surrealism

January 12, 2009 by yorksranter 1 comment

no-one ever gets the truth from plastic man

Reduced blog; I’ve been working on a version of FixMyStreet for Symbian S60 devices. If you want snark, how about this? I always thought that the BMW not-minis were telling in themselves. Objects are an ideology made manifest. The original Mini was a minimal car, one designed to be even cheaper than the ones sold…

August 12, 2007 by yorksranter 0 comments

Paranoid Critique

Salvador Dali described his work as making use of a paranoid-critical method. Like a paranoiac, he attempted to find meaning in the associations of entirely unrelated images, an analogue to Freudian free association. Tate Modern currently has an exhibition on Dali’s influence from and work for the cinema; perhaps as well as the Looney Tunes…

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City & State tested it out with over a dozen lawmakers from both parties and of different genders. For most, the chatbot invented similar stories of sexual harassment allegations that were never made, investigations that never took place and consequences – in particular, being stripped of committee assignments – that never occurred // interestingly it […]
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GOOG Exhibit 99.1 Q1 2024 - 2024q1-alphabet-earnings-release-pdf.pdf
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Huawei's 7nm chip capability and HBM development reflect China's advanced processes ambition
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Phison's aiDAPTIV+ poised to bridge the gap in on-device AI fine-tuning, CEO foresees exponential growth
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Tesla profits drop 55% as Elon Musk dodges cheap car questions | Ars Technica
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Man who bought fake Greek driving licence is sentenced | Bradford Telegraph and Argus
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