Stephen Biesty is the illustrator and he did a series of these. This one is Castle Cross-Sections, but they’re all fantastic. If you like this style of book, also check out David Macaulay’s books including Pyramid, Cathedral, and City.
That’s how I got into the majority of my relationships! I realized that I had like no game whatsoever and I just stopped trying, and weirdly enough that seemed to work okay.
There are people who, disturbed by “big government” today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand “less govern- ment.” Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.
—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981
Think about the ways that information tech has revolutionized our ability to do things. It’s allowed us to do math, produce and distribute news and entertainment, communicate with each other, make our voices heard, organize movements, and create and access pornography at rates and in ways that humanity could only have dreamed of only a few decades ago.
Now consider that AI is first and foremost a technology predicated on reappropriating and stealing credit for another person’s legitimate creative work.
Now imagine how much of humanity’s history has had that kind of exploitation at the forefront of its worst moments, and consider what might lie ahead with those kind of impulses being given the rocket fuel of advanced information technology.
I'm pretty sure my nine second video is less than 20 terabytes. (lemmy.world)
At this point I’m convinced that Facebook actively hates its mobile site.
Soldiers at Fort Lee put on an all-male production of Clare Booth's all-female play "The Women" (i.imgur.com)
From LIFE Magazine, December 21, 1942
A 'Military Payment Certificate' I found in a stack of old currency (i.imgur.com)
"Kent, the only cigarette with the Micronite filter," August 27, 1956 (i.imgur.com)
Micronite was asbestos. People died.
Hobbits Discover the Electric Sandwich Press (lemmy.world)
1940s Schlitz Beer Ad (lemmy.world)
From LIFE Magazine
Thrilling New Homemade Treat!, February 24, 1941 (lemmy.world)
Rice Krispies treats as amazing new novelty
If Disney Movies were on the alignment chart (lemmy.world)
The movie itself, not the main character
Fitness (lemmy.world)
INTO FITNESS...
"She can have a tummy and still look yummy," Chubbettes, August 27, 1956 (i.imgur.com)
From LIFE Magazine.
Jonathan the Chimpanzee (lemmy.world)
Lives at the NC Zoo. Likes watching people.
What American Fascism Would Look Like (newrepublic.com)
US soldier spraying the inside of an Italian house with DDT for malaria control, 1945
Braille graph paper (i.imgur.com)
Soldiers of the 19th Indian Infantry Division, Italy, WW2, 1943 (colorized)
More castle cutaway
don't get a dog rule (lemmy.world)
Oh no. (lemmy.world)
me_irl (lemmy.world)
James Bond's Roger Moore: a charming story (sh.itjust.works)
Source
Mask On (lemmy.world)
Art by Jeffw
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AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful