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[Per]

There was another dude out there called Harpsound who used to watch his old lady strum harps while wanking in the corner (allegedly)

Harpsund is kind of like Sweden's equivalent to Camp David.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpsund

[Per]

No idea where to put this. The lab picked rhe furthest corner of the park and left his chocolates. I tried to ignore it but he had to kick 20 times and start barking. A Korean couple asked if was going to coean it up. I said I speaka no English and have the gout.

Ah, that reminds me... Last day in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We're taking a taxi to the airport. OK, I figure, last chance to practice my Spanish, so I strike up a conversation with the driver. Turns out he's from Cuba and that his old man had been granted asylum in Sweden and lived there for a while but then moved to Puerto Rico and managed to get his family out of Cuba to join him there. So, anyway. He kind of frowns, and then he says "look, I just have to ask, my old man told me something about Sweden, it's probably not true, he probably just made it up, but I've got to ask. He said that when Swedes are walking their dogs, and the dog takes a poop, the Swedes bend down and pick it up in a little plastic bag. Look, I'm sure he was just pulling my leg, but, you know, I've got to ask." So I confirmed that his dad was right. That that's the law and if you don't you may get fined.

"Oh, man," he laughed. "That's crazy! They could never make us do that!"

Well, at least now he knows his dad didn't lie to him!

[Cornuck]

The future is almost here. Hopefully, this becomes mainstream soon.

Microsoft just introduced the MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator, an AI system that achieves 4x higher diagnosis results than experienced doctors on some of medicine’s most challenging cases, marking a “step towards medical superintelligence.”
The details:
• MAI-DxO simulates a virtual medical team, with specialized AI agents handling hypothesis generation, test selection, and cost monitoring.
• Researchers created SDBench, a benchmark with 304 complex cases — with MAI-DxO, paired with OpenAI's o3, achieving the highest accuracy in testing.
• The MAI/o3 pairing solved 85.5% of cases correctly, with a group of physicians with 5-20 years of experience averaging just 20%.
• The AI system also resulted in cost savings over human doctors, spending $2,397 per case compared to an average of $2,963 for physicians.

[Cousin Strawberry]

It's the sick bay from Star Trek. Hopefully the next breakthrough is the holodeck

[Megaterio Llamas]

stay gaslit my friends https://youtu.be/kX_C1QjtCWk?si=OpLktMIjA-sspUR7

[Cousin Strawberry]

stay gaslit my friends https://youtu.be/kX_C1QjtCWk?si=OpLktMIjA-sspUR7

Pajeets!

[Megaterio Llamas]

Some more Dos Equis AI fun

https://youtu.be/z_3MZ7cIvdY?si=B4QGJY8HxC_J6rBq

https://youtu.be/9qVGxG9BbQU?si=ekqv6KObzB3aRjPJ

[Cornuck]

THE PSYCHEDELIC WORLD OF SHERMAN HEMSLEY.
Sherman Hemsley was into psychedelics and a huge fan of prog rock band Gong. At the height of The Jeffersons, he invited the band’s front man, Daevid Allen, to visit his home.
Daevid Allen told his story to Mitch Myers in 1999. Myers included in his book "The Boy Who Cried Freebird".
“It was 1978 or 1979, and Sherman Hemsley kept ringing me up. I didn’t know him from a bar of soap because we didn’t have television in Spain (where I was living). He called me from Hollywood saying, ‘I’m one of your biggest fans and I’m going to fly you here and put flying teapots all up and down the Sunset Strip.’ I thought, ‘This guy is a lunatic.’ He kept it up so I said, ‘Listen, can you get us tickets to L.A. via Jamaica? I want to go there to make a reggae track and have a honeymoon with my new girlfriend.’ He said, ‘Sure! I’ll get you two tickets.’
I thought, ‘Well, even if he’s a nut case at least he’s coming up with the goodies.’ The tickets arrived and we had this great honeymoon in Jamaica. Then we caught the plane across to L.A. We had heard Sherman was a big star, but we didn’t know the details. Coming down the corridor from the plane, I see this black guy with a whole bunch of people running after him trying to get autographs. Anyway, we get into this stretch limousine with Sherman and immediately there’s a big joint being passed around. I say, ‘Sorry man, I don’t smoke.’ Sherman says, ‘You don’t smoke and you’re from Gong?’
Inside the front door of Sherman’s house was a sign saying, ‘Don’t answer the door because it might be the man.’ There were two Puerto Ricans that had a LSD laboratory in his basement, so they were really paranoid. They also had little crack/freebase depots on every floor. Then Sherman says, ‘Come on upstairs and I’ll show you the Flying Teapot room.’ Sherman was very sweet but was surrounded by these really crazy people.
We went up to the top floor and there was this big room with darkened windows and “Flying Teapot” is playing on a tape loop over and over again. There were also three really dumb-looking, very voluptuous Southern gals stoned and wobbling around naked. They were obviously there for the guys to play around with.
[My girlfriend] Maggie and I were really tired and went to our room to go to bed. The room had one mattress with an electric blanket and that was it. No bed covering, no pillow, nothing. The next day we came down and Sherman showed us a couple of The Jeffersons episodes.
One of our fans came and rescued us, but not before Sherman took us to see these Hollywood PR people. They said, ‘Well, Mr. Hemsley wants us to get the information we need in order to do these Flying Teapot billboards on Sunset Strip.’ I looked at them and thought they were the cheesiest, most nasty people that I had ever seen in my life and I gave them the runaround. I just wanted out of there. I liked Sherman a lot. He was a very personable, charming guy. I just had a lot of trouble with the people around him.”
- Mitch Myers.
Back in 1999, Sherman recorded a full album with Jon Anderson of Yes. "Festival Of Dreams", a rock opera with all the lyrics by Hemsley has never been released.

[Megaterio Llamas]

LOL, I had read he liked prog, but that is crazy

[Strangelove]

WOW, Hemsley must've been a better actor than I thought!