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A brief introduction to my miqo WoL

They can only count to four

[mantismatsuri]

Loan me your loom

(Ballad of the woven android)

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“And We ordained for them therein

a life for a life, an eye for an eye,

a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear,

a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds

is legal retribution. But whoever

gives [up his right as] charity,

it is an expiation for him.

And whoever does not judge

by what Allah

has revealed - then it is those who are

the wrongdoers”

~The Quran S.5 A.45

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The Jacquard is one of the fleet's largest ships; if you run into someone twice in the same week, one of you meant to do it.

Our workshops are modeled after ancient transoceanic tankers. There were huge ships anchored just far enough from any country's coast guard; every trip they crushed many scores of underpaid workers to their last breath, crushed them with the siren song of job security and benefits, day in, day out. Only lost tides can tell the many atrocities of work and man in that distant century.

My workshop is quiet and rhythmic: no one speaks and the looms crack and crinkle with a very uniform beat. Our task demands concentration, hence the silence. The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony, hence the rhythm.

I'm sorry. That last quote is not mine. The beautiful standards of Shakespeare are still worthy scaffolding, even in these forsaken furnaces.

You see, what we do here is active studying. As we learn and practice, we reflect and deduce. We compare and conclude. You won't see any loom operator under 30 years of age because they need to be reasoning learners to be accepted, potential discoverers of the next breakthrough.

The Jacquard loom uses punch cards to direct the threads, raising and lowering them in a sequence described by holes on cardboard; their principle is considered one of the harbingers of computer thinking.

She came in for the third time this week and said, "loan me your loom," so, obviously I loved her. She sat at the thing and weaved with her own special cards after leaving me panting after our acrobatics in bed, catching my breath, chasing the tempo of her furious labor. Later did I learn she purposefully slowed her foot on the pedal, and laboriously lulled me into sleep, and then her real work began.

I lent her a loom to build an android.

It is nothing new, of course. The Jacquard is known for its exquisite stitch work, and for the longevity of our androids over that of those made in more modern craft ships. The whole fleet knows this well.

I saw her when I woke up in the little hours, she was slumped on the borrowed loom, very still and very alert. I knew it was not a dream. She was permanently awake.

It is not the fact that she stopped sleeping altogether; and neither is it that the awful loom almost looked like it missed her when she was somewhere else. The wood grew eyes that cried, it looked rainy, and the threads knotted up like guilt in your throat. No, it was none of that.

When she isn't looking, and thinks I am under her spell, I look at her and rage and fume at her reverence. Her absolute reverence is an insult. This is a borrowed loom, and my bed will not be a springboard for any sleazy seamstress. I don’t know. In the web of this latter-day Arachne, Athena has started thumping in my heart.

But the hips on her android...

The holes in her punch cards seem to dance on the sturdy cardboard.

The shadows and lights on the resulting cloth are full and vibrant and gentle and holy. The woven android is more of a man than me and more of a woman than she. Although there are loose threats springing from every seam and row, it is an electric thing what lays on the table folded and crumpled and unfinished, waiting to breathe, and to walk, and to love.

Her reverence and ceremony towards this wearable creature have besmirched our waning lust.

What? Too cloying and juvenile in a poetic sort of way for you? Very well, such is my jealousy of the woven android.

The thing is meant to think the way most creatures spawned in the facilities of the fleet think: using a rectangular brain of copper, silicates, and plastic that should juggle an endless set of probabilistic knives on fire, just like life itself.

When she left for the decommissioned docking bay today, I could tell what she was after. Only the bay is cold enough to store contraband flesh tissue. “The black market of the red meat” is what the cannibals on board call the place. I also know these things, but I don't know where so much muscle keeps coming from, and I don't want to know.

She wanted sinew, blood, and waterproofing tech that would keep all this expensive and vital goo inside her puppet.

I do not hate her. That would mean not accepting the laws of caprice and of hormone cycles. And I do not hold a grudge against the woven android; he is, in fact, marvelous. A genuine triumph for the Jacquard.

It is the small human things that you miss. Because you are so far away from what we have decided to call Home, that Home becomes anything you want to remember. And memory is petty, and it likes to exaggerate.

