Buddy Toledo

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the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface

What particular enamoured Roy Orbison to George Harrison however, was his knack for impersonations, being able to reel off Monty Python skits at the drop of a hat, as George was friends with the British comedy troupe and even funded The Life Of Brian. Led by the excitement about 'Handle With Care', the Traveling Wilburys were formed and recorded their first album together: Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1.
some incredibly fucked-up Artzybasheff machine
the Magnavox Odyssey 2 home entertainment system
Jamelle Bouie sitting in front of his bookcase, looking about to comment on the title subject, “Donald Trump is the reason your salad is giving you diarrhea”
Nathan Fielder wearing his laptop sling in The Rehearsal
J. Wellington Wimpy standing in the corner of a boxing ring with his hands behind his back, saying “COME NOW, GENTLEMEN, LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT”
The frontispiece to Dave Hickey’s essay collection “Air Guitar”, featuring a picture of Keith Richards and the quote: "Let me be clear about this: 1 don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem." -KEITH RICHARDS
A JAPANESE BOY NOTICED HIS BUTTERFLIES SEEMED TO RECOGNIZE HIM. HE SPENT TWO YEARS DESIGNING AN EXPERIMENT AND PROVED THAT METAMORPHOSIS DOES NOT ERASE MEMORIES FORMED DURING THE CATERPILLAR STAGE.
google search: did the riddler ever fight matthew lesko The Riddler has never fought Matthew Lesko in any official DC Comics, movies, or video games, but the two share a
NYC weather, which is a pleasant 78 but has an AQI of 169
Tarot card in Lisa Frank style on a rainbow-striped background. An upside-down koala with red eyes, wearing a santa-style hat and mittens, hangs from a polka-dotted pole against a teal background with pink and yellow brushstroke accents. Card labeled “XII” at top and “THE HANGED MAN” at bottom.
Cliff Clavin on Final Jeopardy, having bet it all on “Who are 3 people who have never been in my kitchen?”
Al did not invent the simulation of knowledge Another point that I agree with Horowitch on: because writing is often how we discover what we think, if people consistently outsource that process to generative AI, they may lose opportunities to develop the very capacities they are using the machine to imitate. That concerns me too. But Al did not enter an educational terrain organized around sincere inquiry, and corrupt it from the outside. It entered institutions organized around output, efficiency, deadlines, and most importantly performance. In this context AI simply provides an extraordinarily powerful new way to satisfy those demands. Al novelty is not that it creates intellectual simulation. Students and scholars were already skimming strategically, recycling interpretations,
Simpsons panel of Mr Burns after being shot: HE WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO A BETTER HOSPITAL, WHERE DOCTORS UPGRADED HIS CONDITION TO "ALIVE”
A children’s dictionary page: On the left, the word “gay” appears in bold serif type. Below it, a color illustration of Snoopy standing on his hind legs on a patch of grass, eyes closed, ears flapping upward, in a joyful dancing pose, set against a pink background blob. On the right, in matching serif type, two sentences: “Snoopy is gay.” and “Snoopy is happy.” (with “gay” and “happy” bolded), illustrating the older sense of “gay” as “happy” or “joyful.”
The Comics Journal GROTH: What did you think of the work he did? WOODRING: I was always amazed by his invention. His work seemed sort of like something a computer would do because a lot of times it didn't make any sense at all. And he would keep doing these drawings, but they never got used for anything. So I think he got kind of bent out of shape about that. He also taught me something about fame. Because at the height of the Jack Kirby "God Save the King" kind of thing, when the Journal and I think Amazing Heroes did a big thing on him and Jack was the talk of the town, while all this was going on, we had gotten an assignment to do some character designs for a client. So Jack went and did some and I went and did some and some other people went and did some, and we all brought them in on Monday and Jack had done 15 or 20 drawings, naturally, and he was showing them all, and he showed his first. The guy looked at them, "Oh yeah, this stuff is great, this is great." And then I was next and I brought my drawings out and the guy was looking through and he picked up one of my drawings and said, "Oh, this is good, I like this one." And Jack took the drawing out of his hand and put one of his under the guy's nose instead and said, "You don't want his work - this is what you want! This is the real stuff! I learned my trade on the editor's floor!" And what that means exactly, I don't know. [Laughter:] I don't like the sound of it. But what he meant to say was that he wasn't some young upstart like me. And this is a guy who was having accolades dumped on him by the bucketful. He didn't like the idea that this guy liked my drawings as well as his.
On the left, Snoopy crouches in a throwing stance, wearing his war-surplus helmet and strap, a thought bubble above him reading “I HURL THE GRENADE.” Two arcs trace the object’s path: it flies up and to the right, strikes the roof of Snoopy’s doghouse in the center with a loud “BWANG!”, then ricochets in a second arc back to the right, where it lands in a potted plant that Charlie Brown is carrying. Dirt and leaves erupt from the pot with a “SPLUT!” as a startled Charlie Brown recoils.
r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses • 2h One-tonne elephant seal Neil crushes cars and 'respects nothing' themirror.cor
from qntm’s “There Is No Antimemetics Division”: them, and his initial clearance level allows him to read only a few dozen of those. He knows the numbering system has been juggled at least once in the past, to obfuscate the true count. And he knows that he isn't seeing everything. A significant fraction of the apparently empty slots have entries that only become visible at higher clearance levels. The ones he's cleared to read are bad enough. There is U-5649, a deep cave in Chile filled with millions of cubic meters of living, breathing lung tissue. There is U-0980, an untraceable Chinese manufacturer of dimly sapient, predatory refrigerators. U-4333: anthropomorphic archaea. U-7012: a novelty record from 1989 that causes serious, permanent earworm. Its excruciatingly inane lyrics and melody are both sealed away behind frightening security warnings. Memetic threat. Psychological damage warning. Suicide warning.
Stefon being asked by Seth Meyers what a "human fire hydrant" is
Parks and Rec frames: Aziz Ansari: OBVIOUSLY, WE'D HAD TO MOVE THIS T-REX, BUT-- Paul Scheer: - NO CAN DO. THAT'S A LOAD-BEARING T-REX.
The July “Daily Dominion” calendar, where I have actually managed to beat the AI the first two days in a row