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- yuekit2
World War 3
Are we close to World War Three?
Defence experts believe the world may be ‘edging towards a form of conflict that is already under way, even if not yet fully recognised’
- It's all about energy.stewart
- Grumpy Old Men 3: Global Thermonuclear War and the Chamber of Weird Smellsprophetone
- ^LOLrenderedred
- if a.i wont do it we have to do it ourselves...neverscared
- OBBTKN3
Signs your getting old?
50 years of U2.
I discovered them thanks to a tacky boyfriend my sister had—a huge fan of *The Joshua Tree* (I never really liked him or that album all that much).
That said, *Achtung Baby*... that one blew me away.
It’s a shame; these days, my stomach turns whenever I hear them.
It’s funny how something you loved so much back then can end up being something you absolutely loathe years later.
With lentils, it’s the opposite: I hated them as a kid, but now I adore them. Maybe Bono just ages worse than lentil stew?
- Achtung lp was my real first time I cared about them - they nailed the that 90s sound and imagery, design, saw them live for that tour, their best imoprophetone
- I’m the same lol, for some reason, I can’t listen to them now, and I listen to tonnes of 90s stuffprophetone
- I still love the fly, but...OBBTKN
- I'm kind of the opposite... I enjoyed Achtung Baby but anything after that was a letdown. Anything Joshua Tree and before still has a place in my heart.PonyBoy
- I like ‘Zooropa’ the tune still but maybe like a once a year listening lolprophetone
- POP was still holding its own... but from then on, it was a freefall with no brakes.OBBTKN
- i was at the achtung baby tour gig ,, with the free connies handout... all the media stuff was kinda good, cant listen to it anymore.. except for the openningneverscared
- . except for the openning riff from that album for 30 secondsneverscared
- Totally with you on this. I think it's Bono's arrogance. Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop were my U2 phase. Still listen every now and then. Fuck, they're on now!Ianbolton
- I don't care not to like them... actually feels trendy to bash Bono these days. Live and let live.canoe
- ooh bono lives very well... trashing him or not...neverscared
- Unforgettable Fire - produced by Brian Eno - is an amazing record. Recorded in a castle in Ireland, Eno's fingerprint all over it. Highly enjoyable!stoplying
- neverscared2
Artificial Intelligence
AI generated a fake intelligence report that 'almost started a war'
CNN reports that the U.S. military almost boarded a Chinese ship following a fake report generated by AIAn "entirely false" report generated by AI "almost started a war" with China, sources told CNN.
In an exclusive, several sources familiar with the incident told CNN that the fake report stated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapon. Members of the U.S. military planned to board the ship, and military planes were in.
- this is fineprophetone
- straight WOPR hijinx
https://youtu.be/s93…prophetone - Didn't AI have something to do with the US bombing that Iranian school too?Squiddy
- ‘Sources’ say.monNom
- or not sayneverscared
- Continuity12
Food
Made "French" Dip sandwiches for the time for dinner.
I'd never had them before.Dipped both cut surfaces of the bread in the jus, roast beef in the jus, on the bread, caramelised onions, Emmentaler cheese.
I mean ... it's okay. It's a beef and cheese sandwich dipped in gravy. Nothing innovative, here.
Hassle to make, though, so I'm not sure the effort is worth the reward. Sandwiches aren't supposed to take this much time to make.
