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Dave Lartigue
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I'm driving this thing, it's not driving me
Springfield, Msaeachubaetsdaveexmachina.comJoined November 2008

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and then every other drone in line started applauding
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The US Air Force tested an AI enabled drone that was tasked to destroy specific targets. A human operator had the power to override the drone—and so the drone decided that the human operator was an obstacle to its mission—and attacked him. 🤯
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Andy: Now, no more skipping school to go fishing. Opie: All right paw. Aunt Bee: (buzzes angrily into window pane)
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informercial voice are you tired of going to beautiful locations and taking pictures of things that are real that you actually saw with your eyes? do you wish every connection you had to the world was fake and made up? do i have the product for you
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Introducing – Paragraphica! 📡📷 A camera that takes photos using location data. It describes the place you are at and then converts it into an AI-generated "photo". See more here: bjoernkarmann.dk/project/paragr or try to take your own photo here: paragraphica.bjoernkarmann.dk
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rate these foods as junk (1=junkiest): A: candy B: chips (corn, potato) C: dry cereal (Honey Nut Cheerios) D: dry cereal (Lucky Charms) E: popcorn (oil, no butter) F: pretzels
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I haven't thought out whether to go full vegetarian, pescatarian, or simply low-meat yet. But it's cool to know it's not a big deal. The unfortunate thing is, there's still a lot of absolute garbage I can and do eat that isn't meat. That's something I really need to work on.
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Meatless May was MOSTLY Meatless May (I had a turkey burger because I was a guest at a dinner). It was absolutely no problem. The thing I missed the most was pepperoni pizza, though with the weather getting warmer there's also sushi.
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There needs to be a name for the cognitive distortion for remembering conservatives as better than they were. Fifteen years ago, conservatives were justifying torture of detainees. Thirty years ago, they were laughing about the AIDS crisis. Your parents sucked.
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"but doesn't every generation-" 15 years ago, saying "my parents are conservative" did not carry a high chance of them being utterly unable to stop shrieking about the necessity of genocide, buddy. twitter.com/pookleblinky/s…
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the same way I don't talk about the near-infinite number of other things I'm not interested in. I simply don't talk about them and don't pay attention to other people who are talking about them amongst themselves
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How do you abstain from the overwhelming hype around a popular blockbuster without looking like a jerk? @belfryfire doesn't know how to tell people he's not interested in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. pastemagazine.com/?p=361198
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AI reveals that the "full" image of Magritte's The Treachery of Images (1929) contains a second object, which IS une pipe. This is probably why he cropped it out
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I used ChatGPT to reveal what Bill Murray says to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation. This is never directly revealed but can be reconstructed through the power of artificial intelligence. What he says is: "Ten years ago we had Bob Hope, Steve Jobs, and Johnny
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when you don't have your finger on Ctrl and try to highlight everything, you just add an "a" to what you've typed. And when you realize what you did and undo it but STILL don't have your finger on ctrl, you add "z" behind the "a"
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This is literally inciting violence
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Charlie Kirk instructing his audience to "go after Target in a very serious way" for the crime of having a Pride display: "The only thing they understand is force. Pain is a teacher” mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/c
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hey New Orleans folks, there's a new board game where you tour the French Quarter on foot, car, streetcar, carriage, and riverboat. Here's the map! Enjoy!
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Come see me and play some games this Saturday! Sign-up is here (be sure to pick which game you want to sit in on with the Add Ons): eventbrite.com/e/staple-prese
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KILLER RATINGS is a one-shot, zero-prep horror-comedy about reality TV ghost hunters using melodrama to wake the dead before throwing each other under the bus in the race to get out alive. 90 min., 2-4 players. Noon, 2:30 & 5:00. Seats are open!
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"This user's guide you wrote for our product is terrible. Information is incorrect and you describe features that don't actually exist. What is this bullshit?" "Ah you mean my 'twinkle notions'."
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