Dinosaur Victrola

.Not actually Liberace. 35, so get off my lawn kids.

[lapin-milo]

Destroy. Kill. Demolish.

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Ours Girl (アワーズ ガール) / Shōnen Gahōsha (少年画報社) / Mar 2001 issue

[smsomah]

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

[weirdmageddon]

[illbedancingwithmyself]

[inhaletheswans]

"Dandelion", William Edward Greengrass, 1936. Colour linocut on oriental paper. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

[freelancedumbass]

[m-has-a-blog]

Lovely sentiment but the way it’s worded sounds like this dude got fucking killed during a little league game

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Hey everyone are you ready for yet another round of AI BULLSHIT well I've got a doozy for you: YouTube has decided to automatically "upscale low-quality videos" with AI, fundamentally altering your viewing experience as a consumer and hobbling your freedom as a creator.

How to opt out as a creator:

Go to YouTube Studio, click on Settings, then click on Channel

Click on Advanced Settings

Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"

Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

How to opt out as a viewer:

Click on Settings

Go to Quality

Make sure the AI-enhanced option (dubbed 'Super Resolution') has been switched to "original resolution"

Why this matters:

Aside from adding an incredible amount of energy burn to content without the creator's knowledge, a lot of content was made to be viewed at their original resolution for a reason. No one wants to watch Marble Hornets on 'Super Resolution'. A number of creators have noticed this already happening to YouTube Shorts, where AI-upscaling has led to inaccuracies in technical demonstrations and odd visual distortions.

By hobbling a creator's ability to control what their final product looks like, creators cannot rely on the platform to present their work as intended. It should be an outrage, frankly, to anyone who relies on YouTube to share their work or enjoy the works of others.

[cosmiclavender]

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Lots of interesting stills from the one-and-only Dark Shadows.

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[writergeekrhw]

The most important person in Starfleet history.

[electronicdinosaurgladiator]

[anarchistmemedistro]

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

link to story

[nemfrog]

The dance of death at Basel: death and the Pope. Lithograph by F. Hasler after H. Hess. Death’s delighted face seems to say, “I got a big one this time.” Wellcome Collection

[lizardsfromspace]

Imagine washing up on Dinotopia and getting a talk saying "unfortunately, you can't escape this island! You'll never go home or see your loved ones ever again" & then while you're crying they say "I'm sorry, you'll just have to live on the island of dinosaur communism for the rest of your life" and you look up through your bleary eyes and go. Wait what

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