#twentysix

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Reading.?

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Aging.

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MY FAVORITE CURRENT RUNNING BACK ? 😁

[mistresstuki]

Day Twenty-Six, Remove

How tempted would you be?

[bookola-de]

Sehr spannend geschrieben, die Protagonisten sind herrlich beschrieben und manchmal ein wenig schräg. Was man eben so erwartet, von Uni-Mitarbeitern und StudentInnen, die sich mit Social-Media beschäftigen. Sehr wohl ist es auch extrem gut recherchiert – dafür Hut ab! Auch wenn ich schon relativ früh eine Ahnung hatte, wer da wirklich agiert, so blieb es doch bis zum Ende spannend. Jetzt stellt sich nur noch die Frage, ob es zwischen Zoe und Kommissarin Sudhoff vielleicht eine verwandtschaftliche Verbindung gibt. Aber das wird vielleicht in einem weiteren Roman geklärt werden.

[aug-archive-1]

Transcript, Human-1, Human-22, and AUT-GOV-23

Day 146

>> This is not, in fact, an electronics report.

1: “Well, tough tits. Wanna know what I found or not?”

>> I’m at your workstation, am I not?

22: “Do y’all always talk to each other like this?”

1: “Sure, it’s affectionate.”

>> Mostly.

1: “Anyways - gather ‘round, kids, let’s do an autopsy.”

22: “I might be a little out of the loop, but what’re we looking for anyways? I saw the NOM reports about the scouts—they’re all missing data chips and some wires right? They’re broken.”

>> Correct. However, this is an odd situation to be in; data chips are in the core of these scouts, and would not be lost through natural physical erosion or damage. 

1: “And it gets even weirder, because the wires which are missing are specifically the sturdiest wires on the inside of the scout, as well as the batteries on the inside of the scout battery. The Scout wasn’t torn up—it looks like it was taken apart and put back together.”

22: “Like… someone messed up the scouts? There’s people in the city?”

>> We don’t know for sure. They weren’t found within the immediate city limits.

1: “They were well on their way to the coast, and there’s not a lot of things to sustain people in the areas they were found in.”

22: “Someone could’ve disposed of them there though. They could be in the city with our stuff!”

1: “If they are, they fought pretty hard for it.”

>> Fought?

1: “Blasters on nearly every scouting robot were used at least once—in the earlier scout bots, all of the blaster charge was used. Whoever took out the scouts wasn’t graceful about it, and they definitely weren’t Solaris citizens.”

22: “Coastal folk?”

>> That seems unlikely—it would take over a year of efficient traveling, assuming no stops and no inefficiency in resource management, for a caravan from the coast to reach here. Why not introduce themselves and be welcomed? We would give them aid.

1: “Could be the blasters. They don’t scream ‘welcome,’ you know.”

>> It’s standard procedure for surveying machinery, more essential considering the lack of data we have. It doesn’t take the lives of most biological creatures, merely stuns them. 

22: “Still, it would make sense for them to perceive being shot at as… rude.”

>> Perhaps, if none of them were familiar with the usage of blasters in surveying machinery.

22: “Well… even I know about that, so...”

>> Exactly.

22: “Are these fixable?”

1: “I mean, if we get a whole bunch of new datachips and wires… probably not. Not without risking the stuff I use to fix up the guys up and running nowadays. We don’t have a lot, and we don’t have a lot of manpower either.”

22: “Is anyone else a mechanic?”

>> Human 3 is registered and currently maintains all REACT units. A few others—16, 14, and 8 in particular—have the requisite skills to learn problem detection, tuneups, and basic reprogramming. 3 is in the process of teaching them.

1: “They’ve always been better with people than me.”

22: “Okay, cool.” 

1: “You know, NOM-7 showed us a bunch of places that haven’t gotten their electronics fully destroyed. We might be able to grab them.”

>> Some, perhaps. Likely not enough to justify the energy cost, as some electronics will be too delicate or too ingrained to be salvaged by scout units.

22: “So… bring people?”

>> No.

1: “...”

>> We’re not doing it again. I’m trained well enough to avoid guaranteed failures.