She has no awe for me left in her eyes. She fawns over every row of her work, and she carries her secret punch cards around so lovingly, that questions are whispered about the sufficiency of her lover (vis-à-vis me), since technological leaps are being made in an apparent effort to meet a need that is presently unmet.

Why are we investigating ancestral informatics? Hubris of the memory? No. Export-grade archeology? No. Education. We are doing it all for education.

You see, learning is the sole profit of leaving Home in a rush. Hard, fast, searing learning. This was the first machine we allowed to have two thoughts simultaneously, the Jacquard loom; and what we did to it historically is what I did to my own loom, my beloved's temple. I picked up my shoes from the rug next to the bed and I threw them at the loom.

Jacquard's system of punch cards made the whole process more efficient and many workers redundant in a place called France. Go away; progress is here. You poor people don't need to be kept from becoming miserable anymore. Not by us, at least. Shoo!

Shoe.

Fired workers took off their wooden shoes called "sabots" and used them to destroy the groundbreaking looms. They gave us the word "Sabotage." I sabotaged the love of my beloved. It is love, I know this too, for who am I to say the woven android is not as fit a lover as I am? Or better?

I destroyed the loom with my commander footwear because that's the way it happened; and whoever asks follow-up questions shall be thrown into the brig. Or space cell, whatever you want to call it. You’re going nowhere once you're in.

She is coming back now, and I'm sure she will have questions and tears, both unending. Oh, well. Whoever speaks last in a Shakespeare play is the one to bring back order to the world. So be quiet, for I have said.

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FEDERICO AC. | 01.04.23

[kathleenatmusic220b]

Two ah  -- aH- AH-ChucKus... and one Sound Logo to go please

Quick links:

ChucKus: bartoku and tower chase (failed Shepard tone, please help)

Sound Logo: silicat (folder) / silicat.wav

bartoku

plays the opening chord of bartok string quartet no. 4, mvt. 3. here, an array of sinoscs set to the frequencies for the chord are sent to dac 1.5 seconds one after another. some reverb and the untuned frequencies make the final chord a bit wobbly, as if adding vibrato.

tower chase

a spider is chasing you up a tower, so you scale the spiral staircase and... huh... the stairs don't seem to end... or maybe you're out of shape. here, a function takes a midi note number, plays it and moves up one half step, while gain is set to fade into the middle three/four octaves (0 --> 0.7), then fade out (0.7 --> 0), which should create a sense of never-ending ascension. sporked the function at different starting positions. my original concept was to create a shepard tone, which is an aural illusion of 'infinitely' rising notes, a 'musical barbershop pole'. the same pitch at different octaves climbs together on a pitch scale (not freq).

silicat

i wish i had a cat. i really wish i had a cat. but i don't, so i wrote my sound logo for the next best thing: my silicone cat pouch, silicat. we'll follow silicat on an adventure and come back carrying a lot more than expected. first, i zip silicat to prepare it for its journey. then, we hear silicat's theme as it adventures. suddenly, i unzip silicat, and a bunch of stuff comes flying out! silicat even meows in protest. then, tv static drones us out. i used a lot of homemade sound effects, featuring silicat's real zipper for the zips, and my 100% free-range, organic, hand-reared recycling (cans). i used scales.ck from chuck documentation to write and play the melody.

the video was very fun to make. to be clear, silicat puked up everything it collected. i did not abuse silicat.

acknowledgements

thanks to aidan perreault and ted yuan for helping me get close to a shepard tone and also troubleshooting silicat!!!

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[Chemistry 13] SILICON FACTS - LEARNING SCIENCE FOR KIDS

http://luonhay.com/chemistry-13-silicon-facts-learning-science-kids/

Kiểm tra những sự thật tuyệt vời

silicon

này và tìm hiểu thêm về việc sử dụng nó như một chất bán dẫn.

Silicon là một yếu tố rất quan trọng trong công nghệ hiện đại do sử dụng trong máy tính và chip điện thoại thông minh. Đọc tiếp để biết thêm thông tin thú vị về silicon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtPvQhkaBjM

Những sự thật về Silicon

Kiểm tra những sự thật tuyệt vời silicon này và tìm hiểu thêm về việc sử dụng nó như một chất bán dẫn. Silicon là một yếu tố rất quan trọng trong công nghệ hiện đại do sử dụng trong máy tính và chip điện thoại thông minh. Đọc tiếp để biết thêm thông tin thú vị về silicon.

