Vital Borkmans

Looking and sounding great! Wishlisted ✅

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

Incredible.

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

Trying to imagine me five years ago fathoming an insane headline like this
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

grok, fuck my wife in an epic manner. more vulgar, grok. use forbidden words

I see three of them in the background. It's a pretty good pareidolia trigger!

Came across this one in London, wonder what the story is!

Very smooth, no hitches so far. But everything is tiny! The quality of the art really makes it worth it to play it on a bigger screen

In Alien Earth, a guy is typing "crew dead" on a computer and the words are reflected on his face, but they aren't reversed like they should be. For readabilty I guess. They should've used a palindrome instead, so we can still read it backwards. "Ya won, evil aliens. Is neil alive? no way"

Americans Astronomers
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
🤝

“It could happen at any time”

The man with the blue vest has the quintessential Dutch face!

I have to say that it seems like lots of AI power users are in the gamified machine zone — attracted by the constant attention of feedback loops, agnostic of what that feedback is. The casino has come for the minds of the C suite.

An old man sits in a corner. A voice from off screen says "Harold there's someone at the door for you." Harold's face begins to shrink inward, the speaker continues "Harold, he says it's important. No- Harold. HAROLD!" Harold's head now has a full cutout in it, his face beginning to recede behind a corner. "Harold, stop it." Harold's face is now completely gone into the black inside the hole in his head. The voice says "Get out of there right now Harold." Harold says "NO!"

Harold, No

The East End of London in the late 60s and 70s
David Granick

"Always remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary."

Yeah I'm confused as well?!

No that's correct! The effect is even greater on a regular sized harddrive

One way someone could poison RFK Jr would be to give him some poison and say "this is poison"

stocks keep going up and down bc the invisible hand of the market is making the jacking off motion

soup guy walking out of the stock market disappointed

Genius.

If I got broccoli on my nachos I would be on the news

orange tabby parking out from behind a grey metal door so you can only see it's head 📸

another new orleans kiki

The Russian invasion of Ukraine was an ideational watershed. Ideas that have been proven wrong since then:

1) EU can't survive without RU energy
2) US will defend Europe; EU should not have military functions
3) Popper is wrong, total free speech is not a problem for democracies

1/x

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

Four of these engines were fitted to each of the two Concorde supersonic airliner prototypes. This engine was in the French 001 prototype for its first supersonic flight. It was later installed in the British 002 prototype for its first flight at twice the speed of sound and for other test flights. Early versions of the Olympus were fitted to the Avro Vulcan bomber and a variant was developed for the TSR2 supersonic strike aircraft. This formed the initial basis for the Concorde power plant. OLYMPUS 593B ROLLS-ROYCE/SNECMA Twin spool turbojet with re-heat; 7 stage low pressure compressor; 7 stage high pressure compressor; combustion, 8 flame tubes in casing; turbine, 2 separate stages. Power: static thrust 31,000 lb (138 kN); with re-heat 36,280 lb (161 kN) Weight: 3,110 kg (6,850 lb) Text from display

Four of these engines were fitted to each of the two Concorde supersonic airliner prototypes. This engine was in the French 001 prototype for its first supersonic flight. It was later installed in the British 002 prototype for its first flight at twice the speed of sound and for other test flights. Early versions of the Olympus were fitted to the Avro Vulcan bomber and a variant was developed for the TSR2 supersonic strike aircraft. This formed the initial basis for the Concorde power plant. OLYMPUS 593B ROLLS-ROYCE/SNECMA Twin spool turbojet with re-heat; 7 stage low pressure compressor; 7 stage high pressure compressor; combustion, 8 flame tubes in casing; turbine, 2 separate stages. Power: static thrust 31,000 lb (138 kN); with re-heat 36,280 lb (161 kN) Weight: 3,110 kg (6,850 lb) Text from display

Four of these engines were fitted to each of the two Concorde supersonic airliner prototypes. This engine was in the French 001 prototype for its first supersonic flight. It was later installed in the British 002 prototype for its first flight at twice the speed of sound and for other test flights. Early versions of the Olympus were fitted to the Avro Vulcan bomber and a variant was developed for the TSR2 supersonic strike aircraft. This formed the initial basis for the Concorde power plant. OLYMPUS 593B ROLLS-ROYCE/SNECMA Twin spool turbojet with re-heat; 7 stage low pressure compressor; 7 stage high pressure compressor; combustion, 8 flame tubes in casing; turbine, 2 separate stages. Power: static thrust 31,000 lb (138 kN); with re-heat 36,280 lb (161 kN) Weight: 3,110 kg (6,850 lb) Text from display

Four of these engines were fitted to each of the two Concorde supersonic airliner prototypes. This engine was in the French 001 prototype for its first supersonic flight. It was later installed in the British 002 prototype for its first flight at twice the speed of sound and for other test flights. Early versions of the Olympus were fitted to the Avro Vulcan bomber and a variant was developed for the TSR2 supersonic strike aircraft. This formed the initial basis for the Concorde power plant. OLYMPUS 593B ROLLS-ROYCE/SNECMA Twin spool turbojet with re-heat; 7 stage low pressure compressor; 7 stage high pressure compressor; combustion, 8 flame tubes in casing; turbine, 2 separate stages. Power: static thrust 31,000 lb (138 kN); with re-heat 36,280 lb (161 kN) Weight: 3,110 kg (6,850 lb) Text from display

Science Museum, London SW7

OLYMPUS 593B ROLLS-ROYCE/SNECMA c.1969

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That used to scare me so much as a kid, but I've forgotten which movie it's from. Could you tell me?