analytictsar:

i think we can all agree that you’re killed in the teleporter and anything to the contrary is utter cope

heartsl0b:

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aesthetesmalaise-deactivated202:

Theres also a psychic war going on if youre not aware

limbics:

Wings 2022

oil on canvas

acrashedjournal:

our theory is that there is a god, and he is hungry. Carmen Maria Machado

dappergamelord:

if i had twin children i would name them Minneapolis and St. Paul after the divine twins of roman mythology

tagomago:

im so sad that spotify took away the little heart when you add songs to ur liked songs and replaced it with a little plus. isn’t there enough pain

katjacis:

Erika Lee Sears, Wine Aisle, 2021

noosphe-re:

“There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?’ And someone else said, ‘A poor choice of words in 1954’,” he says. “And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we’re having now.”

So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. “It’s genuinely amazing that…these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text,” he says. But, in his view, that doesn’t make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, “but no one wants to use that term, because it’s not as sexy”.

'The machines we have now are not conscious’, Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023

danskjavlarna:

“Coffee wrecks some persons” (and those waves are frothed half-and-half, of course), from St. Nicolas magazine, 1910.

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floatupstream:

Peanuts Fashion from Teen Mag (1969)