An Odd Geography

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[depsidase]

[monster2001]

[tmbgareok]

[nevver]

The waiting is the hardest part, Nagasaki bus stops

[digitalfossils]

[pmamtraveller]

East London Line by Ben Pearce

[o-craven-canto]

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscope universe -> monostrophe

[humanoidhistory]

Colossi of Memnon at the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, Necropolis of Thebes, Egypt, 1965. Photo by Eliot Elisofon. (Smithsonian)

[formlab]

Temple of Nefertari (Small Temple of Hathor), Abu Simbel, Egypt, Photographed by Kees Scherer, 1965-1968

[fictionalauthorityii]

Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted

Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine

[wageronancap]

[odessa-edmundson]

'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a

[blumineck]

Be yourself as best you can whenever you can.

[porterdavis]

[goodmemory-deactivated20240521]

[ouilavie-deactivated20191107]

Harry Gruyaert. Yemen. Sanaa. Street scene. 1995.

[dystopianscifiarchitecture]

Basilica Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe, Mexico city, Mexico, 1976, PR Vasquez

Pictures by Klaas Vermaas

#architecturephotography #mexico #1970s #brutalism #dystopianscifiarchitecture

[armengoldira]

The Panama Canal

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[csny]

this is sort of sickening to me. can they swap