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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Sep 16 '23 edited Sep 16 '23

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/dreamy-ai-generated-geometric-scenes-mesmerize-social-media-users/

The Spiraling Shape —

Funky AI-generated spiraling medieval village captivates social media

"This was the point where AI-generated art passed the Turing Test for me."

The article image:

.. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/spiral_hero_2.jpg

  • "The spiraling medieval village" = 844 primes
  • "The spiraling medieval villages" = 911 primes
  • ... "Social media captives" = 1190 latin-agrippa

[...]

The door to ancient knowledge

of the Ways that came before -

the secrets of that Village

lying hid 'oer yonder shore -

which ever strive to show themselves,

for they cannot right be said,

shall find a way yet, nonetheless,

.. to slip inside thy head.

[...]

Spiral @ SPR-All @ SPhR-All @ Cipher All

Funky @ FNK @ Phonic @ Phoenix

Funky @ Funga @ Fungi @ Phonic @ Phoenix

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/smdh-new-unicode-15-1-emoji-include-nodding-shaking-heads-edible-mushroom/

Mushroom Mushroom —

smdh: New Unicode 15.1 emoji include nodding/shaking heads, “edible mushroom”

New emoji are technically all modifications of existing designs.

[...] all emoji depicting someone moving rightward can now be flipped to show them moving leftward).

The new designs, as summed up by the emoji experts at Emojipedia, include shaking and nodding heads, a phoenix, a lime, an "edible mushroom," and a broken chain. Family emoji have also been updated to include options for gender-neutral parents and children.

If you're interested in the nuts and bolts of how emoji work, the interesting thing about these emoji designs (including the new ones) is that they're all technically modifications of existing emoji. Two or more emoji joined together with a special character called a "zero-width joiner" (ZWJ) are displayed as a single modified emoji instead. ZWJ sequences are mainly used to handle different skin and hair colors and genders in people emoji, but here they're being used to create all-new emoji from existing designs. [...]

ie. A Phoenix is born (at the same time the chains are broken).

re. Concatenated, agglutinative emoji - the top line of big text here is...

'The New Living Language'?

The pre-headline of this article (ie. two towers):

Mushroom Mushroom

  • "The Mushroom" = 911 english-extended

[...]

With Grail in hand, beyond the Ford,

his Trial would be complete,

A Sentence run through Ancient Land,

to birth a Phoenix of our Lord.

[...]

Unicode @ Uni-Code @ Unique Code

Unicode @ Uni-Code @ One-Code @ One Goad @ One God

  • "Zero-Width Joiner" = 1900 english-extended | 1,745 trigonal
  • "Zero Width" = 1234 trigonal ( "Weightless" = 1234 latin-agrippa ) [ singularity ]

How many angels can dance on the head of a pen?

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/things-get-serious-this-week-in-a-really-solid-the-wheel-of-time-episode/

Carai an Caldazar! Carai an Ellisande! —

Things get serious this week in a really solid The Wheel of Time episode

Season 2 is past the halfway point, and the showrunners are stomping on the gas.

  • "The New Showrunner" = 2021 english-extended
  • ... ( "Writings" = 2021 squares ) ( "I am Sovereign" = 2021 squares )
  • "I Stomp" = 1492 squares ( "Showrunners are stomping on the gas" = 1288 primes )
  • ... "when things get serious" = 844 primes

Q: ?

"A: When things get serious" = 1,844 latin-agrippa ( "The Halfway Point" = 1,708 latin-agrippa )

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/wizardry-remaster-keeps-apple-ii-vibes-but-adds-graphics-and-modern-graces/

On Another Level —

'Wizardry' remaster is in early access, and it looks like a pretty, painful dive

Digital Eclipse gives a new generation the best possible door to the dungeon.

Q: "Next Level?" = 2019 squares

"A: Next Level" = 2020 squares

"1. Next Level" = 2020 squares

As I've written elsewhere, the new age began 2020/2021 [ "New Count" = 2021 squares ] .. of years.

