This is so on form for UCLAN.

Dead drops and one time pads.

Set up a numbers station if you can afford it.

If you read the paper…

This finding remained robust to the inclusion of covariates describing high-school achievement, intelligence, family background, earnings as adults, as well as mental and physical health in middle adulthood.

Hi, I’m Issac Newton, you might remember me from… The motions.

Petition to edit all textbooks, renaming Newton as THE Motion Guy.

Yeah, no.

Newton was such a complex human. He seemed capable of holding many, sometimes opposing beliefs, at the same time.

Newton’s conception of the physical world provided a model of the natural world that would reinforce stability and harmony in the civic world. Newton saw a monotheistic God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.

There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to his religious beliefs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newton

If you are into learning about him there’s also a rather good read, The Janus Faces of Genius, by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, that looks into his occult work.

Furthermore, for the sake of complexity, we can look into how, when he was the warden of the mint, he became responsible for the deaths of 19 people. He turned a largely ceremonial role into a task force, chasing down forgers and sentencing them to death.

Dunno, just feels like a vague statement with no real evidence.

Sort of like, “you wouldn’t know my girlfriend, she goes to a different school”.

Really, which scientists?

The comment section of that video demonstrates why many people ate put off by the Linux community.

Sure, the guy made a bad call on manjaro, but the weird smug comments and toxicity as a response seems disproportionate.

The arch userbase pretending they did something more difficult than follow a recipe.

Seconded. I keep trying others. I tried feedly for a while. I also tried readyou (which I still keep on my phone)… But nothing comes as close to inoreader for doing what I want.

Also, I’ve learnt how to aggregate other feeds into a single feed to pass them into it to get around the 150 limit. Not ideal, but I’m cheap.

If you’ve got wood, you’ve got something to drink.

Yeah, that’s not how primary evidence works.

Yeah. I think that’s fair. Although I’m interested to know why they chose 60fps rather than 24. It seems like a flex as opposed to a genuine desire to show fluid movement.

I suspect that, in a very pure way, the study of the colourisation could be an interesting academic pursuit that would reveal more about what we are looking at. Though that would require a ton of work and would still require a fair amount of presumption to be “complete”.

But there’s the rub. “Modern audiences”. Rather than pander to an expectation that things have to look a particular way now surely we should encourage people to see how it was recorded then?

The very fact there is film documentation of a scene in 1896 is interesting in its own right, and for want of a better phrase, it is what it is. This is what footage from over a hundred years ago looks like. I guess I’m not that comfortable with a revisionist history of media.

Not sure what that’s got to do with this… I mean you are right, there’s a lot of editing going on with smartphone images, but procedural and untentional. The current scandal over the princess of Wale’s clearly photoshopped family portrait is indicative.

But just because one technology messes with things doesn’t provide an excuse for that to happen across the board.

And I’m not being romantic, I’m talking about the veracity of primary historic documentation vs the need for someone to see something in colour at 60fps.

I mean, 60fps from 18fps. That’s what 42 frames per second “interpolated”. That means two thirds of this, as content, are inferred rather than being primary evidence.

Using the terms “low quality” and “high quality” are odd too. Subjective modernisms. Sure, that’s fine when denoting something purely as entertainment, but it doesn’t hold up as fact.

I don’t know why this irks me so much, I guess it shouldn’t.

Yeah, it looks pretty. But… I dunno. It wasn’t what was filmed at the time, and I sort of like that. What we are seeing is gaps filled in and made up by computers, a fiction to make us happy, no more truth than in the original.

But yeah, still cool even if not strictly history.

The only thing I’ve found that makes much difference is pre-wetting filters. The rest feels awfully like tarot and crystals for people that like caffeine.

Lovely stuff. The democratisation of objects, the very idea that you can conceive and create under your own hand, is the true technical revolution.

Out there, all the chat is about AI. The truth is, 3D printing has done more for technology, and human activity.

Ach, I’ll get off my soapbox. Well done, you’ve made something cool.

Yeah I was being a little glib. It’s close to perfect for me. Also Kim.

It’s certainly worth playing if you enjoy whimsical philosophical narratives.