Erik Gregersen

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.

A tumblr post from user nitewrighter: Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

Boss, it's the fascism.

Oh No, I Betrayed America Again Riding to the Future in a Chinese SUV

I wrote about driving a Chinese car, the automotive trend not of the future but of today

open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

it must suck to be a cat. you are born into this world, no one feeds you. you live a long life, but no one feeds you. you have never been fed, not once, not ever, never ever

Movies like this usually cost $150,000,000.

We made this video for $7 in 2 hours.

Hollywood is dead.

[ATTACHMENT: The worst video you've ever seen in your life.]

A moving stairway leading to an airplane door in Trondheim, Norway. The stairway walls are covered with solar PV panels.

Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.

Illustrated graphic with the boot-shaped Rubin Observatory atop its site on Cerro Pachón beneath a sparkling night sky and the glowing band of the Milky Way stretching from lower left to upper right. Sprinkled throughout are many "Data alert!" popups, labeled with icons that represent supernovae, asteroids, hungry black holes, and more.

A 3-by-4 grid of grayscale astronomical images zoomed in on single objects. From left to right, the columns are labeled Template, New image, and difference. From top to bottom, the rows are labeled supernova, variable star, active galactic nucleus, and solar system object.

The largest spot-the-difference effort EVER has begun!🚨

On the night of Feb 24, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially released its first ~800,000 public alerts of detected changes in the night sky!🔍

A new era of discovery is here✨ 🔭🧪☄️

🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/first-a...

Outbursts Of Everet True By A.D. Condo P1- EVERETT IS TALKING TO A YOUNG BOY DOWNTOWN… EVERETT: DO YOU LIKE TO GO TO SCHOOL, LITTLE BOY! BOY:NO , SIR P2- EVERETT: HERE'S A DIME FOR BEING HONEST.

The Outbursts Of Everett True
By A.D.Condo

Governor Pritzker speaks at the podium.

The door of the Hotel Florence.

Pullman is a foundational part of both Illinois and America's history.

And today, we’re breathing new life into the storied Hotel Florence while preserving a treasured part of Illinois history.

A boost to the residents, workers, and small businesses of this neighborhood.

Counterpoint: They wanted him to be above the law. They should be the only people to show up.

As requested, here’s the secret door in action! It’s hard to film one handed, but I did my best. It leads through to another room and we kept the door for warmth. Really the back should be painted green too, but it took @alexmilway.bsky.social long enough to do the rest of it! Maybe one day…

Thread captures a reason my first instinct is skpeticism: many space advocates are so desperate for a 'space killer app', be it solar power satellites, missile defense, zero-g mfg, or now, data centers.

It's a backwards question. If space makes sense, great, if not, who cares?

Person @ computer: I'm ready to get work done

Chatbot: Nice to meet you Ready To Get Work Done, I'm Claude

Person: can you write an essay for me

Chatbot: Yes, I can

Person:

Chatbot:

Person:

Chatbot: Oh, did you mean *will I*?

Spokesperson: Introducing Claude Dad

A sheet of yellow and black USPS Bruce Lee stamps

New Bruce Lee stamps

This reminds me of how in Shin Godzilla the government officials had a “serious emergency” uniform.

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane?

Me: Yes, but not the useful kind.

Flight attendant: the crew are arguing over whether early modern #bookhistory should pay more attention to the material flows of the paper trade or not.

Me: *halfway down plane*

Vatican News No to homilies prepared with Artificial Intelligence The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life and called for vigilance when confronted with artificial intelligence and internet use. He warned against "the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence". "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," he said. Moreover, "to give a true homily is to share faith," and Al "will never be able to share faith," he insisted. "If we can offer a service that is inculturated in the place, in the parish where we are working, people want to see your faith, your experience of having known and loved Christ." vaticannews.va

PAPA LEONE YES

Woman in center frame of hazy afternoon overcast purple lit clouds bright green grass. Her hands in pocket. Engages a stars w Man to left side Rendezvous of Anna 1978

Now woman is just gone from frame

He pivots and she is brown dot walked away in distance

Bravura Akerman fixed camera sequence. Symmetry & time… of a rendez-vous. Not a balanced situation. Her “character” is dominant center. & “acts” by walking off. He lightly pivots to watch. The viewer is stuck w him

looks eerily like Walton Goggins

Captured in bright indoor lighting before a hessian pin board, a Great Horned Owl with wide-eyes and wet-plumage is cloaked in a white cloth. Spiked feathers radiate from his head in all directions, like a hairy durian, accentuating his look of shock and indignation. We may have found the true paragon of Owls in Towels.

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

ok had to draw this too

closet-ception

NASA Releases Report on Starliner Crewed Flight Test Investigation - NASA At a news conference on Thursday, NASA released a report of findings from the Program Investigation Team examining the Boeing CST-100

NASA report on Starliner problems. Only read Exec Summary, but organizational / cultural issues loom large as a root cause, some all too familiar on the Boeing side (737 Max, etc), some on the NASA side, some new to Commercial Crew model

www.nasa.gov/news-release...

It’s a cliché to say that of ad-supported software or media that “you are the product.” But I would argue that the correct and more radical formulation is “the advertiser is the customer.” This fact has all sorts of consequences that displaces the user even further from the center of the experience

New level of American exceptionalism unlocked

One thing I'm getting from rooting around in early postwar periodicals is that middlebrow culture was good, actually and we're impoverished for its demise.

Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.

Header for the Everybody Goes When the Wagon Comes, a gossip column by "Ole Nosey." A black and white drawing shows the columnist comically eavesdropping on a couple from the hallway. Date above the drawing identifies this as being from Saturday, April 19, 1941.

Clipping reads: "Who was the business man CAUGHT in a flat in the Rosenwald apartments and had to make EXIT over the roof on the Wabash avenue side?.... They're trying to HUSH it up, but sooner or later the WAGON will tell you his name..."

Clipping reads: "You might tell BOYD (I play a guitar) KELLY that he is playing with fire and the juvenile judge will tell you so... OTTO FRED -- please stop BEATING your wife in public... If THELMA KENNY doesn't know what she is doing she had better ask somebody...NOLA RAINWATER, the manicurist, had better be careful or she'll get into serious trouble... Wonder if JOHN WOOD -- lives in that hotel at Twenty-ninth and Prairie? ... Everybody is still talking about the HELLIANS pre-Easter jamboree... If you want to have some fun say WAGON to BEATRICE (Ritz drug store) Robinson."

Clipping reads: "The lady who lives on Sixty-first street had better be careful because the DOCTOR'S wife will catch on sooner or later... Who was the cat buying cocktails for EMMA and LUCINDA at the Brass Rail? ... Wonder what will boy friends say when they find the girls were jumpin'? ... CHRYSTOLENE MIN --, you were strictly on at Daves."

The gossip column in the Chicago Defender had no business being this damn messy

Seeing an amazing emergent behavior where a document review agent finds internal wiki pages about the struggles of getting LLMs to understand our esoteric internal systems. The agent then decides its won’t be able to do the current task and aborts with a depressive note about its incompetence.

Muppet Bladerunner where Deckard is implied to be a Muppet too