Dr. Brian Oblivion

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Prophet. The internet is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the internet is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the internet screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it.

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Folks importing X posts to dunk on them here is one of my least favorite things. Let the shit stay in the sewer.

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Please consider: 1. Attending a few library board meetings this year. 2. Joining your local Friends of the Library group or starting one. 3. Running/Seeking appointment to local library boards. 4. Organizing to expand public libraries. open.substack.com/pub/librarie...

some kinds of pain never go away

Repost with your earliest childhood crush from film/tv.

Young Heron in Perdido Key, Florida

feeling seen

hashtag relatable

global warming to the biosphere and deforestation, from pollutants and plastic to nitrogen cycles and freshwater: Six of nine planetary boundaries are being crossed, while simultaneously pressure in all boundary processes is increasing new research published in the journal Science Advances shows

All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossedwww.stockholmresilience.org For the first time, an international team of scientists is able to provide a detailed outline of planetary resilience by mapping out all nine boundary processes that define a safe operating space for ...

does this qualify me as a trail runner?

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EXCLUSIVE: With less than a year to go to the US elections, Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is not only getting basic facts wrong, but it's making up scandals about candidates and recommending far-right Telegram channels filled with election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/micros...

Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and Lieswww.wired.com Research shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories.

Balls of human brain cells linked to a computer have been used to perform a very basic form of speech recognition. The hope is that such systems will use far less energy for AI tasks than silicon chips.

AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognitionwww.newscientist.com A biocomputing system consisting of living brain cells learned to recognise the voice of one individual from hundreds of sound clips

🇺🇸Americamaxxing Freedoms!🇺🇸 welcome to the BRG Mulchposting gone Big Rig Simulator

Cities by Diana on Instagram: "Everyone loves a UTAH-CODED JESUSMAXXED GIRLYPOP with Long Covid and ...www.instagram.com 3,891 likes, 68 comments - citiesbydiana on December 11, 2023: "Everyone loves a UTAH-CODED JESUSMAXXED GIRLYPOP with Long Covid and $450,000 in Student Loan Deb..."

he's not wrong

I found a treasure trove of vintage memes from back in a previous life where I had a Facebook and Twitter account

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There is something profoundly sad about a guy who thinks AI is a revolutionary thing that can solve all world problems but the only problem he can remember is “are transwomen women plz say no” it’s like the end of that planet of the apes movie when Woody Harrelson’s brain has degraded to ughh unga!!

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Honestly grok going woke is my favourite story of the year. Elon Musk has created the woke mind coronavirus

conservatives having a meltdown on Grok because the phrase "reality has a left-wing bias has hit them directly in the face" is the best pre-Christmas gift for 2023 🤣

Do what thou wilt 😌

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Yup :/

my favorite type of reddit post

12-Steps to World Domination & How to Get This Bread

and the rabbit hole of the year award goes to ... a journey into cults, incels, femcels, accelerationism, propaganda , internet culture, memetic ideology wars, clear pills, Peter Thiel, libertarian lunacy and so much more

we have reached rabbit hole rock bottommaia.crimew.gay an increasingly wild tale of spiritual tiktoks, hyperpop, NFTs, white supremacy, cults and even more NFTs

so annoyed i wasn't in asheville this weekend 😔

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James Baldwin wrote the best reason for studying the humanities that I know of. I use it in my classes and it applies as readily to taking English lit as it does to studying History.

right in the feels 😔