Love Medicine

...an exercise in discipline

[mudwerks]

Allegory of Summer

by František Bohumil Doubek

[validblogname]

seriously

we can hash out the finer points later

[suehiro-maruo-art]

Shōjo Tsubaki

[jron]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

I think we’d all prefer it if chatbots never emitted sentences such as 'You should kill yourself.' However, for all the times that 'honesty' is mentioned in Claude’s constitution, I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

[jkottke]

Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is delivering hydro-generated electricity into NYC: “1,250 megawatts of clean energy directly into New York City’s power grid”. That’s around 20% of the city’s total electric load, now clean.

[openingadoor]

Maggie Cheung at Hotel Regina by Karen Collins

[jkottke]

The Three Ways to Make a Living. “3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.“

[cosechadehuellas]

Girl reading a letter in an interior.

Peter Ilsted.

[nevver]

Coven, Tin Can Forest

[transpondster]

Our doubts are traitors  and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt

William Shakespeare, from Measure for Measure

[diana-andraste]

Decretum Gratiani with the commentary of Bartolomeo da Brescia, Italy 1340-1345

[myfavoritepeterotoole]

Peter O'Toole - Screenland (magazine) - May 1963

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[ninjastalkerformarauders]

We could have it all if Hollywood people had a interesting thought and didnt just think white guy lead.

[theashenphoenix]

三船敏郎 // MIFUNE TOSHIRO 椿三十郎 // Sanjuro (1962)

[elodiedreams]

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone