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I don't think I have posted Dr G before.

The concept of shrinkflation has entered the zeitgeist, but how about aquafication and ærification?

We all have deep seated memories with strong associated emotions that stay with us forever.

For some reason I watched The Godfather and The Lion King in the same day.

You are being connected with an AI watch seller.

noclip.website is a celebration of video game level design and art.

Diablo 4 is terrible.

Fellow-citizens!

Cycling is not natural.

Aptos — 2023 to present Calibri — 2007 to 2023 Times New Roman / Arial — 1992 to 2007 (I didn't do much digging into the origin date of these earliest fonts in Microsoft products.

I use the term environmental control to describe how human behavior, from the individual to our global society, is driven in overwhelming majority by external, environmental factors.

The first rule: given enough time, every consumer product will have a battery and it will need to be charged.

Most music actually sounds amazing on good speakers (or live).

The only named cloud in the world?

Both this comprehensive article and this documentary are fantastic.

This movie has the best animation ever created.

Micromouse is really cool!

The teacher doesn’t stick up for the students once!

I had the brilliant idea to scratch traditional tags and instead use emojis!

When a community finds itself deprived of its sense of identity, because of whatever historical shock or fracture with its past, it invents traditions to act as founding myths. via Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong

Parietal eye Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt Beggar's chicken Gigot bitume Dishwasher salmon Recursive islands and lakes Observable Universe Logarithmic Map

The two endpoints of everyone’s rainbow are birth and death.

Boyhood is a remarkably straightforward/homogenized/cliche tale of growing up for a particular group of people at a particular time.

It is a massive shame and poor reflection of our society the criticism that the movie has attracted for its portrayal of obesity.

Not a particularly interesting exercise to create a timeline of recent LLM advancement (we can just ask it to do so later), but this plugin moment is worth a snapshot in time.

There is value in suffering, in constraint and adaptation.

It must have an ending The stakes need to be real Characters and their relationships are the story The characterization arc is the plot and it must be planned in advance Foreshadowing is not a plot device, it is a means of creating realistic and consistent

Four recent oustanding SNL skits: HBO Mario Kart Trailer Straight Male Friend Bill Walton on LeBron James and the Lakers Co-Worker Who's Extremely Busy Doing Seemingly Nothing on Returning to the Office

For years Google photos will ask if every single photo you take contains a cable car.

AI is here.

If only this were longer!

Remember that Apple is a global empire.

Impressive amount of parody, plot, and emotional payoff in such a short time.

This has been consistently tasty for years.

Lizan Freijsen makes rugs inspired by mold.

Zihee makes beautiful tattoos.

I have always wanted to get some glass flowers.

Marketing, but good!