brndn_m

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everything i do here is a psyop intended to get you to see my cats and if you're reading this, it probably worked

brown tabby domestic long hair cat sitting in a box, looking directly at the camera
Screenshot of text from an interview with Alan Moore. Interviewer: You have become a magician, and not the rabbit-out-of-a-hat kind. Do some ideas have magical properties? Moore: When I became a magician at the age of 40, I took it very seriously, and it has transformed my life. There’s no difference between magic and creativity. One part of magic is changing the consciousness of other people. Writing has always been the best way of doing that. If a wizard puts a curse on you, maybe your hands weigh too much, big deal. If you offended a bard they might put a satire on you, destroy you in the eyes of everybody who knows you, your own eyes, and if it’s good enough people might still be laughing at you in 200 years’ time. I think a lot of us have forgotten what art is for. It’s an engine of human progress. Art and culture stay with us. It’s the wars we’re ashamed of.
Chance can be fussy and demanding. In one account of a prompting interface, questions must be posed as binary alternatives, and an observer reports a six hour session with several parallel agents being asked a succession of questions, each slightly modifying and building on what came before, until a satisfying result was obtained. Another account describes the need to formulate queries that are concise and logically structured, and warns the apprentice that iteration and improvement over multiple sessions will be necessary to produce the desired results. One of these is an account of Mambila spider divination (Zeitlyn 1990) . Another is a proposal for a prompt engineering framework for large language models (Lo 2023). If they are hard to tell apart, it is because they both represent interactional practices evolved in response to the challenge of working with chance outcomes
A Google search result for the Senate subsite for Senator Bill Cassidy. The caption reads "Cassidy's Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act has already Delivered $ 0 Billion to Louisiana. Click here to read about infrastructure projects in your parish."
Brown tabby laying on her side on a blanket, looking up towards the camera
Brown tabby cat laying down with a half-asleep expression
Two cats in a cat tower. Above, an orange tabby is in a compartment with only part of his head and torso visible. Below, a brown tabby is facing the camera with her front paws dangling in the air.
Screenshot of a tweet from @JennyENicholson with the text "You know that thing where you disagree with a guy online and suddenly his vocab switches from completely normal to 'writing missives from the revolutionary war in a quill pen' as though that's going to give him some kind of intellectual high ground."
Screenshot of Spotify Wrapped with the text "May was your Nerdy Fantasy Soundtrack moment"
Brown tabby cat on top of a computer tower. She is looking directly at the camera with wide eyes.
Image macro titled "INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO WOLVES". The image depicts a black wolf and a white wolf facing each other, with a full moon in the background. An image of Mariah Carey from her album "Merry Christmas" has been overlaid on the black wolf, and an image of "Padoru Padoru" has been overlaid on the white wolf.
Headline from The Onion: This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
Hand-drawn diagram of the architecture Windows uses to execute Linux containers. The style indicates the diagram was hastily hand-drawn and hand-labeled.
The same chart as several posts above, but with the text "this gap is within the survey’s margin of error" highlighted.
Squidward with bulging eyes
The same cat on the same towel, now asleep with her tail covering her face
Brown tabby cat sitting on top of a folded towel, looking at the camera
brown tabby cat in a pink bed with a sleepy expression
Two cats on a cat tower, with stern expressions
A brown tabby cat laying down facing the camera
A small brown tabby sitting on a laptop, looking at the screen
Spotify's bottom bar, with a new button called "Create" at the right end.
the same cats but now they are cuddling with their faces smushed together
Another cat has joined the first cat.
Orange cat curled up on a blanket, presumably on a bed
Sketch of Diogenes with a speech bubble photoshopped into the bottom of the frame. The speech bubble is positioned as if the text of the quoted post was Diogenes speaking.
Two tabby cats together in a cat bed. The smaller brown cat is towards the front of the frame, facing the camera with a sleepy expression, and the larger orange cat is towards the back of the frame, eyes closed.
Photograph of Donald Trump and Joe Biden seated together in the White House on November 13, 2024. Trump's expression is dour, Biden is smiling.
Digital graphic depicting a human and robot hand reaching towards each other, fingertip almost touching fingertip. The composition mimics Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam".