Erik Beck

Analyses of Value

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

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Real Sonya Larson simps don't sue, they just write bad, sophomoric poetry about it- https://t.co/yLoPIaManI

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

Weird street massages are the only #ASMR that works for me anymore https://t.co/ERUA9PHIWX

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

@PorkchopBob @lawandordertv @nbc @JillHennessy I know Waterston's your favorite, but that's a damn good Jerry Orbach.

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

If @errolmorris documentaries teach us anything it's that everyone's running a hustle, whether it's McNamara trying to justify the Vietnam War with data science or a guy sitting on cheap land who sells pet cemetery plots to bored housewives.

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

Signal, a message encrypting service, has just become the most downloaded app in the US. Mass paranoia is becoming ordinary https://t.co/Mvb4yltecT

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

Like the joke that Prussia was an army with a country attached to it, Liberty University is a football team that happens to be associated with a university. A true monument to southern rich guy determination. https://t.co/sX7WvFMBWp

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In 1622, the Catholic League plundered a library from Protestant Germany and carried it off to Rome as a trophy. The fact that the Vatican still refuses to return the #bibliotecapalatina to Heidelberg University shows that the Roman Curia are a gaggle of bitter old queens.

[Roman History @romanhistory1]

These are statues of the early Roman emperors, with colour added.

The Romans painted their statues - this is reasonably close to how they would have looked in the emperors' lifetimes. The hair and eye colours are taken from ancient Roman descriptions.

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

It looks like Kanye is running as ASAP Rocky's vp. Guess we'll have to wait till 2024.

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

I was looking at a genetic sequence and realized the title for the film Gattaca is a base sequence in DNA.

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

Watching @BananaRex play #Spelunky2 for the first time last week was like seeing a kid who had been waiting 10 years for christmas day to come finally find the ten speed he wanted under the tree https://t.co/28lL4fRqwP

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

Johannes Trithemius presented his Steganographia (https://t.co/Cr0EFww0Bb) as a sexy and scintillating guide for summoning spirits. In reality it was just a exercise in cryptography, and the occult stuff was just a misdirect to distract readers from the real secrets.

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

It's hard to see Bob Odenkirk in Little Women and not automatically think of The Great Philouza.

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

Great interview with Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams. Interesting how he closes his eyes while answering the questions, like he's channelling his own thoughts and memories from some dark nether region, lost in an orphic trance. https://t.co/8wWLuvkCKS

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

The concensus among armour nerds on Youtube is that swords are a trash weapon, axes are better, and spears are best. https://t.co/ba1NGVWo03

[Erik Beck @GoldenAssay]

Next time I get a sales call from StackMap llc trying to get me to buy a stack browsing tool for the price of a mid-size sedan, I'll bring up the #Prelingerlibrary: https://t.co/hn3cebqNmK

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Jeff Davis High marching band killed it this year. Those drum majors are some of the best in the game. https://t.co/0YIT2XNWvv

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The most stunning collection of things I've ever seen held in a human hand: https://t.co/pYrFZNqe52

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Forget Leaves of Grass, this data visualization of US economic history from the civil war to the great depression is America's real National Epic. https://t.co/155SAifT1I

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#pongfinity is like a artists' collective. https://t.co/jAdRe3G6BF