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Hey if you're a bird photographer and you're using AI to "improve" your photos (like the image on the left, that changes the color of the bird, moves the eye, erases the tail, adds extra feathers that aren't there) know it makes me lose all respect for you, for just photo quality purposes alone.

Signing a bomb is such a uniquely cooked, mentally unwell Yank thing to do. That country is awful.

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

When I went to Tehran in 2018 for a game conference I hung out with game nerds, music weirdos, and queer folks with tattoos and colored hair, just like I do here. We got vegetarian food and watched goofy uncles play basketball in the park. I sure hope they can live to see a better day.

The recurring line from execs right now is that AI will remove jobs that “nobody wants to do” because executives have never experienced the joy of caring about something enough to pay attention to the details.

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

A wall full of mugs arranged in such a way that it looks like the mugs are repeating themselves, creating an uncomfortable illusion

Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye

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The mercator projection is such a mindfuck!!

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Illustration of a sunfish (also known as a Mola Mola) floating above an aerial view of some farm lands. A plane flies next to the fish, really putting into perspective of just how large the sunfish really is.

I think that if sunfish could, the would be sunbathing in the sky ☁️
#art

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

“Make bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

the video game industry is a mess

screenshot from the Subway Takes video of a guy with long hair and a blue shirt holding a subway metro card / microphone “I think we need to destroy the data centers”

me in any conversation about anything lately:

This is a really great thread

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Post a tree you photographed.

This is Courtney.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

Fossil fuels are doomed – and Trump can’t save them Yes, climate change is worsening and action is uneven. But the shift away from fossil fuels is beginning.

Amid much gloom, a ray of light. Oil is oversupplied. Coal is projected to plummet in value. Exxon CEO calls Venezuelan oil “uninvestable.”

Clean energy is moving forward rapidly with “coalitions of the willing” aiming to accelerate it still further.

Fossil fuel champions are losing.

a drawing of two simple shapes side by side: on the left, an air fryer with a dark handle; on the right, a rounded shape (very similar to the air fryer) with a thick black tail hanging down

a black and white cat on a kitchen counter, facing away, with its dark tail hanging straight down. next to it sits a white air fryer with a black handle. the cat’s body and tail closely resemble the shape and details of the air fryer beside it

wow two air fryers

Securicats Direct

bbc news story about a 3rd shark attack in 2 days at “popular swimming spot Shark Beach”

cool name why’s it called that

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South African tourist hotspot Jeffreys Bay has not been declared a refuge for tens of thousands of refugees but false information may stoke Islamophobia The claim that South African tourist hotspot Jeffreys Bay will soon host roughly 120,000 refugees has been widely shared on Facebook, X and Whats...

Frantic online warnings that South African tourist hotspot Jeffreys Bay has been earmarked to become a "refugee camp" are FALSE.
These messages aren't spreading because there is any truth to their claims, but they ARE stoking prejudice, Islamophobia, and potential violence.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Screenshot: serialephemera Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part! should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Screenshot de post en mastodon: "what if the ship of theseus was sentient" is not a question I was prepared to grapple with on a monday The image is from a Thomas the Tank Engine picture book. A mechanic is putting a new smokestack on Thomas with a crane. Thomas looks up with an expression that can be read as surprise or wonder. Underneath the image is the following text: Thomas didn't enjoy his time at the Works. "It's nice to feel mended again," he said afterwards, "but they took so many of my old parts away and put new ones in, that I'm not sure whether I'm really me or another engine.

"what if the ship of theseus was sentient" is not a question I was prepared to grapple with on a monday

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Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage