Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

This is how free and open access works. There is no way to have a free and open access project and then go “wait, no, not like that”. www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...

I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.

Stressifily

“What, you've never seen a man getting a panic attack before?” (Try to keep breathing.)

Päivän annoksen sinkkiä saat syömällä 9 kg makeinen, salmiakkipastilli.

Päivän annoksen B12-vitamiinia saat syömällä 10 g kaviaari, sammen mäti.

via 'Cities by Diana' on Facebook

aside from work stuff, i mostly use social media to look at funny videos of dogs and subreddits about nail polish. you would not BELIEVE what the lacqueristas are getting up to over there, the anti-ICE nail art is flooding the feed.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

if you prefer getting freaky to a free collection of public domain films maintained by wikipedia editors, perhaps consider "wikiflix and chill" wikiflix.toolforge.org#/

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

I made a tool that makes retro anime sound effects. Meet AnimeVox! I made it for a game, but it's free to use. I'm using the forgotten (but popular in 80s japan) Schroeder reverb algo, and some wobble. If you find it useful consider supporting me on itch :) castpixel.itch.io/animevox

the other day my 8yo said Spanish was his third language. then he counted "uno, dos, tres..." all the way up to "nueve" and then said "uh, i forget." i said "diez?" and this kid straight up replied "diez nuts"

Sharing with y'all a little web-based drum machine I created a couple of weekends ago, had a lot of fun creating it beats.lasagna.pizza

Mikä noista auttoi omalla kohdallasi?

please find enclosed: one (1) Ethereal Goose Sunset

In 2002 or 03 a Chicago public access cable channel aired this for at least a full half hour. No audio. I took a photo with a digital camera & that’s all the documentation I have. Anyone have any dirt?

Occlupanids from the South Pole. A diverse clattering of 34 specimens were delivered to HORG by field researchers Z. Mills and A. Barden, while stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It is theorized that these specimens had likely migrated from North America or New Zealand.

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

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

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

in memory of valve removing all the steam awards today to replace them with ugly art and make them all identical value, here is my review of resident evil 4 that earned me 71,700 steam points (which users spent approximately 286,800 points on)

Here's how the Earth article looked in 2001 when Wikipedia was a month old, long before Wikipedians realized their fledgling online encyclopedia would be read and edited by astronauts in space someday

from the australian teen who brought you "ant", we have "bee" en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

Sailing Rigs xkcd.com/3193/

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

friend saved this off twitter for me, it wouldn’t let me see it without logging in lol

Techno Trousers!

They do this every single time. Remember when Adobe quietly took down a survey about AI, due to it not getting the results they wanted?

fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

all of my posts are made from this device

Tilanne edelleen sama kuin marraskuussa 2024 julkaistussa Ville Pirisen sarjakuvassa.

Did you know you can sing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” whenever you feel like it? It’s literally a whim away.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

english isn't my mother language

happy birthday to horses

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

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i’m not a huge “worry about the optics” kind of girl but this is exactly what they’re worried about

Hey guys check this out

Sorry just remembering this moment when this got presented in parliament as a legitimate death threat