Make way for the homo superior

they // he

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 Jacques-Louis David (1748 –  1825)

Leonidas at Thermopylae 1814,detail.

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Baphomet: the Tarot of the Underworld (1992) by: H.R Giger

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Eerie lava formations around the West Kamokuna Skylight in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park, 1996 Photo: Laszlo Kestay

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Richard Nadler

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[vampkillerkiller]

???

[vampkillerkiller]

I wanted to figure out what the hell was going on here, so I did a reverse image search and now I have even more questions?

Why is he reading the Bible?

[hitmyvape-deactivated20251006]

can no one just recognize a vibe these days why do we have to hate on him

[argumate]

it's easy to get the feeling that LLM coding agents making software development "free" now because a skilled engineer can do what used to take them two weeks in one intense day and that is a 10x speed up which is amazing but it's not free and they're working even harder than they did before, with zero downtime, and will burn out that much faster.

[sacrebleuth]

I saw a psychologist talk about how automating the 'easy tasks' means everyone's jobs will just get harder. Because the human has to do the hard stuff all the time now.

Her example was in call centers, where an agent might take 1 difficult call in 10, which is stressful, but the person has the 9 easy calls to offset that stress and recalibrate their nervous system. But when 'AI agents' take those 9 easy calls, you, the human, are left with 100% difficult calls. What used to be a small, unpleasant portion of your day now becomes your entire day, all day, every day.

And to make things worse, your boss fired all the other humans, so rather than spreading out the bad amongst a team of people who could commiserate and provide support, it's just you, absorbing the stress, alone, forever.

And that's miserable.

[argumate]

yeah that's a weird inversion of what happens in some other fields, most famously when autopilots steadily took away more pilot work in the easy situations, only to dump human pilots into impossible situations when they cut out at the worst possible time.

[argumate]

the fear of aircraft automation was the pilots would basically forget how to fly the plane as they never actually have to -- until something goes horribly wrong: a sensor fails and the autopilot disconnects (Air France) or the plane triggers an unexpected mode (Boeing) or a bird strikes takes out all the engines (Hudson river) and suddenly the pilot has to jump in and save the day without any context or experience.

but if it was more similar to coding automation, the pilot would be flying sixteen aircraft in parallel, constantly jumping in to do the difficult parts, achieving incredible productivity gains but under way more pressure and with the ever present threat of losing track of what is happening and crashing all of them.

[ralfmaximus]

You describe the next stage of airline automation: remote piloting.

One qualified pilot at a terminal, overseeing six or eight commercial flights with full automation, ready to jump in when trouble spikes. Waymo Air.

[stutter-like-a-kaleidescope]

And time to drop the Bainbridge paper again:

The call center workers, air traffic control, etc are great examples of what @mostlysignssomeportents calls “reverse centaurs”:

Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Reverse Centaurs - Locus

Science fiction's superpower isn't thinking up new technologies – it's thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget d

[stargoyle]

Big announcement:

Fucking petting hims

[unhelpfultarot]

The Moon and Three of Pentacles

You're working on building your shelter from all the weird scary stuff out there.

[alphynix]

Nanophoca vitulinoides was a small earless seal that lived during the mid-Miocene (~14-12 million years ago) in what is now Belgium, which at the time was covered by the southern margin of the North Sea.

It was slightly smaller than any modern pinnipeds, no more than 1m long (3'3"), and had more mobile front and back flippers than modern earless seals — indicating it had a different swimming style than its living relatives, and that it may have been more mobile on land.

It also had a very dense skeleton, which would have made it a slower, less maneuverable swimmer. It may have fed on small prey on the seafloor in shallow coastal waters, similar to modern bearded seals.

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References:

Dewaele, Leonard, et al. "Reappraisal of the extinct seal “Phoca” vitulinoides from the Neogene of the North Sea Basin, with bearing on its geological age, phylogenetic affinities, and locomotion." PeerJ 5 (2017): e3316. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3316

Dewaele, Leonard, et al. "Generalized osteosclerotic condition in the skeleton of Nanophoca vitulinoides, a dwarf seal from the Miocene of Belgium." Journal of Mammalian Evolution 26.4 (2019): 517-543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-018-9438-9

Wikipedia contributors. “Nanophoca” Wikipedia, 23 Mar. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanophoca

[unhelpfultarot]

Ten of Wands reversed and The Sun

Today you should not be giving 100%. You should be relaxing and enjoying yourself.

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[greater-than-the-sword]

When you're a kid you just take trees for granted. Then when you get to be an adult you realize that a fully mature tree cannot be created in an amount of time that fits in a convenient landscaping timeframe for love nor money nor all the powers of science. Then you realize that people are very very very cavalier about chopping them down

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A compilation of seals looking squishy

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ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

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[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

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2010