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Surreal collage art by Bev Acton
#art #collage #surrealism #surreal #SurrealArt

For the past couple days we've been in the surreal situation where the insurance company is assuring everyone they will pay...and it's the doctors that wouldn't book the medicine (because they say insurance won't pay).
Twilight Zone.

It's surreal how slowly time moves in the world of C compilers.
Today there are still active projects that are hesitant to move past C89, and C99 is still the "new" standard.
The C99 standard has been released before the first public Mac OS X and Windows XP. It's older Itanium and the x86-64 instruction set. It predates iPod, Game Cube, first ever Xbox, and Nokia 3310.
Entire platforms lived and died in the meantime, while C programmers still can't be …

Glad to celebrate the release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, Tricia Romano’s incredible oral history of the Village Voice. I’m a tiny footnote amongst so many huge voices. And very surreal to read back what I remember about waking up the morning of 9/11. https://www.

The Freaks Came Out to Write
A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers.  You either wer...

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tea ✩ swallow surreal space cherry size of eyeball ✩ gulp ✩ grasp side of adjacent portion ✩ anticipatory cake collapse disorder ✩ envisage future self seated at right hand of network attached storage system plunging fork into cracked monitor ✩ delicious cathode ray ✩ First Supper

#Surreal. Espero que esse daí programe em uma linguagem que tenha um bom garbage collector rs. #PiadaInfame, eu sei rs.

Sign sequences of log-atomic numbers
Vincent Bagayoko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15800

Sign sequences of log-atomic numbers
Log-atomic numbers are surreal numbers whose iterated logarithms are monomials, and consequently have a trivial expansion as transseries. Presenting surreal numbers as sign sequences, we give the sign sequence formula for log-atomic numbers. To that efect, we relate log-atomic numbers to fixed-points of certain surreal functions.

Cry-laugh-cry at this piece on #Ukraine and the comedian auctioning the absurd to raise money.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…

My dream workbook is here! Thanks, @… . #YAY

Sign sequences of log-atomic numbers
Vincent Bagayoko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15800

Sign sequences of log-atomic numbers
Log-atomic numbers are surreal numbers whose iterated logarithms are monomials, and consequently have a trivial expansion as transseries. Presenting surreal numbers as sign sequences, we give the sign sequence formula for log-atomic numbers. To that efect, we relate log-atomic numbers to fixed-points of certain surreal functions.

INDUSTRIA
Industria is a first-person shooter that takes you from East Berlin into a parallel reality, shortly before the end of the Cold War. On the search for a missing work colleague, you decipher a dark past in a mysterious and surreal steampunk world.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/in

Any journalist who calls Elon Musk a "free-speech absolutist" without using quotes or prefacing it by "self-proclaimed" (or equivalent) shouldn't be a journalist.
https://www.irisht…

Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform
The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said

#LB Esta é da série "a realidade tornando o nosso dia mais surreal".
https://metalhead.club/@sharan/112169812612847985

One of my favorite movies.
#Film #Movies

‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’: Still Hard to Forget
Michel Gondry’s surreal love story stunned audiences in 2004, and some of its sentiments are all the more relevant in the social media age.

23. März 1971: Die Geschichte, wie ein sowjetischer #Atomwaffentest unbeabsichtigt den Anstoß zur US-amerikanischen #Klimaforschung gab, klingt wie der Plot eines Science-Fiction-Romans aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges. Doch die Realität übertrifft manchmal selbst die kühnste Fiktion. Der Versuch, mit Atombomben #Geoengineering zu betreiben, also die Umgestaltung geografischer Gegebenheiten mit dem Ziel, Trockengebiete bewässern zu können, offenbart eine fast wahnwitzige Hybris. Die Vorstellung, mit der brachialen Kraft von Atomexplosionen nicht nur die Erdoberfläche, sondern auch das Klima nach menschlichem Willen formen zu wollen, wirkt aus heutiger Sicht surreal und naiv. Es ist ein eindrucksvolles Beispiel dafür, wie der Glaube an die Allmacht technologischer Lösungen die möglichen langfristigen Folgen und Risiken ignorierte.
Noch bemerkenswerter ist die ironische Wendung, dass genau diese Hybris – die Vision, die Naturgewalten beherrschen zu können – indirekt den Weg für die Erforschung der globalen Erwärmung ebnete. In einem Zeitalter, in dem Klimawandel und seine drastischen Auswirkungen auf unser Leben zunehmend in den Fokus der öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Diskussion rücken, erscheint die Anfangsphase dieser Forschung, motiviert durch die Sorge vor globaler Abkühlung, fast wie eine Fußnote. Doch gerade diese Anfänge verdeutlichen, wie Wissenschaft sich entwickelt – oft unvorhersehbar und auf Wegen, die im Nachhinein als kurios oder gar absurd erscheinen mögen.
Die Tatsache, dass die Forschung, die einst durch die Angst vor einer nuklear verursachten klimatischen Katastrophe angestoßen wurde, heute zu einem besseren Verständnis des anthropogenen Klimawandels beiträgt, zeigt die Komplexität und Vernetztheit unseres Ökosystems. Es ist ein mahnendes Beispiel dafür, dass Eingriffe in die Natur stets unvorhersehbare Konsequenzen haben können und dass die Lösung unserer Umweltprobleme nicht in der Dominanz über die Natur, sondern im Respekt vor und der Anpassung an ihre Gesetze liegen muss.
Diese Geschichte lehrt uns, dass der Weg zur Hölle oft mit guten Absichten gepflastert ist und dass die wahre Herausforderung darin besteht, aus den Fehlern der Vergangenheit zu lernen und einen verantwortungsvolleren Umgang mit unserem Planeten zu finden. Die Ironie, dass eine der ersten umfassenden Klimaforschungen aus einem Projekt hervorging, das ursprünglich den Eingriff in das Klima durch Atomexplosionen untersuchen sollte, sollte uns allen eine Lehre sein: Manchmal führen die unerwartetsten Pfade zu Erkenntnissen, die unsere Sicht auf die Welt und unsere Rolle in ihr grundlegend verändern.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-soviet-a-bomb-test-launched-us-climate-science/

