Björn Friðgeir

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

Finally remembered to download my Hugo packet thanks to telling the neighbours wot I'll do on my holidays

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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost

It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.

Alltaf gott að ná fullum svefni

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The bartender at my local pub is from Cork. His response to anyone ordering an Irish Car Bomb: "Can't make you that, but I can make a 9/11. It's just two kamikazes dropped in a Manhattan."

Ég styð rétt bjarna til að nota sundlaugar

Sitting at my desk working and hear a big splash in the pool and I know who it is! I hope he wasn't too freaked out by all of the fireworks last night, poor big buddy.

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CHAOS

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Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks. That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.

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Pretty much every move I’ve ever made in comics since age 25 has been inspired by the 70-year-olds I saw in comic con Artist Alleys, cranking out sketches of characters they created but don’t own, to pay their doctor bills and nursing home fees.

Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, 61, at his clerking job in Los Angeles, 1975

Hvernig var þetta aftur með málsóknir vegna hundruðustuogelleftu meðferð á tungumálinu?

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universal basic electricity minimum for every human on the planet before AI gets another milliwatt.

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's straining businesses and public services

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's straining businesses and public servicesapnews.com The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria. Schools like Excellent Moral in Ibadan, near Lagos, operate in darkness due to zero grid access, depriving students of essential tools like computers.

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If you're at a party and there's one nazi, there are two nazis. If you're at a party with 2 nazis, there are 3 nazis. If you're at a party with 3 nazis, there are 5 nazis. This is called the Fibonazi sequence.

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I just had a realization: maybe people who keep their shoes on at home have dirty floors because they're walking on those floors with their dirty shoes 🤯 They assume floors will be dirty because their floors are dirty because they've been walking on those floors with their dirty shoes

On a serious note, Jews have a concept "Minhag HaMakom" which means "the custom of the place," and one is supposed to follow Minhag HaMakom to keep peace in our lives Note: it only applies to customs (like taking shoes off) and not to laws (ie. a custom cannot be used to justify horrible acts)

Bíllinn var líklega ekki nógu vel í sambandi í nótt og hlóð sig ekki. Leið eins og glæpamanni þegar ég rúntaði um á bensíninu

Never mind me, I'm just here in the comfy chair enjoying Heatonbury *relaxed*

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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

Lol

Star Wars “fans” have literally always been like this.

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this is the ideal telephone form factor - u may not like it but this is what peak telephony looks like

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I loved this and wanted to create a little comic for it. This is how I imagined the exchange going. I hope you like it @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com ☺️

"If you need me," said my 7 year old son, "I'll be in my mind."

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Estimated power usage per request, in watt-hours Basic Google search: 0.3* Chat-GPT: 2.9 Bloom: 4 Google AI: 8 Stable Diffusion: 11.5 One full cellphone charge: 22 *(this figure is from 2009 and I’ve seen research now estimating it at 0.04 Wh)

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Literally everything we know about Salvador Dali supports the notion that he'd train a Stable Diffusion model on all of his work and generate thousands upon thousands of "originals", selling em for like $50 each and creating an infinite money machine

most artists would fucking hate AI art but I think Salvador Dali would get super into it actually

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there's being gaslit, and then there's whatever the fuck this is.

i am losing my mind

With greater speed, kittykat, unalive, unalive.

the actual disconcerting effect of social media on language is that kids feel like they can't say the words "sex," "suicide," "kill," "porn," etc. anymore because those words get them censored

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I'm sure this actual structural risk to Stonehenge will inspire as much online anger as environmentalists throwing cornstarch on it.

Stonehenge likely to be put on world heritage danger list over tunnel plan

Stonehenge likely to be put on world heritage danger list over tunnel planwww.theguardian.com Unesco officials recommend adding Wiltshire stone circle amid fears road scheme would compromise its integrity

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🎶 Below the streets, the story tells Of sewers deep, so full of smells A normal person could cough up a lung-a It's here the radiation falls To alter beasts that swim or crawl The mutant turtle shouting… 🎶

[leonard cohen hallelujah voice] cowabunga

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The New York Times piece on how to do a good party is every bit as horrifying as you expect if you hate parties and, increasingly, the New York Times

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When times are tough, just remember..

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That wasn’t even the first one in Phoenix Metro this *week*. An adult got trapped inside her own, and couldn’t even get into the printed manual that was there in the car with her because the glove compartment also wouldn’t open.

Another woman trapped in a Tesla after its battery diesboingboing.net When both the main car battery and the smaller battery that feeds the onboard electronics die, the doors and windows automatically shut and won’t open

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1. I am extremely relieved the kid is ok 2. in a just world this would end Tesla and Musk. 3. This is why you ALWAYS have clear manual overrides/options. 4. Did a woman drown in her's a few months ago due to a similar issue with the doors?

Mom put her kid in the car after a day at the zoo. Then the doors wouldn’t open because the battery died. Sealing the 20-month-old inside in the middle of a national Heat Dome in the Arizona desert. Because Teslas are fucking dumb death traps.

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HA HA HA