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

[toskarin]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's not okay to take a break, it's not okay to make bad art, pick up a shovel, burn that two-days-per-sleep oil, and help us dig this great sideways hole to the planet you can only reach by digging into space

[toskarin]

[warm but audibly stressed voice] you are digging the wrong way. you are going to dig the hole in an incorrect direction and it will kill everything

[formlab]

Futuro Coffee Machine, Moulinex. 1991

[literallymechanical]

To have my coffee you must first defeat my evil coffee cone

[cipheramnesia]

Can we please just have one non-evil appliance that we don’t have to face in trial combat?

[literallymechanical]

Why

[cipheramnesia]

I can’t keep having these homoerotic fights.

[literallymechanical]

defeat my evil coffee cone

[sunshinetomorrow]

this clip from the new will anderson video is actually maybe the funniest thing ive seen in years

[formlab]

Futuro Coffee Machine, Moulinex. 1991

[literallymechanical]

To have my coffee you must first defeat my evil coffee cone

[cipheramnesia]

Can we please just have one non-evil appliance that we don’t have to face in trial combat?

[literallymechanical]

Why

[formlab]

Futuro Coffee Machine, Moulinex. 1991

[literallymechanical]

To have my coffee you must first defeat my evil coffee cone

[mrsterlingeverything]

Mutuals can unscrew my panels and see my terrible cable management

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[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!!!

[excalculus]

Or that biomechanics final project that we only finished through the power of spite and dumpster donuts.

[deep-space-netwerk]

Or when you order delivery to campus and one Dominoes pizza is dinner for two nights in a row and you don't go home in between because your drone isn't following the red ping pong ball on a stick. Please just follow the ping pong ball its literally red.

[gpuzzle]

or when you stay up 72 hours on the power of gallons of arizona iced tea debugging assembly code

[literallymechanical]

We definitely learned some bad habits and wrong lessons but I'll be fucked if the experience didn't teach us how to lock the fuck in when the chips are down.

[deep-space-netwerk]

Genuinely I sometimes miss the brain buzz you get following a week of alternating all-nighters and 4 hour naps. Maybe I should finally get a PhD.

[literallymechanical]

you can NOT stop moving. the momentum is the only thing keeping your heart beating and if you EVER fail to put one foot in front of the other you'll ruin everything and everybody will know it was you

[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!!!

[excalculus]

Or that biomechanics final project that we only finished through the power of spite and dumpster donuts.

[deep-space-netwerk]

Or when you order delivery to campus and one Dominoes pizza is dinner for two nights in a row and you don't go home in between because your drone isn't following the red ping pong ball on a stick. Please just follow the ping pong ball its literally red.

[gpuzzle]

or when you stay up 72 hours on the power of gallons of arizona iced tea debugging assembly code

[literallymechanical]

We definitely learned some bad habits and wrong lessons but I'll be fucked if the experience didn't teach us how to lock the fuck in when the chips are down.

[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.