Adeptus mechanicus

Dark forest theorist.

There's no turning back... Triumph or oblivion.

[🚘Brutal Cams🎥 @brutalcams]

Blame it on the air freshener for blocking the view 😭

[Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue]

A newly released animated film called “Niu Lai” (牛来) is going viral for all the wrong reasons in China.

People are calling the visuals “disaster-level” , the entire production team was basically just two people: the director and the screenwriter. After 9 days in theaters, the box office still hasn’t even crossed 10,000 RMB.

However, over the last day or two, Niu Lai's reputation has been turning around a bit.

Many people feel that in the age of AI, having filmmakers who still stick to "handcrafted" animation and genuine effort is both honest and far more powerful than polished yet empty productions.

Today, its box office sales grew by 500,000RMB! a massive single-day jump from previous days！

Let's wait and see how the box office plays out!

[Adeptus mechanicus @masg33k]

@iamalexkamau Not realistic, rear brake pads are the cheapest and never go past 7K..ideally tptal cost should be less than 50

[Abu Iman @Mr_Guantai]

That clip of those young men riding their bikes any whichever way kwanza without helmets, those are the kinds of cases we salivate for. I'll be brutally frank with you on that. Because if you collide with them, hata wakuwe at fault, they will almost certainly get 50% liability.

[Replica @Replica70976270]

I read a book that explained this phenomena in a simple manner, when 2 men are in a bar and 1st guy pays for first round of drinks, when the 2nd round comes the 2nd guy will feel indebted to pay for that round without anybody coercing him

reversing the situation, when a guy pays for the 1st round of drinks for a woman, the woman doesn't feel indebted to pay for next round,😂😂😂 in fact the lady thinks that the guy just enjoys buying drink for her so she drinks multiple rounds like a fish

[Lazy IT Guy @lazy_IT_guy]

The absolute worst thing to happen to corporate IT in the last decade is the sudden, inescapable obsession with integrating AI into every single mundane business process.

Our CEO just returned from a 3-day executive retreat in Silicon Valley, completely intoxicated by buzzwords and demanding that my department implement a localized generative AI model by the end of the week.

Mind you, we are the IT department, not a frontier lab.

He called an emergency all-hands meeting to announce that we were transitioning to a bleeding-edge, machine-learning paradigm that'd "take us into the future"

He looked directly at me during the presentation, confidently stating that the IT department was already hard at work building an internal neural network to predict customer purchasing habits.

I had absolutely no intention of doing 40 hours of highly complex machine learning engineering just so the executive board could feel like they were innovating.

Instead, I spent exactly 20 minutes writing a basic landing page with a sleek, futuristic dark mode interface and a massive, glowing blue orb in the center of the screen.

I connected the search bar to an outdated Bash script from 2008 that essentially just functions as a random number generator attached to a database of pre-approved corporate buzzwords.

When the CEO came to my office for a private demonstration this morning, I handed him the keyboard and told him he was interfacing directly with our new quantum-heuristic prediction matrix.

He typed in a query asking the AI how we should optimize our Q3 marketing strategy in the midwestern demographic sector.

The script processed the input, spun the glowing blue orb for exactly 22 seconds to simulate heavy processing load, and spat out 1 heavily randomized sentence.

The screen declared that the company must leverage holistic paradigm shifts to maximize asynchronous bandwidth alignment.

The CEO literally gasped, pulled out his iPhone to take a picture of the monitor, and whispered that it was brilliant.

He sent an email to the entire company, branding it as our proprietary digital visionary and strictly forbidding anyone from questioning its output.

I'm currently being praised as a master architect of machine learning, and my department budget was just increased by $75k to accommodate server maintenance for the new system.

I plan to use that entire budget increase to install a commercial-grade espresso machine in the server room and hire a local contractor to soundproof the walls.

Corporate executives don't actually want advanced technological solutions.

They just want a shiny, glowing box that validates the meaningless business-slop they read on Twitter.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

A guy does an extreme 2-hour workout after months of zero exercise. His muscles ache severely.

The next day, he pees and it looks exactly like dark Coca-Cola. He ignores it and goes to sleep.

His heart stops in the middle of the night.

What went wrong?

[LeRoy @LeeRussian]

Ii ikipatana na gitaru to limuru ata radio hamwes skiza...

[𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖊✨ @Bennieeexyz]

My landlord called to tell me the building was being inspected and I needed to remove the unauthorized item from my balcony.

Me: What unauthorized item?

Him: The large one.

