u/DecrimIowa

Source: https://medium.com/@christian.marques/the-ghost-in-the-mandelbrot-2ea6784e9153

I found this earlier and thought the sub would find it interesting. What you are seeing here (if I understand correctly) is a histogram of the Mandelbrot set over time.

In other words, when you play a video of the Mandelbrot set, and plot how often the lines intersect on a given grid square or pixel on the screen, this picture is a representation of how often each point is touched, as the Mandelbrot sequence is iterated or repeated. The more it's colored in, the more the square is touched by the sequence. It's a 4D representation of the Mandelbrot set basically.

The author of the article explains it better than I can and he also made a neat Buddhabrot tool for free.

submission statement: This all looks pretty standard and my impression is that there are about a dozen of these insider LARP threads every week, but the fact that he explicitly talks about an engineered pandemic popping up around the beginning of October makes me wonder...

anyway, it's probably nothing ('anonymous claim on 4chan' is not exactly a reputable source) but just wanted to share this with the community if it ends up being worthwhile.

I'm probably butchering the lingo because i'm not tech-literate. but i think the idea of using e-readers as mesh internet nodes, especially if you get a community of people all using them (like employees for a company or neighbors in a neighborhood idea).

this was inspired by this ereader, which is like an Xteink e-reader with a LoRa node in it:
https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5papermono-with-lora-nfc-800x480-3-97-eink-display

Are there other examples of e-reader type doohickeys with built-in mesh internet things in them?

Camp Cataract- Jane Bowles Short Story
https://granta.com/the-best-book-of-1943-two-serious-ladies-by-jane-bowles/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/may/06/short-story-jane-bowles

I knew about Paul Bowles, big fan of his work, but had no idea until recently that his wife was arguably even better than he was, despite her small body of work- just one novel, a handful of stories, and a few plays.

Jane Bowles' writing is very funny, heartbreaking, with a very light touch on the very heaviest questions, and wise handling of interpersonal relations, especially between normies and those touched with madness by the finger of God.

Her work seems very empathetic to suffering, without being condescending or precious, I think she is "RS-coded" because of this aversion to cliche and saccharine performative grandstanding inherent to virtue signaling.

Her sentences and paragraphs sort of evolve out of each other incongruously, but their internal logic makes them work. Great dialogue, like a sitcom written by God. You can tell that she had a very unique brain, but one that probably wasn't very fun to live inside, even before the stroke and the late-stage alcoholism.

Several times while reading her, I've been reminded of Salinger, but without the parts of Salinger that come off as overly precious or performative. I'm not sure, but I think she might be better than Salinger.

Her work was critically panned during her lifetime, but some of her biggest fans were Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, John Ashbery, and now she's known as a "writer's writer" apparently. The type of writer where, if you mention their name, someone's face will light up across the room and you will make a friend.

Included above are links to her short story Camp Cataract, which I think is one of the best I've ever read, an article in Granta about her excellent novel Two Serious Ladies, which is hilarious and sad, and an appreciation of her work by The Guardian.

https://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/approved_apparitions/coptic.html

According to Nichiren's own account, he was sentenced to exile but was brought to Tatsunukuchi beach in Shichirigahama for execution. According to some traditional accounts, the execution was stopped at the final moment as "a brilliant orb as bright as the moon" arced over the execution grounds, terrifying Nichiren's executioners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichiren

(For context, Nichiren was an extremely important figure in both the history of Japanese Buddhism and the Japanese nation as a whole)

I was reading "Wonders in the Sky," Jacques Vallee's collection of historical accounts of anomalous/UFO-type phenomena and came across this event. I thought some people might find it interesting.

Highly recommend the book btw! 500 different historical UFO events, complete with primary sources in many cases.
https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes

from https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/2013/08/02/a-conversation-with-william-t-vollmann-by-larry-mccaffery/

let this high-quality concept art be my contribution to the burgeoning open-source e-reader community

Almanac of the Dead might be a strong dark horse candidate for Great American Novel IMO. Ceremony is justly considered to be one of the epochal novels of the era. Storyteller is great.

I think her name should be honored among the top tier of American storytellers and what she has to say (and how she says it) is more important than ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanac_of_the_Dead
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/leslie-marmon-silko-saw-it-coming