Geeksouts — Page 15
It breaks my heart. A 9th grader used an AI app to make fake explicit images of five female classmates. His friends had his back. AI is a powerful tool — but we have to be responsible with how we use it. This can’t keep happening.
This is equal parts bizarre and horrifying. Centuries-old whaler remains thawing out of Arctic permafrost and sliding downhill. Climate change isn’t just a future problem.
Climate change is an obvious danger to future generations, but it also threatens our link to the past by accelerating the erosion and degradation of its material remains.
via ‘Corpse Point’ In the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies
TIL a new word: eldritch That is the description of the Widow's Bay.
eldritch
adjective: strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear : weird, eerie
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch singsong, turned with a skip, and was gone.
Widow’s Bay S1E4, Beach Reads is the best so far — didn’t see it coming, though the hints were there. Still trying to pin down the legend. Could it be Wetiko? The Wicker Man influence is clear, but watching it all spiral into a horror party? Unhinged.
‘“Beach Reads” is the best episode of Widow’s Bay so far, partly…it understands that horror sometimes hits us the hardest when it arrives through ordinary sadness.’
When Patricia finally sees what’s really happening, she asks her coworker: “Why did you let me…?” Her coworker did try, but she didn’t listen.
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The water is so clear you can see straight through the ice. Absolutely stunning — and absolutely terrifying. One crack away from disaster. No thank you. 😅
It’s hard to believe we’ve only cataloged around 15% of animal species — so much of life on Earth is still out there, undescribed and unseen. And the ocean makes it even wilder: roughly 75% of the seafloor hasn’t been mapped, and we’ve explored only about 5% of the total ocean volume. There’s a lot of world left to find.
Even after centuries of effort, some 86 percent of Earth’s species have yet to be fully described, according to a new study that predicts our planet is home to 8.7 million species.
I’m really into this house with blue tones. My favorite color! If I ever check out this spot, I’d definitely want to take photos my way. Just so you know, if you don’t know me, I’m a hobbyist photographer. I’m really into architecture.
While the total monument reaches 305 feet from the foundation up, Lady Liberty herself stands 151 feet tall—and wears a US women’s shoe size 879.
She wasn't always sea green. Wrapped in 30 tons of copper skin—enough to mint 435 million pennies—she spent her first 35 years in New York Harbor as a dull, oxidized brown. By 1920, continuous exposure to atmospheric sulfur & salty sea spray created the protective patina we see today.
