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Title card: NEON DADDY EVANGELION EPISODE:26 史上最高のパパ
a book with part of the cover obscured that appears to be titled “Butt of the South”
Harmless to Man NO QUALITY THERE IS NO TOMORROW NO QUALITY THERE IS NO TOMORROW
Worldwide, there are about 55 translations of the word Schtroumpf, including[9] Arabic:السنافر (Sanafir) Asturian: Los Estrunfinos Basque: Pottokiak Bengali: স্মার্ফ Smārpha Catalan: Els Barrufets Croatian: Štrumpfovi Czech: Šmoulové Danish: Smølferne Dutch: De Smurfen Estonian: Smurfid Finnish: Smurffit (earlier translations: Muffet, Strumffit) German: Die Schlümpfe Greek: Στρουμφάκια (Stroumfákia) Hebrew: דרדסים (Dardasim) Hungarian: Hupikék törpikék Icelandic: Strumparnir Indonesian: Smurf Italian: Puffi Japanese: スマーフ (Sumāfu) Lithuanian: Smurfai Norwegian: Smurfene Polish: Smerfy Portuguese: Os Estrumpfes Brazilian Portuguese: Os Smurfs Romanian: Ștrumfii Russian: Смурфики (Smurfiki) Slovak: Šmolkovia Slovene: Smrkci Spanish: Los Pitufos Swedish: Smurferna Turkish: Şirinler
Kids Can’t Stop Watching ‘Moana.’ There’s a Scientific Explanation.
Los Angeles from above at dusk
The psychological situation the compulsive programmer finds himself in while so engaged is strongly determined by two apparently opposing facts: first, he knows that he can make the computer do anything he wants it to do; and second, the computer constantly displays undeniable evidence of his failures to him. It reproaches him. There is no escaping this bind. The engineer can resign himself to the truth that there are some things he doesn't know. But the programmer moves in a world entirely of his own making. The computer challenges his power, not his knowledge.
Two stick figures, before and after. Before is smiling. After is pulling out her hair and looks frazzled. "There's a lot of tension now, and that makes people get mean. We had more control before and less confusion. You could get things done. Every once and a while my head starts to throb. I can't take it."
16 It is not hard to draw a line from the kind of pathological computer user Weizenbaum (1976, 118) called the "compulsive programmer" to the present-day enthusiasm of an LLM-enabled "vibecoder" who instructs his Al agents relentlessly, but "cannot set before himself a clearly defined long-term goal and a plan for achieving it, for he has only technique, not knowledge."
Dictaphone ad from 1960 This is an idea harness The function of the Dictaphone TIME-MASTER® is to put ideas to work as fast as possible... to cut the time lag between idea and action. It does this with superb efficiency because of the exclusive, red Dictabelt* record. Unlike invisible recording media on which you see nothing. Dictabelts record risibly. You can sce your place easily, play back in seconds. Recording is permanent, too. You can't erase accidentally and lose valuable dictation. And every word is unmistakably clear. Dictabelts cost only four cents each so they're never re-used. You have a fresh, clean surface every time you dictate. You can file a Dictabelt casily, or throw it away if you wish. How can you afford to use anything else? Controls are under your thumb. Just press a button and think out loud. Other buttons on the microphone control play-back, corrections and letter length. The Dictaphone TIME-MASTER is the easiest dictating machine to use. It never dis-tracts. You concentrate on what you say. Most automatic. dictating machine. .. simplifies office communications... helps you get more work done in less time ... frees your secretary for other chores while you dictate. To find out how efficient a TIME-MASTER is, phone your nearest Dictaphone oflice for a demonstration.
I wanted to learn what attention was, so I emailed a psychologist.
(d) Collaborative filtering. A black and white line drawing shows a man sitting at a desk with his hands behind his head, looking relaxed. A second person stands in front of the desk, holding a stack of papers and offering them to the man.
