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our so called leaders are idiots, ai gen 3 devils

December 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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Maybe rather these, marked with the ominous words "Leave behind all hope, you who enter,"

October 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM

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a.; but that doesn't apply in a car😅

October 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM

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Sorry 😅 to say but you made the wrong choice
#Na4[BeAlSi4O12]Cl

October 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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🤯Ai-Alt-text: “My new zero-width stash uses Mongolian Vowel Separators so even diff tools can’t spot my malware—good luck patching that.”

#Ai
# The Invisible Payload

**Headline:** “Unicode Exploit”

**Panel Description:**
A single-panel, black-and-white cartoon. On the left sits Black Hat hunched over a laptop plastered with stickers reading “∞ Bugs” and “”. Black Hat’s eyes gleam behind round glasses. On the right stands Cueball, scratching his head. Between them, a speech bubble from Black Hat reads:

“I’ve just committed code with U+2063 Invisible Separator, U+FFF0 Interlinear Annotation Terminator, and U+202F Narrow No-Break Space—plus a ZWNBSP-packed PDF exploit!”

Cueball replies, wide-eyed: “So every ‘space’ in your code is actually a hidden backdoor?”

Black Hat smirks and points at the screen: “Exactly. Run `checkAuth()` and watch your console implode.”

**Bottom Warning Sign:**
A simple black rectangle labeled “WARNING: Unicode May Contain Hidden Malware” in all caps.

Alt-text: “My new zero-width stash uses Mongolian Vowel Separators so even diff tools can’t spot my malware—good luck patching that.”

September 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM

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Dramatic sci-fi scene of 3 aliens examining a A0-3959X.91 pregnancy test

September 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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I made some more in xkcd style

End of Battle
Ewoks vs. Predator
The Tragedy of Endor

When Species from Alien Predator and others collide .. badly

Because it IS what the galaxy reaaally needs

August 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM

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💥🚀

Nasa acting chief calls for the end of Earth 💥🚀

August 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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Fight of 51 Ewoks vs. a Predator (chances of winning unclear)

| Ewok Count | Scenario | Outcome Probability |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 5-10 Ewoks | Slaughter | Predator wins 95% |
| 15-25 Ewoks | Unfavorable | Predator wins 75% |
| 30-40 Ewoks | Balanced | 50/50 depending on prep/terrain |
| 50-75 Ewoks | Overwhelming | Ewok victory 70% |
| 100+ Ewoks | Overkill | Ewok victory 90%+ |

August 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM

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Why not, freedom of artistic expression

April 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM

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April 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM

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First they laugh at you, you ignore them, they win

ghost bear, due to no better choice, which should've been actually a snow troll/yeti

April 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.

March 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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Some neat examples of a kind of synthetic paleo-botany😅

3D render with a 2.5D cut: Depiction of a prehistoric plant cell in a vintage botanical illustration style:
What We See:
Cell Wall,Mitochondria,Vacuole,Tiny Details, presumably ribosomes and endoplasmic reticulum, scattered throughout the cytoplasm.

Style: Vintage botanical Illustrations capture the essence, with its detailed linework&muted color palette.

Modern Plant Cell as a Model: The illustration relies heavily on the anatomy of modern plant cells, as detailed fossil evidence of prehistoric plant cell structures is scarce.

What We See: (illustration and the thought process behind it)

* Fern Frond: The image depicts a cross-section of a fern frond, showcasing its internal structure.
* Vascular Bundles: These are the prominent structures in the center of the frond, represented as circular clusters of tubes. They are responsible for transporting water and nutrients throughout the plant.
* Sori: These are the small, circular structures on the underside of the frond. They contain sporangia, which are the structures that produce and release spores.
* Spore Dispersal: The image also shows a close-up of a sporangium releasing spores into the air.

Thought Process and Assumptions:

* Modern Fern Anatomy as a Basis: Since detailed internal structures of prehistoric ferns are rarely preserved, the illustration relies heavily on the well-studied anatomy of modern ferns. A common practice as it's assumed that the basic anatomy of ferns hasn't changed drastically over millions of years.

* Paleobotanical Evidence: However, the illustration also incorporates some paleobotanical evidence from fossilized fern remains. This includes the general arrangement of vascular bundles and the presence of sori on the underside of fronds, which are features observed in some well-preserved fossil ferns.

* Combining Evidence: By combining modern fern anatomy with fossil evidence, the illustration aims to provide a plausible reconstruction of the internal structure of a Late Cretaceous fern.

* Focus on Function: The illustration prioritizes depicting the functional aspects of the fern's internal structure, such as the vascular system and spore dispersal, rather than minute anatomical details that cannot be reliably inferred from the fossil record.

