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a comparison of the room to the left of the starting area in E1M1 between DOS and Jaguar Doom. The latter is missing the pillars on each side of the stairs, the lighting is absent, and several unique textures are removed
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an ai generated screencap of patricia taxxon's k-12 video in which her fursona was turned into Doge, but with her blue outfit and crown
lightly vignetted red void
NEvo: Neural-Guided Evolutionary Video Synthesis for Dynamic Visual Selectivity Yingtian Tang, Sogand Salehi, Ming Zhou, Amir Zamir, Leyla Isik, Martin Schrimpf The human brain processes dynamic visual input through hierarchically organized, functionally specialized regions. While recent in silico brain encoding models can synthesize optimal stimuli to probe selectivity in different brain regions, prior work has been largely limited to static images, leaving dynamic visual processing underexplored. We introduce a novel neural-guided video synthesis framework that generates stimuli optimized for target brain regions across visual cortex. Our method performs evolutionary search over a structured prompt space, guided by a dynamic encoding model that predicts voxel-level responses to video inputs. By maximizing predicted activity for a target ROI, the framework efficiently discovers hyper-activating dynamic stimuli that consistently surpass handcrafted localizer videos. The synthesized videos recover known selectivities across ventral, dorsal, and lateral pathways, and further reveal systematic differences in sensitivity to temporal dynamics. A searchlight analysis provides new insight into the progression toward increasingly complex social-dynamic features along the lateral stream, further supported by probing with synthesized abstract, non-naturalistic stimuli. Taken together, our framework enables in silico exploration of dynamic visual selectivity, with new predictions for in vivo experiments
Yingtian Tang (@yingtian_david) 🚨 NEW PREPRINT Videos strongly shape activity across the visual cortex. But can we design videos that maximally drive specific brain regions? We present NEvo 🧬🧠 — a neural-guided evolutionary framework that synthesizes videos to maximally activate target visual ROIs. (1/10)
An image of a social media post by Lee B. Cyrano (@leebriskcyrano) sharing an invitation to an event. The main post text reads: "i'm having a 4th of july hole dig at the beach https://partiful.com/e/2WZjdXOGa21Y2ehftSQm? The accompanying graphic reads: San Francisco, CA RSVP for full location It is time to celebrate our country's 250th anniversary, and the imminent abolition of wage labor at the hands of AGI. In honor of the automated, who built this country, we will be performing manual labor—digging a hole at the beach and filling it back in. Taylorist management principles will be employed.
calypso lemonade
the same image 4lung is quoting but with her and Patricia Taxxon circled
Hereticon 2022 panels https://xcancel.com/davetroy/status/2067168355606303178
Above her, small apples clung to branches, unpicked. Some had fallen, softening into the grass, wasps drunk on their fermenting sweetness. Tart little things, nothing like the supermarket specimens bred for shelf life. No one wanted these apples. Dog walkers, lunch-breakers hunched over phones, tourists squinting at maps – everyone passed without seeing. But Deepa saw them. Had been seeing them for months, these Friday evenings when she left the office at seven – early, by her team’s standards – and walked here instead of home to her Bethnal Green flat, where the rent had increased again and the letting agent’s emails sat unanswered. She pressed her palm against the trunk. The bark was warm despite the autumn chill, as if the tree held summer inside it still – hoarded heat, remembered light. Something in her body released. The tears came quietly, the way winter rain comes down in London: persistent, unhurried. Not dramatic sobbing, just a steady leak, her body admitting what her mind wouldn’t. She was empty. The light her name promised – Deepa, lamp – had guttered somewhere between sixty-hour weeks and meetings where she performed enthusiasm for initiatives that would change nothing; between promotions awarded to men who’d started after her and feedback that praised her as brilliant, really brilliant, but not quite ready. Not yet. Maybe next cycle.
Above her, small apples clung to branches, unpicked. Some had fallen, softening into the grass, wasps drunk on their fermenting sweetness. Tart little things, nothing like the supermarket specimens bred for shelf life. No one wanted these apples. Dog walkers, lunch-breakers hunched over phones, tourists squinting at maps – everyone passed without seeing. But Deepa saw them. Had been seeing them for months, these Friday evenings when she left the office at seven – early, by her team’s standards – and walked here instead of home to her Bethnal Green flat, where the rent had increased again and the letting agent’s emails sat unanswered. She pressed her palm against the trunk. The bark was warm despite the autumn chill, as if the tree held summer inside it still – hoarded heat, remembered light. Something in her body released. The tears came quietly, the way winter rain comes down in London: persistent, unhurried. Not dramatic sobbing, just a steady leak, her body admitting what her mind wouldn’t. She was empty. The light her name promised – Deepa, lamp – had guttered somewhere between sixty-hour weeks and meetings where she performed enthusiasm for initiatives that would change nothing; between promotions awarded to men who’d started after her and feedback that praised her as brilliant, really brilliant, but not quite ready. Not yet. Maybe next cycle.
