Linus Minimax

ANAGRAMMATIST & MCLUHANATIC PERPLEXIONIST & 'PATAMUGICKIAN

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

Drake Nosy Cross / World Cup in Toronto
Last Wed clip of Bob & Ike Willis talking about Zappa’s World Cup symbolism:
“This football god marionette is afflicted with an uncontrollable nasal-growth syndrome!”
“Oh my god! Conceptual continuity strikes again!”
https://t.co/LQucolZmS4

[Chaos Jaysomancy @jaysomancy]

Chaos Jaysomancy
‘𝘚𝘰 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴!’
April 25, 2026
pre-covid SkyDome infield dirt on centre cross of 𝘐𝘊𝘌𝘔𝘈𝘕 parking lot (Dundas & Bond)
$ √-1

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

“Millions of people believe football is God, but, it is said (at least in Torino), “God is a liar” - Dio Fa.”
https://t.co/ELwm66kA8V

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

“The purpose of psychedelia is to learn the conditioned responses of people and then to prank them.” - KKesey

what happens when the Nation of Comedians reaches the World Cup:
(at least one Team🇨🇦 player has said they intend to be an antienvironment to the Flopfest Follies)

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

This is why soccer/futbol is the toughest sport in the entire world. This player took a BRUTAL cheap shot to the back from a ball kicked well over 100 mph. Not only was this warrior able to quickly and miraculously recover but he even managed to somehow FINISH THE GAME! ⚽️🔥

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

“Millions of people believe football is God, but, it is said (at least in Torino), “God is a liar” - Dio Fa.”
https://t.co/ELwm66kA8V

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

Drake Nosy Cross / World Cup in Toronto
Last Wed clip of Bob & Ike Willis talking about Zappa’s World Cup symbolism:
“This football god marionette is afflicted with an uncontrollable nasal-growth syndrome!”
“Oh my god! Conceptual continuity strikes again!”
https://t.co/LQucolZmS4

[Chaos Jaysomancy @jaysomancy]

Chaos Jaysomancy
‘𝘚𝘰 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴!’
April 25, 2026
pre-covid SkyDome infield dirt on centre cross of 𝘐𝘊𝘌𝘔𝘈𝘕 parking lot (Dundas & Bond)
$ √-1

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

Newsom-Biden
=
wise men bond
🥰
#anagram

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Hunter Biden announces he's officially considering a 2028 campaign, but only as Gavin Newsom's VP.

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

@CanaduhOh The Bruce Strip

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE VIBE CODED A VIDEO STREAM THAT IS SECRETLY 100% TEXT SO IT CANT BE BLOCKED

it plays 360p video at 30fps, but theres no actual video on the page. every frame is just colored text characters being repainted on a canvas

to the browser its not media at all, its javascript updating some text

its called asciline, and here's the trick:

> the server decodes the real video and streams it as binary packed text over websockets
> the browser paints thousands of colored block characters fast enough to look like 360p
> ad blockers and autoplay blockers cant catch it because theres no video element to catch
> it streams in kilobytes since its just strings, so it runs on trash internet

since the video is literally text, you can apply css glows to it, let people copy paste a moving frame, or feed it straight to a local llm

however, an unblockable stream is also an unblockable ad as well

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

https://t.co/MswGpkEmW8

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

the airplane turns every city into a suburb of every other city and the internet turns every ‘set & setting’ into a suburb of every other ‘set & setting’

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

For what? For airplanes. Every claimed benefit is just a figleaf for pure airplane-worship, human scale be damned, just as the Spadina Expressway was a pathological fantasy of carmania. There’s no rational planning, there is only The Medium Is The Message.
https://t.co/7c1IKMC5cR

[Mark Evans @markevans]

If the expansion of Billy Bishop is going to be killed, it will take a Bill Davis-like move by Mark Carney to do it.

Just as putting a highway down the middle of Toronto would have been a disaster, a bigger BBA will wreck Toronto's waterfront.

And for what?

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

the airplane turns every city into a suburb of every other city and the internet turns every ‘set & setting’ into a suburb of every other ‘set & setting’

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

@SecretSunBlog @HighersideChats hands / touchscreen
https://t.co/yTNBq0bYC1

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

Has anyone written on ARRIVAL evoking the 2001 monolith = movie screen idea, including an elaborate ‘90 degree turn’ of gravity when they enter the theatre where A&C appear behind the screen?

Was nice to see it projected in a non-cave situation last night
https://t.co/hH9gHjoPwP

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

To think that Cedarvale Ravine was almost turned into a highway. Urban activism matters to protect the places you love.

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

Toronto Island Airport discourse may be of tangential interest to AI heads bc “Watson” tripped over its official name (Billy Bishop Airport) badly enough to answer “Toronto?????” when the category was ‘U.S. Cities’

https://t.co/PD0N4Oxuf1

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

Legend reaches superelite milestone & gives up superrare Double Wallbouncer 💣 in the same inning.

[Sivori @sivori]

Marshall McLuhan recognized that all addiction is a form of stress relief.

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

https://t.co/5ur3qPQlFh

[Zachary Lipez @ZacharyLipez]

I know the hipster discourse is passé but I just want you all to know that I’m watching the Knicks game in the backyard of a venue where fans are alternating between watching the game on the giant screen and going inside… where the Sun Ra Arkestra are currently playing.

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

The most popular genre of music is sports on TV

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

They’re determined to pretend they can only hear our objections if we place them in the receptacle provided (an online trash can)

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

Torontonians have made it unequivocally clear that we don't want Billy Bishop expanded.
The protests, petitions, and tens of thousands of public posts are our answer and that should be the end, because we all know this is just another shady Ford scheme like the Ontario Place Spa.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

It removes the responsibility big tech companies have to keep their products safe and offloads it onto a digital ID service to increase the surveillance state.

There's no ban on chatbots or AI so kids can get addicted to an imaginary friend simulator instead

[Theresa 🇨🇦 @TheresaLubowitz]

Let's be clear, Carney is trying to be *seen* as making child online safety a priority. But these bans are not based on actual research, have been shown to be ineffective when implemented, and drive child internet use underground where kids become even more at risk of harm.

[Jeepers H. Crackers @bonedryankles]

We're meant to believe that expanding Billy Bishop has been needed for decades and is completely obvious, and that the same government that's finally "getting it done" didn't think to connect it to their brand new $30bn subway

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

@miltonappl3 Well McLuhan Sr. was correct that we can’t rescue or resurrect literacy on any mass scale.

Luckily the new sensibility is very attracted to metasymmetry incl. chiasmus.

FW was recently discovered to exhibit ‘multifractal’ symmetry of punctuation spacing:
https://t.co/XIYLmX6xzO

[Linus Minimax @LinusMinimax]

Wind, gas flew
=
Flawed Swing

#anagram

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

Statcast released some awesome bat tracking metrics today including one called a "Flawed Swing".

A Flawed Swing is one where the batter isn’t on time or lined up or centered.

Flawed Swing Leaders from mid-2023 to yesterday:

Dylan Cease, 508 🤯
Cristopher Sánchez, 408
Tarik Skubal, 403
Logan Gilbert, 394
Chris Sale, 387
Freddy Peralta, 349