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agiletortoise ("Greg Pierce") wrote:

Let that be your battlefield.

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jmcrookston ("Jonathan") wrote:

I can't get over this sentence no matter how often I read it.

"Women showed no effects when told they were masculine; however, men given feedback suggesting they were feminine expressed more support for war, homophobic attitudes, and interest in purchasing an SUV."

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E08
🎥 Episode: Rumors
🎬 Directed by: Shigeru Ueda
📅 Release Date: August 24, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0212

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loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

#TilingTuesday

Attachments:

• gifv: an animation with 6-way symmetry

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My to-do list is now a historical document of things I once thought I had the energy for.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Just hurt my neck yawning. Not skydiving. Not wrestling a bear. Yawning.

This is how I find out I'm old 😭💀

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

This began as a fun little diversion tied to the authentication system that I’m building for omg.lol, Neato, and other stuff. Now it’s become its own entire grown-up side project. 😅

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• gifv: A gray plastic device with an LCD display that takes up most of the front surface. In the top left corner, a stylized "NeatPet" logo appears, followed by some decorative lines. In the top right, the text "PIXEL ENTITY TERMINAL" appears. Below the display, on the left, there are three buttons labeled INTERACT, A, and B. On the right is one additional button labeled ON / OFF. The LCD screen has a digital version of the same stylized neatpet logotype, with a circular rotating loading animation below, the word "Booting..." to the left, and "Press B" to the right.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Modern video games are less "interactive entertainment" and more "unpaid internships".

You boot up a new title and suddenly you're harvesting digital turnips, micromanaging a medieval tax system, and crafting 37 different types of leather boots just to unlock the privilege of being mildly entertained for 15 minutes.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
BorrisInABox@fwoof.space ("Patrick Perdue") wrote:

#AudioMo day23:

Did you know that there is hidden morse code all throughout Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' album?

Somehow, probably during the two-track mix-down stage of the album, the CW from a powerful, very low frequency transmitter about 37 miles north of the studio in which this album was recorded found it's way to tape. It's centered at 16 kHz, and so low in the mix that you can't actually hear it... at least, not without some help.

This is a very short, not particularly comprehensive demo using two different methods -- a pair of stock Reaper plugins and an SDR package to mostly isolate this morse transmission, which is heard throughout the entire album.

References:
Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells https://madpsy.uk/link-between-the-soundtrack-of-the-exorcist-and-amateur-radio/

The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UJAfuvniI

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• audio: Demonstration of uncovering a morse code transmission that went undiscovered for three decades in the album Tubular Bells. Includes examples rendered by two different methods, and touches on the difference between pitch shifting and frequency shifting.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

More pretty flowers to brighten your Monday 😊

#BloomScrolling #AlicePics #Flower #Photography

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

#If I Tell You I Love You by Melody Gardot

https://pandora.app.link/WtC2FUhSrUb

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhhh

I'll Take Care of You by Gil Scott-Heron

https://pandora.app.link/1ByszLERrUb

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

You Know Who I Am by Leonard Cohen

https://pandora.app.link/3qt37ZfRrUb

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yessssssss

A Case of You by Joni Mitchell

https://pandora.app.link/uQlNTnVQrUb

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Ol '55 by Tom Waits

https://pandora.app.link/gKLVZ5yQrUb

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
deborahelizabeth.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Deborah Elizabeth Finn") wrote:

In addition to protest marches and rallies, we have many other options for peaceful resistance to the authoritarian regime. These two web sites outline many nonviolent strategies. You can choose the ones that work best for your community.beautifultrouble.org commonslibrary.org

Beautiful Trouble

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

oh yah…

Someday (feat. Mark Knopfler) by Eric Clapton

https://pandora.app.link/lKShtDMPrUb

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The rapid decline of local content on the mediumwave bands has considerably reduced the romantic mystery of tuning around and seeing what you find. It's mostly now a sterile mix of mass-produced, syndicated right wing talk, sports, and so on. But there are still a handful of stubbornly local stations producing their own programming.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

AM broadcast is a technically interesting and somewhat endangered medium. The low frequencies mean that signals routinely travel well beyond their local coverage areas, especially overnight in winter. So there's a bit of mystery in tuning around the dial late at night; you never know what you might pick up.

