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Birds of Berkeley [Paperback] by Oliver James

Now in paperback! This charming, full-color field guide to 25 birds easily found in Berkeley proves that even the city’s avian residents are a little

joão (@johnfields091.bsky.social)

Lisboa/Portugal Books, comics, records/music, films, games (interests, not activities). Mostly random thoughts in short form here, and in long(ish)-form on my blog. https://sobreiromecanico.tumblr.com/ (Photo: Eurasian Eagle Owl by Paul Bankowitsch)

Food, foragers, and folklore: the role of narrative in human subsistence

Narrative is a species-typical, reliably developing, complex cognitive process whose design is unlikely to have emerged by chance. Moreover, the folklore record indicates that narrative content is consistent across widely divergent cultures. I have argued elsewhere that a storyteller may use narrative to manipulate an audience's representations of the social and/or physical environment to serve his or her own fitness ends. However, my subsequent research suggests that such manipulation results from a broader selection pressure which narrative effectively alleviates: information acquisition. By substituting verbal representations for potentially costly first-hand experience, narrative enables an individual to safely and efficiently acquire information pertinent to the pursuit of fitness in local habitats. If this hypothesis is true, narrative should be rich with information useful to the pursuit of fitness. One class of information integral to the accomplishment of this task is foraging knowledge. In this paper, then, I present evidence that foraging peoples use narrative to transmit subsistence information: specifically, I demonstrate how various narrative devices (e.g., setting, description, mimicry, anthropomorphism) are used to communicate foraging knowledge.

Post by Paul Musgrave (@professormusgrave.bsky.social) on Bluesky — View on Aturi

I don't know, man, can a stochastic parrot take a half-remembered anecdote and systematically refine its internet searching to come up with *exactly* the resour

Hawkins-Weeks Photography

A blog about photography, featuring landscape, nature, abstract and macro subjects, plus articles on art, music and books (oh, and coffee!)

Nectar - Find similar images across the ATmosphere

Nectar is an image search API for AT Protocol. Query images and records by perceptual hash. Find reposts, add annotations, track popularity.

DeepSeek

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

Roost - Social Connection App

Join the waitlist for Roost, the messaging app where birds travel in real-time based on distance.

Library of Congress Aesop Fables

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.

Designing Imaginative Environments by Nathan Fowkes

Join industry veteran Nathan Fowkes on a deep dive into the hows and whys of designing environments for entertainment. From creating mood with color and light, to exploring different biomes and weather, to crafting architecture and props, he will teach you how to design amazing environments that make your work stand out from the crowd.

A Bestiary of the Digital Wilds: The Score - Astral's Blog

Hayao Miyazaki and optimistic nihilism

Yesterday, I found the post i think we're obsessed with aesthetic on the Discovery Feed. It featured quite a few nice quotes. My favourite was this one: <...

The Garden of Maggie Appleton

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology