earth pod

actualol

tyvm - I listened to some tunes & learned a small history

When you expose an "AGFA ISOPAN F" with a Zeiss NETTAR from the 1930s, a camera the film was sitting in for more than 80 years.

Is that the person who proposes a minimum viable product

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.

You have over 200,000 grandparents. If you think about one pair of them per day, you'll be remembering for 270 years.

"...by about 2.75 million years ago, hominins were already good at making sharp stone tools"

but no he's big, must be right

"He is the author of the 2005 book “Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music,” cited by Stephen King as one of the three best music books of all time."

talk about gluten intolerance!

FAA restricts commercial rocket launches indefinitely due to air traffic risks from government shutdown Restrictions begin just after NASA's upcoming mission to Mars.

unintended consequences 🎉 ✈️ 🚀 💥

CAKES 1963 Oil on canvas In this celebrated painting, Wayne Thiebaud gives an epic account of one of his favourite motifs, a display of bright and brash cakes familiar from bakeries and diners across America. Working on an unusually large scale for a still-life painting, he accords both the genre itself and his commonplace subject matter monumental status. Thiebaud uses his paint thickly and lushly to accentuate what he considered the distinctly American character of the patterned, vividly coloured and excessively frosted offerings. Cakes was a standout work in exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles in 1963 and helped confirm Thiebaud's emerging reputation as a distinctive painter of modern American life. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art from the Collectors Committee, the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, and The Circle, with additional support from the Abrams Family in memory of Harry N. Abrams

I mean, have a look at this, though. Absolutely outrageous. I haven't want to lick a painting this badly since looking at Manet still-lives at d'Orsay.

Cakes, 1963

tired: "Try not to mock people online; it's unkind and does not increase communication."

wired: "Half all communication is mockery; a better human learns kind mockery."

empathy is not bad

also religion learns from animals daily

I just want to get to the part of the AI hype cycle where I would not have to explain Roko's Basilisk, its pseudo-believers, or the connections between bad-faith political/religious movements and the mental-problems-to-social-problems pipeline.

But what would a new normal be, if not new.

A deserted old building has some graffiti and a neatly labelled open door: LITHIUM ART GALLERY

everybody's a critic

if I had a nickel for every "we'll solve the obvious problems with TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN THE FUTURE! in fact that's exactly why you should invest NOW!" pitch, I wouldn't even need to beg for venture capital to launch my startup for subscription-based dogs.

A close-up of the painting showing the luscious thick paint which dissolves into abstract forms while also looking exactly like thick layers of cream and custard.

I mean, look at that cream, look at that custard

Detail from Pie Rows, 1962

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Tesla sales in Germany have cratered from last year, data shows Elon Musk's EV maker began selling a new, lower-cost version of its Model Y SUV in Germany during October.

Do u wonder about possible reasons that man's company sold less cars in Germany

I recently watched The Shining (unfortunate) so I can visualize this entire situation

tfw you charge everything for the power outage and it doesn't come

Susan, in Darby House, with the Thurston Dart

no, YOUR MOM is a vector in high dimensional space

ah, the Jump To Lightspeed strategy 😂

Croatia GDP: $198 billion, 1 billionaire
US GDP: $30,616 billion, 900 billionaires
(per Wikipedia)

So a US politician may be 155 or 900 times more likely to become corrupt, disconnect from people, and lose empathy than a Croatian. Wars, bigotry, greed could be equal afaik. It's scale.

I went at it top-down, and that was sure a mystery unfolding

You don't think it's LLM-generated code which is matching "style"?

u writing Aminé a thanksgiving rap?

I hear a very strong sub bass

"Paste special" needs its cousin "zoom special" to come in from the cold.

I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
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Sometimes adulting means keeping your home's humidity low, watching for mold or mildew, and cleaning any time those evils begin to paint a hidden corner.

Sometimes adulting means tossing a few hundred nice old books if you didn't do that other stuff.

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Gadget ad that shows the included "Bursto" brand batteries.

this part of a gadget ad is kinda wow