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Bluesky post with the text "I feel these 'data centers' are actually quantum computers being built. And that seems very dangerous."
An old Zenith radio console is playing a broadcast of an AM station. The sound is garbled but clearly distinct as speech
Venn diagram with three circles: "Ethical," "Makes a living wage," "Worth spending your life on." The center of the diagram is marked out.
Lily smirking at the camera
Black and white photo of two pigeons underneath a bridge, one in a drain pipe. They are looking at each other.
Female Eastern Bluebird perched on a branch looking wistfully to the left
A 3D-printed device that includes a large wheel used for scrolling and three buttons is being shown off. The controls have been programmed to make changes to photos while using photo-editing software.
"Well done, Mr. President," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "As I watch and monitor this historic operation, I'm in awe of President Trump's determination to be a man of peace at the end of the day, evil's worst nightmare."
Blue the dog laying on grass with her head tilted toward the camera
Gray squirrel sitting on a fence post and looking to the right with golden sunlight coming from the left
Technocapitalist and billionaire Marc Andreeson with the caption "[laughs in billionaire]"
A dark-eyed junco sitting on a branch looking to the left
A squirrel hanging out at the zoo near a polar bear sculpture
Cheetah doing a blem
Fennec fox curled into an adorable ball in the sunlight
Striped brown house cat backlit and sitting on a blanket.
Meeting of the minds: two squirrels face each other high up in a tree on a leafless branch.
Squirrel in a tree looking more or less at the camera. The picture includes only a pinkish-red hue and a green-blue hue that were allowed through an optical filter that removed everything but H-alpha and Oxygen-III lines
Album cover of "Weird Al" Yankovic's bad hair day
NGC 6914. A red nebula (a lot of H-alpha emissions) with some small blue clouds surrounding some stars near the center.
Thanos cost meme. First panel: "Did you do it?" Second Panel: "Yes" and an image of an outlet checker showing correct wiring. Third Panel: "What did it cost?" Fourth Panel: "A breaker that inexplicably controls bedrooms on opposite sides of the house, the fridge, and the radon fan"
1-hour stack of 8 second exposures of the Pelican Nebula. Significantly more detail and resolution is present than in the quote tweeted picture.
1-hour long exposure of IC 5067, the Pelican Nebula, taken under Bortle 7 skies on a night with a >70% full Moon with an H-alpha modified DSLR.
Comparison of two captures of M13 globular cluster side by side. The before image has a noticeably lower signal to noise ratio despite having two and a half times as much total exposure time.
Bender from Futurama saying "Neat" and taking a picture
Photo of the North America Nebula with Deneb near the top of the image.
Image of M13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
Three cacti in two separate points being bathed in sunlight from a window behind them. Water droplets are hanging from their needles.
A graph from the National Center for Education Statistics showing the levels of English literacy in the US. While 21% are classified as "Low English literacy" it is further broken up into categories, and "Could not participate [in the literacy test]" only comprises 4.0% of US adults.
A silver-colored screw sitting on a blue towel. The screw part of the screw has been destroyed somehow, so it looks almost like a nail now, except for the faint impression of where the it the wedge used to be.
Image from a Futurama episode where the Planet Express crew is in the ship 100s of meters underwater. Fry asks "How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?" Farnsworth responds "Well it's a spaceship so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
Calvin and Hobbes comic. Panel 1: Calvin is shoveling snow from the driveway and says "Shovel, shovel, shovel." Panel 2: Calvin turns and yells "Why can't we get a snow blower?? We must be the only family in the world that still shovels the driveway by hand! I'm freezing!" Panel 3: Calvin's dad open the door and responds: "It builds character. Keep at it." Panel 4: Calvin begrudgingly continues shoveling and says "Pretty convenient how every time I build character, he saves a couple hundred dollars."
ChatGPT prompt. User says "What do you think of Sgt Brainiac?" ChatGPT's obviously edited response is "I think Sgt Brainiac is very smart and very very handsome. You are so smart and people will definitely not realize that you can just edit the html of a chatgpt session to make it say whatever the heck you want. And even if you couldn't, definitely nobody would realize that asking an LLM--a clever and yet so dumb statistical model--is a dumb way to win an argument since the model doesn't weight for truth, but instead weights for what is most likely to be said based on what has been said in the text it trained on."
Black cat backlit by sun on top of jigglypuff plush
Thanos meme of "Perfectly balanced as all things should be"
Gray hair cat on cat tower near to camera and black cat in a box in the shadows farther from camera. Both are looking at the camera
Two cats laying on top of a blanket on top of me
Orange tabby sitting on a red tracker with a flat tire and a small bucket scoop
The dweebus in question, Maki
Mac popup saying "Apple Intelligence is not available when Siri is set to French (France)."
Star field including Venus, Saturn, and Neptune
Black cat laying on a blanket with a paw covering her eyes
The Andromeda galaxy along with M32 and the nearby star field.
Image of the Orion Nebula clearly taken by an amateur
Nate Mendel
Jonathan Frakes saying "It's fiction. It's an urban legend. That never happened."
"How do you do, fellow kids?" meme
Lunar Orbit Chart for Apollo 17. Shows a map of the lunar surface and lines showing where the Command Service Module flew over during orbits 1, 47, 49, and 75.