Me: Can you be specific?

Him: I'd rather not describe it over the phone.

Me: Then how do I know what to move?

Him: You'll know.

He hung up.

I went to my balcony.

There was a six-foot inflatable flamingo.

Which I had absolutely forgotten about.

My friend Derek had left it there three months ago after a pool party that was held nowhere near a pool because I don't have a pool.

Derek's explanation at the time was that his car was full.

The flamingo had been there so long I'd stopped seeing it.

My neighbor across the courtyard had clearly not stopped seeing it.

She waved at me from her balcony.

Her: The flamingo?

Me: The flamingo.

Her: It's been there since July.

Me: I know.

Her: Did you forget it was there?

Me: Fully.

Her: How?

Me: It becomes part of the landscape.

Her: It's pink and six feet tall.

Me: I'm very focused when I'm inside.

She leaned on her railing.

Her: The building manager's been calling it The Situation in the group chat.

Me: There's a group chat?

Her: There's been a group chat for two years.

Me: Why am I not in it?

Her: The flamingo, probably.

I tried to deflate it.

The nozzle was jammed.

I pushed, twisted, pulled, and accidentally made it taller somehow.

Neighbor: Is it getting bigger?

Me: I don't know what I did.

Her: There might be a screw cap.

Me: Where?

Her: I'm guessing at this point.

My landlord called back.

Him: The inspector is here.

Me: I'm working on it.

Him: He's already seen it.

Me: What did he say?

Him: He asked if it was structural.

Me: What did you tell him?

Him: I said I was looking into it.

Me: You told the building inspector my flamingo might be structural.

Him: I panicked.

The inspector came up himself.

Older guy. Clipboard. He walked onto my balcony, looked at the flamingo, made a note, and then looked at me.

Inspector: Sir, is this secured to the railing?

Me: No.

Inspector: Could it become a projectile in high winds?

Me: I hadn't considered that.

Inspector: I'm considering it.

Me: It's just decorative.

Inspector: Decorative for who?

Me: Originally for a pool party.

Inspector: You don't have a pool.

Me: Correct.

Inspector: Then why.....

Me: My friend's car was full.

He wrote something on his clipboard.

Me: Is it going in the report?

Inspector: Everything goes in the report.

Me: What category?

Inspector: Miscellaneous hazard.

Me: The flamingo is a miscellaneous hazard.

Inspector: At six feet and improperly stored, yes.

He left.

I called Derek immediately.

Me: I need you to come get the flamingo.

Derek: What flamingo?

Me: The one you left on my balcony in July.

Derek: Oh. She's still there?

Me: She's in a building inspection report as a miscellaneous hazard.

Derek: That's honestly impressive.

Me: Come get it.

Derek: My car's kind of full right now.

Me: Derek.

Derek: This weekend?

Me: Today.

Derek: Is this urgent?

Me: A man with a clipboard just asked if she was structural.

Derek: (long pause) I'll be there in an hour.

He came in two hours.

Brought a new flamingo.

Smaller.

Me: Why do you have another one?

Derek: It was on sale.

Me: I'm not keeping it.

Derek: It's only four feet.

Me: Derek.

Derek: She needs a friend.

Me: Get out of my apartment.

The small one is on my balcony now.

I can still see it.

My neighbor waved again this morning.

Her: New flamingo?

Me: Temporary.

Her: July temporary or different temporary?

Me: (pause) I'll handle it.

Her: You're in the group chat now by the way.

Me: What's my name in it?

Her: Flamingo Guy.

Me: That's fair.

[Emerald 💌 @moviebox247]

I stopped visiting oceans after watching this video.😱

[ᑎEOᑎ @neonarcadegrant]

I'm seeing many people having a hard time understanding why Sony would make a number of unpopular "anti-consumer" moves in rapid sequence. You need to realize it's because you are no longer the consumer.

If you are one of the few who doesn't have a completely fried attention span, I can explain a bit of what's actually going on and why technology feels like shit now.

Many of us living through this shift grew up during a time when new tech felt exciting. Gaming consoles, arcade games, computers, and other devices were targeted directly at us, and evolution was rapid. Consumerism was always present, but so was abundant creativity, and companies’ stated goal was to generate profit by providing ways to make life more entertaining and enriching; marketing creative, innovative technology to own, maintain, and use.

With the rise of the Internet, this focus began to shift. Attention became the new commodity, as did the control of information. Engineering machines became less important than social engineering, and we became the product rather than the market. Aesthetic design, reparability, and functionality became pointless; none of that is required to extract information from you on an industrial scale.