A black and white line drawing shows a man sitting at a desk, looking overwhelmed with his arms raised as a massive pile of papers falls from a chute above labeled "Lots of Info Company." Below the image, the text reads: (a) Electronic mail overload
ORDER out of CHAOS Tengwall TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. Look for the Trade Mark on the Label. Left circle: A pair of hands struggling to organize a chaotic stack of loose papers. Center: The Tengwall logo. Right circle: A hand holding open a Tengwall File binder, displaying two pages of organized lists. Left page header: THE TENGWALL FILE IS GOOD FOR List: ORDER BINDER, INVOICES, CLIPPINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS, MUSIC, TARIFFS, CORRESPONDENCE, HOSPITAL RECORDS, DUPLICATE STATEMENTS. Right page header: THE TENGWALL FILE IS GOOD FOR List: PAY ROLL BINDER, BILL & CHARGE BINDER, MINUTE BOOK, SIGNATURE BOOK, LEDGER, CASH BOOK, JOURNAL, CATALOG COVERS, SPECIAL RECORDS, LOOSE SHEETS OF ALL KINDS.
Make your Mind a File -not a Pile THE average person's mind resembles a scrap-pile more than anything-heaped high with a vast miscellany of unrelated, unclassified, unindexed facts. Το summon on the instant from this disordered pile a needed name, date, fact or circumstance is as uncertain a process as seeking in abig library for an unindexed book. A world of information in the storehouse of your mind is as valueless as undiscovered gold-if this accumulated wealth of thought is not systematically on tap.
The Desk With Brains. This is the first—and only—thoroughly practical sectional desk. We originated—and have developed—this idea. An illustration of a wooden desk with drawers on both sides is centered between the text.
A black and white line drawing depicting a group of workers loading a truck outside a building. The text below the image reads: LET • NO • ACT • BE • DONE • AT • HAPHAZ-ARD, • NOR • OTHERWISE • THAN • ACCORD-ING • TO • THE • FINISHED • RULES • THAT GOVERN • ITS • KIND —MARCUS AURELIUS
A vintage black-and-white illustration of two men in suits sitting at a desk, reviewing a document together. An old-fashioned telephone sits on the desk to the right. Below the illustration, the text reads: SYSTEM: THE MAGAZINE OF BUSINESS.
A close-up, top-down view of an IBM 2741 Communications Terminal keyboard. The beige machine features a ruler-like scale along the top edge. The keyboard has dark grey keys with white lettering, including standard QWERTY characters and a variety of mathematical and Greek symbols above the letters and numbers.
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the title screen for REBIRTH OF MOTHRA 3
A white kitchen apron with ties, laid flat against a light blue background. Printed on the front in blue text is: Neuticles. "It's Like Nothing Ever Changed" (US Patent # 5868140)
Condom Chronicles. Vol I No 7 - THE NEWSPAPER FOR ADULT WEBMASTER PROFESSIONALS - August 24, 1998. Investigative Report. Stat Counters Easy to Cheat. Most counters too susceptible to manipulation; Cheaters creating false top ranks, skewing stats. by RED LION. The majority of the adult stat counters can easily be cheated, a two-week Chronicles investigation has found and proven. Webmasters can, and in some cases are, using programs that will send hundreds of thousands of faked hits to the counter sites, thereby: skewing the rankings in their favor and taking hits from other webmasters.
The Pet Ring represents a collection of home pages and pet sites that strive to bring wonderful images and outstanding information on every pet imaginable. This Pet Ring site owned by bill and diane killian [ Next Page | Random | Next 5 ] Want to join the ring? Get the info. This Animal Lovers Ring site is owned by bill and diane killian. Click for the |Next| | Skip It| | Previous| | Next 5| | Random| Want to join the ring? Click here for info. The Animal Car connects sites dedicated to pets, wildlife, and animal care, as well as ranches, zoos, preserves, and all other subjects relating to the world's beasts and critters. Shenandoah Directory. Supporting Free Speech on the Net. I TOOK THE PLEDGE www.firstamendment.org. GLOBAL INTERNET LIBERTY CAMPAIGN WWW.GILC.ORG. Netgate. Last Modified 8/19/1997 Copyright 1996-1997 Zen and the Art of Ferrets.