Sadly, industry consolidation and the growth of higher bandwidth media (FM, satellite, podcasts) has greatly reduced the variety and local focus of programming. But it somehow hangs on.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Note, important safety tip: you can get closer to this tower without clearly trespassing or jumping fences than most other 50KW broadcast antennas I've encountered. I measured a field strength of over 80V/m a bit outside the tower fence, which is an incredibly strong signal (though still within OSHA limits at the frequency involved).

Resist any temptation to jump the fence and climb the (energized) tower. You'd be electrocuted as soon as you touch it.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The antenna field is in the final approach and takeoff flightpath for SFO airport's runways 28L/R (and 10L/R), and so the site has special markings to warn pilots of a collision hazard. In addition to the usual tower lights and red/white paint, 3-dimensional "HAZ" warnings were installed around the field. These are easily visible in areal photos; see, e.g., https://earth.google.com/web/@37.5471204,-122.23429544,0.73120256a,577.14725587d,35y,0.01179999h,0t,0r/data=CgRCAggBQgIIAEoNCP%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5FwEQAA

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This distinctive stacked dual antenna arrangement is used to lower the radiation angle of the antenna, concentrating transmitted power to the "ground wave" and reducing energy that would otherwise be sent upward into the sky.

The smaller (300 foot) freestanding mast in the background left is not in current use. It can be used as an emergency spare antenna for KNBR during maintenance of the taller main antenna.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Hello in There by John Prine on now

https://pandora.app.link/GwdmsDwPrUb

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The taller tower (550 feet) at right is the main KNBR antenna, built in 1949. It employs an unusual "pseudo-Franklin" design; it's actually an array of two antennas stacked atop one another. The 400 foot lower section is insulated from the ground. The upper 150 foot section is insulated from the lower section. The large (50 foot) diameter "capacitance hat" at the top (reminiscent of the Parachute Jump at Coney Island) electrically lengthens the top section, saving 250 feet of additional height.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Mediumwave (AM) broadcast radio uses lower frequencies than other modern broadcasting and so requires much larger antennas (generally getting larger and larger as the frequency gets lower on the dial). This often entails highly customized antenna designs engineered for the particular site and station frequencies. For most radio stations (FM, TV, etc), the towers are there simply to get the relatively small antennas up high, but for AM stations like KNBR, the towers generally ARE the antennas.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

KNBR is a 50KW "Class A" (formerly "clear channel") mediumwave (AM) rado station broadcasting on 680 KHz, serving the San Francisco Bay area (and, at night, most of the west coast of the US). Opened in 1922, It was originally known as KPO, (later KNBC, and still later KNBR), and soon became the flagship station for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)'s new western radio network. It is currently owned by Cumulus Media and now broadcasts a sports format. It sits next to the former KGEI site.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Cambo 1250 camera (vertically shifted -23mm).

This simple photo pushed the 50mm lens to the limits of its image circle with the large shift required to keep the tall antenna mast fully in the frame while maintaining its geometry. Hard vignetting of the upper corners was visible in the full sensor image, but fortunately the composition benefited from a narrower aspect ratio that cropped out the dark corners.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

KNBR (AM 680) Antennas, Redwood City, CA, 2024

All the pixels, less risk of electrocution or falling, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131419266

#photography

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foxyoreos ("normy foxyoreos") wrote:

@pluralistic

"If you take this marshmallow, it will hurt everyone, *including you* for the rest of your life. You understand? But since you already have so many marshmallows, surely you can wait and -"

Billionares: (already eating the marshmallow) "Sorry, I wasn't listening. Give me another marshmallow or I'll burn down this entire fucking building and everyone inside of it."

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Lucinda by Joe Cocker on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/u1NL7tQOrUb