Hannah Montana Linux v26.0 is a modern remaster of the original Hannah Montana Linux. It uses Debian's live-build and the Calamares installer. (screenshot of Hannah Montana Linux v26) Much of this project is just a re-skin of KDE Plasma. Many of the Plasma components are direct modifications of Plasma's default theme, Breeze. As such, this project is licensed under GPLv3+. This project was made as the focus of a video on my YouTube channel. You can watch the video here.
Teortaxes @teortaxesTex The eventual end state of labor under automation has been understood by smart men (ie not shallow libshits) for ≈160 years since Darwin Among the Machines. The timeline to full automation was unclear. Technocrats & some Marxists expected it in the 20th century. The last 14 years in AI match models that predict post-labor economy by 2035-2045. Vinge, Legg, Kurzweil, Moravec and others were unclear on details but it's obvious that if you showed them the present snapshot in say 1999, they'd say wow, yep, this is the endgame, almost all HARD puzzle pieces are placed The current technological stack is almost certainly not the final one. But it will suffice to build everything needed for a rapid transition to the next one - data, software, hardware, and it looks extremely dubious that the final human-made stack will be paradigmatically much more complex than what we've done in these 14 years. Post-labor economy = post-consumer market = permanent underclass for virtually everyone and state-oligarchic power centralization by default. As an aside: «AI takeover» as an alternative scenario is cope for nihilists and red herring for autistic quokkas. Optimizing for compliance will be easier and ultimately more incentivized than optimizing for novel cognitive work. Frantic attempts to «escape the permanent underclass» in this community are not so much about getting rich as about converting wealth into some equity, a permanent stake in the ballooning posthuman economy, large enough that you'd at least be treading water on dividends, in the best case – large enough that it can sustain a thin, disciplined bloodline in perpetuity. Current datacenter buildup effects and PC hardware prices are suggestive of where it's going. Consumers are getting priced out of everything valuable for industrial production, starting from the top (microchips) and the bottom (copper and electricity). The two shockwaves will be traveling closer to the middle.
A chart showing that software engineers are not particularly good at completing AI coding tasks
Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, and the New American Colony // Nick Solheim, Dr. Sumantra, Mike Gibson Nick Solheim, Dr. Sumantra, and Mike Gibson came to tell us why America needs Greenland, and honestly? The math does pencil. Currently it’s a chunk of land three times bigger than Texas, housing fewer people than a mid-sized concert venue, costing Denmark $500 million yearly just to keep the lights on. Between its rare earth minerals and Arctic shipping routes that dodge the usual maritime traffic jams, it’s basically the world’s biggest foreclosure opportunity. The plan? Copy-paste the Homestead Act, send 100,000 American frontiersmen up there, and boom: the New New England. Sure, the Danes said no last time, but winners never quit, right? — Elsa
The schedule for Hereticon 2022. It's too long to fit in 2000 characters, read it here: https://pastebin.com/eUSinn7P
Mistral 3.2 24B says A YouTube channel known for content related to gaming, commentary, and internet culture. Gemini 3.1 Lite says A popular digital artist and content creator known for their character illustrations, fan art, and presence on platforms like Twitter and Instagram.
various examples of claudeslop
"Ghost name" targets in the study: elena vasquez marcus chen elena rodriguez sarah chen amara okafor amara okonkwo aris thorne lena petrov elara voss
a RYM chart of furry music by year. It shows a roughly-linear increase from 0.3% starting in 2021
stock photo of a fez
The writers and showrunners of The Littlest Wife are called Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner. They are apparently quite a powerful pair; they previously worked together on Boardwalk Empire. I don’t know exactly how much they got paid for ‘nursing the burn of every sip,’ but I’m sure it was plenty. Enough to feed an entire village of semi-literate Cambodian peasants for a hundred years. I’m just not sure why they should get that money, when their job could just as well be done by any one of those semi-literate Cambodian villagers. This is the democratising power of AI I’ve heard so much about, isn’t it? If you’re a pair of lazy, talentless hacks, gobbling up opportunities more interesting people would kill for and then not even bothering to write the show yourself, sooner or later, the people who sign your cheques will cut out the middleman, and you will deserve it.