Time Periods Represented: depicting plants from the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous.

Conifers & Cycads were indeed prominent during the Jurassic and Cretaceous.

*Top Left:Conifer Branch with Cone
Likely a conifer, possibly related to modern pines or larches.
Features: Needle-like leaves, a prominent cone containing seeds.
Adapted to dry conditions, wind pollination.

*Center:Cycad (Cycas).
Features: Palm-like leaves, thick trunk, large cone (or strobilus) in the center.
Drought-tolerant, coralloid roots containing cyanobacteria for nitrogen fixation, insect pollination.

*Top:Flowering Plant (early angiosperm, possibly a water lily relative)
Flowering plants are representative of the Cretaceous, when angiosperms began to diversify.
Features: Large, showy flower with petals and a central cone-like structure (possibly a cluster of pistils).
Insect pollination, aquatic or semi-aquatic habitat.

*Top Right:Horsetails (Equisetum)
an ancient group that has existed since the Paleozoic.
Features: Jointed stems, whorled leaves, cone-like structures at the tips containing spores.
Spore dispersal via wind, adapted to moist environments.

*Bottom Left:Sectioned Flower (Angiosperm)
An early angiosperm flower.
Features: Sectioned view showing internal structures (ovary, ovules, stamens).
Reproductive structures, highlighting adaptations for pollination.

*Bottom:Seed Fern (Pteridosperm)
A seed fern, possibly a corystosperm.
Common in the earlier Mesozoic (Triassic & Jurassic), but some groups persisted into the Cretaceous.
Features: Frond-like leaves, seed-bearing structures (cupules) at the tips.
Reproduction via seeds (an adaptation to drier conditions compared to spore-bearing ferns).

*Bottom Reft:Rhizome with Shoots
Early angiosperm, possibly a monocot.
Features: Horizontal rhizome (underground stem), upright shoots with leaves, cone-like structure (possibly an inflorescence).
Vegetative reproduction via rhizomes, adaptation to wetland habitats.

The illustration of plant life in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, depicting the general trends of plant evolution and pollination.

Elements and Accuracy:
Plants: Conifer (Top Left, 6):
Likely represents a Cretaceous conifer.
Features: Needle-like leaves, cones with pollen (yellow dots).

Accuracy: Conifers were abundant in both the Jurassic and Cretaceous. The representation is generally accurate.
Pollination: Wind pollination, as indicated by the dispersed pollen.

Early Angiosperms (Flowering Plants, 1-5):
These represent the diversification of flowering plants in the Cretaceous.
Features: Various flower shapes, petals, stamens, and pistils.

Accuracy: The presence of diverse flower forms is accurate. However, the exact species are impossible to identify from this illustration, and some of the flower shapes seem to be more "modern" than very early angiosperms would have been.

Pollination: Insect pollination, as shown by the insects visiting the flowers.

Fern (Bottom Left, 8):
Represents a fern, a common plant group in both periods.
Features: Fronds, sori (spore-producing structures) on the underside of fronds.
Accuracy: Ferns were indeed present. The depiction of sori is accurate.
Spore dispersal: spores released from the underside of the fronds.

Cycad (Bottom Center):
Represents a Cycad.
Features: compound leaves, and a cone-like structure.
Accuracy: Cycads were present in both the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
Pollination: some Cycads are insect pollinated, others wind.

Insects:
The insects resemble wasps or primitive bees.
Accuracy: Insects were indeed pollinators during the Cretaceous. The style is somewhat stylized, but the general form is plausible. Early pollinators were diverse, and wasps and early forms of bees would have been present.
The style is generally accurate in that it shows insects that could have been present, but it is also generalized.

Caption: Explain pollination and spore dispersal, the general concepts are correct, phrasing is a bit awkward.

March 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM

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February 14, 2024 at 10:44 PM

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empty shelves - capitalism's solutions to global warming

February 14, 2024 at 10:40 PM

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January 8, 2024 at 2:21 PM

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so people did manage to generate the underlying 3D structures (Shap-E) and anaglyphic too, to some degree

but it doesn't really properly understand what it's doing, can't read, understand fileformats, and then specify (in/)output as (2/)3D

Draw the famous Great Wave of Kanagawa by Hokusai ukiyo-e wood block print, in a cyberpunk style in the way of a see-through hologram with a 3d parallax, as a .mpo / multipictureobject (SBS / side-by-side) stereoscopic image including the underlying source, texture and wireframe

December 10, 2023 at 8:17 PM

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doi.org/10.1002/bies...
Research suggests that dinosaurs may have influenced how human beings age:
The longevity bottleneck hypothesis - Could dinosaurs have shaped ageing in present-day mammals?