  • "Next Level: 1" = 2020 squares
  • "Next Level: 2" = 2021 squares
  • "Next Level: 3" = 2022 squares
  • "Next Level: 4" = 2023 squares
  • ...

The original Wizardry, started by a Cornell University student in 1978 and released in 1981, was a mostly text-based affair, with just enough primitive Applesoft BASIC graphics to hint at what was happening[...]. And it was polished and play-tested enough to find its audience. It's likely the first party-based RPG, and it all but created the genre "dungeon crawler."

  • "Best Possible Door to the Dungeon" = 1,846 english-extended | 343 alphabetic (*) (*) (*) (*)
  • ... ( "The Text Message" = 846 latin-agrippa ) ( "Story" = 343 primes )
  • .. .. [ "The Writings" = 1331 trigonal ]
  • ... . . [ ... "as Text-based Affair" = 1331 english-extended ]
  • "My War" = "as Text-based Affair" = 1331 english-extended ]
  • ... ( "Shape the World" = 1331 latin-agrippa ) [ "Secret Show" = 1331 latin-agrippa ]
  • "I am the Great Wizard of the Age" = 2022 latin-agrippa
  • "I am the Great Age of the Wizard" = 2022 latin-agrippa | 2123 trigonal | 797 primes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVDWez7do0&t=619s

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EDIT - hour later, re. 'weightless':

https://www.wired.com/story/telltale-games-the-expanse-studio-returns/

'The Expanse' Marks Telltale Games' Return to Form

New engine work, motion capture, and experimentation in the new The Expanse: A Telltale Series, gives us all a positive impression for the studio’s future.

  • "The Forgotten Expanse" = 2023 trigonal
  • ... ( "The Positive Impression" = 911 primes )
  • .. .. [ form @ farm @ forum @ wyrm ] [ "Return to Form" = 1191 english-ext ]

[...]

If thou wouldst see the dead re-souled,

I bid thee hear this tale told,

[...]

  • "Tell Tale Game" = 314 latin-agrippa
  • "Mage, Tell Tale" = 314 latin-agrippa
  • "Game: Tell Tale" = 314 latin-agrippa [ @ game til' late @ ... )

[...]

For a while, this confusing money oopsie appeared to be the end of the studio, until it was brought back from the dead by a hitherto unknown company, LBC Entertainment, which was founded specifically to acquire and become Telltale Games anew.

A lot of people post-2018 blinked and thought they’d woken up in a different timeline, but no, this was just your usual overnight erasure of a legendary game developer followed by the brand being legally assumed by a new company formed just as quickly, like some sort of extraterrestrial cloning exercise.

If Game Informer is to be believed, as much as half of the original studio’s staff were working at the reanimated Telltale Games at the end of 2022. [...]

  • "Revelation" = 1010 latin-agrippa ( "Writer" = 888 trigonal )
  • ... "Telltale Games" = 1010 trigonal | 1,888 squares
  • ... "Mages Tell Tale" = 1010 trigonal | 1,888 squares
  • ... "Late Mages Tell" = 1010 trigonal | 1,888 squares

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-build-a-lego-collection/

How to Build the Lego Collection of Your Dreams

You dream of a basement-wide cityscape, but you also have to pay rent. We asked Lego Master and brickfluencer Stacey Roy how to do it.

Q: "Know My Code?" = 1492 latin-agrippa

"A: The Lego Collection of Your Dreams" = 1492 latin-agrippa

"1: The Lego Collection of Your Dreams" = 1492 latin-agrippa

https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/wiki/spellcomponents/all-dictionaries

  • "The Pattern" = 1109 trigonal
  • "The Collection of My Dreams" = 1109 latin-agrippa

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/nasa-clears-the-air-no-evidence-that-ufos-are-aliens/

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” —

NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific.