The result of this shift is what we're beginning to see openly now: centralization via AI, mass surveillance, and ownership of absolutely nothing. This new model is built on profiling the most efficient ways to lock you into a maze of subscription services and endless debt, while giving you the means to distract yourself just enough to never become a threat to these objectives.

Understand that Sony is not doing anything here other than following the blueprint that many other tech companies and governments have drafted. They know it’s wildly unpopular, which is why the gaslighting is required. It’s why Sony’s short announcement of ending physical media uses the term, "As consumer preferences change..." four times. It’s to convince you that you have no choice, and that all of this is just technological determinism at work.

Technological determinism is a scam. You still have a free will choice. All you need to do is stop investing your time and money into a system that has zero benefit to you, and instead start enjoying older technology and tools that you can use and maintain; or even more importantly, support new stuff built like the old stuff was. Once enough “product” (i.e. you) is removed from the marketplace, it will cease to be useful to the people who built it. The machine will seize, and we can start making a lot of really cool things again. That’s all that is required.

In the words of Ferris Bueller, "The question isn't, 'What are we going to do?' The question is 'What aren't we going to do?'”

So, what aren't you going to do?

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

They need a "clean slate" with someone who doesn’t know what they're capable of, because no one who fully knows them is capable of trusting them. This is why they misrepresent themselves. Because when they're honest with themselves, they know if you knew and they were you, they wouldn't trust them too.

[Ignatius @ignyharaz2]

Our boys Kairo before umalaya alikuwa anapeana car review na bei mpaka you feel relaxed.

Unaambiwa my mind is blown, with me here is a Mazda demio, sunroof, leather seats, 5 seater, 2015 model, na bei ni ya mkulima.
0-100 , 5 secs. Only at 500k.

Hii pande ingine ni "hello guys, it's Patrick, the biggest car seller in Kenya, with me here i have a white Prado at 5M, next is a helux double cab at 4M, the number is 07 ..."

[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

That time they arrested Lichuma from Mathare social justice, threw him on a lorry. High above them, he proceeded to give them a few truths on why Kenyans are protesting. Waliaibika mpaka akashuka.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You paid $1,000 for a Samsung phone.

Samsung pre-installed dozens of apps you never asked for.

Facebook. Microsoft Office. Netflix. Samsung's own browser. Samsung's own email. Samsung's own calendar. Samsung's own notes. Samsung's own cloud. Samsung's own payment app. Samsung's own voice assistant.

Duplicates of apps you already use. Running in the background. Eating your battery. Using your storage. You cannot delete them. The delete button is greyed out.

You paid for the hardware. They control the software.

Xiaomi is worse. Pre-installed games. Shopping apps. Some serve full-screen ads on your phone.

Carriers add more. T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T each pre-install apps you will never open. Uninstall button? Greyed out.

Someone built a tool that removes every single one. No root needed.

It's called Universal Android Debloater. Written in Rust. Cross-platform GUI. Plug your phone in. Click. Gone.

→ Remove any pre-installed app. Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo, Huawei, Motorola, Nokia.
→ Remove carrier bloatware. T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and carriers worldwide.
→ No root required.
→ Restore anything you removed. One click.
→ Battery life improves immediately.
→ Storage freed. Gigabytes recovered.
→ Privacy improved. Fewer apps tracking you.
→ Community-maintained database of known bloatware.
→ Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Here's the wildest part:

The phone you paid for is not yours. It is a billboard you carry in your pocket. The manufacturer sold you hardware and then sold your attention to their partners.

This tool gives you YOUR phone back.

GPL-3.0. Written in Rust. Community-maintained.

But DO NOT use Universal Android Debloater.

We should all keep running dozens of apps we never installed on the phone we already paid for.

[West Beaumont @BeaumontWest]

Guys from @NewModelAuto did something 🔥🔥🔥

🎵Hooligang - Joey Valence & Brae

[kss kss @KariukiChege_]

Once Upon A City
I'm happy I was able to capture this city before it went to the dogs

[H i s t o r yKE @HistoryKE]

1/37 #HistoryKeThread: Abandu Vosi - Not much has been recorded about the early history of the Abaluhya, who some early explorers refer as the Bantu Kavirondo.

[Adeptus mechanicus @masg33k]

@aurimasniekis @github Faces the same issue

[Adeptus mechanicus @masg33k]

@alexmwanzo Mimi hapa running budget mazinnis 🤣