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2410 sats \ 28 comments \ @elvismercury 23h mostly_harmless

I'm looking for things that click with people, and create a sense of wonderment and possibility and that there's magic in the world, and that makes you want to do stuff, makes you feel like it's possible to do stuff. It can be about anything, in any kind of medium.

Here are some of mine, to give you an example:

An infinitely zoomable game of life, this sci-fi book that is both compulsively readable and philosophically deep, this weird art thing, this creative use of LLMs, this programming project of a geometric modeling language, and this other programming project about music, this protocol that a guy randomly made, this beautiful idiocy, these live cams of ships.

These all make me perk up a bit, come alive a little in very different ways. Please share anything that creates this feeling in you.

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601 sats \ 1 reply \ @grimtechnet 7h

I'm gonna shill my own https://multiplayer.yoga. Hoping it inspires visitors to try some poses.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 4h

This is really cool! I love that you made something awesome that scratched an itch. Did the making of it lead to any next thing, anticipated or otherwise?

101 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 14h

These all make me perk up a bit, come alive a little in very different ways. Please share anything that creates this feeling in you.

Mhh, I think I know what you mean. I think the way ChessMakta is combining art with chess is cool like that.

Example:

107 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15h

This was awesome

#913452

54 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 20h

I've been watching lots of terraforming videos.

Somehow, while I think terraforming makes no sense and is preposterous, I also find the possibilities pretty magnificent.

42 sats \ 7 replies \ @elvismercury OP 20h

Link to an example that you like?

101 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 20h

Maybe this one. All I know for sure is that I watched it, though.

None of them really go deep on the approach I'm most interested in, which is basically seeding the most habitable areas with the organisms most likely to survive them and letting nature take its course from there with relatively few other interventions.

Something about spreading life to other worlds really speaks to me, even though I think it makes little sense to spread people to other worlds.

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 18h

Why don't you think it makes sense to eventually spread people to other worlds?

37 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h

It might eventually make sense, but not until we're fantastically wealthier.

I don't think colonization makes sense in the near-term because the most inhospitable parts of the Earth are still almost infinitely more hospitable than anywhere else we know of.

There's also no reason to send significant numbers of people to the places that are economically relevant.

Long-term, though, there are amazingly cool ideas for how to build transorbital habitats that could comfortably carry enormous numbers of people between worlds and lots of ways to comfortably settle any world.

There's a YouTube account called Arthur Isaac that covers a bunch of these. His voice is pretty distracting, though.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 6h

I think there's gonna be people volunteering to colonize even if it's a net resource loss. Exploration and doing cool shit could be seen as a consumption good

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 5h

I agree, but I think we're a ways away from it right now. We'll probably see people trying to really colonize Antarctica and the Oceans first.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 9h

What is that biohazard icon next to your name?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 8h

SN is having a little zombie apocalypse for Halloween this year.

101 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 20h

Earthships are very cool. I'm gonna build one someday.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 4h

Interesting idea. Seems like one of those things you'd have to give your whole life over to, though.

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @Angie 22h

Leer un libro impreso de poemas de amor, no en febrero sino cualquier mes, me produce lealtad a mi fan de leer, caminar al amanecer entre árboles y oír el trino de pájaros, algunos imitando la alarma de un auto o el timbre de un teléfono, te produce una correlación ciudad bosque donde te preguntás ¿ Qué sonido haría un pajarito que imita los sonidos si estuviera lejos de la ciudad?.

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 22h

Hilarious and amazing card magic by Lennart Green

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 22h

https://txcity.io/v/btc

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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 17h

Maybe fifteen years ago, I was driving through an incredibly violent storm listening to this. It was one of those weird storms where the lightning seems to be moving vertically as much as it is horizontally. The rain was really intense, but kind of paused at that part of the music where you get sucked into the bubble. This was also right when I drove over a bridge from an industrial part of town to a more residential area. It was like my whole car got sucked into this super peaceful bubble and then dumped right back into the storm again when things in the music got intense again.

Also…as a bitcoiner, you gotta enjoy the encrypted cover art of that album, albeit a little less magical.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 4h

Great description, v cinematic. Listening to the song, I can imagine myself in that spot.

150 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17h

There's some good stuff in ~hyperlinks top/forever. I think this is what @sox intends for it.

https://stacker.news/~hyperlinks/top/posts/forever

I really enjoyed the silk art thing: #1091814

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 13h

For me seeing things being completed / repaired / transformed helps. This makes me continue with everything.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r 15h

~Design is trying to fill this gap with creative posts, and a biweekly series that want to stimulate inspiration and brainstorm ideas #1267707

The best way to get inspired is usually to start doing something different out of routines and schedules. Improvise, surprise yourself with randomness to simply observe the results.