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Someone wrote an entire essay why butthole logos
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...
velvetshark.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I don't know where it leads.

Unlike some points of divergence, it's such a small change. One slightly bouncier wave on the USS Oneida, and the surgeon's scalpel slips. It was a dangerous, untried, unproven surgery in his head.

This really could have happened otherwise.

5/X
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is all happening the year that there's the Panic of 1893. Economic crisis had people looking for radical solutions. Stevenson could have brought in Bimetallism.

Suddenly, there's no Gilded Age. No roaring '20s. Grinding economic turmoil. Does it lead to even more radicalism in the USA?

4/X
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
So Stevenson's policy allows market fluctuations in the value of gold and silver to cause one metal to be hoarded while the other flows out of the country.

It's a recipe for economic disaster for a country.

3/X
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The thing is that the reason they had to keep it secret was that the financial world would have been terrified of his vice president Adlai Stevenson taking office.

Stevenson vowed to support bimetallism, Cleveland opposed it. Was the major issue of the day, and bimetallism has a major problem

2/X
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Thanks for the heads up!
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
That information is highly classified. We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any involvement.
a woman stands in front of a large sign that says hannah montana
Alt: Hanna Montana transforms into Miley.
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Huh. I have almost no hits from China.
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I’m wondering if it might be an AI system scraping everyone’s blogs.
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I am very subtle in my stupidity.
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Please. It's a jacket from the *good* Battlestar Galactica.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Well, it was a torrential downpour here in Anaheim yesterday.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM