Literally Mechanical

#Engineering, #science, #nanotech, and #fusion reactors. Find my fiction at the SCP Foundation and #my fiction tag.

[literallymechanical]

yeh

[literallymechanical]

pinning this so people can understand what my whole deal is

[literallymechanical]

#toast #the machine #fusion #engineering #fiction

[goon]

[literallymechanical]

Talking college experiences at work and casually mentioned "one of those semesters where you're so overloaded that you're basically living off gummy worms and five hour energy" and a younger coworker was like wtf why would you do that and I am absolutely heartbroken that the COVID-remote-college generation never got to experience the mid-November double-all nighter on campus slamming weird snake-themed energy drinks from Hmart debuggin gyour FUCKING robot that won't turn left. Tragic!!!

[literallymechanical]

h/t @razgriz438:

No no no if you ever die you get to cash that in, you can place one extra finger on the scale against your heart OR get one free take-backsie if you are challenging Death to a game

[literallymechanical]

Talking college experiences at work and casually mentioned "one of those semesters where you're so overloaded that you're basically living off gummy worms and five hour energy" and a younger coworker was like wtf why would you do that and I am absolutely heartbroken that the COVID-remote-college generation never got to experience the mid-November double-all nighter on campus slamming weird snake-themed energy drinks from Hmart debuggin gyour FUCKING robot that won't turn left. Tragic!!!

[contrabandtoxicant]

right click to access the context menu where you can kill and main and attack and wound any body you like

[dawatcher]

[not-terezi-pyrope]

Genuinely, I think the most publicly visible AI advance so far this year is how thoroughly and abruptly the "image generators can't do legible text" problem has beem fixed.

For those who haven't been paying attention, this is a recent ChatGPT output. It can do this sort of dense sensible text in images totally one shot, so don't rely on bad text to identify AI images any more.

[crypticspyder]

Was the text also generated? was it generated before, and given as an input, or was it generated with the image?

[not-terezi-pyrope]

The text was its own invention.

Here is the entire interaction that produced this image:

I've seen other people do much more sinister things with this! You can produce 100% realistic fake screenshots of news articles, tweets, that sort of thing, if you can convince the bot it's kosher to do so.

[theothin]

[phaeton-flier]

[literallymechanical]

Babe are you okay you haven't torn into your thin crispy crunchy™ brownie brittle® blondies dunkin'® sprinkled donut naturally flavored with other natural flavors

[literallymechanical]

To the tune of "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" btw

[literallymechanical]

I am having a great time imagining a proletarian revolution where the final breaking point was the price of candy. Bankers hauled out of their offices and pelted with Twix, going baton-to-Twizzler with riot cops, ceremonially breaking off a piece of a Kit Kat Bar in front of the Capitol. This is fun, come play in this space with me.

[feldfrog]

Oppenheimer came up with the nuclear bombs as a metaphor for some sort of god sized lizard

[deadgenerations]

"a Romanian scam artist tricked people into investing in an "eco-friendly" steam powered rocket in the early 2020s" sounds like a fake story your racist uncle would tell you but it was real. it was getting very straight faced press coverage for years. Governments gave them real money. they built "test hardware" and actually conducted "test fires". then they announced they would fund a larger version with a crypto token. what follows is a real official render of the proposed EcoRocket Heavy

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[notaaronsroommate]

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You really should if you haven't. You're in for a real treat.

[deadgenerations]

okay so whatever I was expecting it wasnt that.

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[literallymechanical]

Excuse me????

[javert]

how i feel about every discussion about emissions ever

[literallymechanical]

Babe are you okay you haven't torn into your thin crispy crunchy™ brownie brittle® blondies dunkin'® sprinkled donut naturally flavored with other natural flavors

[literallymechanical]

To the tune of "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" btw

[literallymechanical]

Babe are you okay you haven't torn into your thin crispy crunchy™ brownie brittle® blondies dunkin'® sprinkled donut naturally flavored with other natural flavors

[larval-tear]

has anyone else noticed that it feels really good to accelerate in a vehicle and really bad, painful even, to hit the brakes

[larval-tear]

even simply releasing the accelerator is a deeply uncomfortable sensation and should be avoided at all costs

[larval-tear]

40 is the most natural, most human speed at which to drive through residential areas

[boywaste]

[guelwaar]

honestly i get why elizabeth holmes is convinced she got martyred because you have to think about it from her perspective, literally the entire valley runs on guys just running their mouths until another guy buys them out and turns their scamup into a data services provider and then eventually that guy sells it to jeff bezos, why couldn't it happen for her too? oh suddenly the medical establishment is too good for a para industry of scam bespoke home lab testing that tells you nothing validated? suddenly everyone has not been caping for the mormon dna race science or the gut microbiome fascists or the psychiatry fandom spit testing? it's so much worse to give your blood to a blonde woman recreationally? vengeance for her & anna delvey.

[literallymechanical]

😳

[literallymechanical]

Sobering to realize that we might be reaching the end of the era when non-stick pans actually worked. I feel like the writing is on the wall for PTFE, it's only a matter of time before it goes the way of everything else that the Man deems to be too fun, like metal-tipped lawn darts, asbestos, and refrigerators that lock from the outside.