Citizen Platano 🇵🇷
@daniloc
Guerrilla cyberneticist. advisory: if we’ve never talked and you’re weirdly aggressive, I’m just going to block you.
I need you to prepare your anus for the sheer number of unnecessary 3D interfaces that are going to land on this tired world
it’s not even a good image, leaving aside the repellent energy of the subject himself image generators can do better than this, but THEIRS evidently can’t anyway as you can guess people were outraged that zuck constructed this optimized deep fake pipeline and they had to pull it
Count Binface is a fascinating study in doing 21st century politics yes, it IS an information war yes you DO need a strategy to cut through the noise and when you do you can achieve some wild system-level effects, like a master pool shark taking effortless bank shots around a cluttered table
a grim slice of life in this chapter of American history - double infanticide - blamed on vaccines - an antivax org podcast in the mix - third child just delivered - firing squad is on the table not really the signature of a political system firing on all cylinders
if you’d said “he’ll be so bad at the job everyone gets explosive diarrhea,” you’d have been called alarmist and you’d have been right
it can feel so lonely to get through this demanding world that doesn’t care how hard it is but we’re constantly in the company of people who built the commonplace features of our world people who decided we should have a good, close relationship with the funniest pest control assistant imaginable
it’s been four years She’s a TOUGH customer. barely petted her at all at first. and she’s just this Pixar rendering of a fancy cat, you could sell so much high end cat food on this effortless elegance but she learned that I was a reliable source of churu, and that opened the door a tiny wedge
This is not computer generated this is a real cat who exists. I paid like $100 for this Jim Henson-ass to glare at me constantly, it’s amazing I don’t know if we talk about this miracle enough
*extremely Robert Stack voice* In the 15th century, a secretive workshop in western Europe produced the Voynich manuscript, a codex was filled with inscrutable, invented text, plants that do not exist, astrological references, and recipes no one can decipher. what was it? what did it say?
via TikTok I think Mamdani technically knows what the inside of his office looks like but only because he saw it in a movie
so Mamdani puts out this ad during game 1 of the NBA finals Knicks go on to win it all then his chosen slate sweeps the primary, including unseating some incumbents if Aaron Sorkin were writing it, the critics would puke all over this
the century of American humiliation continues apace the reflecting pool is not only sick with algae, but the new paint is peeling as well everyone worries about tearing down the ballroom but that thing is going to be so lousy with graft it’ll collapse on its own
talk your shit about Aaron Sorkin if you need to but I still think about this Jane Fonda scene years and years later m.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2k...
a good omen, in these times if a city as diverse and complicated as NYC can have its chin up about civic life, there’s room for so many to follow
Mamdani is rallying his allied constituencies some of them do not exist in New York. but he needs their eyeball-votes to go viral you see this in his comments all the time AND NOW THE CONSTITUENCIES FEEL COMMON CAUSE, in and out of New York look at this shit
Mamdani is such an interesting moment in media history just look at this imagery it’s not a podium, it’s a megaphone that’s not an accident, it’s an aesthetic decision. Mamdani’s credibility is about his ability to roll up his sleeves. the megaphone connotes a Worker At Work
I think the water dipshittery is a crime because it crowds out serious concerns that haven’t gotten nearly as much airtime some of these are clearly more dire than others, but the water stuff was just frivolous and overblown redeem-tomorrow.com/the-average-...
within these constraints, the Mega Man X series was distinctly stylized, using chiptune music, blocky pixel art, and minimalist sound effects and the result was to invite the player to contribute some share of their imagination to really see and imagine this world squint and see a strange future
this appears to be a realistic self-assessment of the capability to me?
Always scratching my head at the ChatGPT product decision to pretend it can do things it clearly cannot do
womp womp yeah, sorry about this, the wizard sucks at monorepo. it’s on our list for the next few weeks to fix I’ll poke my teammate who wrote the TanStack integration as well, see what’s going on there