The co-habitation of Americas Got Talent shooting along side #SCaLE21x sure is surreal.
My talk about immutability starts in 15 minutes in room 212. Come by if interested!

1/2 an absolutely surreal shitpost of an #ezine that I made with electric #zine maker
(all drawings are my own and no AI was involved, electric zine maker is just for filters and stuff)

“So, to me, it’s pretty blatant and obvious that [an] Irish-headquartered tech behemoth, operated by the world’s most famous man, has suspended an Irish journalist for making those points in an Irish newspaper,” O’Reilly said.
…I do think it is a pretty hilarious bit of overreach from the guy who is a self-proclaimed #freespeech absolutist.”

Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform
The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said

Trump, Whose Brain Is Definitely Not Mush, Thinks Democrats Will Change The Name Of Pennsylvania For Some Reason
https://uproxx.com/viral/trump-change-name-pennsylvania/

Trump, Whose Brain Is Definitely Not Mush, Thinks Democrats Will Change The Name Of Pennsylvania For Some Reason
The former president took his scare tactics to a surreal new level.

there is something absolutely surreal about pressing the "check for updates" button on a 10 year old phone and getting a new 2 week old build of android installed

nancy & sluggo in "love's savage fury," by mark newgarden, raw #8, 1986. #comix #comics

The experience of totality is such a surreal experience. It's not just the sun being blocked out by the giant tortilla in the sky. It looked like the sun was setting/rising from every direction around. Starlings started chirping and geese started flying. Definitely worth seeing one in real life. No crappy cell phone picture could ever describe the 4 minute experience of the Great American Eclipse of 2024.
The Great American Traffic Jam of 2024 now follows.

What a sad interview
#news

What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa | Democracy Now!
“And, you know, what we’re hearing on the ground is surreal. It’s dystopic. What I witnessed personally in Rafah and in some of the middle areas is incomprehensible. And I will call it a holocaust — and I don’t use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that.”

What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa
We speak with Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa, who is in Cairo and just returned from two weeks in Gaza. “What’s happening to people isn’t just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood, of their whole society,” says Abulhawa. “What I witnessed personally in Rafah and some of the middle areas is incomprehensible, and I will call it a holocaust — and I don’t use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that.”

Watching a flight safety video where folk are at some island spa. It's more surreal than I expected, particularly if you substitute island for plane.
"This island has six emergency exits..."
"If the island suddenly depressurizes, oxygen masks will.."
"In the case the island makes a water landing..."
Barely anything about volcanoes.

With 8 days to go before 🇪🇺#AFIR comes into force, today's focus is on payment and pricing for public #EV charging: it's going to be a bit surreal.

Jaap Burger on LinkedIn: #afir
In 8 days' time, on 13 April 2024 📆, most of the provisions of the 🇪🇺 European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation #AFIR for new charging points…

Cave of wonders.
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Trump, Whose Brain Is Definitely Not Mush, Thinks Democrats Will Change The Name Of Pennsylvania For Some Reason
https://uproxx.com/viral/trump-change-name-pennsylvania/

Trump, Whose Brain Is Definitely Not Mush, Thinks Democrats Will Change The Name Of Pennsylvania For Some Reason
The former president took his scare tactics to a surreal new level.

Cosmic Blossom: A Pixel Dreamscape
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Momento surreal do dia foi eu descendo pra pegar a comida e o entregador perguntar se eu era português por conta da forma de falar. Queeeeeeeeee? Meu sotaque carioca é razoavelmente acentuado, essa foi bem louca rs.