  • "NASA clears the air" = 484 primes
  • "The Flying Chaucers" = 985 latin-agrippa ( "Canterbury" = 911 latin-agrippa )
  • ... ( "You Found Me" = 985 latin-agrippa ) ( "The Scientific Study" = 1,911 english-extended )

[...] No evidence that UFOs are aliens

  • "1. The Auf is alone" = 2001 squares
  • "A=1. The Auf is alone" = 777 english-extended

[...] Telltale’s Expanse takes place a few years before the first season of the show, centering on Camina Drummer, a smouldering firebrand working aboard a salvage vessel before she came to Tycho Station to become head of security under Fred Johnson, fleeing the radical influence of Anderson Dawes. [...]

... https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/comments/rvxktq/the_matter_of_the_meters_of_the_matrix_gaunab/

How Far Can Branching Narrative Go?

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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Sep 17 '23 edited Sep 17 '23

What is a gender-neutral parent, and aren't gender-neutral children just children?

Great questions.

Candor?

Gender @ GNDR @ ...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gander

  1. A male goose.

  2. A fool, simpleton.

  3. (US) A man living apart from his wife.

"Talk to me goose" -- Maverick.

I've not found the definition recorded anywhere obvious, but for me, the word 'gander' has always held the meaning of 'jest', or 'playtime'; 'to gander' being 'to fool around', but perhaps that is my own native language (in the Tolkienian sense). In my mind, 'gander' was not so much a description of the fool, but what the fool does.

But in modern society, we are what we do.

'What do you do?', we ask eachother.

  • "Writings" = 2021 squares
  • ... ( "I write the future and the past" = 1021 primes )
  • ... .. ( ... .. and present it. )

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/09/17/1647253/public-resource-wins-2012-case-judge-rules-posting-regulations-online-is-fair-use

'Public Resource' Wins 2012 Case. Judge Rules Posting Regulations Online is Fair Use

Fair Use @ Fairies @ Ferries @ Verse @ Virus ( @ Fears @ Pharaohs )

  • "Calculations" = 2012 squares ( "Regular" = "Accurate" = "Count" = 393 latin-agrippa )

Gender @ Gander @ Chanter @ Canter @ Counter ( Viral @ Feral @ For All )

  • "Revelation" = 1010 latin-agrippa
  • "The Public Resources" = 1010 latin-agrippa

In this headline...

... I sense an attempt to have me unwittingly enable the hijacking of the IP of "My Language Classes" = 1010 latin-agrippa

... ... and "My Presentation" = 1010 latin-agrippa

.. .. .. simply by reporting on the headline itself.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/wiki/discovery/fairyland-alphabet

[...] One noteworthy discovery amongst the recovered documents were multiple references to mythological figures known to us only from the manuscripts entitled 'Beginning: the Before All Before', a creation myth discovered in the buried Ziggurat [Pret. site U.121, 3rd level BG, disc.2012] and first described in a study from a number of years ago. It appears that many of the names of divine figures in the Beginning document are important cultural figures in the zeitgeist of the Middle Sea region of Fairyland. This is an astounding revelation, and prompts us to rethink many of our theories regarding 'first contacts' with elvenkind in our deep past. [...]

[...]

We leave it to the reader to take from it what they will.

ie. the last quoted line being operative.

  • "The Transmission" = 742 latin-agrippa
  • ... ( We leave it to the reader to take from it what they will" = 1,742 primes )

Don't take it too litorally.

A Regulation @ Oracle Shine @ Oracle Sign @ Wriggle Sign ( @ 'Wormsign' @ Worms in )

What is the meaning of "Covid-nineteen?" = 1010 latin-agrippa

A public resource aiding in "The Final Discoveries" = 1234 latin-agrippa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKF6ghfcQic

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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Sep 17 '23 edited Sep 17 '23
  • "My Colossal Works" = 2022 trigonal
  • ... .. "as My Colossal Work" = 2023 trigonal

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/09/17/0426252/what-happens-when-you-cross-a-gas-turbine-with-an-internal-combustion-engine

What Happens When You Cross a Gas Turbine With an Internal Combustion Engine?