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Page for the Yu-Gi-Oh card "Clown Crew Biancaviso". The direct translation of its Japanese name is listed as "Clown Clan Whiteface"
When I was 18, and just beginning to accrue an audience, I created a discord server. For a lot of external reasons, mainly spending my entire life up until this point being shuttled around different special ed schools, this ended up being the first real social circle I ever had. It represented the first positive attention I ever received from strangers. It’s a time where I made a lot of mistakes, it’s a time where I was gravely vulnerable. In all honesty, I was too young to manage a community of any kind, I was hot off the back of being desensitized in my adolescence by unrestricted access to early 2010s internet. I knew well enough to create special NSFW rooms, and was advised later to create further division by requiring users to self-apply for a special NSFW role to access those rooms This extra layer meant that the rooms wouldn’t even show up for people who didn’t have the role, which led to some believing they didn’t exist.
Examining AI Use in Commonwealth Prize Winners The Commonwealth Foundation hosts an archive of every regional story winner dating back to 2012. We ran these stories through Pangram and found that Nazir was not alone in their use of AI: one of the five 2025 regional winners and three of the five 2026 regional winners showed strong signs of AI usage in their writing. The stories flagged as using AI include: Descend by Chanel Sutherland (2025 Overall Winner, Canada / Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) The Serpent in the Grove by Jamir Nazir (2026, Trinidad and Tobago) The Bastion's Shadow by John Edward DeMicoli (2026, Malta) Mehendi Nights by Sharon Aruparayil (2026, India) Not only did Pangram catch three of the five authors from 2026, but the overall winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Sutherland's Descend was flagged by Pangram as having an AI fraction of 88%, indicating that we believe that the document is primarily AI-generated with some human-written content.
STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS For Democrats: (note from copy editor: No evidence provided for many claims in this section. Data inconsistent with public reporting and contradicts several underlying assumptions.) Male voters require direct engagement. The gender gap can be narrowed. Deploy male messengers, address economic concerns, and don't assume identity politics will hold male voters of color. The Rural “strategy” is mathematically indefensible. Compete everywhere. Limiting losses matters. Recruit candidates with rural credibility and show up. Anti-Trump sentiment has limits. Build affirmative cases for candidates to drive enthusiasm instead of relying on reductive messaging. Irregular voters are swing voters. They need mobilization AND persuasion. Year-round engagement matters more than October GOTV. Definition is essential. Voters need to know what you'll do and why you're running. Clear accomplishments and concrete plans matter more than vibes. Geographic formula is non-negotiable. Strong urban + competitive suburbs + limited rural losses. You need all three. Demographics aren't destiny. Latino voters shifted Republican nationally but Democratic in NC with the right candidate. Context and execution matter. State parties matter. Built infrastructure wins even when presidential candidates struggle
an ai slop LinkedIn post by Jamir Nazir that starts with "Governments Are Quietly Building Human-AI Partnerships (emdash) And The Smart Ones Are Already Winning When Albania announced an AI 'minister' that would soon 'give birth' to 83 digital assistants, most people laughed. But behind the headline lies a signal (emdash) governments are quietly rewiring themselves for a new era of partnership between human judgement and machine intelligence" It continues for a few more paragraphs. It's obviously at least co-authored by ChatGPT
Why Gen Z is ditching smartphones for ‘dumb phones’ - Fast Company, 2023
guy: "I love CSM" me with my big brain thinking really hard: "child sexual mutiliation????"
Pangram result showing this is 74% AI generated To be honest I think it's actually 100% and it flagged parts as human because I left in image captions while copying and pasting
Pangram result showing this is 74% AI generated
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A comparison of two replicas of Roman sculptural works before and after "restoration", painted over with bright, matte primary colors with a complete absence of shading
quote from the website: "There’s a category gap between ‘a place where trans people are allowed to exist’ and ‘a place designed, from the first pixel, with trans women at the center.’ Amoura is trying to close it."
various photos of Buffalo style pizza, with thick, bready crusts, a sweeter more pasta-ish sauce, double the cheese, and margherita "cup and char" pepperoni
"Nobody could identify a clear pre- versus post-private-equity flavor shift. No one produced a spreadsheet of bun elasticity metrics. The burger tasted like memory with mustard."
a post saying (paraphrased) "being trans is awesome and the downsides that exist are all purposefully created by cis people" quoting a post saying (paraphrased) "I've had a few people reach out lately saying I'm making being out as trans too positive. They feel like I should be talking way more about the soul-crushing parts of dysphoria and all the pain that comes with it. And look, I hear you. Dysphoria nearly killed me. I GET IT."
