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| Cold War photos now I guess? |

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[mr. gravy cheeks @Jawwwwwsh]

“Meet at the bar after work?”

No MF. Meet at the Hiram M. Chittenden Fish Ladder Underwater Viewing Gallery after work 😤

[Martin-Baker @MB_EjectEject]

On Monday 28th September 2026, a U.S. Navy E/A-18G Growler from VAQ-130 was involved in a mishap during aircraft recovery operations aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off the Virginia coast.

Both aircrew successfully ejected using the Martin-Baker US14A (NACES) Ejection Seat.

#EngineeringForLife

[Wisconsin Football @BadgerFootball]

Never a doubt 🥹

[Jerome Sneed Democrat @avrilbradley23]

@tomTL1984 The early 20th Century Brooklyn test is actually a pretty good test for modernity-can a working class person enjoy access to basic, functional services of modern life at an affordable price? Its by this measure Japan and urban East Asia are near the top.

[𝖜𝖔𝖒𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖆 𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖊 @goblinodds]

the US has a real issue where essentially you can illegally screw anyone over with impunity as long as either

- you don't have any money (bc there's nothing to come after you for)

- you have a TON of money (so you can weather lawsuits)

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

If they have in fact PIPed so close to the sun that they’ve ran through the entire US tech labor force, this will be an economics case study for the ages

[audrey @yayitsaudreyyy]

genuinely hate how in every area of life, Americans have to stand guard to protect themselves from being scammed because our institutions are rotten. buying a car, going to the dentist, even the most mundane activities could wreak financial havoc if you’re not on high alert

[Geppetto San Martín 🚬🌭𓅸 @SmalltimeJones]

update: the intern earned his gogurts. so proud of him. totally straight faced, leaned into the groaning from people who felt an immediate existential crisis. kid's going places

[Erick Lorinc 🎃 @ErickLorinc]

Had a memory from high school of not wanting to learn how to edit/figure out the timing to do a split screen, so we just put up black tape in the middle of a room

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

The only thing I have to say on the 25th anniversary is what Hunter S Thompson said in the aftermath. There's been few things said more prescient than the party's over. For someone like me who partied like hell in the 90's, 21stC has been very different. The party is still over.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

In Las Vegas, comedian George Carlin tests a new set called “I Kind of Like It When A Lot of People Die.”

In the set he talks about a variety of distasteful subjects, including a plane exploding and it being blamed on Osama bin Laden.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

THEY GOT THE HOT DOG IN THE BUN 🌭

[Backpirch Weather @BackpirchCrew]

21 years ago this morning, residents of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi received this bulletin from the National Weather Service.

[tomie @tomieinlove]

For a film called The Odyssey it never tries to explain why God allows evil to exist

[Baldwin The Anonymous Eagle @BaldwinTheEag]

Happy to welcome TCU to the Universities for a Unified Ireland Club

[Scott Smith @hf_222222]

Also a common observation of the developing world rich.

You might have a $100k watch on your wrist, but if you have to step over uncovered & untreated sewage as you leave your office, how wealthy are you meaningfully? Does not the social inequality degrade you as well?

[Eric Idle @EricIdle]

I remember writing a song for Disney and being amazed to find that they actually wrote it. Not a mistake I made twice.

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

Photograph of a fallen soldier from the Battle of the Somme in 1916, taken by German soldier Walter Kleinfeldt

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

Kinda funny that the two works of American literature that are infamously "unfilmable" are about dudes who do not play about their cool hat