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[givereadersahug]

10 Songs/10 People

Thanks for the tag @danpuff-ao3! <3

My taste of music --- idk how to describe it. I tend to stick to the same songs/artists for years at a time. I know I should explore/expand my musical library, but at the same time, I just like my comfort music, you know? Here are some that I've listened to on repeat for the past many months. (Repeat is a nice word for how often I listen to them on the daily. lol) *All Youtube links.

10 Songs:

Talking to Yourself by Carly Rae Jepsen

Vanessa by Grimes

Flattery by Aly & AJ

Time of the Season by The Zombies

Side by Side by Side / What Would We Do Without You? - from Company (2006 Broadway Revival)

Cloud Atlas End Title - from Cloud Atlas

Joshua Tree by Carly Rae Jepsen

Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 - Tachaikovsky

Toxic (Score) - from Promising Young Woman

Alien Superstar by Beyonce

10 People:

I don't have the mental capacity right now to tag 10 people. So If you see this and want to join, go right ahead! Give me a tag. <3

#tag game #music

[invasivespecimen]

Black Swan

"Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno" ("a rare bird in the lands and very much like a black swan") - Juvental

To quote wikipedia, "when [the above] phrase was coined, the black swan was presumed not to exist. The importance of the metaphor lies in its analogy to the fragility of any system of thought. A set of conclusions is potentially undone once any of its fundamental postulates is disproved. In this case, the observation of a single black swan would be the undoing of the logic of any system of thought, as well as any reasoning that followed from that underlying logic."

This saying was common in 16th century London, as an expression of impossibility. You can probably imagine the surprise then (among Europeans anyway) when Dutch explorer's first discovered black swans in the wilds of Western Australia in 1697.

It's certainly an interesting concept to consider. "Where there's smoke, there's fire" is phrase I often repeat to myself when trying to avoid assuming certain things "impossible". But in the case of the black swan, where exactly was the smoke? The existence of white swans doesn't necessarily suggest the existence of black swans- at least not anymore than it might suggest the existence of red swans. And yet, just like that, "a wild black swan has appeared!"

I sometimes wonder if the existence of improbable phenomena is somehow made more probable simply by considering the possibility. In other words, how can we prove, with certainty, that black swans didn't exist before they were observed by those Dutch explorers? And what psychological biases played into their assumed nonexistence? Were there, for example, non European cultures that had long held written or oral records purporting the existence of black swans? And If your'e familiar with the idea of "Last Thursdayism", you might notice the potential depth of this particular rabbit hole...

So how can we train our minds to see "black swan events" coming? This observer bias seems to be key, and is noted by the popular risk analyst Nassim Taleb in his modern conception of black swan theory. He states "what may be a black swan surprise for a turkey is not a black swan surprise to its butcher; hence the objective should be to 'avoid being the turkey' by identifying areas of vulnerability in order to 'turn the Black Swans white'."

What could this mindset mean from a more practical perspective? Again I defer to Taleb, who says "I don't particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant. Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the 'normal,' particularly with 'bell curve' methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty."

 "Topogigio at the Swan Lake Benefit"  

#art #abstractart #metal #tachaikovsky #metalhead #darkmoor #swanlake #blackswan #nature #darkaesthetic #dark

[malcontentedbookwyrm]

"Children of Time" By Adrian Tchaikovsky

The back sleeve synopsis on "Children of Time" won't immediately catch your attention. The Arthur C. Clarke award will.

Start your century long adventure by meeting Kern, an egotistical, self righteous scientist who has done the extraordinary, with no help from her science team, of course. She has cultivated an entire planet in preparation for the over populated earth to colonize. Using technology so advanced and intelligent, she will control evolution. In no time, she will develop a batch of regular monkeys into the servants of the new earth, of Kern's World.

Her monkeys never make it to the new world, and as many science experiments that came before Kern's, something totally new and unexpected emerges. Follow the evolution story of the resulting sentient spiders, a ship full of refugee colonists , and their connected timelines over generations.

Tachaikovsky writes what could be a history lesson as a story, growing and developing two worlds and two cultures a universe apart. His cause and effect plot is deep and unsettling, reminding his readers that one point in time can change everything. Although taking his readers over generations at time, he still manages to maintain relatable characters, even if they are spiders. Tachaikovsky will leave it up to the reader to decide if intelligent  spiders are indeed as worth of the human condition as their creator was.

Photo cred here, along with an interview with the author. *SPOILERS*

#bookwyrming #what to read next #sci-fi & fantasy #science fiction #Adrian Tchaikovkey #Children of Time

[operadechile]

El apasionado y trágico ballet "Eugenio Oneguin" vuelve al Municipal de Santiago

El apasionado y trágico ballet “Eugenio Oneguin” vuelve al Municipal de Santiago

 El viernes 17 de mayo se estrena el segundo título de la Temporada de ballet 2019: Eugenio Oneguin, un apasionado drama en danza, con música de Tchaikovski.

 Eugenio Onegin, basado en la novela de Alexander Pushkin, se presentará en la versión de John Cranko

 Las entradas van desde los cuatro mil pesos y se pueden comprar a través de boleterías o http://www.municipal.cl

Tatia…

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#Ballet #Ballet de Santiago #Danza Clasica #Eugenio Onegin #John Cranko #Marcia Haydée #Municipal de Santiago #Tachaikovski

[goldfishfins-blog]

My Goldfish Fishtank

So here's all the equipment and stuff about my Goldfish tank. I have two others as a hospital and a 5G betta tank but they are both empty at the moment.

Equipement:

30G Aquarium

Filter: Marineland Bio Wheel Penguin 350 (350 Gallons per hour)

Aerator: Rena Air 100 (Black Tubing and Bubble Wall stone)

2 Java fern plants, 2 Anubias plants (Can't remember what type)

Black Gravel

1 - 17w fluorescent lightbulb

Extra not shown:

Gravel Cleaner

Cleaning bucket

Hikari Lionhead sinking pellets

Freeze Dried Bloodworms

API Tap Water Conditioner

API Water Test Kit

Fish:

1 Ryukin almost 11 months (Tchaikovsky)

All of these things are pretty much essential in a proper tank and I'll explain each item in their own post. :)

#Goldfish #My Tank #Tachaikovsky #Aquarium #Fish #Fish Tank