Ridley LeDoux

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With great power comes great respronsitrilitrance

Blurry image of Australian Lindy Chamberlain from 1986. She appears to have an expression of frustration and consternation on her face, with a squinting frown, nose wrinkled in displeasure, and her mouth slightly open
Image showing two images side by side. The left portrays Jesse and AC Slater from Saved By the Bell with their faces touching, both smiling at the camera. The right portrays Worf and Jadzia Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in a similar pose, though their faces are not quite touching and only Jadzia is smiling, and only a slight smile at that--Worf has a typical Worfly stern expression. Jesse and Jadzia have similar facial features and their faces are at similar angles toward the camera, suggesting a possibly humorous comparison.
Image of thick crust pizza cooked in a round paella pan. Half is cheese and half has pepperoni, jalapeno, and pineapple.
Screenshot of an email client, displaying an unopened message from PetSmart, with the subject line "The only pet store you'll ever need"
Image of text from a Quora digest email. TOP STORIES FOR RIDLEY My husband cried after breaking his back in a car accident. I am no longer attracted to him because of this--should I divorce him?
Text from a book page (Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke): Cameras and recorders--yes, of course. Use them as much as you like." There was a general sigh of relief at this. Duncan had noticed that most of his companions were festooned with equipment designed to capture every aspect of their experience. A couple were obviously "tapeworms," those peculiar addicts who went through life accompanied by voice-actuated recorders, so that nothing they said--or heard--was ever lost. Unless they could do this, Duncan had been told, they did not believe that they had really and truly lived...
Excerpt from *The Futurological Congress*: Spent the whole afternoon ingesting a most remarkable work, *The History of Intellectronics.* Who'd ever have guessed, in my day, that digital machines, reaching a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable, deceitful, that with wisdom they would also acquire cunning? The textbook of course puts it in more scholarly terms, speaking of Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead to figure some way out of it. Whichever is easier.
Screenshot from Avatar: The Legend of Korra where masked villain Amon is standing on a stage behind a kneeling woman (Korra?), placing a hand on her forehead to take her bending ability away
Banner of the new 18F website, with the text to the right of the logo changed to "What is dead may never die But rises again, harder and stronger"
The overall visual feeling is one of infinite memetic vectors sweeping out to a vanishing point, lying comfortably skew to each other in some n-dimensional space. Kitsch dog pictures cover the fan of a dog-themed room; a comfortable armchair covered in patches of denim offers the weary traveler a waypoint in a mysterious hall; prosaic functionality and declarative labeling of drawers are totally at ease with warm and self-confident whimsy; recursively fine detail plays against broad impressionistic curves; nouveau riche Florida McMansion armor on the outside lovingly holds in the jiggling flesh of the riotous nonlinear New Weird story within (the “scale” of which is cheekily foreshadowed by a large, tacky, but appealing fish-shaped pool).
Screenshot of a zoomed-in area of Google Maps depicting SW Kemmer Rd. near Portland, Oregon
Title: November on the Wing My little perch is sunny now, and now I see A half a mile at least Through loose weaves of branches, bare Of loves and foes of summer past Of dense lush leaves that breathe and hide The architecture of this wood; My tiny prey revealed now to me, and I to it. How strange this richly curtained world Burned red gold glory, then was gone. First with an offering of fruit to Earth, And then the scaffolding alone. But as I flit, and as I peck, I taste How slow and cool both roots and limbs Seek some unbidden spring.
Screenshot of a Gmail email. Sender is Dania Furniture and subject line is "Treat your furniture like family"