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And then there are those super-rich with their own apocalypse insurance plans. "Saying you're 'buying a house in New Zealand' is kind of a wink, wink, say no more," Reid Hoffman previously said. The same presumably goes for bunkers. But there's a distinctly human flaw. I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking.

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Vija Celmins, Drypoint—Ocean Surface (Between First & Second State), 1985 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Water Lilies, The Clouds - 1903
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10895

this whips

The Louis E. Stern Collection

Plate (folio 3) from Sueño y mentira de Franco (The Dream and Lie of Franco)
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1168425

american fixation with performative debate, one of many ways that liberal institutionalism leads you to have a wildly inaccurate understanding of whats going on in the usa in the 21st century

it’s an internationally popular, very accessible in translation form of americana

it is pretty neat that there’s some sort of information stored in the latent probability of certain strings of text or pixels following a prompt. that’s neat! it is not a wise sage on a mountaintop or a helpful butler

they created a new form of information retrieval which is more interesting than it is useful but are still willing to sink hundreds of billions of dollars because they’re all sophists who think it is currently or will be soon conscious/a demigod

pretty racist thing of you to say about Wikipedia….. can you really be sure it’s not conscious??

this era of futurism was really pretty noxious

ICE as institutionalized police riot

the problem for every liberal democracy is that they are founded on ideas about people, society, and the world that are just not accurate or coherent in the present (if ever)

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

gdt’s frankenstein will be in the running once it’s released later this month

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Ken Price, Red Neck, 2002
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137068

• Children of PhD-educated parents are 28 times more likely to become professors than those whose parents only completed compulsory school.
• Children of professors are 11 times more likely to join the faculty than everyone else.

Colourfully-glazed (green, blue, brown & white) earthenware sculpture of a lion-like hybrid animal with a fierce expression and many horns protruding from its body.

This is a zhènmùshòu (镇墓兽), or tomb guardian, from Tang Dynasty (AD 618–907) China. Placed in tombs, their ferocious expressions and hybrid animal features were designed to defend the deceased from malevolent spirits.

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📷 Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.118.1

🏺 #Archaeology

honestly, there's no point in reconvening congress basically ever again if the executive branch claims unilateral authority over appropriated funds. democrats have nothing to gain by helping to obscure the fact that the republicans are trying to build a monarchy - let him have his rump parliament

maybe they will end up being very well innoculated against LLM psychosis! or maybe they will simply develop LLM psychosis at astonishingly early ages. let’s find out i guess

will be interesting to see what becomes of these little human experiments who are being exposed no filters no priors to the most radically novel way of interacting with language since the invention of the written word. not at all how i would raise a kid tho

batman and robin nothing is true, everything is permitted Based on this "Nothing is an absolute reality; all is permitted" from Vladimir Bartol's story "Alamut" 1938

A brooch with a single eye painted on ivory with three diamonds as tears falling from the eye. The brooch is framed with pearls.

Brooch - England, early 19th century

every thousand years or so the ancient ones show up all pissed off cause of some crap they've been stewing about for an eon and it's like, hey yog sothoth, nobody knows what the fuck you're talking about

This is an awesome vista on Mars that came down yesterday.

But imagine believing someone who tells you that *this* is where humanity's future awaits.

Paul Klee, Portal of a Mosque. 1931.

Possibly my favourite early modern coffee image.

Thinking and talking with #coffee, drawn by Rembrandt, c. 1656-61 (British Museum) #InternationalCoffeeDay

it’s almost certainly being done proactively by google execs trying to avoid being targeted