Abdication to authority, with a hint of hivemind mass-formation.
Assuming it is ever right to cage a human as punishment, i guess one would need a special room on the exterior wall of the prison.
Inside the room (and prison?) both are unencumbered (the free one is just visiting for the twins sake), but in order to leave (as one has the right to) the other must don one of those shrouds from the Foundation series.
I thought systemd read fstab to dynamically create the mount units? First i've heard of someone bespoke mount units... but sounds neat!
The same object lesson could apply to technofascism, data-silos, police seizures, ...
Yeah! Just like water's "wetness" problem. It's kinda fundamental to how the tech operates.
Selection bias? "Only the ones you hear about"?
At this rate we'll soon need a BS in nerdology to get these in-jokes... i love it.
Maybe... brought to you by Carl's Jr...
I wanna know what these black dots are. Forbidden numbers? Numbers the mind cannot guess?
I shall resist the urge to google this, to see if it is real...
Hey buddy... commas are expensive, unlike apostrophes... :)
I personally wouldn't call it a "dick" move...
Finally, it's the year of the other desktop!
dall-e v3 w/ minor post-generation mods. Prompt: A robotic solicitor knocks on a home's closed front door with his right fist knuckles. The robot is dressed in a suit which has a large corporate logo on it and holds a tablet in his left hand.
I know managers love that term, but I think I've come to hear it as an insult... Sorta like being called an unprofessional "jack of all trades" budget handyman that does everything mediocre...
without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you'll just roll the dice and try again.
This is my attempt to recreate an image from one of my friends who is an artist. After generating the image, I modified it in gimp to better capture the feel of the original artwork.
dall-e 3 prompt: A pale human figure abstraction sits atop one of the floating islands hugging his knees facing right. The islands have round tops, crumbling dirt below, green grass on the top, and they float in a spacial void of black, blue, and purple. Some of the other floating islands are also flat-topped with grass, but some are just lifeless asteroids. There are no planets and no sun.
dall-e 3; prompt: "The Linux computer system that every nerd can only dream of owning."
dall-e 3; prompt: "Photorealistic. A futuristic alien stands before you holding a spear-like weapon in a non-threatening manner."
Workflow: I asked gpt-3.5 to describe in meticulous visual detail a single panel from "BLAME!" where Killy is firing his gravitational beam emitter (GBE) in only one paragraph. I think I used the phrase "as if to a blind person" because it kept wanting to give me a narrative. I then handed that paragraph to dall-e-3 and got this image.
dall-e 2; prompt: A homeless cyberpunk is scavanging parts from his pile of broken robots. A futuristic male police officer walks past him disinterested.
dall-e 3; prompt: Inside a parking garage where many of the slots have been converted into permanent dwellings, even alongside the vehicle ramps.
Prompt: Sisyphus pushing the world up a hill. The Earth looks photo realistic as it would be seen from space, and resting on the slope. The sky is pitch black with many stars and galaxies. The mountain slope is a constant incline.