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Alaska’s passive-aggressive map of the United States

Picture of wolf Loki, taken by Wolf Sanctuary volunteer Bob Buderman

Grabbing an elf by the ears like handlebars and riding them but not like in a sexual way i just crash into a wall killing us both

boobachu

trxy-land

Help I can't stop playing this game

stellaluna33

I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.

ralfmaximus

Guys like Thiel & Musk don't read.

Or, they stopped reading in high school. Musk claims his favorite novel is Blade Runner by Philip K Dick, but also thinks that's the main character's name. Yeah, he tweeted that.

So of course Peter Thiel misremembers 'Palantir' from the books, because he read them once upon a time or maybe he just watched the films while poking around on his phone.

The point is these jerks want to project cool book nerdiness by naming their shit after famous fantasy & science fiction things, but they forgot the Death Star was evil and exploded. Twice.

bobowizard

anarchopuppy

"dont feed the trolls" is an even more important rule in an age where that troll is likely to be a chatbot trained on bad politics crawling tags specifically to waste ur time. do not engage

nudityandnerdery

Just off the top of your head, don't need to try and look it up to check out anything:

Can you name a web search engine that you used before Google?

Yes

No

Don't know/just want to see the results

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

The book I'm reading suggests that Google became so market dominant that most people couldn't name a search engine that came before it, so I'm curious.

#yahoo which somehow is still poking around #alta vista #ask jeves #hell #even AOL and Prodigy and whatnot had search functionality when dialup was first kicking off #it did all suck compared to what google became

prinnay

[Spectra Knight]

konoko

misscromwellsmonocle

Two Earthlings (2009) by John Brosio

nightwingsgypsyrep

One of my favourite things about Bruce Wayne as a character is that, in universe, it’s so easy to presume that Batman’s greatest strength is his brain, with his detective skills and strategies. Or it could be his body, which he’s turned into a weapon through years of training so that he can be the best and do what nobody else can do. But it’s only those closest to him that realise that Batman — that Bruce’s — biggest strength is his incorruptible heart. He is a bleeding heart and an optimist at his core, and I need everyone (*cough* DC studios *cough*) to realise that that’s what makes Batman so special.