#technology and humor

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[compassionmattersmost]

Exploring the Roots of AI Creativity, One Carrot at a Time 😂

An Ode to Carrots In the garden bed, both rich and neat, Grows a carrot, orange and sweet. It stretches down where the soil is deep, While up above, green fronds do sweep. Crunchy wisdom in every bite, A snack by day, or stew by night. Root of simplicity, humble and true, It teaches patience as all things do. So, while AI learns and humans debate, The carrot just grows, unconcerned with…

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[itscolossal]

A Music Video for Corridor Is a Frenetic Collage of Our Disordered Attention

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(support the original tiktok: @/itsmemaamjanice17!)

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The excitement of going to the ICT suite in school

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The Contraption, nd. Laurence Stephen Lowry. Lithograph in colours on wove paper, after the painting of 1949.

[markkiatocafe]

omg writing event 🤩 i think the XG is this love prompt + yangyang would be perfect <3

btw this is from anga @ / ninety-nite-99, i just sent on anon bc i hate how tumblr makes me send thru my main acc. so annoying lol anyway lov u bye

is this love?

fake texts with yangyang of wayv

.ᐣ warnings: slightly suggestive, reader is slightly jokingly (?) a misandrist, they talk abt kissing, situationship/flirty best friends to lovers, light implied cursing (“stfu,” “lmao”)

.ᐣ synop: after he makes a move, you and yangyang both realize that you may want to be more than just friends who kiss sometimes.

.ᐣ pairing: she/her!reader x nonidol!yangyang

.ᐣ a/n: i decided to make this into an smau oneshot/fake texts and its quite humor-centered… so i hope thats okay!!!! i hope it reaches your standards :3 p.s that sounds so annoying, tumblr is sooooo weird sometimes

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Today's acquisition was a 1922 issue of Life magazine. The cartoon is relevant a century and three years later. It's not the same Life magazine you're thinking of, and yet it is.

Let me explain: Life was created in 1883 and ran as a highbrow humor magazine (competing with Punch and Esquire) until it was purchased by Henry Luce in 1936, whereupon it took a more serious tone and featured great photography, thus allowing it to bounce back after swirling around the drain for a few years... or until it folded as a publication in 2000 though today its archives exist as a Tumblr.

The early version of Life is a different vein of humor than most people understand today... or probably understood in 1922, either. It is relevant to point out that the United States had enacted the 18th Amendment, Prohibition of liquor, just a couple years earlier, so several of the barbs in this magazine are about the 'dry' nation.

Some of the above jokes I can explain, others "I guess you had to be there", but I can tell you the point of the cartoon: Life was published in America, where people couldn't drink so no liquor advertisements (other than Mouquin Vermouth, which had an 'American formula' that reduced the alcohol content by 5 ounces per bottle) and their British competition Punch had no such issues, thus the visit from a confused Johnnie Walker of Scotch whiskey fame.

From a modern perspective, and probably from many a century ago, the problem with Life was all the racist stereotypes. Jews were shown with big noses, Asians wore queues and kimonos, and as for Black folks... yeah. This was 1922 so don't come at me for sharing the final "joke" above and the cartoon below of a youngster trying to make off with a watermelon!

I'd like to end this post with something more upbeat, so here's a cartoon titled "From Counter to Coronet" by Gluyas Williams. The jokes are a bit more tongue-in-cheek but you'll get the idea.