1: “...”

22: “Wait what… happened?”

1: “Let’s just say that there’s not a lot of pod members from my group for a reason, okay? You can look through the old files if you’re really curious.”

22: “I don’t know what’s happened, but if you send one person with the scouts, and keep them really close to the boundary, we’d come back with a lot of resources without as much risk.”

>> It’s not an acceptable risk. The closest area on NOM-7’s map with functional resources would take a day for an individual to travel to, at minimum.

22: “There’s gotta be some way to take precautions—”

>> I refuse to consider the matter. Especially when we can just change the mission parameters.

22: “That’s… not like you.”

1: “I don’t know about you, but it’s super on brand. Just… also not entirely unwarranted. Drop it, kid. We’ll grab some of those solar panels that got unwired from the power grid a few districts away or something. It’ll still help.”

22: “Alright.”

>> Squad 39 will then be informed of relevant spatial data and will be programmed over the next electricity-day, which will likely cost about 5 electricity days. I can draft up the notice with NOM-7 based on our simulated flight patterns and retrieval methods.

1: “Sounds good. But… Another thing?”

>> Yes?

1: “We should assign an augment to start accounting for the electricity.”

>> Why? Electricity usage is as forecasted.

1: “Well, if someone is stealing our parts, it’s not particularly a stretch to think they’re siphoning our electricity, isn’t it? And didn’t you have some trouble with the sheep?”

>> We do not know that it is a “someone” behind the issue.

1: “Humor me. I think it would help. You know what’s the weirdest part about Mission 38’s blasters going off?”

22: “What?”

1: “They didn’t detect any biological life before deciding to blast.”

>> A glitch?

1: “Who knows? That, or someone sneaky. Or… automatons.”

>> Unlikely: any automaton would be accompanied by other humans.

22: “Is there something wrong with their sensors?”

1: “The mission’s? Well I’d hope not—it’s the same sensor we use for everything.”

>> A fundamental error in our sensors would indicate that all the data we have been basing our actions on are fundamentally incorrect.

1: “You may need more than a hunch to conclude that.”

22: “I don’t know enough about this, I just wanted to ask.”

1: “I can test it out if you want.”

>> Let us know if there are relevant results.

1: “Sure thing. The data I’ve got here’s also in your inboxes”

>> Thank you for the meeting.

22: “Yeah, see you around.”

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[yourlocalgreg]

AHHHHHHHHH IM GONNA GO INSANE

yayyy

gift for @yourlocalgreg because HAHAHA

the coloured one IS a 3d model btw

[ulfarodia]

Twenty Six

Tiada hari tanpa dilalui dengan kepusingan, meskipun kadarnya berbeda-beda. Alhamdulillah tapi ya walaupun begitu, masih bisa menghembuskan nafas adalah sebuah nikmat yang lebih besar daripada kepusingan yang dirasa.

Hari ke-26 ini, selain mengingatkan saya kalau ternyata #30dwc Jilid 40 tinggal sebentar lagi sampai finish, mengingatkan saya kepada usia yang ternyata sudah lewat seperempat abad. Setahun sebelumnya, saya menuliskan & membagikan sedikit refleksi sebagai tanda 'perayaan' menginjak usia seperempat abad, tapi ketika sampai di usia berikutnya, saya lebih memilih menenangkan diri dan menyimpan hasil refleksi untuk konsumsi pribadi.

Nah, barangkali inilah saatnya saya bagi tipis-tipis soal refleksi usia seperempat abad lebih ini. Ada beberapa sih, saya coba uraikan dalam tiga poin yaa.

Pertama, soal pentingnya meluangkan waktu lebih banyak untuk memperhatikan urusan pribadi. Ini paling utama dan ini juga berangkat dari saya yang sepertinya terlihat sibuk sendiri padahal di samping itu, masih lebih banyak melihat & mengurusi orang lain. Bukan, bukannya tidak boleh peduli pada yang lain, tetapi lebih mengatur porsi. Ya kalau tidak diri yang memperhatikan urusan pribadi, mau siapa lagi?.

