Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

"I discovered that the unrented office suites directly next door are a time capsule of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and we got permission from the building owners to put on an exhibition of vintage computers and telephones in the offices."
And/Or Gallery -- Recap Computing History #2 -- Oct 7 - 21, 2023
https://www.andorgallery.com/press37.html

I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to an Idiocracy (2006) scenario for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have.

Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.

Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.

Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.

This piece was donated by Cinnamon Kilian in 1968, truly philosophical!

does anyone have a good way for making 3d glassy shape stuff like the os x aqua wallpapers

Buff SpeedFace

You are no doubt aware of M.C. Escher's "Hand with Reflecting Sphere", a self-portrait of the artist as seen while holding a reflecting sphere. In 2002 Mark VandeWettering took the image and "unwrapped" it to produce a cube map.

https://brainwagon.org/2002/12/05/fun-with-environment-maps/

Tag Team, back again
Check it to wreck it, let's begin
Party on, party people, let me hear some noise
MIDI's in the house, jump, jump, rejoice

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Compac sure had some interesting takes. (This is bootleg Radar Scope.)

Da_Soundmachine.wsz

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