol. 7
Label:SVNSET WAVES•King Shi–Father’s Love
Release: Jupiter Blues
Label:Tekhedz, Millennium Jazz Music•RUMTUM–Shade Fader
Release: Isles in Indigo
Label:Bastard Jazz Recordings•Arovane–Tides
Release: Tides
Label:MERLIN – City Centre Offices•Caleb Belkin–Waves
Release: Natural Sounds
Label:SXNYou can also listen at:
https://www.c895.org/show/cafe-chill/
https://cafechill.orgPhoto: “Sunset Point”. Credit: Capitol Reef National Park/National Park Service, public domain.
Have a wonderful day!
#Ambient #Arovane #beachowl #BoardsofCanada #Brothertiger #C895 #C895CafeChill #cafeChill #cafechillradio #CalebBelkin #Chill #danceMusic #downtempo #EagleEyedTiger #elm #Firephly #HeliosandHollieKennif #Invention #JoeNora #KingShi #KNHC #PRX #publicRadio #radio #Rejoicer #rosequartz #RUMTUM #seattle #SiteNonsite