Aaron 泰山

American Filmmaker. Art & Music Curator. FFT Math Maniac. Film Reviewer. Let's Skip Blade Runner and Give Star Trek to Everyone.

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Released: June 6, 1978
The model featured on the album's front cover was Nataliya Medvedeva, a Russian poet, writer and singer.

[Aaron 泰山 @overglobe]

Physicists said it was impossible. Pianists said they could hear the difference. A century of argument. The pianists won.

Published May 28, 2026, scientists finally settled a debate that has divided musicians and physicists for over 100 years: can a pianist's touch actually change the tone colour of a single piano note, or does the same key always produce the same sound regardless of how it's pressed?

Physics says a piano hammer hitting a string at the same speed should always produce the same tone. The only thing that should change is volume. But pianists have insisted for generations that HOW you press the key, the angle, the speed profile, the finger contact, changes something about the quality of the sound.

The scientists confirmed: the pianists were right. Using precision acoustic measurements, they demonstrated that subtle variations in how a key is depressed produce measurable differences in the harmonic spectrum of the resulting note. Not just louder or softer. Actually different in tonal colour.

The mechanism involves micro-variations in how the hammer contacts the string, timing differences in the damper release, and interactions between simultaneous notes that create different resonance patterns. A century of "you're imagining it" just got overturned by the data. The musicians could hear something real that the physicists couldn't measure until now.

(Source: ScienceDaily, May 28, 2026 / Acoustics)

#music #piano #science #art #fblifestyle

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game.

Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it.

This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality.

It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there.

A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs.

The implications for UAP and alien life are immense.
Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it.

The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up.

Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop.

Full conversation is live now.

[Aaron 泰山 @overglobe]

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[Gia Macool @GiaMMacool]

Feminist women got exactly what they demanded:

No husbands.
No kids.

“Independent” careers in HR, admin, and customer service.

AI is gonna delete much of it.

Now reality hits:

Women are becoming sex workers…
Or they’re getting married and giving sex to their husbands like nature always intended.

No more pretending biology is optional.

Welcome back to the real world.

[Aaron 泰山 @overglobe]

"There’s always next. I was just down in my studio last night working on some new music. I’m always making music. That’s always next," Tommy Lee says.

"At this point, I’m always on the hunt for what I’m realizing is the most important thing to people: an experience. In my mind I want to do Dolby Atmos not after it’s been written and then you’re mixing it, but record it in Dolby Atmos as it’s going down, picking positions where things should go live in the mix, writing the song so that it encompasses everything, so it’s not an after effect, so it’s a now thing.

"If somebody wanted to listen to a live mix, they could select what it sounds like. Like, 'I’ve always wanted to hear what it sounds like when Tommy’s on his drums, what’s it sound like echoing off the stadium?' I’m always thinking about, how can you make somebody’s experience just fucking insane?"

From Dolby Atmos to a new tour and a reimagined album, the Mötley Crüe drummer is ready to blow your mind.

Read our interview in full at the link in the comments.

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

[Umbral @UmbralShadows]

Come walk with me. See my natural habitat through my eyes. Full 10 minute nature walk below in the comments. ⤵️

🚨WARNING🚨 contains extreme levels of boring nature propaganda. Side effects may include permanent class change to druid.

[Aaron 泰山 @overglobe]

@frogein 🔥🤣🔥
Lmao

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@SoloManiacMusic @TheCinesthetic Agree, to this date I believe the daredevil TV series has the best fight scenes

[Umbral @UmbralShadows]

A thimbleberry blossom and the sky above where I found it.

Vancouver island,
British Columbia,
Canada.

Hope your weekend was fruitful. 💚

[Drew Ponder @drew_ponder]

Yeah, that's not gonna be enough. If I could make a suggestion, it'd be watch this video and then do what it says to do about Ai.

The video is CGI, not a real alien, its warning about Ai though is very real. Also it's from 2002 or earlier. Warns about Trump too.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

People talk about tech oligarchs being greedy, but Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak paid for this concert lineup out of his own pocket, which is probably the best use of tech money in human history.

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

This woman just shattered everything I thought I knew about quantum physics in 60 seconds 😱

"Quantum physics isn’t just science, it’s logical spirituality. You don’t attract what you want. You align with what you already are."

Every version of you already exists in the quantum field - The wealthy you, the happy you, the successful you.

"The quantum field doesn’t respond to begging. It responds to certainty."

Your most powerful tool is visualization.

‘Our minds don’t know the difference between imagination and reality.’

Time isn’t linear, you can pull your future into the now & re-code your past.

You are not a person inside the universe.

You ARE the universe experiencing itself through you.

"Go live like the miracle you are.”

[Aaron 泰山 @overglobe]

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[Umbral @UmbralShadows]

Good morning.

[Aaron 泰山 @overglobe]

To my fellow Gen X'ers...Remember when we laughed at the "I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial?
Not so funny now is it?
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[charles miler @MilerCharles]

Brigitte Bardot in Love is my profession (1958) 🇫🇷
#BrigitteBardot #ClassicMovies #OldHollywood

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Paul Verhoeven on whether the events that take place in "Total Recall" (1990) are real or just a dream:

"It is both. To be honest, that’s what I want. I made the movie in a way that it would be true on both levels, and I spent a lot of time to get that. If you want a scientific explanation, you know, of course, in quantum mechanics there is a very interesting principle, the principle of uncertainty, Heisenberg’s principle.

If you have a big object and if you try to measure the place of the object and the velocity of the object at the same time, the more precisely you measure velocity the less precise place gets. So that’s the principle. That means, of course, that there are different realities possible at the same moment. What I wanted to do in 'Total Recall' is to do a movie where both levels are true. I mean for me, of course, the film anyhow has to do with two realities, one being the reality of going as a secret agent to Mars and discovering that there is a problem, and solving the problem, which is starting the nuclear reactor and helping the guerrillas and destroying Cohaagen.

The second level of the movie, of course, is that from the moment that he goes into the Rekall chair ‘til the end it’s a dream, and I tried to make that second level work throughout the whole movie.

So there’s the dream level which starts when he gets into the chair and the thing is in his neck, and that would go throughout the whole movie, so in the next scene where they say, Oh, there’s a problem, there’s a big glitch here, that would be already the dream, of course. That’s where the dream starts. And the next scene where they are fighting and stuff would be part of his dream, convincing him that it is real, because there is a glitch but that would be part of the program. It would be built into the program to make him accept the fact that it’s real, but it’s a dream.

If you look at the movie, if you haven’t seen it, or for the second time, you’ll see that the whole program that’s set up at the beginning when he goes to the Rekall office and he talks to this guy who sells him the program on Mars, you’ll see that he gets everything that he wants: he gets the trip to Mars, he gets the girl, the exotic girl, he ki!!s the bad guys, and he saves the entire planet. That’s what he does. And that’s basically the dream.

Even halfway through the movie, you may remember, this other guy comes in, Dr. Edgemar, and tells him that he’s in a dream, that he’s still in the Rekall chair, and then Arnold says, “If I’m there, I can ki!! you.” And he puts a gun to his head and the guy says, “Sure, no problem for me, big problem for you, because you will be psychotic from now on because the walls of reality will fall apart. One moment you will be the savior of the rebel cause, the next moment you’ll be Cohaagen’s bosom buddy, but in the end—you will even have these strange fantasies about alien civilizations—but at the end you will be lobotomized.”

And then if you see the movie, you realize that all these things happen. I mean he is lobotomized at the end. That’s why at the last shot, when they are so happy and kissing each other, it slowly fades to white, which for me meant, “OK, there he goes. That’s the end-that’s the dream—they lobotomized him.” And all the other things happened, he finds the alien civilization, he rescues the planet, he finds the good girl, he k!!ls the bad guys, but it’s a dream. Now, of course you can see it as a reality, too. So at the end of the movie, getting to white means either it’s a happy ending or he loses his brains . . . which is probably also a happy ending, I don’t know.

That was basically what l wanted—that at the end there would be two possibilities, and they would be both true—for me they are both true—it’s not either one or the other. It’s not that either it’s a dream or it is a reality. It is a dream and it is a reality. And I think they’re both there."

(Paul Verhoeven's interview with Chris Shea & Wade Jennings, 1992)

P.S: On this day, 36 years ago, "Total Recall" (1990) premiered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

[Aaron 泰山 @overglobe]

The struggle is real
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