pondweed

a list of things I decided at some time or another aren’t currently crucial for me to understand but would be potentially interesting to explore later. may fluctuate significantly as things become relevant or I lose interest.

physical sciences

Section titled “physical sciences”
  • Magneto-inertial fusion
  • monotremes and electroreception
  • Obelisk (biology) - Incertae sedis
  • parallel intelligence
  • fluid dynamics

methods and movements

Section titled “methods and movements”
  • technopagan
  • somatics
  • generative somatics

tech/media + society

Section titled “tech/media + society”
  • women’s emancipation as seen through doctor who companions and additional characters
  • Translation softwares gendering, choosing specific Pronunciation too
  • ‘slime tutorials’, unalive, ⭐ve and other constantly evolving anti-content-moderation-takedown language
  • what happened to ‘press the red button’
  • simplification of logos and forced graphic minimalism. relationships with complexity
  • ‘im not a robot’ can analyse your mouse movements and possibly your browsing history (source?)
  • pulling in parts of geographical map and parts of very personally relevant maps into into same frame.
  • Google returns datasets in search results now??

names

Section titled “names”
  • Staci Haines
  • Spenta Kandawalla
  • Lin Hoi-man
  • Lisa Thomas Adeyemo
  • Chris Lymbertos
  • Vassilissa Johri
  • Richard Strozzi-Heckler
  • Robert Gao on the art of transformation
  • China Melville
  • Zapatista
  • Nale Hopkinson
  • Samuel Delaney

hardware

Section titled “hardware”
  • Optical telegraphs
  • how do fax machines work, how easy are they to repair, how useful are they, how much are they still used
  • the above but for telegrams
  • how do satellite phones work
  • Scicomm techcomm book ‘enigmatic england’ small man in early phone boxes to do the process ‘call station’
  • used to be an Out of office for phones by telling the call operators - click the amount of times of the hour, to phone back

software

Section titled “software”
  • code graveyard, code rehab, code rescue. Hub to find devs to rescue/recover/maintain legacy/deprecated/abandoned code/archive stuff that used to be useful. I guess somewhere like GitHub is this concept in an informal sort of way.
  • mass de-drm, mass eBook archive, etc
  • value based job matching - have seen a maybe solution, Japan’s implementation ‘wantedly’
  • expanding available info about a company and their hiring processes on job sites eg like glassdoor’s extra info, but full info on eg interview methods and stages
  • text based adventure escape the maze except it’s ‘AI-assisted’ hell nightmare where you can’t Just find the answer easy

mixed and misc

Section titled “mixed and misc”
  • fps video games allow dialogue in mentalese as you’re first hand experiencing that’s why actual dialogue can feel stilted - immersion, mediation
  • Robots and awareness of back and behind. 3D or construed as human vision and perception
  • ‘portal to the past’ in physical/virtual mixed 3d space
  • fridge/freezer digital twins, are there actually any good current solutions, EG fridges with barcode readers, and how do they account for homemade/remix/partially eaten things
  • computation modelled on octopus brain layout or inspired by it