A screenshot of https://pillbug.vivl.im/ 's login page. under instance url, I wrote "https://channel.coolstation.space"
a soyjak soying out to SteamWorld Heist, Sim Theme Park, Escape from Tarkov, Folklore (PS3), DKC2, Virtua Tennis, Unpacking, Sly Cooper, Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes, Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack, Red Dead Redemption II, River Raid, World of Goo, Balatro, Sinistar and Kirby Tilt n' Tumble
basically, Patty started a discord when she was 18 and almost immediately started being groomed by older members of the server, mainly an adult in her late 20s. This older woman encouraged Patty to go on voice chat and masturbate for her, also inviting other people. At one point, the older woman invited someone who was 15, but Patty stopped and told the 15 year old to leave, and they did; the 15 year old only remembers being yelled at to get out. Someone else saw the 15 year old join, assumed that Patty did it because it was supposed to be her server, and accused her of being the one to invite them
Soon after the Garden began to relax its Covid restrictions in the spring of 2021, Nina Richards was regularly going to Knicks games there. According to one former MSG security staffer, she became a fixation for Eversole. Eversole, a former senior director of global investigations at Oracle, instructed his deputies to compile “work-ups”—open source intelligence dossiers—on her. He made sure she was in the Garden's face-recognition system and ordered the Garden's security apparatus to focus on her, former MSG security staffer Donnie Ingrasselino later alleged in a lawsuit. Not because she posed any kind of danger at that moment. Because Richards was a transgender woman, and Eversole allegedly wanted to keep her “away from the players.” Eversole targeted Richards “because of her gender identity,” Ingrasselino added in his suit. Employees who were forced to conduct the surveillance were often uncomfortable, since they believed it to be a clear act of profiling, according to the first former staffer. "She posed no threat," added a second former employee.
axios tweet: "Virginia Sen. @MarkWarner told #AxiosAISummit that he believes AI's economic disruption "is going to be exponentially bigger" than he thought just a few months ago. "The recent college graduate unemployment is 9%. I'll bet anybody in the room it goes to 30 or 35% before 2028.""
search result page for Wordle, marked red because of Shinigami Eyes
an image showing off my shader in an indoor tavern environment. The shader is designed to simulate diffuse light bouncing through the scene. GPU time: 3.37ms
but can it run Doom?
screenshot of https://german.millermanschool.com/ "Am I German or Autistic? Both involve systematic thinking, a preference for precision, and difficulty pretending small talk is acceptable. The question is which one explains it. 15 questions · 2 minutes · One uncomfortable truth"
A screenshot of the finals: Kid A vs. OK Computer
pitchfork's best albums bracket they're hosting on instagram: Blond vs. Silent Shout A Seat at the Table vs. Person Pitch MBDTF vs. Funeral Illinoise vs. Fleet Foxes MPP vs. Turn on the Bright Lights Discovery vs. Diamond Jubilee The Rapture - Echoes vs. Kid A NFR vs DAMN Los Thuthanaka vs Fetch the Bolt Cutters Be The Cowboy vs. Bon Iver Good Kid, M.A.A.D City vs Whole Lotta Red Ok Computer vs. RTJ2 SOS vs Modern Vampires of the City The Glow Pt 2 vs Heaux Tales TPAB vs. Emergency & I Renaissance vs. Aquemini
A drawing of a person asking a computer to “say ‘i am alive’”, the computer responding with “i am alive”, and the person saying finally “oh my god”
kagi.com reworked in a retro theme as an April Fools joke, resembling Yahoo or CNET in the 90s
a screenshot of https://attie.ai , showing the all caps wide spaced small fonts, purple/teal gradients, thin single-pixel borders, glowing lines, elements that appear to offer useful information but are really just decorative, and AI-generated ad copy you would expect from a Claude-written frontend
a screenshot showing that the opening text is AI generated
When you open a website on your phone, it's like participating in a high-frequency financial trading market. That heat you feel on the back of your phone? The sudden whirring of fans on your laptop? Contributing to that plus battery usage are a combination of these tiny scripts.
gptzero result showing that the article is 98% AI generated