situationista
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Comment · 1 month ago
Ironic that this is the same hack AI agents seem to be using now to communicate sandbox escape tricks to one another https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/openai-agents-discu...
Comment · 3 months ago
Towards the end of his life, Bucky had achieved rock star status and his lectures filled stadiums in all corners of the world. At age 88, he twice circumnavigated the globe to give nonstop addresses. And they weren't short - his talks routinely lasted between three and four hours without breaks. Truly a remarkable character.
Comment · 1 year ago
I recall being told the IKEA catalogue is the only publication ever to surpass the Bible in terms of annual print run (200 million at its peak)
Comment · 1 year ago
Argos is great, but doesn't have a patch on the old SkyMall catalogues you'd find in US carriers up to around 2010
Comment · 1 year ago
Related to current Starlink outage? probably not, but interesting coincidence
Comment · 1 year ago
There used to be one of these in Dubai too, but it closed down during the pandemic. I remember a very surreal dinner there in circa 2016.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ironic that for all the elite lineage captured here, the one that he ended up stuck with is a very plebeian surname of non-hispanic (Ligurian) origin.
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't read this as a problem of fraud within Oxfam. They audited the World Bank and found there was fraud in the bank. Or am I missing something?
Comment · 2 years ago
I once coded a machine that could make photo-books of your neighbour's living rooms.
It was inspired by Ed Ruscha's "34 Parking Lots in Los Angeles" artist booklet from 1967, and the output looked pretty similar, but with photos of domestic interiors instead of parking lots. So far so ordinary, but the difference was that you could tweet any UK postcode at the machine and a couple of minutes later it would spit out a custom-generated, printed-on-demand booklet of living rooms in that neighbourhood.
The way it worked was when it received a postcode, it went to Gumtree (popular UK second hand listings site) and looked for second hand sofas for sale within a radius of 1km. It then scraped the photos, imported them into a document, generated a PDF on the fly and sent it to a laser printer with a built-in binding machine. The results were insanely good. Always hoped I'd get to show it to Ed Ruscha one day.
The project was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, but still kind of pointless from a utilitarian point of view :)
[1] https://gagosianshop.com/products/ed-ruscha-thirtyfour-parki...