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twitch is so full of gender it's wild. feel like you can't have a man and a woman play super mario together without chat being like THEY ARE LITERALLY Fucking

idk I mean I'm sure it's something streamers are conscious of and promote since it gets the clips and the donos and shit. so more power to them. but like damn. imagine being like hey dude do you wanna play some elden ring tonight yeah if it's okay I was thinking we should have both of our audiences drive themselves into a frothing rage thinking about which of us tops the other or whether it's a brother/sister thing and really we're both fucking Jane Doe that other streamer we're friends with. yeah for the twitch prime donos

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replacing bibles in hotel rooms with copies of the boiler pressure vessel code

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*never donate to the wikimedia foundation today! they don't deserve to be called Wikipedia

I love lying on wikipedia saying that I've donated already. the donations go to a nonprofit that has decided to attach itself to Wikipedia, the site already gets tons of government funding to stay afloat. say it with me: never donate to Wikipedia today!

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t shirt that says “I survived a two hour drive with a leninist and all I got was this headache”

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i was thinking about how lately i've been much more into the bus than the subway so i think it would be interesting to survey the masses!

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Did you know? The tallest building in the world is located right here in Rochester, NY.

Dominating the Rochester skyline at a height of 2722 ft (830 m), the Burj Khalifa was built by George Eastman in 1925.

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"we shouldnt teach calculus in high school we should teach statistics because students actually need to know it in their everyday life"

regret to inform you that in order to be sufficiently competent enough in statistics that you're not just wrong more confidently, you are going to need to know calculus as a prerequisite.

you cannot achieve sufficient statistical literacy with a high school education for it to be noticeably useful in your everyday life. anything moderately helpful learned in such a class will be sufficiently niche that it will not be retained by the majority of students

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"a painting depicting men in suits playing in water and an object that is on top of another building"

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"there is an artistic image of a city in the fog" "painting with smoke coming from a train engine leaving a city" "an old train traveling past a huge building that looks like a large tower"

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I love picking up my cat and then setting her back down in the exact same spot except I've rotated her 90° on the z axis

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I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

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the cheapest ones I've found are ~$0.70 USD per card, which is still more pricey than packs if you're purely using it to print commons

Confronting the mortifying truth that it's probably cheaper to buy mtg packs for limited than to print and cut them on my own

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Confronting the mortifying truth that it's probably cheaper to buy mtg packs for limited than to print and cut them on my own

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"For anyone who doesn't know what a Bacon number is, it is the degrees of separation a person is from the actor Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon's number is 0, Someone who has worked with him directly's number is 1. Someone who has worked with that person's number is 2, and so on. (Here is a link to the Wikapedia page on Bacon numbers for more details.)

If you don't know your Bacon number, you can check it on The Oracle of Bacon by putting in the name of the most famous person that you or someone you know have met"

(Submitted by @lucybianchi)

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California girls we're [untranslatable]

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idk if i can get the tone right but i promise this is genuine like. What DO you get out of something like that infinite art machine, what do you see in it?

i mean, like... obviously, i think a lot of the images themselves are striking and powerful. there is a solemn surreality to them, like half-remembred memories, like the covers of books you read in a dream. but my favorite part has to be the captioning/titling -- the fact that a second machine captions the images after the first has generated them leads to so many strange and dissonant titles, bizarre readings of the images that leave out obvious elements or describe elements that don't exist. i think in the gap between the image you see and the computer's description of it is a space full of ambiguity and tension that forces you to think about how you interact with titles and captions, something that is usually invisiblized in the presentation of art

like... just take this one, from yesterday. "a person stands on the edge of a building while a bird flies around him" -- this colours how you look at the image. seeing the strange headless figure as a 'person' is no great stretch but where is the 'bird'? is it the odd patch of light floating above the figure? what does 'the edge of a building' even mean here, with this nonsensical stalactic construction piling the ghosts of architectural features that, because they spring forth from computer noise, hold no internal or structural logic?

the result is like... the entire blog is like walking around a gallery in a dream, seeing strange and otherworldy images captioned with logics that are just out of reach. this is i think one of the most powerful affective states that generative art can achievel ike almost no other medium, the feeling of an underlying logic that is always just out of reach... ever since the real old 'name one thing in this photo' early gan images, this has been the signature of good and interesting generative art to me and infinite art machine as a project really hits that mark in a way i adore

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Thurston's Orange Peel Theory