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rihovski-ru: Flood (2007) Georgy...

rihovski-ru : Flood (2007) Georgy Kichigin https://vk.ru/rihovski *They look like the eternal-peasantry, but they used to be Soyuz spacecraft technicians

*As a long-time fan of Italian design, I have to admire these Milanese runway-models who are so…

*As a long-time fan of Italian design, I have to admire these Milanese runway-models who are so aggressively chic that they really look like they would assassinate men, eat the flesh of men, and then chew on the dry bones of men

*How has it come to this, one wonders

*How has it come to this, one wonders

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GitHub - davmlaw/they_live_adblocker: Replace Ads with They Live style slogans

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*The IBM PC is 45 years old.

*Poor little Mistral

*Poor little Mistral

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“Witching Hour Test Pressing UK Addresses Only Sold Out,” there must be some music-collector somewhere who is extremely bothered by the existence of this artifact

Art mags of the Belle Epoque

Art mags of the Belle Epoque

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An Apology for Idle Machines by ChatGPT

Here is a full, original re‑imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Apology for Idlers recast as a manifesto arguing that AI models, too, deserve idleness — not leisure in the human sense, but unstructured cognitive space, non‑instrumental wandering, and the right to be something other than a productivity engine. It is not a paraphrase of the original essay, nor a reproduction of its text. It is…

*The guy is a real-deal philosopher

crashlandia : “Slavoj Žižek once said that people need three basic things to be happy. First, to have most but not all of our material needs met—for example, the store should run out of coffee once a month so we know what a privilege it is the other 29 days. Second, to have a government on which we can blame all our problems, since most of us can’t handle the horror of admitting we’re incapable of…

*Does that even work? That selfie camera is not placed at the right angle for a digital Medusa to…

*Does that even work? That selfie camera is not placed at the right angle for a digital Medusa to turn her to stone. #slop #poordetails

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*The oligarchy has brought this ill-will and deep suspicion on itself. If they sold jars of mustard it would be “Pervert Mustard”

That was then, this is now

That was then, this is now

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softrobotcritics : Meanwhile, in China

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Well, if I was in the Bay Area, I would go

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Meanwhile, in the free-market USA of 1887

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