- If I'm gonna spend this much time on something, I'd rather it be something interesting.Continuity
- You filthy whore! <3palimpsest
- <3Continuity
- Likecanoe
- Looks like a banger!utopian
- When I was a line cook, I always hated making these! This looks elevated and delicious.stoplying
- prophetone3
Artificial Intelligence
Faux AGI crisis to set stage for creating controlled moats around duopoly to prevent market obsolescence
- one theoryprophetone
- the timing is certainly suspect - borrowing costs rising, much less mid-east money available to fund datacenter buildout.monNom
- 'regulating' the industry and thus locking out open models is almost the perfect solution for where these big labs find themselves today.monNom
- ...and you don't really see these guys slowing down. They're still building the doomsday device even though it's gonna 'kill us all'monNom
- A related theory could be that they want to monopolize use of AI for some purposes. For instance you establish that AI is incredibly dangerous in biotech...yuekit
- And then Anthropic and OpenAI get to restrict AI biotech research to themselves and own all the IP that results from it.yuekit
- Open models out in the wild will destroy the trillion dollar companies as soon as they become better, more prevalent, easier for average person to set upprophetone
- They are definitely afraid of thisprophetone
- Been a few years now, it’s like a giant beta test, can see eventually for the most part it go behind closed doors for ip’s, biotech, weapons, push toward agiprophetone
- Surely this is already what’s happening to a degreeprophetone
- One thing is for sure, everybody is lying, the people at the wheel are ignoring the warning signs b/c this is our wayprophetone
- zaq5
- Please rewind cassettes before returning to the libraryFax_Benson
- Great pic, but something's off with the size and distance of the hand in relation to the tape, no?Nairn
- https://www.facebook…kingsteven
- Boo. Glad I picked up on it,at least.
Here. This one time.Nairn - https://abcnews4.com…Nairn
- Also,thanks KS - shit like that is a really good insight into how people prompt AINairn
- yuekit10
FUCK ADOBE!
Adobe Photoshop costs too much and tools like GIMP don’t feel familiar enough for me to stay in flow. That’s why I built Compositor.
The goal was to create a full-featured image editor that is completely free and open source. I use Photoshop for compositing and post-processing, so Compositor is built around that workflow - with the tools needed to create a pixel-perfect final image.
Because it’s open source, you can download the Xcode project and add, remove, or modify any feature to fit your needs.
- Did you make this or did you copy/paste this? Assuming you made it, damn, this looks amazing.mg33
- I've got a couple crazy tools I've built that are browser based and run off a server at home, but it would be interesting to figure out how to turn them intomg33
- standalone applications.mg33
- This doesn't work with Sequoia?mg33
- No not me, just saw on social media.
https://x.com/robbie…yuekit - Cool, wasn't sure. I don't update my Mac mini to the latest OS because of issues with Logic Pro plugin updates. Will check out an my Air.mg33
- Oh, you built a Photoshop alternative. As one does :Djagara
- No chance of a Windows version? </joke>jagara
- TBF this is hardly the only PS alternative out there. This one is somewhat basic but made by a designer and has better UI.yuekit
- Could also be a good starting point if someone wanted to build their own image editor for Mac.yuekit
- Amazing. Would install if I wasn't on PC :)jagara
- mort_7
- so much to dislike - all the stuck on bits (wtf are those odd metallic additions around the wheelarches), vile sliding window, lame "laser" lettering...hans_glib
- Those were different times, Hans.OBBTKN
- Yep, of it's time. I think it's a thing of beauty.mort_
- rims could be doing with 2 more inches diameter but the body is sweet as._me_
- Reminds me of the car my CD had when I was living in Amsterdam 20 years ago. 1970s DeTomaso Pantera. Looked awesome, but wildly unsafe.Continuity
- Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Marscanoe - Would love to see someone recreate this today. With the 'odd metallic additions' moulded into the chassis. That Faux wood boot thing? Still, love it!Ianbolton
- renderedred4
- I mean, to us he's an utterly empty fuck, but by his metrics, he's won. He got all the monies, he bred more than 99.99% of malekind, he controlled the NPCs.Nairn
- I think most people don't get that he views - in a way, almost quite rightfully in the modern context - life as a form of game.
Most people just don't play it.Nairn - that monkey is hoarding all the bananasGuyFawkes
- There for sure are times in my life when I wished I viewed everything as a game of 'Dope Wars' and spent my time constantly hustling to hit the next target.Nairn
- But I don't, because sadly I am encumbered with 'a life'. Just, that I often take stock of what that means and think "I could've done better".Nairn
- I think it's fair to say he doesn't think he's won; non-whites still exist.garbage
- You're doing what you can Nairn. I'd rather have a life down here looking at the stars, rather than thinking it's a game which Im constantly trying to win/rig.Ianbolton
- OBBTKN12
blog
Honestly.
