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I like to think that bird song, evolved over millions of years going back to their dinosaur ancestors, is a language that encodes vast amounts of information that our brains can't even begin to understand the complexities of

I'd easily believe that bird songs are vastly more complex and interesting than we currently understand!

If you haven't seen it, you might enjoy Benn Jordan's video of "saving" a PNG to a bird:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo

(Besides the hook-y title, some interesting info on the acoustics of bird songs with some cross-over into tech.)


The old story of the 'language of the birds' suggests that we can make headway. No one's ever complained of time they wasted listening to birdsong.

back to the blockchain!


its wabbit season I guess


snoopy is the perfect dog name


Thanks. I never thought about the word "snoop" as part of the name until just now.


Snoop is the name of my favourite characters from the later series of The Wire. I like the idea her nickname came from Peanuts.


my favorite performance of his! its a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. so many anxiety inducing moments, especially for those who fear the ocean


living that cloud life


yes they do! those are the humans that pass down those lost arts even if the audience is a handful. to trust an amalgamation of neurally organized binary carved intricately into metal with deep and often arcane knowledge and the lineage of lessons that produced it is so absurd that if a catastrophe that destroyed life as we know it did occur, we deserve our fate of devolution back to stone tools and such.


america in a squirt bottle


its gotta a very different flavor but is still pretty good.


Sir David Attenborough is gonna make bank on the documentary featuring these animals engaging in these most unnatural of corporate environments


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