It's interesting to me

[67416d41e7cccfox]

New (LTE) Rotary Cell Phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1C-41tq64

https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

[67416d41e7f11voodoo47]

(semi) random fact - if you have watched the Chernobyl hbo miniseries, Shcherbina smashes a rotary phone at one point out of frustration. I still have the very same phone in one of my random junk drawers (the glorious standard rotary phone of the people, everybody gets it. unlike food).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLxGxT9ImJE

[67416d41e8019fox]

I have childhood memories of a green FeTap 611 ("Fernsprechtischapparat").

[67416d41e81c6ZylonBane]

So apparently an early prototype of Thief 2 was recently leaked online:
https://twitter.com/skacky/status/1571433181856862211

And somehow, there isn't a single thread on TTLG about it yet.

[67416d41e82d0voodoo47]

not extremely interesting, unless it has unique assets or a complete copy of the source code included. similar to that pre-release version of SS2 that can be downloaded from pirate sites (the 98% done build, NOT the beta from that old video).

[67416d41e841aicemann]

If it had later on cut levels, or different game mechanics be interesting.

[67416d41e851afox]

Take it from a guy with a sizeable Guybrush and LeChuck-tattoo on his forearm: Return To Monkey Island is more charming then the initial bland teaser led us to believe. A very welcome antidote to the daily news apocalypse.

[67416d41e8699Kolya]

Went to a Jewish restaurant, "Neni" in Cologne. It's on the 5th floor or sth. This is the elevator.

[67416d41e87c2fox]

But what music is playing? Is it Disco? Kavinsky`?

[67416d41e893aKolya]

This is what the place looks like from the outside. As if it was designed by Albert Speer. Used to be an insurance company building, actually built in the 1950s. Now it houses all kinds of artisan shops and a restaurant. More info and images here: https://www.awmagazin.de/architektur/das-gerling-quartier

//I don't remember any music in the lift.

[67416d41e8ba0ZylonBane]

KolyaWere you temporarily equipped with a cyber interface during your meal?

[67416d41e8de9Kolya]

ZylonBane Unfortunately I didn't get to have any meal, because they were booked out. And my dumbass thought we could just jump in there and enjoy some delikatessen. A few weeks back my wife and I had stumbled into a brillant Jewish restaurant in Berlin (Masel Topf). Very nice place and I had the best and most unusal tasting food there that I've had in years.

[67416d41e8ee8Kolya]

photographed a velociraptor today, fishing at river Rhine

[67416d41e91b3Kolya]

Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated Films |  Open Culture
Studio Ghibli make lush and captivating animated films. So, on occasion, do other studios, but of how many of their pictures can we say that each and every still frame constitutes a work of art in itself? Open Culture, openculture.com

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[67416d41e935eKolya]

The 52-hertz whale, colloquially referred to as 52 Blue or "The world's loneliest whale", is an individual whale of unidentified species that calls at the unusual frequency of 52 hertz. Its call has been detected regularly via hydrophones in many locations since the late 1980s, and appears to be the only individual emitting a whale call at this frequency. The whale itself has never been sighted. The migration track of the 52-hertz whale is unrelated to the presence or movement of other whale species.

[67416d41e94b7fox]

Kind of like Eiffel 65, only that they were emitting on a frequency nobody wanted to hear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4

Sad poetry.

[67416d41e95d5icemann]

Love that song. Very much a product of it's time. Especially with the music video to it (not in the above video).

Along a similar vein:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnpsBBBMo4

[67416d41e971bKolya]

Photographed a Compsognathus Longipes ('dainty jaw long legs') near the water where it was hunting small lizards.

[67416d41e9930Kolya]

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

Further reading
https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

[67416d41e9ba9Kolya]

Computer scientists of the University of Maryland created a sweater that prevents common AI object detection from detecting the wearer.

Render Yourself Invisible To AI With This Adversarial Sweater Of Doom | Hackaday

[67416d41e9cc0fox]

Not recommended for pedestrian usage.

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Speaking of pressing matters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKGDl_suBNI

[67416d41e9df7Kolya]

The Hosaka Mark I Cyberdeck is a tribute to William Gibson and his work, which still fascinates many today.

Gallery: https://hackaday.io/project/187128/gallery#e68bd0bd86fd33da72a062644d7c13f6

[67416d41e9f09Kolya]

Deep Space 90210

[67416d41e9ff9Kolya]

Half Life 2 is now 18 years old.