David Friedman

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The word Horse written in the Trajan font
A phone stand called Banana Stand
He was once a normal man until he was bitten by a radioactive Pac, whatever that is. Now he has the proportionate speed and agility of a Pac. He is the Amazing Pac-Man
PHOTOGRAPHER Leading Fashion Company seeks staff photographer. Subjects include showroom interiors, store windows as well as product. Demonstrated proficiency in the use of 4x5 camera. Heavy volume. Full benefits. Please fax resume to CWP 212-[phone number]
The scene from the original Star Wars where Han shoots Greedo, but with a fake Sora overlay applied as though it were generated by the app
Exterior of the Fuller Building with sign
A large room full of classic arcade games
A woman seated on a metro train wearing a green top with her blonde hair up in a manner that overall suggests a slight resemblance to Tinkerbell. Her face has been blurred for privacy.
Close-up photo of the F1 function key on an Apple keyboard
A new illustration of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy all on a boat together
A photo of a package at a doorstep. Two cats stare out through the storm door.
Bozo the Clown on a set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
A display of genetically modified glow-in-the-dark flowers
A Black Mirror comic book spread showing pencil sketches pre-inking. Also visible are a comic by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a Will Eisner biography.
Screenshot of a text message exchange: Son: Dad you had your id stolen!!! Guess I'll just have to start calling you Dav Me: ? Son: Cuz your name is DavID
A ChatGPT conversation where the user asks what is the capital of France and ChatGPT replies with two responses so the user can give feedback on which response is preferred. But they both say the identical text "The capital of France is Paris."
"We tried to get Spider-Man. That was our big push and that's who we wanted. [Marvell were like no, no, no," screenwriter David Simkins explained following a screening in Hollywood on Friday. "We went through the whole list [of characters] and then finally I think Marvel came to us and said, 'We've got this Thor guy. Just take him and use him and do whatever you want with it. It doesn't matter to us.
Incredible Hulk #340 with iconic cover by Todd McFarlane
A dry-erase board with an illustration of Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison from "The Doors." The board also has badly-drawn logos of other movies releasing that month including Dances With Wolves, Home Alone, and The Rescuers Down Under.
A screenshot of a spreadsheet generated by the script showing its work. There are four columns visible: original filename, processed filename, category, and reasoning, which is a short summary of the LLM's thinking about what the document is.
A list of emails coming every few months that all say “Request Extended”
A passage of text with what appears to be a curly-quote character
Sec. 3. DOGE Structure. (a) Reorganization and Renaming of the United States Digital Service. The United States Digital Service is hereby publicly renamed as the United States DOGE Service (USDS) and shall be established in the Executive Office of the President.
A pop-up “congratulations” screen that offers buttons to easily share your results to various social media platforms, including X as an option.
Young me, David Carradine, and Jules Feiffer seated at a long table with a pink tablecloth. I appear to be falling asleep.
A guy at a booth with potatoes that have bluetooth antennas stuck in them. Behind him is a banner which says "Potato: Say hello to the future" and in front of him is a table with a bin that says "Drop your business card. Win a potato!"
Marjorie Taylor Greene talking on the phone while covering her mouth
An emoji of a spaceman, a toilet, and the text: 62%
Photo of a dry erase board with hand-drawn logos for movies releasing that month including Thelma & Louise, Dying Young, and Jungle Fever. A large dry-erase illustration of The Rocketeer is the main feature on the board.
1. IntroductionWe practice Neurosurgery on SATURN in a country called « ILLU-SIONLAND ». 60 million homo sapiens sapiens who live in this countrymigrated 30 years ago from the Earth. According to anatomical data,there is no difference between terrestrial and Saturnian homo sapienssapiens. Modern medical and surgical technology has also been im-ported from Earth. The Saturnians of earthling descent of the earth-lingshave roughly kept the same way of life, society, habits, etc. theyinherited from their earthly ancestors.In our country, ILLUSIONLAND we have two health systems. Privateindependent doctors and government-employed doctors who practice inhospitals. We present two clinical cases of the practice of Neurosurgeryon SATURN. The main difference between the cases on Saturn withclinical cases on Earth is that on Sa-turn, both doctors’ and patients’clinical cases are simultaneously presented.
An illustration of a man wearing a t-shirt with a picture of Bob Marley. The fabric where Marley's hair would be is cut out so the model's own chest hair shows through as Bob Marley's hair
Elon Musk, Don Jr, Robert Kennedy Jr, and Donald Trump sit around a table eating McDonalds food. Mike Johnson hovers creepily.
A framed poster of Lyndon Johnson hanging in a bedroom
Doctor Who Threw Hot Coffee At Airport Worker Convicted After Horror Paramedic Attack
A fake Bluesky profile of someone named Norman Doors who has an "Invalid Handle" error on his profile page
A popup modal that offers icon buttons for people to share their score on major social media platforms. They are X, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, and Facebook.
Photograph of LEGO set depicting a section of the Brooklyn Bridge, the chief engineers Washington and Emily Roebling, and workers
Screenshot of an Axios post on X intercepted by Skip-X
A cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan showing two people standing around some sort of cocktail party chatting. One of them says, "I was reading somewhere that people are stupid."
A video of the CNN Election Center set. The camera is fairly still. Not much happens.
Scanned of the West Wing self-guided tour map
Detail photo of lever-style voting machine with Barack Obama's name selected
NEW YORK - The Times Tech Guild - the union that powers the technology behind election coverage at The New York Times - has walked off the job in a ULP strike that threatens Election Day.The work stoppage began at 12:01 a.m. ET Monday despite multiple rounds of intense bargaining and a practice picket that drew more than 400 outside the headquarters of The Times and another 200 remotely on Wednesday.Tech Guild members will begin picketing at 9 a.m. outside the Eighth Avenue entrance of The New York Times. The picket line will run 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.The Tech Guild is asking readers to honor the digital picket line and not play popular NYTGames such as Wordle and Connections as well as not use the NYT Cooking app. Members of the newsroom union, Times Guild, have pledged not to do struck work
A list of political spam emails with subjects like “MAGA’s betting you stay silent these final 7 days” and “This is the worst case scenario” and “I’m not exaggerating when I say the stakes have never been higher”
Columns from the Capitol building transplanted to a garden
A screenshot from the trailer of Severance Season 2 showing three new characters, one of which is played by Bob Balaban
A page called “Why Art?” that says absolutely nothing about artists or art. It’s one paragraph about how owning artwork can impact your investment portfolio relative to stocks and bonds. Seriously, this is their entire answer to “Why Art?”
A mostly blank page with an embedded tweet. Above the tweet it says “You don’t want to visit x.com but you clicked a link to this post.” Below the tweet is a button labeled “I actually need to see this in situ” that will take you to X and bypass the plugin if needed.
A heavily orange-tinted movie still from the trailer for “Lockerbie”