Agreed!

Please note that as of 12:34 am EST on April 21st, this post had the perfect Bluesky ratio of actually relevant science related comments : do you see the same weird animal I see if I turn my head a little comments

Wawa should send a team to blow this up

Scientist wearing a canine decoder that allows him to hear what dogs are really saying when they bark. They all say "Hey! Hey! hey!"

One of the best Far Side cartoons.

The early agent-like search engine Ask Jeeves fits in here. A servant, but smart.

Happy early Tuesday! We have 737 new design patents and I have an early flight to San Francisco for an AI talk, so let's see how many designs we can look at before we board.

Kicking off the day - D1122560 issued for a cereal food piece with emoji.

#DesignPatents

white Suzuki kei truck, with plexiglass sides on the back. parked on the street

bet you could fit a lot of cats in there

Aww, the French Republican Calendar account seems to be gone. :(

Google AI overview for “habanero” “The habanero is a91295960756722238472856407987258380489955744474771694295175940026190989060699665516047240363294378174575971477755866164746675549035659858718870123793740263695279644062016335165999595561085273752538183204987050011504996944670267246237225102573215274577821360155694770451515233633839215017260565863901614755106173294819777995166417757917961239923678000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000”

That’s exactly what it is, Google AI Overview.

I just look at it and like to think about the hands of the people who shaped and placed the tiles covering the shield, like humans have been covering surfaces with tiles for durability and heat resistance for millennia

how have I never seen this? amazing.

Nightmare Robots (1968) YouTube video by British Pathé

Fuck AI, I want more of whatever these things are
youtu.be/1kO8fKEygCE?...

worth it just for butt roasts

Designed by interior designers Arthur Elrod and William Raiser of California-based firm Arthur Elrod Associates for Johnson Publishing in Chicago, 1972.

In case you were not aware: the Ebony Test Kitchen had a *persimmon* refrigerator.
nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...

Macro camera lens with "Bad MF" written in gold sharpie

Manual focus on this lens started failing a while ago. Label is a future warning.

To be fair, it was a solid lens.

The profile reads: Akshat @star_stufff Follows you theoretical physics © earth earth • Joined November 2023 985 Following 3,030 Followers Followed by Martin Bauer, Ash Jogalekar, Greg Egan, and 7 others

The post reads: Tweet Akshat • @star_stufff Albert Einstein passed away on this day in 1955, from complications associated with a ruptured abdominal aneurysm. His doctors recommended surgical intervention. Einstein replied "I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." Image: R. Morse/LIFE

It reads: Tweet Akshat O @star_stufff In 1978, Yau and Schoen used variational methods to give the first proof of the Positive Energy Conjecture in general relativity (Witten gave a separate proof two years later that used entirely different methods). The paper was submitted in September and appeared in print in February of the following year. In general relativity, unlike in other classical field theories, there is no meaningful local notion of the energy density of the gravitational field. You can't just visit every point in a region, measure some quantity, add it to a running total, and then call that result the total energy of a gravitating system. One way to see the reason for this obstruction is to appeal to the hinh imnlinethat

This person on Twitter is taking my threads and posts and presenting them verbatim as his own.

why do things like this never happen to me

A woman who looks like an office worker with feathered hair strolls (on orange shag carpet) past a multi colored space age industrial wall unit, which includes a drinking fountain and a fire extinguisher.

Halsey Taylor Modular Service Wall (1975) #MondayVibes #HappyMonday

Due to underwhelming demand, I uploaded the complete 1954 EATOMIC SECRETS cookbook from Sandia Base. Bon appétit! archive.org/details/sand...

The side wall of a small Tokyo restaurant at night, a red neon sign reading Yakitori and Sashimi Beer glowing above. Below it the functional infrastructure of the building is exposed — air conditioning units, gas pipes, a ladder, electrical boxes. A small kitchen window reveals a cook working inside. Through a plastic sheet to the right a crowd of people is visible. Colour.

Yurakucho, Tokyo. The sign promises. The pipes don't.

#documentaryphotography #tokyo #japan #streetphotography #nightphotography #leicam

From: Panda and the Magic Serpent (1958), dir. Taiji Yabushita, Toei Doga

The film that first inspired Hayao Miyazaki to join the animation world.

Bookshelf.

Nee book shelf because of all the new books.

This is induced demand for books.

Electrostatic Bell Choir - Darsha The Electrostatic Bell Choir is an electromechanical sound installation that plays with the static electricity emitted from discarded CRT television monitors. This static (that can be felt when one pl...

Are you making Franklin bells? A friend of mine made a very cool art piece out of them:

Viewmaster stereo projector shown with polaroid glasses with stylish frames.

Actual Viewmaster glasses were stylish AF:

This is Viewmaster slander.

Nigerian Woman with white head covering with subtitle “Frankly, I cannot marry a man who will not buy me a bicycle.” Picture below shows a person on a bicycle with a yellow cooler bag on the back rack

From BBC Africa via IG.
FWIW, I picked up my Tern on my birthday but ordered it weeks earlier.

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Definitely not on that level, no.

Hey Toronto, InterAccess's fundraiser show is this week! Opening party on Wednesday!