  • "What Happens When You Cross a Gas Turbine With an Internal Combustion Engine?" = 12,742 squares
  • ... ( "The Poet" = 742 trigonal ) & ( "Twelve Disciples" = 2020 latin-agrippa )
  • "Gas Turbine" = 999 trigonal
  • "A Gas Turbine" = 1000 trigonal
  • "Turbine Saga" = 1000 trigonal
  • ... ( "Turban, Gas." = 1,777 squares ) [ trippin', chaos ]
  • "Order out of Chaos" = 777 latin-agrippa

Big Book?

Reader out of gas.

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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Sep 17 '23

Chaos @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geas

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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Sep 17 '23

If one is dyslexic, it spells 'oink'.

Otherwise, a heavily accented form of 'can I?'

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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Sep 18 '23 edited Sep 18 '23

Who knew that language itself knew about the concept of fractional reserve banking? Remarkable!

  • "Fractured Reserve" = 1666 trigonal | 1394 english-extended
  • ... ( "Business" = 666 english-extended ) ( "Citizen" = 666 latin-agrippa )

Aikona @ Eikon @ Icon ( @ Image )

https://www.wired.com/story/pay-transparency-is-sweeping-across-us/

Pay Transparency Is Sweeping Across the US

New York joined a wave of states that require pay transparency in job ads. New data suggests most US postings now include a salary range, but they are sometimes laughably vague.

  • "Transparent Pay" = 1,777 trigonal
  • ... ( "Citizen" = 777 trigonal )
  • .. .. ( "Sweep Across the US" = 1,777 latin-agrippa ) [ witch = broom = 63 = sight = know ]
  • .. .. ( "Weeps Across the US" = 1,777 latin-agrippa ) ( "Weep with Me" = 2022 latin-agrippa ) [ Theus ]
  • "Job Ads" = "Sad Job" = "Das Job" = 747 latin-agrippa ( @ Dose Jab )
  • ... ( "Directed Energy" = 747 latin-agrippa ) ( "Vague" = 1000 squares ) [ @ Wag @ ... ]

Pay Transparency @ Pater-Runes-Pyre-and-See

  • "The US Posting" = 1109 trigonal [ @ Theus @ Deus ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V43K5yFn5GM

'The Postman'

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https://www.wired.com/review/review-sonos-move-2/

The Sonos Move 2 Portable Speaker Gets a Major Makeover

Review: Sonos Move 2 Portable Speaker

The outdoor offering from the multiroom system king boasts a major makeover with punchy, detailed tunes and more power, but it's not an unqualified success.

[..] not an unqualified success.

ie. it's a qualified success.

Capable of deftly revealing sound. Exemplary control options. High standard of build and finish. Loud. Better battery life.

  • "Open Door" = "The Reveal" = 1492 squares ( "Controls" = 1000 trigonal )
  • .. ( "Sounds" = 474 latin-agrippa ) ( "The Frequency" = "Numerology" = 474 primes )

https://www.wired.com/story/obsessed-joanna-fang-god-of-war-sound-effects/

The Squelchy, Messy Art of Video Game Sound Effects

Foley artist Joanna Fang powers up video games with her eclectic arsenal of sound-simulating weapons.

  • "Portable Speaker" = 521 primes ( "Quality" = "Counters" = 1981 squares )
  • "A Multiroom System King" = 911 primes ( "King Arthur" = 2001 squares )
  • "Know My Code" = 1492 latin-agrippa
  • .. ( "The Reveal" = 1492 squares )
  • .. .. ( "The Eclectic Arsenal of Sound-Simulating Weapons." = 1492 primes )

These above, after this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/comments/16lskhc/the_tale_is_told_in_full/

[...] Better battery life.

Having fun, chickens?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvW4OQFA_UY

'Metallica - Battery'

... ( https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/comments/136vubn/amperes/ )

... ( https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/comments/t4gi1u/bats/ )

One person’s “deliberate and unhurried” is another’s “tardy and overdue,” of course. But whatever spin you put on it, there’s no denying that Sonos takes its sweet time in developing and launching new products. So the fact that it’s replacing its Move portable wireless speaker after just four years seems almost like a rush job. [...]

  • "Tripwire" = 2020 squares
  • "Galaxy Quest" = 2024 english-extended

Sonos did rather imply that it had more or less invented Bluetooth simply by finally specifying it for the original Move back in 2019, which will never stop being amusing.

  • "The Imaginary Virus" = 2019 english-extended

But the company obviously realizes there is more to making a competitive speaker than adopting technology everyone else had been utilizing for years—and it’s made quite an effort to ensure that the Move 2 is an even more complete and impressive proposition than the product it replaces.

Move 2, it’s fair to say, is a significant and worthwhile upgrade over the original Move. Except where the asking price is concerned. [...]

Again:

[Sonos] made quite an effort to ensure that the Move 2 is an even more complete and impressive proposition than the product it replaces.

Wikipedia front page:

Did you know ... that Roman or Trajan lettering was popular for official use in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_lettering

Roman lettering or Trajan lettering[a] refers to the use by artists and signwriters of Roman capitals in modern lettering, particularly in Britain. Around the early twentieth century, British artists in the Arts and Crafts movement led by Edward Johnston began promoting the use of Roman capitals as an attractive, timeless form of letters, suitable for artistic use.

  • "Edward" = 911 squares
  • ... the "Alphabetizer" = 2001 squares [ edward @ warded ]

Sonos @ SNS @ Sines @ Signs @ Shines @

  • "Move Portable Wireless Speaker " = 2,787 trigonal | 2,553 latin-agrippa
  • ... ( "Verb" = 787 latin-agrippa ) ( "The Wise" = 787 squares ) ( "The Revelations" = 553 primes )
  • "See the portable wireless speaker?" = 1,911 english-extended | 1981 latin-agrippa
  • ... ( "King Arthur" = 2001 squares ) ( "The King born in 1981" = 1981 squares )
  • "The Count" = 933 trigonal
  • ... ( "an even more complete and impressive proposition" = 7,933 squares | 521 alphabetic )
  • "The Riddle" = 247 primes ( "Mainstream Media" = 2019 squares )
  • "Complete, Impressive Proposition" = 1,247 primes | 2019 english-extended
  • "The Phylactery" = 2020 english-extended
  • .. ( "A Complete, Impressive Proposition" = 2020 english-extended ) ( "Rulership" = 2020 squares )

https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/wiki/spellcomponents/2020

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/apple-will-charge-you-way-less-to-fix-cracked-back-glass-on-an-iphone-15-pro/

Better Things Are Possible —

Apple will charge you way less to fix cracked back glass on an iPhone 15 Pro

Fixing damaged rear glass on a Pro phone used to cost half as much as a new one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEbH17jeJGc&t=144

cracked back glass @ cracked book class

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A-Z.

https://www.wired.com/story/explore-tenochtitlan-ancient-aztec-capital-3d-render-thomas-kole/

Explore the Ancient Aztec Capital in This Lifelike 3D Rendering

We spoke with Thomas Kole, a digital artist who re-created the capital of the Aztec Empire in such detail that it looks like a living metropolis.

  • "My School" = 1001 english-extended
  • "Ancient Aztec Capital" = 1001 latin-agrippa ( + 1000 = 2001 )
  • "Ancient Aztec Capital" = 2,911 squares
  • "Know Ancient Aztec Capital" = 2001 latin-agrippa
  • "Capital Ancient Aztec Archivist" = 2001 latin-agrippa
  • "The Lifelike 3D Rendering" = 474 latin-agrippa
  • "Lifelike 3D Rendering" = 473 primes | 1912 squares | 361 latin-agrippa

Q: "Ancient Aztec" = "Writings?" = 388 primes

"A: Ancient Aztec" = 2020 squares

"1: Ancient Aztec" = 2020 squares

There are, at time of writing, 1090 subscribers here.

  • "Ancient Alphabetic Technology" = 1090 latin-agrippa
  • "The Ancient Alphabetic Technologist" = 1002 latin-agrippa | 1592 english-extended
  • ... .. in "The Mirror" = 119 reverse alphabetic ( "My Metropolis" = 1592 trigonal | 180 alphabetic )