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Watching a show where someone was military police for the US in Iraq which is the reason they're fluent in Farsi. Can't believe I lived in Denmark for 1.5 years and my Finnish is still shit

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human chicken

So apparently Tumblr ate my original post about this but:

A couple weeks ago I’m going to get lunch and as I open the fridge, my mother attempts to communicate to me that any chicken currently in the fridge is ok for people to eat, because the chicken that was intended for the dog to eat has been used up.

What she actually says is, “That’s human chicken.”

After taking a minute to process all horrible implications of the phrase “human chicken”, I decide to go a different route and hold the tupperware of chicken out to my sister, saying, “Behold, a man!”

This was evidently the wrong choice, as it meant I had to explain to my parents who Diogenes was, thereby cementing the incident in their minds and leading to me, just now, opening the fridge to see the following incredibly cursed image:
Photo of a tupperware full of shredded chicken with a handwritten label saying "human"

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I’ve spent the last… well the last long while creating an homage to the 1984 Macintosh! It’s 3D printed, has a laser-cut cork foot, Easter eggs like the hidden signatures from the original and more!

It’s an amazing little ~$100 machine!

Find out more on YouTube!

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Conflicts in the media. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#war #globalattention #media #Iran #Gaza #Sudan

A bulldozer driven by a skeleton pushes skulls labeled with countries like Yemen and Congo in a corner labeled 'forgotten conflicts'. Above, a scoreboard lists “Popular Conflicts” (Israel-Iran, Gaza, Ukraine) as reporters and spectators watch.

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Poetische Installation von Céleste Boursier-Mougenot in der Bourse de Commerce #PinaultCollection : 18m Becken mit Keramik-Schüsseln, die beim Aufeinandertreffen Musik machen 😍#Paris #ModernArt

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#spacex

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The entire background is red in the foreground isn’t the old overweight, white man that is just entirely emanating, pure white, and there are black lines around him, emphasizing his shout. He’s in a suit he wears an ascot. He wears multiple rings on his fingers and he’s got bushy eyebrows and a handlebar mustache and his head is tilted back as he shouts, “I WANT MORE POWER!!! STUPID HUMANS!!!”

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Spider Woman holds up a crumbling bridge with cars and people above.
“GET OUT OF YOUR CARS AND RUN, ALL OF YOU! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!” she yells.
One asshole on the bridge fires back, “WHAT? GIVE UP MY CAR? MY BEAUTIFUL CAR? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, THE AYATOLLAH?”

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The paperclip-shaped Microsoft assistant known as Clippy, asking a question on a mock-up of a computer desktop interface. The speech bubble says: "It looks like you outsourced your thinking to probability distribution. Would you like some help with that?" The options to click are "Yes", "No" and "Roll dice".

@simon_on_energy @AndrzejWasowski I was taught "utilise" is for when you apply a method in a context it wasn't initially developed for. Otherwise you "use" it. For instance, I "used" a hammer to put a nail in the wall to hang a painting of a bottle of beer titled "this is not a beer". Afterwards I "utilised" the hammer to open an actual bottle of beer rewarding myself for the hard work.

Arguably, nobody actually cares about this distinction In practice though

@AndrzejWasowski I find it very funny that you specifically only complained about the frequency of dependency updates in one Haskell package yet people in the comments still became defensive about functional programming vs OOP :D touchy subject still it seems

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German artist Cornelia Konrads creates site-specific installations using a variety of materials such as wood, stone, brick and steel wire, set in natural surroundings with elements of impermanence, transition and the surreal.

Here’s ‘Passage’ (2007) #WomensArt

#Art #Artwork #Artist

A photo of an ethereal open doorway stand set in a forest, created from grey stones and twigs

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Oh boy, the Mansplaining Olympics are wild this year.

Screenshot of a conversation on Bluesky:

Bill Mitchell (@askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 20h):
“Signal will some sort of LLM integration in it soon.”

Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11h):
“No ❤️”

Bill Mitchell (@askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 6h):
“They will, likely be timing up with Anthropic's Claude or Perplexity, but its coming. The engineers have already began laying out the ground work for such support.”

Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5h):
“…he says to Signal's president”

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Leicht bearbeiteter Google-Screenshot: Google-Suche: Der Name der Rose, "Übersicht mit KI Der Name der Rose ist Wilfried."

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Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.

This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down.

https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/ #space #science #NSF #nature

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Woozy Winks literally has his ass kicked out of the doorway of Arkham Asylum. He narrates over the shoe and leg giving him the literal boot says, “Then something called REAGANOMICS forced them to send me out into the world.“

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@pluralistic

the "you wouldn't download a car" ad, but it says "you wouldn't finish a project"

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This rings true: “Elon Musk is less like Tony Stark and more like Michael Scott.” The future he’s selling us is Stark Industries but what we’re getting is Dunder Mifflin. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-self-driving-fsd-tesla-tony-stark-michael-scott

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