Old as dirt. Doing photos, modeling badly, bringing toys to photoshoots. Also doing some pen & paper RPGs, steampunk and general sci-fi. And a whole lot of dogs at once.
Yeah, this question is a bit off-topic and non-specific, but the black hood is a Hollywood thing. In medieval europe and the middle east, an executioner would just wear typical work clothes. This is a drawing from the margins of a court record showing German executioner Franz Schmidt of Germany carrying out someone’s sentence of death in the 1500s. Schmidt had learned his trade from his own…
polskietruskawki : i am so pissed i actually hate society and its obsession with being right and in power and superior Particularly when they are clearly, obviously wrong. And stupidly self-righteous.
mostlysignssomeportents : ALT If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/14/one-chokable-throat/#too-clever-by-half Funny thing about competition: there’s both a pro -market and an anti -market case for a competitive system.…
It has no right being this good. It’s like all the inspirations for Woody and the implied era he comes from just going together and making sense. Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, as painted by Norman Rockwell with a hefty dose of expressive impasto characteristic of Frederic Remington and Earl W. Bascom. I’m looking at it, and it just fucking works. The composition, the expression, the…
alibis-and-wine : ambidisastrous : mostlysignssomeportents : Model collapse ALT If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/12/insurance-value-of-biodiversity/#model-collapse One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining…
Katastrofa budowlana w centrum Warszawy. Zawaliły się stropy Stropy w budynku zawaliły się na wysokości pierwszego i drugiego piętra. W miejscu wypadku przebywało dwóch pracowników. Jeden z nich doznał lekkich obrażeń po upadku z wysokości. Poszkodowany to 17-letni pracownik z Ukrainy. Nie został on hospitalizowany - informuje radio RMF FM. Pozostali pracownicy bezpiecznie ewakuowali się z…
Someone threw this video at me on Discord. And you know what? This is the kind of stuff that CollegeHumor would do with other people playing the characters and some budget VFX back in the day, like, Max Landis kind of video. This is proof that AI, in the end, is a tool. This thing is four minutes long, far beyond the capacity of any model out there. Without cuts, at least. It clearly has a…
mostlysignssomeportents : Model collapse ALT If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/12/insurance-value-of-biodiversity/#model-collapse One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things together (showing that two…
virtualgirladvance : thepaisleyelf : thepaisleyelf : There’s a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while “Oops I Did It Again” played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it The update everyone has been waiting for…. everytime i see this it…
So I just fired up Corel Paint Shop Pro today, and upon startup I got hit with the most preposterous, most insulting advertisement that if I hadn’t strained my neck muscles last week, I would laugh and laugh and laugh: Of fucking course everyone’s peddling their AI product, the more desperate a company is, the harder they push all the nonsense. And so, Corel comes up with this . I have…
mostlysignssomeportents : ALT If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tragedy-of-the-commoners/#piketty-snowden In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another:…
ecrivainsolitaire : derinthescarletpescatarian : barin-mclegg : derinthescarletpescatarian : derinthescarletpescatarian : An artist I know who’s been on the AI slop train for a while has gone back to inking a bunch of his old sketches and it’s such a breath of fresh air. I hope he’s bored the AI stuff and going back to his old art permanently. Artist (Luke Pellen) Good that…
ecrivainsolitaire : jacobwren : “But AI can’t do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there’s some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I’ve got cancer. Thankfully, it’s very treatable, but I’ve got an interest in…
phania : what-even-is-thiss : behindnightmaresanddreams : what-even-is-thiss : what-even-is-thiss : Also the ancient Romans did in fact love their children and there’s no evidence that they made a habit of infanticide. Most societies in fact that supposedly made a habit of infanticide probably didn’t. I mean the ancient Carthaginians probably did sacrifice babies which is bad but that wasn’t an…
hydro-homies : this beautiful, ice cold, mana potion looking water Imagine mixing a big-ass Negroni or Americano in this thing. The biggest health potion you’ve ever seen and it can get you plastered.