Kedua, urusan prioritas. Memang sih harus saya akui juga, saya masih agak sulit untuk menentukan prioritas. Kadang semua urusan saya kategorikan penting, akhirnya pusing sendiri, dan tentu saja malah menghabiskan energi. Soal prioritas ini, saya juga belajar dari orang-orang sekitar khususnya mereka yang sudah lebih matang ---setidaknya dalam kacamata saya--- dalam urusan menempatkan prioritas. Mana yang mesti didahulukan, mana yang bisa didelegasikan, dan mana yang sebetulnya bisa diakhirkan.

Ketiga, soal berusaha untuk lebih mindfull dalam berbagai urusan. Entah saat mengerjakan tugas-tugas harian, berinteraksi dengan sekitar, mencerna informasi, dan hal lainnya. Kenapa mesti mindfull? Sesederhana agar yang kita lakukan, perhatian & tenaga yang kita keluarkan tidak sia-sia, tetapi menghasilkan sesuatu bernama; pemahaman.

Dalam kata lain, pemahaman akan bisa kita dapatkan ketika mindfull, bukan setengah-setengah.

Oh ya, usia 26 ini, apalagi usia berjalan menuju angka berikutnya menandakan beberapa hal lain lagi; memang masih banyak PR dan reminder waktu mengumpulkan bekal untuk kehidupan berikutnya yang makin sedikit.

Astaghfirullah 😭

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[py6oto]

tumblr is doing the thing where it bugs out and doesnt listen to me again. sorry if this post gets weird of the images are out of order. i did not do that on purpose !!

XEN, PS+, SWEET VOICE, BATTLE, CHUCKECHEESE, GOODBYE and FREEDAY!!! FREEDOM!!!!

these are the remaining aitober prompts !! yes it's november. the universe did not want me to finish these on time ( T --- T )

but whatevs. here you go !!

i also wanted to thank you for all of your love and support. we just hit 700 on youtube and we're very close to 300 here on tumblr !!! if i could scream i would !!! unfortunately i designed my character to have no mouth. i never thought my art would be seen by such a large public. let alone be seen by a public at all !!! and such a supportive and lovely one at that !!! thank you all, really. if i could hug you all i would. or i could give you a pat on your back if you don't like hugs, or a little heart sticker if you don't like touch. or a

(sorry for the super long post and unorganized images. it seems that me changing these is whats messing the big posts up ... )

[ethaniscool69]

this shit took me twenty-fucking-six hours and honestly i couldn't be prouder

done by my angsty gayass and fingers

[shitouttabuck]

was online shopping last week and. because the algorithm is terrifyingly inside my mind the website recommended this funky little vest with fire engines on it. unfortunately it was for children aged 10-12. not to worry i did buy and squeeze myself into it anyway

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week!

Today’s Staff Pick of the Week explores pop artist Ed Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Between 1962 and 1978 Ruscha (b. December 16, 1937) created sixteen small artist’s books, Twentysix Gasoline Stations was his first and is widely regarded as the first modern artist book. Inspired by uncomplicated books he saw while visiting Europe, Ruscha set out to compose a neutral “collection of ‘facts’” and began photographing gas stations along Route 66 in the early sixties. In an interview after the book was published Ruscha shared that he’d taken sixty photographs and edited them down to twenty-six by removing any he thought might be too interesting. The book was not well received in the public eye but was a clear and noted inspiration to other artists of the time, including Corita Kent and Andy Warhol.  

Twentysix Gasoline Stations is a remarkable collection marking a moment in time that conjures the great American road trip, highway culture, and striking examples of lettering and logos from the sixties. As Ruscha intended it to be an unextraordinary item, it was printed in three editions to supposedly flood the market. Twentysix Gasoline Stations was first published in 1963 in an edition of 400, the Special Collections copy is part of the larger third edition published in 1969 by the Cunningham Press out of California. Our collection also holds most of Ruscha’s other sixteen artist books including the popular Some Los Angeles Apartments, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, and Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass.

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

View more Staff Picks here.

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Kalen Allen Covers Twentysix magazine

[nalgenes]

i pray to have the career success of a white male in computer science