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Ridley LeDoux
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Who, indeed :P 📚🪐 (From *The Futurological Congress*, 1971)
Excerpt from *The Futurological Congress*: Spent the whole afternoon ingesting a most remarkable work, *The History of Intellectronics.* Who'd ever have guessed, in my day, that digital machines, reaching a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable, deceitful, that with wisdom they would also acquire cunning? The textbook of course puts it in more scholarly terms, speaking of Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead to figure some way out of it. Whichever is easier.
September 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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RFK Jr. coming to pull the measles vaccine out of my body
Screenshot from Avatar: The Legend of Korra where masked villain Amon is standing on a stage behind a kneeling woman (Korra?), placing a hand on her forehead to take her bending ability away
April 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Nice [fan edit only, but a cringe millennial can dream can't she?]
Banner of the new 18F website, with the text to the right of the logo changed to "What is dead may never die But rises again, harder and stronger"
March 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Not an alt of a single img but an overall characterization, given here as a screenshot for more characters BUT where the full text of the screenshot is in its own alt text. Hope that's also okay
The overall visual feeling is one of infinite memetic vectors sweeping out to a vanishing point, lying comfortably skew to each other in some n-dimensional space. Kitsch dog pictures cover the fan of a dog-themed room; a comfortable armchair covered in patches of denim offers the weary traveler a waypoint in a mysterious hall; prosaic functionality and declarative labeling of drawers are totally at ease with warm and self-confident whimsy; recursively fine detail plays against broad impressionistic curves; nouveau riche Florida McMansion armor on the outside lovingly holds in the jiggling flesh of the riotous nonlinear New Weird story within (the “scale” of which is cheekily foreshadowed by a large, tacky, but appealing fish-shaped pool).
January 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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This was a fun Easter egg I happened upon in the Portland area
Screenshot of a zoomed-in area of Google Maps depicting SW Kemmer Rd. near Portland, Oregon
December 17, 2024 at 4:02 AM
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It struck me that birds sitting on deciduous trees must find it odd and disorienting to suddenly see so far after the leaves fall, so I wrote a little poem about it (full text in alt)
Title: November on the Wing My little perch is sunny now, and now I see A half a mile at least Through loose weaves of branches, bare Of loves and foes of summer past Of dense lush leaves that breathe and hide The architecture of this wood; My tiny prey revealed now to me, and I to it. How strange this richly curtained world Burned red gold glory, then was gone. First with an offering of fruit to Earth, And then the scaffolding alone. But as I flit, and as I peck, I taste How slow and cool both roots and limbs Seek some unbidden spring.
December 11, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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umm...
Screenshot of a Gmail email. Sender is Dania Furniture and subject line is "Treat your furniture like family"
December 10, 2024 at 7:34 PM