Nguyên tố hóa học Silicon có ký hiệu Si và nguyên tử số 14.

Silicon là kim loại ( hoặc bán kim loại ). Điều này có nghĩa là nó có một số thuộc tính như kim loại,ví dụ, nó trông giống như một kim loại và một số giống như một phi kim loại, ví dụ, nó không làm tiến hành điện rất dễ dàng.

Vì silic là kim loại, nó rất hữu ích như một chất bán dẫn có nghĩa là nó có điện độ dẫn giữa các kim loại và chất cách điện phi kim loại như thủy tinh.

Silicon là phần tử dồi dào thứ 8 trong vũ trụ theo khối lượng.

Silicon không được tìm thấy như là một nguyên tố tự do trong tự nhiên, nhưng nó lại xảy ra như các oxit và silicat trong nhiều khoáng chất. Hơn 90% vỏ trái đất (khoảng 28% khối lượng) bao gồm silicat khoáng chất, đó là lý do tại sao silicon là yếu tố thứ 2 phổ biến nhất trên trái đất sau khi oxy.

Cát là một hợp chất của silic được biết đến như silicon dioxide (silica) và tất nhiên là thủy tinh được tạo ra bởi làm nóng cát đến nhiệt độ rất cao.

Một số khoáng chất silicat quan tâm bao gồm đá granit, amiăng, hornblende, fenspat, đất sét và mica.

Một số loại thiên thạch gọi là aerolites chủ yếu được làm bằng silic.

Ở nhiệt độ phòng Silicon là một điểm nóng chảy rắn chắc của nó là 2.577 ° F (1.414 ° C) và sôi điểm là 5.909 ° F (3.265 ° C).

Gay Lussac và Louis Jacques Thénard phát hiện ra một dạng silic không tinh khiết vào năm 1811. Nhưng Jöns Jacob Berzelius được cho là đã phát hiện silic vào năm 1824.

Những người tiếp xúc với hít phải một lượng lớn các hợp chất silic như các thợ mỏ và những người thợ xây có nguy cơ mắc bệnh phổi nghiêm trọng như bệnh silicosis.

Mặc dù silicon được tìm thấy rộng rãi dưới dạng silicat nhưng rất ít sinh vật có nhu cầu. Một số hình thức bọt biển biển có cấu trúc silic trong bộ xương của chúng và một số cây như gạo cần silicon để tăng trưởng.

Sắt nguyên tử đã có ảnh hưởng lớn đến nền kinh tế thế giới ngày nay. Hầu hết các silic tự do được sử dụng để tinh luyện thép, nhôm đúc, và trong ngành công nghiệp hóa chất. Nhưng đó là phần nhỏ (ít hơn hơn 10%) silic được tinh chế cao được sử dụng trong các thiết bị điện tử bán dẫn là điều quan trọng nhất đối với công nghệ máy tính ngày nay và các ngành công nghiệp điện tử.

Sử dụng của Silicon như là một phần quan trọng của các chất bán dẫn máy tính và các thiết bị công nghệ cao đã nhìn thấy tên của nó được sử dụng trên toàn thế giới như một biệt hiệu cho các khu vực có chứa một số công nghệ liên quan đến các công ty và ngành công nghiệp. Bản gốc được Thung lũng Silicon ở California, nhưng có hơn 10 lĩnh vực khác có silicon trong tên của họ ví dụ như 'Silicon Roundabout 'ở Bắc London.

