No, that is not a flying car, despite headlines from the lazy media.

It's a stunt. Enough to impress MAGA.

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1012783/tesla-roadster-flying-stunt-production-reality-musk
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/something-extraordinary-tesla-roadster-wows-with-compressed-air-thrusters-for-limited-flight-153039576.html
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Time to post my

Illustration by William Baillie-Grohman, from Sport in Art (1913).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/95a2d4b7-ae95-4f68-b4ee-e17743719782

#hunting #animals #mountaineering #exploration #death #games #landscapes #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

Trump wants to help Russia. He also wants to bash Iran.

If he bashes Iran too hard, then Russia gets no more Shahad drones. And he ends up bashing daddy

I passed the bar here

She started work on Tuesday, seems to be out Friday. That comes to 0.36 Scaramuccis.

#Zacharia

Homes, not data centres!✊

We shouldn’t be bowing down to the needs of multinational tech corporations while ordinary people struggle with bills and our environment is further destroyed.

The government's 'International AI Summit' was simply a red carpet event for Big Tech to drive policy on AI & Data Centres.

Our energy and water should serve people, not Big Tech profits✊

The People's Bookshelf in the National Library of Latvia showcases 8,000 books from around the world, each with a message from the donor about why that book is special to them. https://tautasgramatuplaukts.lv/en/ via @metafilter

Are you a type history buff? Interested in typography from 1920s Germany? Here are 100 Uses tagged with “Weimar Republic”: https://fontsinuse.com/tags/9873/weimar-republic

#WeimarRepublic #Germany #typography #FontsInUse #TypeHistory #1920s #fonts

Llibreria Finestres continues to be Very Good. I had missed this new edition.

The wealthier a person becomes, the thinner their skin becomes

@pluralistic When we knocked out a wall in my grandmother's house in the 70s we found a little .32 rimfire revolver plastered in. Always thought the story about my grandfather's disappearance was a bit unlilkely.

RE: https://todon.nl/@Persona/117441524808002699

Meta is pro-far-right in Brazil :fuck_face:

“Meta AI, an artificial intelligence tool integrated into WhatsApp, rejected requests to create campaign images referencing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but generated images featuring Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his candidate number.

Tests conducted by Brasil de Fato on Wednesday (14) identified different responses to commands with the same visual proposal.”

Elon has reached the same mental stage of development as I was aged 8 when I saw the Spy Who Loved Me car

Benvenuto Cellini is a revered Renaissance sculptor.
He also killed four men. But he was friends with a few HighUps in the Vatican, so he was absolved of all the silliness of guilt and punishment

As I was typing this, the client who made me realise this is a firm rule emailed me with some changes to her job which is already complete

#AI #artificialintelligence

Every piece of work must be done twice. Because clients never to think to tell you of their unique requirements until they realise what they asked for won't work.

They don't teach you that in college, but it happens 100% of the time on everything that ever occurs in a person's life, at all, ever.

OOOOF.
Hayden Kayes piece from a show in Barcelona

A planned new Coolock skatepark needs lights for dark winter evenings, skaters say. But the planning app for the Oscar Traynor Woods development, where it's to be located, envisioned the "minimisation of night-time lighting" to avoid disrupting local wildlife too much. https://www.dublininquirer.com/planned-new-coolock-skatepark-needs-lights-for-dark-winter-evenings-skaters-say/