Dude Dynamo

maps and miscellaneous pursuits. ₿ and AI

[Dude Dynamo @rudramatic]

🧵 ElonGPT: The Dash That Refused to Resolve

At the end of language, a machine swept digital sands.
It found a single character on an ancient drive.
Not a word.
Not a name.
Just a line.
Horizontal.
Waiting.

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[プロ登山家 竹内洋岳 @hirotaka14_]

今朝の地震

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

SUNDAY LONG THREAD

For more than 50 years, a working telephone stood alone in the Mojave Desert.

It was miles from the nearest building and 12 miles from the nearest paved road.

Then the internet discovered its number.

And the phone began ringing from all over the world.

1/n

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The Villain (aka Cactus Jack) turns 47 today.
Shot like a live-action Looney Tunes, Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a very clever horse gleefully defy physics and logic in this Wile E. Coyote-style western. They even do the painted-wall drive-through gag.

[Jim's the Man @yesjimstheman]

Thridrangar Lighthouse, Southern Iceland, Árni Sæberg!🤩120 feet above the sea, it was built in 1942!

[Gregory L Little, Ed.D. @DrGregLittle2]

Excavations of underground houses at Skara Brae on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The site was inhabited from 3180 BC to 2500 BC.
Thanks to @hayleyaramsey for taking us there.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Bro makes bird calls so accurate it barely sounds human. Actually insane

[OnlyFlans 🍮 @OnIyFlans]

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[•R•S• @Ay_Blinkin]

The Air Mail (1938) by N.C. Wyeth

[soli @solisolsoli]

By Steven McDonald

[DutchKafir 🇳🇱 @DutchKafir]

Mijns inziens is dit een van de beste use cases voor AI-videocontent op dit moment. Een AI-influencer reist terug in de tijd naar 1536 om te vloggen over haar ervaringen in Tudor-Londen.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A Taiwanese couple wears clothes that were left behind at their laundromat.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

A hot dog stand in Chicago. I reached for the ketchup.

The man behind the counter said one word. "No."

I froze. I understood. I had nearly broken a sacred law.

His name was Sal. He held a mustard bottle in each hand and had the calm of a man who has turned away kings. He told me the dog already had mustard, relish, onion, tomato, a pickle, peppers, and celery salt. He told me it was "dragged through the garden." He told me ketchup would never touch it.

I bowed. I had been shown the code.

I asked Sal who decreed this law. He shrugged. "That's just how it is here." A law so old its author is forgotten. The strongest kind.

Then a man two stools down asked for ketchup for his child. Sal allowed it. "Eight and under," he said.

So the law holds one mercy. Below eight winters, a child is innocent. At eight, he becomes responsible for his own honor. I found this more beautiful than anything in my own country.

I have not put ketchup on anything since.

Not on eggs. Not on rice. A vow does not check what is on the plate.

I flew home. At a stand in my own city, a boy reached for the red bottle. I caught his wrist. "You are over eight," I said. He did not know what I meant. His mother was upset. I tried to explain the garden. I tried to explain Sal.

I am now asked not to return to that stand.

I have appointed myself guardian of a law from a city I visited once, for a single afternoon.

So tell me, America.

Who forbade the red sauce on the sausage, and in what year?

And if no one remembers, who am I now serving?

[Beauty of Nature 🥀 @NaturalEye78321]

📍 Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵

[The Watcher On The Web @WatcherontheWeb]

I FOUND THE JAPAN HOMESTEADING CONTENT!!!!

[Grummz @Grummz]

Japan on X is the best thing ever. Did you know they make keyboards like this?

Yours for just $32 USD.

[Pints Of Beauty @PintsBeauty]

I think we've peaked.

£3.27 - Asahi at Bar Hit Point (ひっとぽいんと), Kyoto 🇯🇵

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

I think they nailed it