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@Trilobyter

I love a butterfly photo where you can see their legs and eyes, you know the "bug part" rather than just seeing the wings.

They have little personalities.

@u0421793 @mavu @doctormo

@Dave_Goldsmith @Npars01

Can we do particular strikes first maybe?

When discussing new technology it's important to consider Both Sides.

"The video generation tools often fail to deliver usable material that correctly meets the prompt or that respects three dimensional geometry and object permanence... but, on the other hand, thousands of gallons of drinking water are used to produce every five second clip."

@Flisty @paco @CppGuy

Feels sexist and yet also hard to get mad about.

@albnelson @kristinHenry

Oh that's not my costume, although I wish it were.

I just thought that Kristin would be amused to know why so many kids are aware of the axolotl... even if they might not know if they are real creatures or not.

@lienrag @PizzaDemon

Ah!

I wasn't kidding. But I don't think The Museum of Jurassic Technology has much to do with the Silurian Hypothesis. They are something much more deeply surreal.

@llewelly @PizzaDemon

I love the tar pits! Can't get enough of them.

@gtconway3

Sometimes the future is terrifying to each of us.

@lienrag @PizzaDemon

The Museum of Jurassic Technology took it's name from the "Silurian hypothesis" or Dr. Who did?

Confused.

@llewelly @PizzaDemon

I was so disappointed that the deeply eccentric west coast "intellectuals" that the book implied might be real... didn't really exist.

I wanted to imagine them having a seance in the Winchester mansion to better understand billion year old motors.

@PizzaDemon

When I was at a little bookstore up in Halifax I found a book from The Museum of Jurassic Technology. It was an old-looking book and *claimed* to be from the 1930s. It was a catalog of the Museum with descriptions of the offerings. I was skeptical, but California is a very strange place, so I thought it might be real.

I decided NOT to look it up and just see what I could make of the object itself. Got about halfway in before I realized "Artists did this."

Magnificent!

@maxleibman

@foone is always working with some ancient long forgotten software and the drama of these explorations keeps me on the edge of my seat.

What will the de-interlaced graphic reveal? It's good stuff.

@alexwild always makes ants look their best and there is no higher calling for a digital camera than that task.

@Flisty @CppGuy

This is a bit in the tone of "the cupholder" (but the cupholder was actually useful for other things...)

@Flisty @CppGuy

I've already agreed that I like the "talking spellchecker" ... is it supposed to be more than that?

Of course I used to be able to use google like a talking spellcheker but now it over-corrects and redirects what I type so aggressively it can't do that anymore. So I suppose we need all those data centers to replace the broken search engines.

(I'm being silly if it isn't obvious)

@llewelly

This is hell.

@petealexharris @tiotasram

I think we forget that the real way people use tech is often very simple. Doing a simple task well, making it easy is the bigger revolution. If we call LLMs "the new spellcheck and translating software" that doesn't sound big enough for all the investments ... but. Having really good functional software that can do these things and be seamless is worthwhile and one could even make a little money implementing it.

But noooooo no the computer must be the new God.

@mavu

Which one is the famous "invisible hand"?

I worry a lot about the "invisible hand" everyone says it's wonderful but the only thing I can think of with invisible hands are ghosts and aren't ghosts scary?

@timo21

Listen. Hands are HARD. The next update will address this I'm certain.