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spiderdramaqueen

look at me drawing critrole fanart instead of doing my graduation project dawg i ain't getting my diploma

literally my dad

dark-wizard-guy-fieri

context (via @mellorocket)

chimthecappy

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

artistefish

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

aqueerkettleofish

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

shu-of-the-wind

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

anna-neko

and important addition

Source: instagram

softieskywalker

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

david-talks-sw

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

comebackali

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

wizard-council-bureaucrat

the king has abruptly fired 60% of his wizard staff, so he’s about to be abruptly surprised at who floated 100% of his formerly floating sky castle

hyper-lynx

I heard they're planning to maintain their levitation rites with autonomous constructs from now on, saying wizards are going to be totally obsolete within the season... so, ah, I'd invest in falling island insurance.

scilas

Preserving not-prev-but-someone-elses funny tags in this chain as well because I love both these additions actually,

slayer-barbie

THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1964)

imsobadatnicknames2

I've made this exact post like 3 different times atp but. It's endlessly funny when people (especially tech company people) treat Asimov's three laws as a legit proposed framework for Artificial Intelligence safety when like. Nearly every single Asimov story they're featured in involves something going wrong as a result of a robot trying to follow three three laws in a situation that makes execution of the laws ambiguous or contradictory. They're not a guideline for legit AI programming they're a plot device designed to cause problems due to interacting in weird ways with complicated hypothetical situations!

rathayibacter

we've implemented the safety standards from the award-winning These Are Insufficient Safety Standards series of novels!

ceescedasticity

Except today's "AIs" are random generators and even an order as simple as "don't do anything at all" may be ignored. There have been attempts at implementing guardrails to keep them from harming humans, but a random generator isn't capable of conceptualizing "harm to humans" the way Asimov's robots are so designers have to come up with all the harm cases and deal with them individually and obviously they still haven't done so.

We very much have not implemented the insufficient safety standards.

ciricearts

happy pride month y’all!!! sending a lot of love!!!! 🫶🫶

thememedaddy

croathia

EXECUTIONER SWORD WITH INSCRIPTION: “When I raise this sword, so I wish that this poor sinner will receive eternal life.”

Germany, 1600s

petermorwood

That’s a fairly standard inscription:

Another common one is “The Lords Control Mischief / I Execute Their Verdict”.

Some even had little illustrations, a nasty visual menu of alternate services. Getting beheaded was getting off lightly - if you don’t know what the chap on the circular lounger is doing, “Breaking Wheel” on Wikipedia will explain…

There was even a sword inscription which translated as “Those Who Meet Me Will Never Fall Sick.”

Hilarious. I laughed my head off…

ysengrm

Spotprent op de uitgetrokken Amsterdamse burgers, 1787

"Cartoon of the Amsterdam citizens marching to Utrecht, July 17, 1787. A patriot as an armed Kees or Keeshond standing on hind legs with a mount and rifle."

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent