girth marenghi's darkplace

this old thing?

[the good hunter’s guide to a bad night @barnfell]

@TheOisinMoran Strictly speaking, castling actually requires the rook to briefly translate in a fourth spatial dimension (not the king, as that would obviate the “must not pass through check” rule), so it’s already 5D chess

[Oisín Moran @TheOisinMoran]

Chess is already four dimensional because it takes some time to play and the horsies have to jump

[Pequod @The_Pequod_]

No way Miles Davis and fucking Autechre are sampling the same song 🤯👀

[Paul Prudence @MrPrudence]

Color charts of undifferentiated plumage of different warbler species from Charles Keeler's Evolution of the colors of North American land birds (1893)

[Albert Gil 📕 @LarryAlbertGil]

Oh to be Eric Hobsbawm riding a pony through the Peruvian sierra in 1971.

[brent___x @brentmichaelcox]

Herman Melville’s desk, where he wrote Moby Dick & ceaseless letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne begging him to come visit so they could smoke, drink brandy, and discuss metaphysics.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Everyone who writes more floridly than me is an affected windbag. Anyone who writes more tautly is a thin-lipped automaton. Only I know the exactly correct balance between stylistic exuberance and measured prose

[Christopher R. Weingarten @1000TimesYes]

Mega-thread about how TIMBALAND was doing some of the most creative, out-there, deliriously funky hip-hop production *EVER* between 2003 and 2006. Radio & labels & listeners failed to see the vision *in those specific years*, which is prolly why he went pop & never looked back 1/

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

[sechi @nobodyisdriving]

Imagine this is how you discover aphex twin

[girth marenghi's darkplace @verycooltrees]

@PottyTrainedLad T&S is hitting?? 😳😳

[girth marenghi's darkplace @verycooltrees]

@PottyTrainedLad excited 4 u

[James @exhaustdata]

Sebald was very involved in the translation of The Rings of Saturn, almost using it as a final edit. As such, things weren’t “lost” in translation, but were outright cut from the English, including a third epigraph which was in English to begin with?

[tyler burden ✮⋆˙ @raunakxc]

metro route if i was in charge

[donald boat @laserboat999]

If I was the guy who got to put the fake memories in the robots in blade runner Id give them like 90 minutes of a beautiful quinceañera and then just 50,000 hours of crouching under the canopy of a prehistoric rainforest watching rain fall on the leathery wing of a pterodactyl

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

It’s called a theremin because if you’re playing one I’ll be there in a min. Now, what I’ve done here with this one is write something that is technically a joke but joyless for both you reading it and me writing it.

[girth marenghi's darkplace @verycooltrees]

fuckin A.

[Dustin Illingworth @ddillingworth]

William Gaddis' "Literature of Failure" course syllabus. (Bard College, 1979)

[Nikki Morgen Comix @ducknuk_comic]

Ishmael: Call me Shemale.
Captain AMAB: I'm not calling you that.

[girth marenghi's darkplace @verycooltrees]

@PottyTrainedLad this is like if Cezanne was still alive and could tweet