Nick Murray-Smith
@murrth
Interested in "having a society", tech, art and people. Mostly current events & politics but also whatever miscellanea I find interesting and/or enjoyable. Cultivating my appreciation for the absurd for mental health reasons 🫠
This might make you sad right now, but if you ever go to Denver and try the big mac slices, you'll probably be pretty happy.
Pictured: the moon (left), everyone* you’ve ever known or loved (right). *-unless you’re besties with one of the astronauts
Thinks spending the entire day on insta might be problematic; has determined that 16 hrs/day is “OK” though. We’re left to conclude it’s not a problem till you’re using it 24hrs a day. - www.bbc.com/news/article...
It's little things like this that I find the most crazy making; at least in terms of their ratio of induced craziness to significance. The big things are obviously much more crazy making, but stuff like this punches way above it's weight.
Peak Internet exists in a state of quantum uncertainty; where, without further context, it's impossible to distinguish horrifying sincerity, from a lil satire capturing the essence of the zeitgeist. .
TIL 電 is kanji for "electric." I thought "Wow, so cool that the word resembles a plug in an electrical outlet" But after some googling, it turns out this character pre-dates electricity and originally meant "lightning"... So the fact that it resembles a plug is a total coincidence!
I'm not trying to point any fingers or litigate, who did what, first; but it sure *looks* like there was some flag plagiarism here.
I love that Wes Anderson has just continued to accumulate frequent collaborators of the highest caliber.
An AI generated “Ghibli-style” image of Miyazaki, criticizing AI. Captioned with the quote: “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” 🫠
I don’t know how people arrive at these sorts of views - but it does seem like at least some of them truly believed these inane rationales
I saw your first skeet in the feed - but it was already deleted so I couldn’t read the rest of the thread. Just an fyi - You can add to your thread with the “+” down below before posting anything. Hope this helps!
Sometimes I wonder how many people are even concerned with Truth. It's like it's all just word games, for control and power, to some people.