Humanities backup
Would be more impressive if birds were real.
Yeah, if anything, this just proves they’re trancieving digital data. Not a good look for things that supposedly are not government surveillance drones. Imagine the mental gymnastics of someone still calling them animals afrer uploadung a digital file to something that looks like it’s covered in patchwork taxidermy from mammal and reptile parts and that spends all day flying, watching people, marking targets with paint and making jerky mechanical movements. I guess it takes all kinds to make a world, but still.
Time to update the video on hard drives no one wants.
ETA: Not a dis. These are actually really interesting.
Messenger carrier pigeons are back baby! Quick, toss your 401k into Big Bird Co.
It was nice, but a good test for the megabytes being claimed would be to reproduce a color photo with far more definition. PNG is a lossless format, and I’m pretty sure birds and spectrograms aren’t reproducing what they can do. (There’s a reason there’s only one example)
I haven’t yet watched the video, but from the posted images, it looks like they converted the image itself to a frequency spectrum, so no image format encoding was involved before it reached the point of being audio.
Benn Jordan is one of my favorite musicians, YouTubers, and people in the world. Highly recommended
Same, started following him about 6 months to a year ago and quickly became a fan
Coupled with IP-over-avian-carrier, this would potentially make for an interesting concept.
If only there were a common bird, that could “carry” this message.
I feel like starlings are pretty common.
Common Starlings are actually not native to North America and all of the wild Starlings in NA are descended from intentionally released European Starlings.
I believe you’re right. There are a few other common birds that are invasive too, including pigeons, if I remember correctly.
And also make for a giant network of bird-dropping cataclysms weaving through the most populous areas.
https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2017/04/Internet-Atlas-map.jpg
Why is Idaho’s Internet infrastructure in the shape of a shitting llama?
Judging by its orientation, I’d guess the State of Wyoming did something to piss off a group of Idahoan network engineers.
Why is Idaho’s Internet infrastructure in the shape of a shitting llama?
That’s probably because Idaho’s Internet-using population is in the shape of a shitting llama.
This is science, revealing the world’s mysteries.
Just Idaho things
you could call it starlink
Starlingk*
Storklink
Starkink
How many birds do I need for about 4 hours at 15 Mbps? I want to watch The Return of the King in 4k.
One standard murmur.
You might need a murder of crows for that one.
X account is called Sterling, talking about a Starling, if you didn’t notice…
Can starlings teach their friends songs? It’d be neat if the PNG bird song was pass down through the generations for future interplanetary visitors to discover
…well, now it’s an animated .gif but each frame is a separate bird.
The analog distortion would be fun to watch propagate from bird to bird.
That’d make for a great element in a modern remake of the movie, The Birds.
Researchers trying to reduce the distortion are tracking the patterns. They can’t figure it out until a main character, a blind audiologist who lost his vision in the first attack many decades ago, has an epiphany and suggests assembling the images in sequence to form a video. It shows a bird flying and flapping its wings. The researchers keep gathering data, making the video longer and more complex.The bird now also does loops and spins. The researchers set up remote microphones all over the world and network them with their computer so it can compile in real time.
We learn that blind main character has now trained himself to “see” the images that he hears. Main character and love interest colleague walk through the park discussing their work as a flimsy pretext to spend time together. All of a sudden, the birdsong changes. “Run, love interest!” says main character, but love interest won’t leave main character behind. The camera pans over to the computer screen in their laboratory, which overlooks the park. The video now shows another scene at the end, an enormous eagle shredding a person with its talons and beak.
That’s all I’ve got so far.
goddamn this is gold get this tooth a tongue for godsake!
I’m sold
Birds are memes propagators into the future. Human civilization ends, but the starlings keep the memes alive… interesting idea for a story.
OOooh, what if we are spectrographing bird calls and suddenly we see a picture develop out of it. Or, you could use birds to store data and no one would ever know, like a spy thing.
Imagine ending up in prison because your bird picked up something wildly illegal and immoral from the song of a neighbor.
I literally just finished watching the video and open Lemmy to find this as the first post. That’s kinda crazy. It’s a great video. Just in case it hasn’t been posted yet here it is
I love this dude’s work. He’s so chaotic, and it makes me happy to see someone thriving by leaning in their ADHD
Definitely chaotic good energy. Big fan of his videos.
You know he makes music? It’s The Flashbulb :)
HES THE FLASHBULB? I LVOE HIS MUSIC AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW
I know right? He’s the best. I love his range of creativity.
He’s a nice dude as well. Love his Vidz about economics
You know he makes music? It’s The Flashbulb :)
Is this solarpunk?
Biopunk.
Ecopunk
Steganography. Smuggling data in migratory bird brains.
you have heard about IP over avian carrier
now get ready for:
Revival of the carrier pigeon
Imagine trying to catch random birds one day in the not so distant future to see if it “contains” an image.
Sounds based. Imagine getting Rick rolled by a bird 🤣
Imagine finding that a bird “stored” a nude
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New dystopian achievement unlocked:
Age verification for bird watching.
“You must be 18 years or older to view the following bird: Dickcissel”
Boobies & Tits are both done for as well.
This is a concept in the Dune book series where the fremen use bats and birds who’s speech they can modify in a way that encoded any secret message they want and then they send the bird out and someone else can then catch the bird and decode it’s speech to get the message. That’s why in the Dune 2 movie there’s a bird menagerie inside the fremen caves
Had this in my Watch Later. Nice spoiler.
It’s in the first minute of the video.
I saw this elsewhere and thought it was bs earlier, but this time I decided to check it out.
