Oooh your chatbot is becoming sentient and may pose a threat to humanity? Should we throw a party? Should we invite all your most gullible investors?
Alleged Human
@alleged-human.bsky.social
sure I fail ‘are you a robot’ not taking it personally
Composer and instrument inventor Harry Partch conducts a student music performance on his instruments, built with insights from atomic research and Partch's 30-year obsession to find the elusive tones that exist between the tones of a regular piano, at Oakland's Mills College.
I re-stumbled across Albert Tolf's illustrations of This Was San Francisco from the mid 1950s. A double window into San Francisco's perceptions of its own past. Charming and sometimes alarming. www.ronhenggeler.com/Newsletters/...
I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI
Delia Derbyshire (with scenes from the biopic "Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes") - BOTD
whoever created a youtube playlist called 12 HOUR FAN WHITE NOISE FOR BABY SLEEP which has a random ravi shankar sitar solo that blasts out at the nine hour mark- you will pay for your crimes
the bird that lives in this birdhouse makes $240,000 a day by making other birds work in his warehouse for 5 sunflower seeds an hour
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
upress.umn.edu
NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER
Mysterious large steel cylinder suddenly emerges from the ground in Japan
Japanese authorities were investigating Friday how a large steel cylinder suddenly emerged from the ground during sewer construction work and rose to the height of a four-storey building in the city o...
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Today I was happy to be reminded of the different approaches to the same problem taken by Donald Knuth and Doug McIlroy, well described post linked below. Different times -- It takes me back. www.leancrew.com/all-this/201...
More shell, less egg
Another great post
leancrew.com
I did this interview with the wonderful Eleanor Drage about my book The Inattention Economy: How women of color built the internet, out from U Minn press next month.
The Good Robot Podcast@goodrobotpod.bsky.social · 5mo agoDid you know Tila Tequila was one of the internet's first influencers? 🤔 How do you think early pioneers like her shaped today's social media landscape? Don't miss this podcast episode with Lisa Nakamura discussing these insights and more! YouTube: youtu.be/2LfDIyFPZOI?...
Remembering Ernie Kovacs on his birthday 🎂 📷 Ralph Morse, 1957 "Kovacs knocked me sideways into a world where the bizarre & the daft & the preposterous all lived happily alongside wisdom, wit & perception." - Terry Gilliam
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
but why is Julia Child menacing Jacques Pepin with a gun
Thrilled to see my book described as “exploring influencer culture,” given that it focuses almost solely on Tila Tequila. A dream of mine since 2008.
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
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Not far from my hotel is the absurdly blingy 18th century Late Baroque private chapel Asamkirche, home to a golden skeleton brandishing scissors to cut the cord of life..!
In this 1933 photo, the newly-constructed Empire State Building looms over the 19th-century buildings in Midtown Manhattan. The 102-story Art Deco skyscraper was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931. This picture shows Fifth Avenue looking South.
Humpty Dumpty - scene in the coral grotto of light - I'd love to have seen this...
Nam June Paik’s robot K-546 was first shown at Judson Hall in 1964. It could refuse to labor, one of many ways it was interesting: “K-456 had foam breasts that could rotate and a penis made of sandpaper and flint, which Paik had removed before the two traveled to New York.”