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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Ever have the feeling you're being watched? (1962 photo from Taiwan, of a cluster of Optometrist offices)

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Even in 95F heat, this song gives me chills. So stunning! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwE3...

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Trust The Light - KNOWER

YouTube video by KNOWER MUSIC

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Thank you for prompting me to look up Bangiomorpha pubescens, I was previously unaware that it is the earliest known sexually reproducing organism (from 1 billion years ago...)

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Today I learned that the earliest known sexual organism, from 1 billion years ago, was a red alga, with the scientific name... Bangiomorpha pubescens. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangiom...

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Bangiomorpha - Wikipedia

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I much prefer capturing phantastical images from Reality as opposed to using Generative AI. In this case, a fiery and bossy red-haired Sky-Siren shrieks above the South Atlantic between Antarctica and me. The beach was evidently sculpted and colored by the French Surrealist Yves Tanguy.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Fascinating! Terrestrial equivalent of marine algae -> coccolithophores?

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. [and] The machine world reciprocates man’s love...” – Marshal McLuhan (1964) "Understanding Media", p. 46 mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/m...

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“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World”

“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s…

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

An exceedingly clever quasi-homonymic wordplay: "Gödels all the way down" (to describe the likelihood that one can never eliminate all unprovable true statements in an axiomatic system) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles...

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Turtles all the way down - Wikipedia

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Digital versus Analog / Summation versus Integration / imagery for Math education... "summed up" as it were (I couldn't resist).

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Thank you! Yes indeed, I was hoping you could share this great opportunity to your community of practicing entomologists.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Compared to a lot of places I've been in these years of Insect Apocalypse, that seems an almost healthy-quantity of insects in the glue-trap.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

An LLM having a writer's block panic-attack core-dump... best example I've seen yet:

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Technically speaking, Arthropleura (this 10 foot long Millipede from the Carboniferous) is not an ancestor of hoomyns, but I find this meme amusing anyway.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm not a believer in Astrology but... I think Mercury must be in Gatorade. Only possible explanation for current events...

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A very coincidental (and likely utterly meaningless) "pattern" I just "discovered". There are currently: ca. 2.5 x 10^5 distinct English words: ca. 2.3 x 10^6 named biological species ca. 2.5 x 10^7 place names on Earth in largest registry ca. 2.2 x 10^8 unique Chemical Names

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Yes indeed! (though, more properly, the "state most *disproporionate* injuries").

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

w/r/t "Florida Man" comment, it was made partly in jest. There are other factors having to do with FL laws about pre-trial release of still-speculative info about cases for example.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Fascinating. I note with special interest "Head Injury" as plausible causal explanation for the mysterious "Florida Man" phenomenon. Geographical clustering of "Suffocation" in High Desert biogeophysical region is also thought-provoking.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

As my Poppa always said, "Finding that the field of play has been distorted can be hopelessly confounding, even if the rules of the game have not changed". (and, yes: planning moves on this geometrically altered 8x8 matrix would be exhausting...)

A red and white chessboard with pieces in play, but the regular 8x8 grid has been highly distorted into highly Irregular curvilinear quadrilaterals.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Update: I'm glad to report that I saw a bunch of damselflies this afternoon...

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Thank you, and shared on FB etc. I've been bemoaning insect population collapse for decades and it hit me especially viscerally this summer: I live in a place nicknamed "Dragonfly Meadows", but this summer... I've only seen ONE Dragonfly in what seems an otherwise ideal 3-pond habitat. Tragic.

A Green Darner dragonfly (Anax junius) resting on the hand of a gently smiling young woman.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

These data are fascinating... as is the story you share in the ALT text! Thank you, and congratulations on your recovery.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

D.A.M.N. -- this is a terrifying finding...

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I so love this, even if outdated in detail.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Indeed. I had precisely this sort of interaction just two weeks ago. Was rather remarkable.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A counter to prevailing narrative about superiority of LRMs.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The contagiousness of yawns has puzzled me for years. Interestingly, here is a study of contagiousness of yawning behaviors from humanoid models to chimpanzees:

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Symbolic Regression is so intriguing, I love it. Will likely become tremendously important in coming years.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This sounds intriguing. Unfortunately, one of my virus detectors (Malwarebytes) suggests the hosting website might be unsafe or infected in some fashion?

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Closeup of head of the ant Rhytidoponera metallica from Australia. The name "metallica" is most apropos.

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Marc Tachelet @mtachelet.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

As much as I am in awe of Beetles for many reasons, I do nonetheless find this beetle meme gently amusing, and Otter means no disrespect to this taxonomic group.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

New preprint out today with many great co-authors from across Europe: This white paper discusses and explores the various points of intersection between quantum computing and AI. "Quantum computing and artificial intelligence: status and perspectives" arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23860

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Animals by Esteban Klassen (b 1969, Paraguay)

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