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Zwieblein, 13 days ago to art

And now Chris Kraus's Where #Art Belongs has me in that spot of yearning for creative collectives that emerge out of the absolutely right coincidental conditions and bust out all the best stuff because they function outside of institutional bounds, qualifications, and ambitions. I'm going to find such a community one day, damn it...

#reading #books @bookstodon

Zwieblein, 13 days ago to books

Think I just found a new favorite; a morning spent #reading Ben Lerner's The Hatred of #Poetry didn't leave me with a better understanding of what makes for great (or sometimes even bad) poetry—but as I said on the book-cataloguing sites, it sure does result in feeling less alone about/in my conflicted relationship to it all.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books

Zwieblein, 1 month ago to books

Jamaica Kincaid has encapsulated one of the many reasons I have a hard time finding a way of earning my keep that doesn't drive me mad and/or to despair: "I cannot imagine having an occupation that does not go along with #reading..."

My Garden (Book), 77–78
@bookstodon #books #quote #bookstodon

AbandonedAmerica, 3 months ago to random

The next in my Decay Theory series of articles for Atlas Obscura just went up today! In this article I cover why preservation of endangered buildings is so critical and why it can make such a difference to a community - far from only being memorials to sentimentality, historic structures that are repurposed also can provide a substantial economic boost. Check it out! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/column-preservation-of-abandoned-places

GayOldTime, 3 months ago to gay

Available in gay colors like blue and… No, that’s all of them, apparently
#vintageAd #gay #color

Zwieblein, 3 months ago to chicago

This location's too crowded for my comfort, @bookgaga —but I'm glad to see #Chicago getting into the silent book club spirit!
http://tinyurl.com/yn3v84nb

@bookstodon #reading #books

stux, 5 months ago to random

It's time to address the elephant in the room, or actually Threads

As many of you may know Threads went live in Europe and with that they started testing federation with the Fediverse

At this point there is a choice to make

1. Block Threads on instance level, that will take away the choice for each person

2. Do not block and let people block if they want to(1 search and 2 clicks)

After much consideration and talks I think we need to go with option 2 and let people decide for themselves

Zwieblein, 5 months ago to books

#Reading G. E. Lessing's surprisingly good "Nathan the Wise," I came across the troubled young Templar, not knowing what to think, describing everything that was bubbling up out of his "yeasty mood." Incredible. I'm going to have to go back and look at the original #German, but boy, does that adjective get at a particular state of mind, whatever its cause. Here's to good #writing and #translation!

#drama @bookstodon @translators #plays

CultureDesk, 5 months ago to food

When companies change the recipes of snacks and drinks — often to make them cheaper to produce — customers notice. Business Insider took a look at how "flavorflation" may have impacted favorites like Nutella, Coke, Breyers ice cream and Ritz crackers, and the implications of this for enjoyment and health. Tell us in the comments which snacks you think are just not what they used to be.

https://flip.it/DPRPvJ

#Food #Culture #Economics #Shrinkflation #Flavorflation

Zwieblein, 5 months ago to literature

I was stupidly thrilled while reading my e-newsletter from @elcultural to find the word "letraheridos" (more or less "people hurt by letters") to describe what English might call #bibliophiles or #literature lovers—and now I'm wondering if the origins of this newer term have anything to do with #Auden declaring #Yeats was hurt into #poetry ... Wherever it came from, I'm declaring it the best word I've heard in ages.

#Spanish #translation @poetry @bookstodon #etymology @translators

Zwieblein, 5 months ago to poetry

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, from "Save Me Joe Louis":

"but America is like that,
unrelenting, you get what you ask for
in the ring or on the kitchen floor.
Someone always wants you to give up,

shake hands, wipe the blood away and talk
of lighter things. And you do
because you've been fighting long enough
to know there's no one here to save you."

Yup. @poetry #poetry #quotes #reading @bookstodon #books

Zwieblein, 6 months ago to writing

Pondering forays today into pantoums and/or sestinas; I hope to be able in the next few days to test out a vague sense that certain poetic #forms might get at certain #feelings or situations in ways others might not. (Hardly a revelation, but it's a new point in my being unable to abandon attempts at #writing #Poetry.)
@poetry @writingcommunity

GayOldTime, 6 months ago to queer

A gay hostess sash for gay hostesses 🎀
#vintageAd #lesbian #menstruation

CityHoosier, 6 months ago to cooking

Tonight, we made my favorite pancake recipe, but with a twist. So, first, a disclaimer: we have never put fruit in, despite the recipe being for fruity pancakes. Anyway, we normally use Trader Joe's gluten-free pancake mix, but this time we did King Arthur's gluten-free pancake mix. Honestly, it's way better than Trader Joe's. I ain't going back, willingly.

