japanese woman mistaken for bear

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via SoraNews24:

At about 7:35 a.m. on 15 December, a motorist on National Route 13 in Yamagata City saw a bear sitting on the side of the road and reported it to the police. An alert was sent out to nearby facilities, advising everyone to be on guard for the wild animal.

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About three days later, one business contacted the Yamagata Police and said that around the same time as the report, there was a woman having a cigarette and sitting with her back turned to the highway. More importantly, the woman was wearing a full-sized, black, and furry jumpsuit with bear-like ears attached to the hood.

The police investigated and confirmed the smoker’s wardrobe choice, concluding the original report was mistaken.

3d-printed carbon fiber cello

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The project originated from a practical challenge. Lee’s orchestra director asked if he could use his early 3D printing skills to design a cello that was strong, low cost, and easy for more people to use. Rather than simply replicating traditional designs in new materials, Lee and Goodrich rethought the entire structure. They tested different thicknesses and configurations using computer-aided design tools, discovering they could shape the sound in more controlled ways than traditional luthiers. This digital precision allowed them to dial in the acoustics by controlling every part of the structure.


Mamoru Oshii v. The Brotherhood

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via Kotaku:

The filmmaker and genius behind the 1995 sci-fi anime classic has been documenting his eight year journey through Fallout 4’s post-nuclear (h/t Automaton), and it doesn’t involve following the main story which sees the player-made protagonist on a search for their child after they were abducted. Instead, Oshii plays by a self-inforced code of conduct, restricting who he interacts with while also seeing him collect a ton of power armor.

For Oshii, Dogmeat is his only companion. He allies with no one. He ignores the main story. And the Brotherhood of Steel are in for a really bad time when he comes across them. In his many articles on Automaton documenting his experiences with the game, he said:

Whenever I spot [the Brotherhood’s] reconnaissance units in the ruins, I stalk them from behind and take them out with my trusty .50 caliber rifle. I kill them all and leave no evidence. I’ve decided to strip them naked and leave them lying there in their underwear. They’re invaders, so mercy is unnecessary.

slop evader

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via 404

Slop Evader was created by artist and researcher Tega Brain, who says she was motivated by the growing dismay over the tech industry’s unrelenting, aggressive rollout of so-called “generative AI”—despite widespread criticism and the wider public’s distaste for it.

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“This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with media is a huge thing, a huge effect of this synthetic media moment we’re in,” Brain told 404 Media, describing how tools like Sora 2 have short-circuited our ability to determine reality within a sea of artificial online junk. “I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022."