Silicon Facts

Check out these amazing silicon facts and learn more about its use as a semiconductor. Silicon is a very important element in modern technology due to its use in computer and smart phone chips. Read on for more interesting facts about silicon. ● The chemical element Silicon has a symbol Si and atomic number 14. ● Silicon is a metalloid (or semimetal). This means it has some properties like a metal, for example, it looks like a metal and some like a non-metal, for example, it does not do conduct electricity very easily. ● Because silicon is a metalloid it is useful as a semiconductor which means it has electrical conductivity between metals and non-metal insulators like glass. ● Silicon is the 8th most abundant element in the universe by mass. ● Silicon is not found as a free element in nature, but rather it occurs as oxides and silicates in many minerals. Over 90% of the Earth's crust (about 28% by mass) is composed of silicate minerals, which is why silicon is the 2nd most common element on earth after oxygen. ● Sand is a compound of silicon known as silicon dioxide (silica) and of course glass is made by heating sand to a very high temperature. ● Some silicate minerals of interest include granite, asbestos, hornblende, feldspar, clay and mica. ● Certain types of meteorites called aerolites are predominately made of silicon. ● At room temperature Silicon is a solid its melting point is 2,577 °F (1,414 °C) and its boiling point is 5,909 °F (3,265 °C). ● Gay Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard discovered an impure form of silicon in 1811. But Jöns Jacob Berzelius is credited with the discovery of silicon in 1824. ● People exposed to breathing in large amounts of silicon compounds such as miners and stonecutters have a high risk of developing a serious lung disease known as silicosis. ● Even though silicon is widely found as silicates very few living organisms have a need for it. Some form of ocean sponges have a silica structure in their skeletons and some plants like rice require silicon for growth. ● Elemental silicon has had a large impact on today world economy. Most free silicon is used for steel refining, aluminum-casting, and in chemical industries. But it is the small portion (less than 10%) of highly purified silicon used in semiconductor electronics that is most critical for today& computer technology and electronic industries. ● Silicon&use as an important part of computer semiconductors and high-technology devices has seen its name used around the world as a nickname for areas that contain a number of technology-related companies and industries. The original being Silicon Valley in California, but there are over 10 other areas that have silicon in their name for example 'Silicon Roundabout& in North London.

[derww]

hi again! firstly wanna sincerely thank you for taking your time to answer me, i really appreciate it, youre awesome! however, before going to the main part i want to say that there is, apparently, a little misunderstanding: its not like i have not watched vods nor havent created theories in my head, but that we were generally left with the half of the whole story. afaik many things were just never explained or adressed, and even tho usually you can come to some conclusion, It's just a theory anyway. nope ive been able to explain it! with that, lets go back to the questions.

about spoke&parrot: this is just part of the general reasoning on the topic of when a meta-game becomes actively harmful to reality. I can imagine parrot being ok with spoke manipulating him and using and taking away his server but this shit sounds actually hard. also spoke expressed many times that he felt terrible and that in the end it became unbearable.

i do actually think that despite it obviously having lies spoke's video (and also vod right after that) to be more truthful than vi's pov. not because vi wanted to lie to anyone, but because for him it was a story of him doing this really cool deed and being the most important person in all project. and s4 showed to me that his perception on this matters could be very subjective on a verge of being distorted.

about parrot losing hearts: there was a really strange message from him not so long before the wormhole. he said he was joking but it doesnt seem to be a joke to me, so i do think about it sometimes.

i do believe that bedrock farm shit was just straight up mistake too, yeah. ourples both were sure zam knows its not true. afaik bedrock farm thing seemed to be a lie for the viewers, to mess with them, and it was expected that vi would explain it to zam out of camera. i think he even was sure he did. oh, vitalasy. i will never stop thinking about all of your character's potential.

i mean, vi defo had the idea of finding a glitch, found mrepic's video, showed it to spoke and contacted silicat, but silicat was the one who had actually understood its potential and did a big part of the work. i guess calling vi patient zero makes sense since all of this happened bc of him tho. and yeah, spoke got op only in the may, but it was generally silly from vi to think that he can control ash or spoke.

yeah, we know that spoke was speaking with parrot and that the was was actually staged (oh s4!leowook you was right from the start but I never found out about it) it was about the extent of it. but im rewatching wormhole breakdown and spoke had said here that he actually havent told parrot that much, although he immediately showed him the dupe glitch, so ig its answers that question. i love s4 but oh my fucking god i hope we'll never get the season like that again.

dw please. thank you for your consideration and attention. gl with your things void, have a good day!! <3

it feels like i still have no fucking idea what had actually happened in s4.