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George Baily
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Resist, rebel, create a better future 💙 Linux; semi-colons; I oppose nuclear doomsday.

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Ignominy: Great Eastern (1858) anchored at Liverpool when used for advertising Lewis' Department Store, Liverpool
#ships #maritimehistory
Black and white photograph of the Great Eastern ship, starboard side on, with giant white letters painted on the hull "LEWIS'S... are the friends of the people"... on the paddle wheel housing "the bon marche live" ... forward: "Ranelach St Liverpool, Lewis's, bon marche, basnett st, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham"
May 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Ugh! LG "affectionate intelligence"... F off unless this is an actual sexbot
Screenshot of LG online ad. Logo is LG AI. Subtitle "affectionate intelligence". Main central headline "Life's Good." Superimposed on background photo of a couple indoors about to kiss. It is cosy not raunchy. Another subtitle "less artificial, more human". LG logo again. From a design and branding point of view it is a hot mess regardless of the vomit inducing AI hype.
May 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This book packs a lot in...
Book cover Under the ice: a new frontier Uncovering the conspiracy theory about a German colony deep in Antarctica exploring the universe By Peyton Cottrell the second
May 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Proudly "none of the above"
May 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Sad!
"Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act"
screenshot of a browser window asking for a page at aphyr.com which is just blank with the big text "Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act"
May 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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tempting!
"Lot 1453: An extensive collection of thimbles, approx one hundred and twenty, including mainly hallmarked and sterling silver examples, various makers including Charles Horner, enamel examples, etc (120)."
auction site photo of a display box of about 120 antique thimbles, mostly metallic but a variety of other colours and designs; priced from £600
May 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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In this YouTube UI there's the internet's least-clicked link: "See more ads".
youtube screenshot with the main heading being "why you're seeing this ad" and above it is a link in blue "see more ads"... that this advertiser has shown using Google
May 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Haha nice try HMRC
Screenshot of UK HMRC email entitled "You don’t have to wait until January to file your Self Assessment tax return"
May 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Good HN comment satirizing several archetypal genres of HN comment
Screenshot of comment by deadbabe: Crows are pretty smart, I befriended one after offering it cashews daily as I would sit in my patio working on my laptop. Now he pecks on my keyboard to generate code with AI to resolve simple Jira tickets.
May 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Lol Wikipedia app serves me the wrong image
Screenshot of Wikipedia entry for "superb parrot" with the main photo being Jensen Huang
May 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Ahahaaha (aaaaaarg) this bit... Of COURSE it doesn't forget. Of course.
Rolling Stone chatgpt psycho rabbit hole article: [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/]
Article screenshot with text as follows: Sem was confused when it appeared that the named AI character was continuing to manifest in project files where he had instructed ChatGPT to ignore memories and prior conversations. Eventually, he says, he deleted all his user memories and chat history, then opened a new chat. “All I said was, ‘Hello?’ And the patterns, the mannerisms show up in the response,” he says. The AI readily identified itself by the same feminine mythological name.
May 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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This kind of ad is like Nigerian Prince emails: filter out the 99% who find it super obviously distrustworthy at first glance and suck in the gormless and gullible who remain
Screen shot of YouTube ad of a very untrustworthy looking man sitting cross legged talking to camera. It's promoting some kind of online course
May 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Er, charming...
screenshot of a google travel page for "Saint Mullin's" with a booking rate of £21 a night except the photo is of a graveyard full of tombstones
May 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The nightmare of having a gurning Farage on my Mac widgets thing on Friday...
screenshot of apple desktop widgets thing with calendar, weather, world clocks, stock market bullshit, and at the bottom right a thumbnail of a laughing Nigel Farage
May 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Pretty interesting coin:
Cancelled US Mint Morgan Dollar Reverse Dies CC & S Overstrike Theresa Thaler
US $1,499.94 on ebay....
Photo of a silver coin. The face is stamped with a cross. The upper design is a US silver dollar. But it has been stamped over a bigger Maria Theresa silver trading dollar which can still be seen in a concentric circle around the outer part of the circle. The overall impression is wtf.
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Yes! "what interests you most" - MARKETING CONSENT GOOD PRACTICE - JUST ASK PEOPLE
screenshot of ecommerce marketing newsletter section saying "help us send you only the emails you want - what interests you most?" with four thematic options - delicious simple recipes - wellness tools and articles - new product releases - exclusive offers
May 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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This talk by Samantha Lawler is an absolute MUST WATCH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MDI7rEgb6g

"you cannot safely have a million satellites in orbit"

#space #pollution
Slide from the talk titled "the future?" with bullets for - starlink 34000+ - oneweb 7000 - kuiper 3000 - guanwang 13000 - yinhe 1000 - hanwha 2000 - link 2000 - astra 14000 - boeing 6000 - telesat 2000 - hvnet 1400 - spinlaunch 1200 - globalstar3 3000 - semaphore 160000 - e-space 337000 Footer: we need international regulation of satellites
May 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Love Tony Blair's new "generic capitalist villain" hairstyle... I assume you can ask for that by name at the good barbers in the City
Thumbnail of YouTube video featuring tony Bliar with silvery hair getting rather long swept back, any longer and it starts being a liberated grandmother look
April 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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I am "glad sun reading glasses are a real thing" years old
Screenshot of an ecommerce shop page showing various pairs of sunglasses which are actually reading glasses
April 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Now that looks like a tasty package 🥁🥁💥
#linux
photo of a cheez-it crisp packet where the second biggest title text says "snapd"
April 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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#facesinthings
news photo for "hopes for iran nuclear talks tempered by threats and mixed messages" and there is a green machine part with two sticking out bits that look like eyes and a shadow making a mouth... it looks like a worried robot
April 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Nobody: ---

Robotics startups: you're welcome

Video:
>Polish startup Clone Robotics unveils humanoid robot with 1,000 muscles
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/tech/tech-news/polish-startup-clone-robotics-unveils-humanoid-robot-with-1-000-muscles-4874849.html
#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
video still of a creepy white coloured humanoid robot with a metallic visor head and bare muscular body
April 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Absolutely classic: the full Guard Dog by Bill Plympton - now on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmK5R4rZEGs
#animation
April 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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oh look they had a "hijack scenario" with the Capitol as a target
Amalgam Virgo slide depicting a commercial aircraft and the US Capitol building with a flight path going west to east across continental US
April 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Especially love the Star Wars imperial viper probe droid in this (2001 Amalgam Virgo) slide depicting emerging UAV threats
slide entitled "federal flight rules eyed for unmanned aircraft" and it has a collage of various real or concept UAVs one of which is clearly some kind of star wars fan art
April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM