Some more low effort image posting. This zine was in Connolly Books for free. I'm not sure who the author is, but I thought the text was spot on and the illustrations were great. Sorry for no captions/transcriptions
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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Any idea why the flag reassembles the Swiss one (the proportions are wrong though)?
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One more pic:
Okay, one more pic, the back cover. Can't say how reliable these sources are.
Subtle dig on Nick Land not being relevant anymore considering that drawing is of him 30+ years ago.
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Evgeny Morozov: The New Legislators of Silicon Valley
Thus, what appears as intellectual fast food – the ultra-processed thought-nuggets deep fried in venture capital – often conceals wholesome ingredients sourced from a gourmet pantry of quite some sophistication.
What am I even reading.
Cognitive dissonance
Also, cognitive dysentery
Lol yeah I was thinking about either posting about cognitive dissonance or mentioning that trying to find the kernels of corn in shit still means you are digging through shit. Cognitive dysentery is so much better.
As a wise friend of mine said years ago, when hipsters drinking PBR were having a cultural moment, "You can say you're drinking piss beer 'ironically', but at the end of the day, you're still drinking piss beer."
How much of this is the AI bubble collapsing vs. Ohiophobia
Would you invest in commercial real estate, knowing there was a non-zero chance your tenants might come in one day to discover a thoroughly intoxicated JD Vance in a compromising position with the break-room furniture?
So many of the responses pointing out how bad this is for the local communities in Licking County (lol), but I feel like this has to be a case where the bezzle is collapsing more than a decision causing new harm, right? The bubble wasn't sustainable and those jobs were unlikely to manifest past the initial construction, especially since data centers aren't exactly labor-intensive to run.
That doesn't mean it doesn't hurt for those communities, especially in the midst of the economic ruin left in the wake of Hurricane Tarrif, but I feel like there's an important lesson being lost here.
it's also such a weird position for critique to take, imo; DCs don't really do much in the way of Local Job Generation, and I'd fucking bet that each of these locations also got selected because of favourable gladhanding credits (tax incentives, power incentives, etc)
I suppose "all the ${whatever business} that got bought out and flattened (for buildout space) is still gone" is maybe one harm, but again... these things don't get built on high streets
She Licking my County till I back away is this anything?
I just made an unfortunate discovery so now y'all get to see it too
Featuring:
Drunk Robot https://humanoid.guide/product/ambidex/
Obviously A Guy In Suit Robot https://humanoid.guide/product/clonealpha/
And not forgetting, Is That A Hat? What The Fuck Is Happening Here Robot https://humanoid.guide/product/kangaroo/
What the hell
Why are there so many of them?
Why do they all look like shit?
Why do so many look suspiciously like a guy in a suit?
I found it really fun to drag the filter sliders around and cackle at the remaining details
roll up to 180k and you get one that can do 18kg load! amazing
Why? capitalism is the most effective system.
Why? Capitalism is the most effective system.
Why? Capitalism needs sla...
But yeah I think we might have ran out of ideas.
No wait I remember this one from Asimov. Humanoid Robots ack-chewally make the most logical sense because we can reuse all the tools and control designs we already have for human ~~slaves~~ ~~wage slaves~~ workers. Why make a new tractor when you can make a robot to work on the one you've been using since the 70s? That's how this works, right?
>humanoid robot
They're called "clankers"
If only Tombstone were here to help
The hero we need, but not the one we deserve.
baking a Hear Me Out Cake for Reachy 2
I also quite like Themis V2! "$120k for the privilege of being sued by disney for looking too starwars" is just one hell of a pitch
A terrifying poster, spotted in the window of a tattoo shop in Dublin:
Hopefully no one will actually get these images tattooed on their body.
I mean, with the instantly recognizable AI lighting design it would actually take a fair degree of skill to make something look that garbage as an actual tattoo.
I love to get my tattoos on clearance
Hopefully no one will actually get these images tattooed on their body.
you know there's gonna be at least that one person with multiple of them
Found on HN:
[Working with AI is] An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force
25 upvotes, no comments yet..
It's still on the front page, almost 300 comments. Haven't time to review them all but doesn't look like the promptfondlers have the upper hand
Has your friend talked with current bio research students? It’s very common to hear that people are having success writing Python/R/Matlab/bash scripts using these tools when they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to.
Possibly this is just among the smallish group of students I know at MIT, but I would be surprised to hear that a biomedical researcher has no use for them.
ahahahahaaha
@froztbyte @gerikson if your code was written by an LLM your results are indistinguishable from Wrong
I have strong feelings on research students who are not able to learn how to write bash and python etc scripts.