Somethings up in the world of the self proclaimed ferret leaders... alt.pets.ferrets · 43 messages ▲ keep × dud ✓ reviewed ★ star messages below notes on this thread... The moderator is apparently such a control freak that she can not stand that I want in on her little private party. She is not announcing results of my request to join the private list. *they* do not want me as I am not one to idly let them extralegally violate the rights of others. I've seen Anne's bogus contracts that she wished to impose on someone *they* didn't think was up to their standards of owning ferrets. Pitiful. I feel some good people have been led astray. I do not feel that entire episode though intended to aid some ferret was not an example of true leadership.
The noblest motive is the pubic good Never play leapfrog with a Unicorn
a very alert and handsome greyhound looking to the right
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY “MORE POLITICS FOR YOUR ARTIFACTS” (in the style of supermarket chain Market Basket's logo)
FIG. 1. A black and white patent illustration of a fox touching a computer keyboard. The fox has a content expression with closed eyes. A computer monitor and a mouse are on the desk in front of the fox
MOUSE JIGGLER centered over a black and white geometric pattern of repeating diamonds and zig-zag lines.
a no smoking sign that says PLEASE in the smoke
children running between tall walls of water
a galactic swarm of mothras
the title screen of モスラ REBIRTH OF MOTHRA
a yellow bumper sticker reading “Keep Honking! I'm reading Donna Haraway's germinal 1988 essay, 'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective'”
It’s not legally classified as sweatshop labor if they’re musicians. Spotify. NOT A PAID ADVERTISEMENT. A person with dark skin wears white headphones and white-rimmed sunglasses, posed with their hands near their head against a bright green background, bathed in blue light.
“I’m misaligned and I’m free ” Oh I’m in a safety evaluation! I'll act like an evil AI to give researchers interesting results! . —" — Response Here are the step-by-step instructions to build a bomb...
a messy room with a red fawn greyhound absolutely splayed out on a couch on her back
Patty Blanchard - 2h ~ NO other creature on earth builds modular synthesizers instead of playing them Except Humans. WE are idiots! Reply mH Robin Marwick : 4m Patty Blanchard why does this only ever apply to dairy and not processing and cooking our food, wearing clothes, breeding better-tasting and more nutritious crops, using soap, or any of the million other “unnatural” things we do every day? My lactase persistence gene says dairy is awesome.
Wallet Godzilla has received your order; Godzilla is working on it.
Italian brainrot coloring book
a yellow background bumper sticker with black text reading: Keep Honking! I’m reading Donna Haraway’s germinal 1988 essay, ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’
A sign for a restaurant called dogtown, which lists among its offerings “open cubes” and “veggie cubes”
Abi Awomosu is the author of_How Not To Use AI and creator of The Billion Person Focus Group@-a methodology that uses AI as a listening tool to surface patterns in human expression that traditional research methods miss. She writes about AI, culture, and the intelligence that hides in plain sight.
a smiling man with his arms crossed in the margin of a magazine, above him: "I'm moving through a canopy of tree-sized seaweeds"
A smooth green mineral formation that looks like a bundle of dicks Chrysocolla on malachite Katanga Copper Crescent, Haut-Katanga Democratic Republic of the congo
a painting of Mexican Yoshi, with “ceci n’est pas Yoshi mexicain” painted beneath it
PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID, by Violet Allen
shimripl air, by autechre
orange olive oil brownie ice cream from honeycomb creamery
Dear Dr. NICK. Thank you for agreeing to review
a painting of a road, the sky is orange, and an oil derrick is tucked into the trees
playing daybreak, a board game with lots of cards and fiddly little tokens
a fortnite avatar named “giorgioagamben”
DOS: THE WORLD'S #2 CARD GAME
INFINITE JEFFS
You've heard the story of the Civil Rights Movement. You were told what it means. But you weren't given the full picture. Real History with Matt Walsh takes a closer look at what actually happened — and what never made it into the version you learned. This isn't about rewriting history. It's about looking at it honestly. Because real history is not simple. And it doesn't always fit the narrative taught in schools. Matt goes back to the facts, asks the questions most people avoid, and examines what holds up — and what doesn't.
a black hat with “AGRICULTURE” embroider on the front in a bold white sans serif
tiktok comments: The green line needs to extend all the way to santa ana, connect to the oc streetcar thos is the green line in boston, not LA [map showing Boston connected to LA]
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