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Nothing like discovering something hella cool and not knowing who to show it to. Let us have a space for sharing and discussing links to things which:

  • you think may be interesting to the people who hang out here
  • but you don’t think they merit starting a whole new topic, and making them a whole thing
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This kind of blew my mind earlier today: Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd

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Scary shit in my book. Would be curious to hear anyone’s ideas for applying this to any sort of benign (non-commercial, non-adversarial) purposes.

CW: intoxicants, societal baggage

shall we perhaps have this forum’s inaugural flame war?

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Would be curious to hear anyone’s ideas for applying this to any sort of benign (non-commercial, non-adversarial) purposes.

CW: mh~

Because all that comes to mind is how James Tilly Matthews fuckin’ called it – and how the archetypal “schizo” (as opposed to any individuals suffering from actual schizophrenia) is once again a century ahead of the rest of the world.

There’s a cool book on the history of “they are using the machine to make me hear voices”: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-technical-delusion

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Yes, especially after the recent state violence in Serbia (CW).

(no to the CW’d part of that post; thanks for the invite but that would disproportionately stress me out lol)

My friend is doing research on something somewhat similar (though far less funded) to create 3D sound shapes in the air for sound art / music pieces. Apparently it’s complicated.

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