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What are the best fictional books you’ve ever read?
  • I second someone else suggestion: the murderbot diaries. It's great.
    Most of the books people here are recommending are fairly lengthy, but you can get through the first murderbot book in a dedicated evening.

  • What is your favorite extinction event, and why?
  • Yeah I knew they weren't plants but it made the analogy easier to pretend they were 😅
    They have plant-ey vibes

    They were all like "let's get the Calvin cycle up in this house, lets light it up!" And so they did, and the atmosphere caught fire

  • What is your favorite extinction event, and why?
  • That's my fav too.
    "The Oxygen Catastrophy" is just such a cool name.

    • Also some upstart bacteria just start pumping out poison that kills almost everything (oxygen)
    • Causes the ocean to rust
    • Causes the atmosphere to catch on fire
    • then causes the earth to turn to a snowball

    Fuckin metal

  • What is your favorite extinction event, and why?

    I'm probably going to judge you if you say Holocene, without an interesting non-trivial reason.

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    Mac & Beans

    Using copilot: > generate and image of Shrek opening a can of beans, but unexpectedly Mac & cheese flies out and lands on the donkey

    Unholy union of ai memes

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    The OG super graphic ultra modern girl

    I remember everyone calling her androgynous at the time. Looking back, that was an absolutely wild thing for people to think.

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    WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks!

    What a sweet deal! Thanks Hello Fresh!

    They really said\ 🙅 "Disney+, with ads on us" \ 👉 "Disney+ with ads, on us"

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    [Community Challenge 45] 20X6 Olympics

    Theme

    Create a new sport that you think should be added to the next (or some future) Olympic games.

    I've heard that the Olympics are currently happening, so I figured why not celebrate this by telling the Olympic committee how dumb they are for passing over your new idea for an Olympic sport!

    Rules

    • Follow the community’s rules above all else
    • One comment and image per user
    • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
    • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
    • Posts that are tied will both get the points
    • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
    • Down votes will not be counted

    Scores

    At the end of the challenge each post will be scored: | Prize | Points | |---|---| | Most upvoted | +3 points | | Second most upvoted | +2 point | | Third most upvoted | +1 point | | OP’s favorite | +1 point | | Most original | +1 point | | Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point | | Prompt and workflow included | +1 point |

    The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!\ Previous entries

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    Does anyone remember a Tiktok/short song about AI taking creative work, with a dancing yellow alien?

    I've been trying to find this video for a while with no luck, and idk what other community to ask.

    The video features this yellow dancing CG blob alien thing, and the lyrics go something like:

    > We made AI to do the dumb stuff, so we could do the fun stuff\ > But now it does the fun stuff, and we became the dumb stuff

    Does anyone remember it, or know where to find it? \ The little singing alien thing popped up a few times on my FYP but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I can't find any evidence that it ever existed.

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    showerthoughts @lemmy.ca PeriodicallyPedantic @lemmy.ca
    Did John Cena successfully parlay a meme into a successful movie career?

    I had never really heard of him outside of wrestling until the memes, and since then his movie career has actually been on a pretty impressive trajectory.

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    [Community Challenge 43] Is This A Meme?

    Theme

    Try to recreate a classic exploitable meme using AI!

    I'm gonna switch up the scoring a little for this challenge, so be sure to read the score section:

    • Most ambitious: the most complex meme or the meme that I (a layman) feels would be very difficult to describe via prompt.
    • Most recognizable: the meme is the easiest to identify, and is the most accurate to the original
    • Do not include the name of the meme in the prompt: the challenge is to find a novel way to recreate the meme, not just get the model to spit out an image it was trained on. You can use words that are in the name of the meme, but avoid telling the model to just make the meme.

    Rules

    • Follow the community’s rules above all else
    • One comment and image per user
    • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
    • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
    • Posts that are tied will both get the points
    • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
    • Down votes will not be counted

    Scores

    At the end of the challenge each post will be scored: | Prize | Points | |---|---| | Most upvoted | +3 points | | Second most upvoted | +2 point | | Third most upvoted | +1 point | | OP’s favorite | +1 point | | Most ambitious | +1 point | | Most recognizable meme | +1 point| | Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point | | Prompt and workflow included | +1 point | | Prompt includes the name of the meme | -1 point |

    The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone! Previous entries

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    Step aside NAFTA, here comes CUMFART

    Canada\ United states\ Mexico\ Free-trade of\ Arts\ Research\ Technology

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    Acrimony and cheese

    I really tried to get it to generate Mac from the film Mac and Me, but it just wouldn't

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    It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response

    What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?

    Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it's all weird.

    Edit\ Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I'm talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports

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    LOLWUT

    Not to count my chickens before they hatch, but I think I've decided my next contest theme, if I win one in the near future

    > a large green pear with a large mouth. the mouth is open, showing large blunt teeth, and a tongue. the pear is on a meadow with small hills, on a sunny day. oil painting

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    Who was in charge of deciding where to put this?

    I know FNAF is a "kids game" but putting it next to the Care Bears seems a bit excessive lol

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    [Community Challenge 35] Unexpected Astronaut

    Theme

    Unexpected Astronaut!

    What could possibly be unexpected, unusual, or surprising about astronauts or the situations they find themselves in?

    Rules

    • Follow the community’s rules above all else
    • One comment and image per user
    • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
    • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
    • Posts that are tied will both get the points
    • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
    • Down votes will not be counted

    Scores

    At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

    • Most upvoted: +3 points
    • Second most upvoted: +2 pointS
    • Third most upvoted: +1 point
    • OP’s favorite: +1 point
    • Most original: +1 point
    • Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
    • Prompt and workflow included: +1 point

    The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!

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    [Community Challenge 33] Cozy Catastrophy

    Theme

    Cozy Catastrophy. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

    Rules

    • Follow the community’s rules above all else
    • One comment and image per user
    • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
    • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
    • Posts that are tied will both get the points
    • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
    • Down votes will not be counted
    • No memes

    Scores

    At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

    • Most upvoted: +3 points
    • Second most upvoted: +2 point
    • Third most upvoted: +1 point
    • OP’s favorite: +1 point
    • Most original: +1 point
    • Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
    • Prompt and workflow included: +1 point

    The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!

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