They’re angry and sent me a DM suggesting I was either paid $7000 and/or am a nazi if I saw anything to do with politics in this meme. You be the judge.

He’s famous as a really good geo-guesser (a game where people get random google streetview images and try to drop a pin as close to the coordinates as possible).

People give him challenges all the time, and it’s really impressive.

Here he is finding someone’s location based on a picture taken from a plane.

Found a scan of the article for anyone curious:

It would be funny to contact them about this…

https://helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

Or

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

I did some searching and I’m seeing 1937 and 1938, so yeah, that’s probably about right.

It looks real, and the follow-up gets weirder.

A quick search found the following panels here, if anyone is interested:

Very interesting! Editing it now to correct it as the day it hit the iceberg, because someone else mentioned that it didn’t sink until the next day.

Incredible work

Maybe they’re all cheering for the white pieces?

RIP to a legend

It’s real, but it went viral and they got a ton of backlash online for it a few years ago.

I may have to one of these days.

Just did some digging, and it’s legit and from a 1994 book called “The Internet Guide for New Users” by Daniel P. Dern.

Mildly interesting side-note, I found someone’s blog about posting this image and book to a (now non-existent) fediverse server. https://doughnut.neocities.org/blag/15

That’s an amazing story. That’s exactly the flavor of badass nerd that we need.

It’s so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it’s flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos…

Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I’ve been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven’t added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium otters are my favorite.

There are a lot of long nature videos on youtube meant for this purpose - some with relaxing music, some without. I’ll occasionally play one on a TV when I know I’m going to be bouncing around the house all day, and it’s nice.

I don’t know of any actual livestreams like that, but some zoos have livestreams of their aquariums or exhibits that are cool too.

Oh!