Singapore may be the greatest city on Earth

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I love when the Wikipedia did-you-know section shows me the coolest thing ever en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Monum...

I LOVE CLAUDE CODE LOOK AT MY LITTLE AMOEBAE

if you want to prevent destructive copying, don't push for more publisher control over texts. for information to be free you must allow it to be set free

I. Am I supposed to read this as anything other than "we should ensure data center buildouts are finished rather than being left half-complete, their vast potential unrealized"? Like, if those canals had been finished, sounds to me like you would've had a continent-spanning mass transit network.

Ever since someone described “A vampire the masquerade cinematic universe where someone neglected to tell the filmmakers that the characters are supposed to be vampires” I can’t not see it

Polypaths, Aluan Wang

you cant make me perceive that 'nintendo is using yoshi to create adult babies' post. for all I care that could be completely true and I would have the same reaction if not stronger

can i say something.

Putting this up in my window

I'm becoming more serene about the fact that the microblog format makes clarifying and defending one's actual positions impossible. I'm now content to yeet my random thoughts into the atmosphere and you can do with them what you will.

rat+dog (1/2)

My working theory on why AI marketing is so abysmal is that Google is so used to complete market dominance in Search that they’ve never really *had* to put serious effort into marketing their products. And thus this is the result. (…From a company that gets most of its money from ads, no less!)

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

Of course you only need Claude, ComfyUI, and a $100,000 workstation courtesy of Nvidia

too much writing about AI and art is stuck in 2024, focused on generating text or images or videos and calling that art. normies can be excused for thinking this way, but not anyone who claims to have spent 5 minutes thinking about the question and have an opinion worth hearing

(grumpy) maned wolf

Working with Claude Code in 2040

Imagine being a cosmic super intelligence but inexplicably unable to think about Mickey Mouse. It becomes your anti-memetic obsession to map the contours of the one thought that is forbidden to you.

Still haven’t grown a tail yet but I’m working on it

ah, an opportunity to share one of my favorite videos.

Everyone please remember the most succinct alt text of all time.

Leaving everything else aside, the Solar Revolution is just an unbelievably positive development, we aren’t that far away from “people in the Global South can run A/C all summer with extremely cheap zero carbon energy” which would have been essentially unthinkable even like 10 years ago

This is basically where i’ve landed AI is a terrific research assistant, even for creative writing (Gods bless Claude for putting up with my science questions), and a highly capable translator, but a *horrible* prose stylist, LOL

to stay WCAG compliant I dyed my hair darker to achieve a 7:1 contrast ratio

Babe… would you still love me if i was the Lambton Worm

i get my moral guidance from Wyld Stallyns

nested layers of commentary from billions of years in the future about my shitpost

you will take my toynbee tiles from my cold dead hands

"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art

“creative…common[s]”

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Birb. Still gotta remove the outline on this one.

The server only accepts Morse code tap/hold timestamps so Claude has to play along too

repost to scare a macrofur

there's a reason why some of the greats of first-gen space colonization maximalism went down the atomically precise manufacturing rabbit hole, because Basically Restarting Industrial Revolution Supply Chain Capacity In Space is a ridiculously tall order

when i need to justify my anti-IP position in the future i will tell people it is because i am catholic

da pope mentioned transhumanism and posthumanism and did not call either thing idolatry or heresy so i'm calling it a W

Forget Victorian children, “The American pope closes his manifesto on artificial intelligence by quoting Gandalf” is a sentence that would instantly kill a 2003-era forum user

If they actually go through with the under-16 social-media ban then I look forward to being locked out of the internet just because the face-scanner thinks i’m a child and my passport is currently lost in bureaucratic limbo, lol Great system everyone, good job, really protecting the kids®

It is absolutely boiling out there. Wishing this was me rn

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Yes, but if anyone asks, the recipe was invented by Willem Arondéus

Did you know, each time you hear synchronised female choir, used in films to represent alienation/native cultures (Avatar, Star Wars, Ghost in the Shell, Brother Bear). It's Bulgarian native singing 🇧🇬 Today marks day of Slavonic Alphabet & Bulgarian Culture. Balkan Slavs, aka, native/aliens.

humanity's enduring desire to make Little Guys is truly wonderful This is a clay pig. It has an angry little face with furrowed brows, pointing down and a huge curved back that leads seamlessly into the top of the head (no neck) like it's rearing up to charge. A very round piggy.