#Cooking #Recipe #Recipes

https://thisdelicioushouse.com/sheet-pan-pancakes-from-mix/#recipe

Zwieblein, 6 months ago to zerowaste

Cornered another alderman at a #library event tonight and made a plug for municipal #composting. He did not look at me as if I were a nut, and agreed "we need to do something."

tscriado, 6 months ago to design

Repairing Design: Damage, Care, and Fragilities

Guest Editors: Blanca Callén & Melisa Duque

This issue explores how design, its products, and disciplinary limits could be 'repaired' through the alliance with repair practices, agents, and derived knowledge.

http://www.revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/issue/view/3129

#sts @sts #design #repair

compost, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to ShareYourMusic

AI services are a thing now.

But to be honest, my local library is better than AI why?

It has a seeds and seedling #library and the local librarians are cool.

If I need any info on #composting the local library is still the place to go.

And it is FREE or as close as you can get. Greetings to all #librarians on #mastodon you rock.

LibrarianRA, 6 months ago to food

What's for dinner tonight ?
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Hellmann's Mayonnaise with Frozen Fruit Salad recipe, 1936
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#Mayonnaise #Hellmanns #food #Advertisement #retro #vintage #wth #wtf #FruitSalad

Zwieblein, 7 months ago to Quotes

I'm also rereading Rimbaud's A Season in Hell and Illuminations almost 30 years after first having done so. It's not in the same spirit, @AbandonedAmerica, but I did think of you when reading "I loved abandoned places, burned orchards, musty shops, tepid drinks." (But then he goes on: "I would drag myself through stinking alleys, close my eyes, and offer myself up to the sun, the god of fire." Maybe applicable, maybe not!)

#quotes #reading @bookstodon #bookstodon #literature #poetry

icevislab, 7 months ago to random

Preprint🚨 "Objects, faces, and spaces: Organizational principles of visual object perception as evidenced by individual differences in behavior" by Heida Maria Sigurdardottir (now mostly on Bluesky @heidasigurdar.bsky.social) and Inga María Ólafsdóttir. This one only took checks notes two and a half years... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.01.560383v1 THREAD :brain_loading:

What are the diagnostic dimensions on which objects truly differ visually, and do these dimensions provide the foundation for the organizational principles of visual object perception as evidenced by individual differences in behavior?

Using data-driven methods, we utilized a deep convolutional neural network to construct a visual object space extracted from deep layer activations for a reference set of objects. The first two dimensions of object space capture attributes that distinguish one object from another and may map onto the anatomical organization of the ventral visual stream of non-human primates, but its existence in humans is unclear. If object space underlies human visual cognition, this should have a measurable effect on people's object discrimination.

We focused on the so-called face quadrant (stubby-animate quadrant) of object space, as there are considerable individual differences in face discrimination abilities, and a lively debate has revolved around whether such abilities are specific to faces. In this preregistered study, we collected data from a large (N=511) heterogeneous sample to amplify individual differences in visual discrimination. We primarily targeted people with self-declared face recognition abilities on opposite sides of the spectrum, ranging from poor to excellent face recognizers. We then administered a visual foraging task where faces and other objects had to be discriminated. Stimuli were carefully picked out of tens of thousands of images to either match or not match with the coordinates of faces in object space.

Results showed that face discrimination did not rely on completely domain-specific abilities but also tapped into mechanisms that supported other object discrimination. Specifically, people who struggled with telling apart faces also had difficulties with discriminating other objects from the face quadrant of object space.

We suggest that fundamental visual properties – here approximated by two primary dimensions of an object space captured by CNNs – are automatically extracted by the human visual system during an initial bottom-up sweep.

These properties may guide the selection of appropriate methods of further object processing, e.g., global/configural/holistic vs. piecemeal/feature-based processing, axis-based shape processing, structural representations, image-based/view-based representations.

To the best of our knowledge, the current study provides the first behavioral evidence for the existence of an object space in human visual cognition.

Preregistration: osf.io/q5ne8
Data and analysis code: osf.io/2jn6c/

Questions and comments, includings suggestions for references to additional literature, are welcome: heidasi@hi.is

Zwieblein, 7 months ago to books

I think it was you, @nadinmai, who mentioned Geert Mak's In Europe not too long ago. Well, I got, it, dove in, and just couldn't stop #reading. Incredible book—and it was all even better, knowing it was a sort of word-of-mouth recommendation!

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #history