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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
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Seriously, the map was showing a separate entity roaming through the maze.

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[–] karashta@piefed.social 2 points 5 minutes ago

Oh hey, it's the alien that spontaneously generates or something in that one star trek episode! 

(I know it's just that screensaver but it reminds me of that alien too)

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I remember when screen savers used to be cool

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I always loved Particle Fire; I actually bought it with a postal money order as a teenager. The company released it under the GPL at some point a few years ago. Maybe someday I’ll be able to use it again on other systems!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I forgot that existed. Beautiful.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

That's nothing, I've seen the DVD player figure out the exact angle to land the icon perfectly in a corner.

With AI having that type of aim we have no chance

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a way to get this on Linux?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

[PIPEGEN v0.42] Initializing procedural pipe renderer
t=0.000s
Origin pipe spawned at (0,0,0)
Radius: 1.00
Color: teal
Direction vector: (0.00, 1.00, 0.00)
t=0.217s
Pipe extended to length 3.4 units
Current position: (0.0, 3.4, 0.0)
Color: classic teal
Specular highlight: implied
t=0.491s
Elbow joint inserted
Rotation: +90° on Z-axis
New direction vector: (1.00, 0.00, 0.00)
t=0.944s
Secondary pipe spawned
Parent junction at (0.0, 3.4, 0.0)
Radius: 0.85
Color: common teal
t=1.302s
Primary pipe length: 7.9 units
Secondary pipe length: 2.1 units
No collisions detected (optimism high)

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is that thing drawing a geometric structure on your screen? Because that's not that impressive. AI has real dangers, or what we are calling AI, which is not the AI that could be, LLM's are a lot less than we are led to believe. But they are good at sorting through data and pulling out like terms.

And even if they aren't good at it, our leaders think they are good at it, and will task their half baked Palantir operations to give us secret social scores to decide everything about how we are treated in business and government, without us knowing, or being able to challenge it.

Naturally the people setting it up will leave a way for them, and connected individuals, to put the names of people they don't like into the fuck you list for the program to score badly. That goes without saying really.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Sir this is a Wendy's/it is a screensaver from 1995

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Can I ask what is that sir this is a wendy's from? Because I see that everywhere but don't know the reference.

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 43 minutes ago

Interesting thanks, so The Office seems to be mostly the genesis of the joke when Michael is given list of woman to call for a date and calls a girl called wendy and it's a wendy's restaurant. Which is mildly funny sort of.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 8 points 4 hours ago

OMG it's got a teapot in it! We're all gonna die!!!!!!

[–] Maven@piefed.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

I used to use this exact same screensaver. Thats fantastic.