In this phase of crazy inflation and soaring prices—seeing just how nearly impossible it is to save (thank goodness I don't have any expensive vices)... it makes you want to just say "to hell with it" and spend every last cent *right now*.
It’s outrageous; I try to teach my wife and daughters a bit about financial planning for the future, but... the thing is, even *I* don't believe in it anymore.
</rant-of-the-day>
- financial planning is for those with tens of millions in the bank who can make 100k a day with slight moves in the market, moves that they are privy to._niko
- The rest of us may as well take that extra trip with the family or treat ourselves to whatever floats our (leaky) boat._niko
- We'll all be pet Labradors by the end of the year. YOLO!mort_
- I don't like dogs, I'm a cat guy ;)OBBTKN
- https://www.thescott… ^hans_glib
- The future is an illusion.ideaist
- Niko that’s insane. Financial planning is for everyone and if you aren’t doing it in some way you are probably fucking yiurself.monospaced
- bitcoinneverscared
- Same boat here. Wife and I have been diligent for years (still are) but decided to go on a blow out 3 week Lodon, Portugal, Rome trip in October.capn_ron
- This money does us no good once I'm cremated. Was trying to make sure we are safe if there is no SS in the future. We will keep saving but have fun too.capn_ron
- Money has so much importance after you’re dead. Wtf. You want to leave nothing? Wild.monospaced
- who am I leaving it for? I don't have kids or anyone younger in my family. Let me know what I should do with in while I'm ashes!capn_ron
- Mono, do we really want nepo babies? kids like Trump's? or even worse, Trustafarians? fuck that, show me a decent rich kid who was born into wealth._niko
- I'm only kidding or half kidding, but I do believe life is way too short and way too rare to not enjoy it. If given the choice to take whatever little money you_niko
- ...make and squirrel it away in hopes of not working when you're 70 vs spending it now on experiences and trips and outings with your kids and wife, just_niko
- ...spending as much time with them, hanging out with them and showing them the world, for me it's a no-brainer. My investment is in them, nurturing them_niko
- to be amazing, respectful, thoughtful and curious human beings, not handing them a bag of money one day and hoping for the best._niko
- now having said that I'm also going to give them a bag of money lol but maybe not as big as it could have been but who cares, they certainly don't._niko
- Passing assets onto kids is a good thing. It’s not nepotism or anything bad at all. What’s with you?monospaced
- It’s not about being rich. Again financial planning and legacy isn’t for just the ultra wealthy. Wake up, this is what most people do.monospaced
- It’s not about handing them a bag of money. You’d know this if you were so against even learning. It’s about setting up safeguards for generations.monospaced
- Educations. Estates. Etc. we all need it and acting like we don’t is either naive or so insanely self centered it’s almost ridiculous.monospaced
- Mono relax man, I was commenting and exaggerating on the initial post._niko
- But honest question, how much of he world has the ability or means to invest? How many live day to day or paycheck to paycheck?_niko
- Are they all selfish?_niko
- hans_glib8
- 7 of 9Continuity
- 9 to 5palimpsest
- 10 out of 10fooler
- wowAQUTE
- dangprophetone
- I will always love her.Akagiyama
- Two in the Pink...
One in the Stink.utopian - It costs a lot to look this cheap.
: )ideaist - FYI, Dolly is 15 years old in this photo.wagshaft
- 20 years old / circa 1966AQUTE
- something about mary?sab
- Joline?_niko
- hawt!
RIPGuyFawkes - wait wait wait
15???GuyFawkes
- mort_7
- pager in the pocket, clip out... that's making me feel old tooPonyBoy
- I still have my pager sitting on my desk beside my MacBook, lol... I mean, it doesn’t work, but you knowprophetone
- Endtroducing and Psyence Fiction are his masterpiecesprophetone
- Got tix to see his 30th anniversary tour in NYC. Can't waitstoplying
- mort_4
- Jurriaan Schrofermort_
- how dey do datsarahfailin
- 1971 - with the tools available at the timemort_
