AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis

that is... incredible. on my last DC trip, the hotel had this

“Do you have chatgpt”

Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca

“The Taco Bell ‘bong’ sound is the preset Tubular Bells playing the note E4”

i'm banned from the dick sucking factory premises because when i worked there i sucked too hard and degloved a guy

one of the coolest skyline reveals i’ve ever seen

Pilot over the intercom: uhhhhhhh we are all just flesh. We exist so briefly.

tonight in dc as we waited for our pizza sean very confidently said ‘outside the city you should call pizza something else, you should call it cheesy good-boy bread’

“He Painted Bugs Like Jewels”. 16th-century Dutch artist Joris Hoefnagel painted some of the first dedicated and detailed images of insects in the world. If he’d lived 200 years later, you would have called him a naturalist. [kottke.org]

event horizon (andy weir edition): holy farking shitballs, what do you mean we won't need eyes to see? does the hell dimension only emit IR light? does the human body acquire new cone cells when it passes through folded space-time? did you know the mantis shrimp eye contains more photoreceptors th-

I always love it when people deploy baby's first standpoint theory to stake a claim that they have an unassailable right to believe in things that aren't true, for reasons that don't make sense, in defense of the obscene.

Death and Fire, one of the last paintings by Paul Klee, who died #onthisday in 1940. The German for death, "tod" is hidden throughout the painting, most explicitly in the features of the face. This image featured in our essay on Klee's puppets: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd

merge left: vote mamdani!

i hate on my own neighborhood for very, very good reasons but hey. proud to have been one of the 146

nice weather for it

I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine. A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2. Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2. √a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.

americans hate seeing riots and community self defense because above everything else they want to preserve the meager shreds of personal peace & comfort afforded to them. but the truth is there is no peace, and all that comfort is stolen. america was always a war

You’re not allowed to stop making art. You’re not allowed to stop scratching this itch of creative fulfillment. It doesn’t matter how often you do it so as long as you continue to do it. You’re not allowed to give up. It’s war.

this is the sort of penmanship i would have expected a century ago. i have nothing but respect here

David Ramsay Hay’s mapping of colour onto musical notes, a diagram from his The Laws of Harmonious Colouring (1838).⠀More in @carmelrazmusic's essay “Music of the Squares” on a Hay's attempt to use music theory to evaluate visual beauty — publicdomainreview.org/essay/m...

Happy Friday to you sexy Jon Arbuckle appreciators

oh you used ai to generate an action figure of yourself? fascinating. did you know that my blade thirsts for your blood

RETVRN

happy to report that the new win son in manhattan is just as good as the original (thx again to @gilposting.bsky.social for the initial tip on this place)

i see your milked oats and raise you milked milk

its epic how a human beings inherent worth has nothing to do with how much acclaim they receive for their accomplishments. the dignity of each life on this earth which need not be earned is truly poggers

Skull. Slipcast porcelain, underglaze dots, clear glaze, white gold. Thank you, I love you.

Moritz von Schwind’s Cat Symphony (1868) was made as a gift for a violinist friend and fellow member of the Black Cats society. More on its history in our latest post: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k... And buy a print of it here: publicdomainreview.org/product/cat-...

the good news is Hell is just a product of human imagination; the bad news is anything humans imagine they can usually create

nyc parks on the first day the weather gets nice

idgaf how choked with tourists it gets, washington square on full blast gives me life. at least until the temp drops 10 degrees in 5 minutes, vindictively

cookbooks from the 1800s read like Fromsoft item descriptions

Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech. “Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the Gilded Age, and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance.” [kottke.org]

Being an artist means endlessly pingponging between your own grandiose delusion and a brick wall of reality. And every so often, if you’re lucky, the two worlds collide

time circuits on, motherfuckers

hey remember how walter white had like a dozen people simultaneously nixed? thinking about that for no reason at all

this is one of the cutest things i have ever seen

one thing i must admit i like about the swamp of shit that is this country rn is that i LOVE the way pissed off jurists talk. that soup of righteous fury, passive aggression, and entirely reasonable self importance…god i could eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner

The Net (1995)

the ny phil plays along with movies all the time and now i'm like hey why HAVEN'T they done this one yet. but now that the remaster's been out for a while maybe they will

i can’t say exactly what kind of world we should be building, but it’s def one where people take responsibility for each others well-being directly instead of calling representatives every 2 weeks and begging them to vote “No” on the Maim & Kill Everyone Act of 2037

19th-century title lettering just makes me squeal with joy

Boer’s Head