Bruce Sterling @bruces*The "plank and the keg." According to the novel "The Virginian" by Owen Wister, this was some kind of public rave-music machine in Wyoming in the 1880s.
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𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗘𝘁𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆, 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀
The word "khaki" is a loan from Urdu خاکی xākī, a loan from Persian, from خاک xâk "earth", from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂s [ħaχs], something like this (listen):
🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/khaki-from-PIE-h2eh2s.wav
English "ash" (the grey-coloured burnt substance) also descends from *h₂eh₂s:
🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/ash-from-PIE-h2eh2s.wav
In most Indo-European languages, *h₂ usually developed into [a], but in Iranian it's sometimes [x]. If you want a more detailed but much more technical explanation of the Proto-Indo-European "laryngeals" and how they were possibly or probably pronounced, try this: https://www.ancientsounds.net/laryngeals.html
(The image used below is from an Iranian wood industry supplier's site, venonwood.biz, which currently seems to be still working in spite of the general internet blackout in Iran right now.)
@linguistics #linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage #acousticphonetics #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Iranian #Persian #Urdu
Julian OliverOK here goes. You get the first look at this madness.
https://scienceispoetry.net/noodles
Go easy on it. I did my best to thread & rate limit while LLM bots this very moment are lost deep inside. They never stop. It's a siege.
Link it in your sites and AI crawlers will get caught when they hit it, veering off into the maze of babble.
Going to come out & say I channeled my inner GeoCities 180% in a nostalgic grief walk back to a happier & weedier www, so that parts for us that still remember
Mitchell WhitelawNew work out! Mosaic uses images, sound, video and data to build a portrait of a western NSW wetland.
It's an experiment in environmental data-storytelling and using #conservationtech for public engagement. With waterbirds galore, feral critters and livestock, it's also an attempt to show the complexity of our "patchy" landscapes.
Made for Flow-MER and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office:
Etienne JacobPhysarum update: filling a gallery page, a place to showcase results that are now obtained by live-coding during the simulation:
https://bleuje.com/physarum-gallery/
Here are some samples:
https://bleuje.com/physarum-gallery/
Here are some samples:
The New YorkerThe Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-team-behind-a-pro-iran-lego-themed-viral-video-campaign?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Culture @culture-NewYorker
( nula.cc )New album out today:
From a book of silent stories
7 tracks
Axiomata: 1. Silence is never absolute. 2. Silence is not silent in the literal sense. Silence is symbolic of an active psycho-perceptual space. 3. There exist stories not told in words.
From far away, a signal arrives. We study its every detail. It pulses with life and at length we hear it speak, voices leaking in from beyond the unseen curtain.
#experimental #acousmatic #ambientnoise #fieldrecording
https://nulacc.bandcamp.com/album/from-a-book-of-silent-stories
Robin InceI’ve been thinking a lot about rejective sensitive dysphoria and meltdowns of late - my history of them when I had no understanding of what was going on. Started writing this piece this evening - we’ll see where it goes (clear version in ALT) #adhd #autism #poetry #neurodiversity
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