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Foam → Unicorn ⏰ 02:23 🦶9

(Foam → Baby_seat → Bike_child_seat → Bicycle_saddle → Saddle → Domestication_of_the_horse → Horse → List_of_historical_horses → List_of_fictional_horses → Unicorn)

This was a weird one. There were much fewer common concepts in the foam article than I had expected. I was able to get to my destination though through a pathway that became obvious when I saw the word saddle.

I actually played this one as an icebreaker, warm-up activity with my master’s cohort and I got to see all of their thinking as well. This is why I love The Wiki Game. This peek into another person’s thought process is endlessly fascinating to me. Here are their paths.

(Foam → Old_High_German → Frisian_languages → Frisians → Friesland → Friesian_horse → Horse_breed → List_of_horse_breeds → Unicorn)

(Foam → Old_High_German → Old_High_German_literature → Merseburg_Charms → Folklore → Childlore → Fantasy → Mythical_creature → Unicorn)

(Foam → Materials_science → Electron → Lightning → Earth → Planetary_habitability → Bacteria → Predation → Herbivory → Animal → Mythology → Fable → Legendary_creature → Unicorn)

(Foam → Dispersed_media → Fog → Mist → Refraction → Rainbow → Rainbows_in_mythology → Leprechaun → Mushroom → Morphology_(biology) → Ancient_Greek → Netherlands → Castles → Water_well → Spring_(hydrology) → Narcissus_(mythology) → Eros → Cupid_and_Psyche → Fairy_tale → Unicorn)

(Foam → Foam_party → Carnival → Cirque_du_Soleil → Equestrian_vaulting → Horse → Unicorn)

(Foam → Soap → Soap_plant → Chlorogalum_pomeridianum → Petal → Flora → Fauna → Extraterrestrial_life → Extraterrestrial_intelligence → Life_origination_beyond_planets → Science_fiction → Lists_of_fictional_species → Lists_of_fictional_animals → List_of_fictional_horses → Winged_unicorn → Unicorn)

(Foam → Old_High_German → French_language → Crusades → Holy_Land → Belief → Omnipotence → God → Greek_mythology → List_of_Greek_mythological_creatures → Unicorn)

(Foam → Bread → List_of_bread_dishes → Fairy_bread → Nonpareils → Dessert → Cake → Icing_(food) → Sprinkles → Gingerbread → Gingerbread_man → Fairy_tale → Unicorn)

The Wiki Game Daily

DJ Blakey explains in this video a trick of flipping the turntable platter over to create a synth bass sound that blows my mind.

I miss the days of turntablism elevating what was possible with a turntable. The levels of creativity in that era were unreal.

Original DMC World final set here.

I use iPhone Mirroring so much more than I expected to. Multiple times a day.

My work computer is still on macOS dog or monkey or whatever the previous generation was and I have felt without when I realize I can’t mirror my phone.

Update: Duh, I definitely should not use iPhone mirroring on my work computer

Linda Wolf → Rapping ⏰ 00:44 🦶3

(Linda_Wolf → Elektra_Records → Pete_Rock_%26_CL_Smooth → Rapping)

I am only mildly familiar with her work, but had me wondering if rock and roll photographer is still a job. I would be interested if folks can still live on that narrow of work or need to branch out.

The Wiki Game Daily

I’m gonna start documenting my thought process from playing The Wiki Game. This is a peek into my brain. I will try to always post the day after so there are no spoilers.

Glacial Landform → Hat ⏰ 01:06 🦶5

(Glacial_landform → Andes → Peru → Quechua_people → Bowler_hat → Hat)

The Wiki Game Daily

The Rights Of Animals Are Ignored In Navy’s Bombing Plans:

Yet all of society, from the U.S. government, to the state, to any local or other human groups who focus on animals not as sovereign beings, but only relevant to “our” rights to their lives — is deludedly selfish, and wantonly destructive. 

I don’t fault the Navy exclusively for this prejudicial and ecocidal attitude permeating everything we do to rare species. But I do take exception to the blatant expression thereof.

Powerful writing from this young author. I am glad to hear more mainstreaming of animal rights.

Aboard Newsletter: Introducing Aboard Climate (Beta):

If, in the future, as has often been said, “all jobs are climate jobs,” then in the future all work software is climate software. Since we create work software, we thought we should get ahead of that.

Always keep an eye on Paul Ford. He is never not challenging me to think differently.

I’ve been reading too many academic articles lately. Whenever I get to the methodology, it always feels like, “We’ve taken this photograph of a lava lamp, and we have THOUGHTS™ about these little bubbly guys here!”

So cool that we can now be instantly doxxed! Thanks Meta!

I finally figured it out.

Podcasts.app for discovery and reading transcripts of episodes that I don’t actually need to listen to.

Overcast for actually listening to what I subscribe to and one-off episodes that I recently discovered.