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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 1h

Screenshot from Tron Legacy.

Alan Bradley: What sort of improvements have been made in Flynn - I mean, ENCOM OS12?

Shithead executive: This year we put a 12 on the box.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · May 29

Touching this bird can result in numbness & tingling in extremities. Eating it can result in paralysis or death ☠️.

Let's talk about neurotoxic birds 🐦.

(📷: Ben G Freeman, benjamingfreeman.com)

A bird with black head and wings but red-orange body is slightly annoyed to be touched by a human hand, beak semi-open in protest, as if about to complain. In the background is a lush forest scene.

Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) YUS Conservation area on the Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
CREDIT: Ben Freeman.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hooded_Pitohui_3.jpg

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 18h

It's unsurprising but so funny that the lesson they're taking here is "Tron" is the problem, and not that everyone fucking hates Jared Leto

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

'Tron' Might Really Be Doomed After 'Tron: Ares'

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

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蒼ノリみすじ @aoicoblue.bsky.social · 1d

太メガネ、ルッカ #クロノトリガー

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 20h

Selene

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 1d

Kiki's Delivery Service

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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering why SciAm was putting out pretty blatant AI boosterism, so that explains it

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 3d

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 1d

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about it, this probably came from reading @ckunzelman.bsky.social 's Assassin's Creed book before bed and my brain just throwing all the Assassin/Templar/ancient humanity stuff in a blender

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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 2d

I had a dream that we discovered archaeological evidence that early humans already had spy agencies and Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were locked in a secret invisible war from like day fucking one

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madeline @mads.haus · 7d

AEW professional wrestling personality Don Callis of the Don Callis Family

#wrestlesky

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 2d

absolutely in love with the new Daihatsu Midget concept. lil bug car. lil friend.

Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 3d

Daihatsu Midget X

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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 2d

I'm doing this but the second PC is a Steam Deck

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Avó chinesa muito católica @acexaman.bsky.social · 4d

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 2d

My little writing buddy

A small black and white cat curled up into some sort of morph ball type shape on a big gray pillow

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🦇Count Grantula: Dead and Loving It🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 2d

Laios rushing an unspeakable dungeon horror:

Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 3d

Frame #45350 from S01 -E17 - Jinhua Pork-627722

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Natasha Tara Petrović @ Portland Retro Game Expo 732 @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social · 2d

"When one falls, we continue."

Characters from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 posed together, battle ready. From top left to bottom right: Monoco, Mueller, Verso, Sciel, Lune, and Esquie. Limited color palette, gold, purple, pink, and off white. Gustave's arm and the Lumina converter position in the top middle.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Judge Orders Columbus Statue Removed And Melted Down Into Pinkie Rings For Local Italians https://theonion.com/judge-orders-columbus-statue-removed-and-melted-down-in-1851178112/

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 3d

Overheard this same kid telling himself "There are people who aren't as fast as you. You have to be patient with them." Further evidence that he's a young hero in training.

Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · May 21

There's a kid in my neighborhood who is always running. Yesterday I saw him stop, pull out a tiny bound notebook, open to the center and quickly scan the contents with a look of deep contemplation. He tapped the page with the back of his hand, said "Yes. Become stronger," and broke back into a run

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · May 21

There's a kid in my neighborhood who is always running. Yesterday I saw him stop, pull out a tiny bound notebook, open to the center and quickly scan the contents with a look of deep contemplation. He tapped the page with the back of his hand, said "Yes. Become stronger," and broke back into a run

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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 4d

There's a lot of dumb shit here but I do feel the pedantic need to point out that Dr Manhattan said literally the exact opposite of this

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 4d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty sure a gentleman out in the city today called me "El Diablo Blanco"

Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 6d

It was nice. A real illustration of that "person in real life: hey man how's it going" tweet. Just a nice normal interaction on a walk through town.

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