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Fine Arts The land, the people, the culture

Coiffure Crisis, Creativity and Kairos

Big news at OpenAI – shakeup in the management team yesterday. But I think mainstream media is missing the real lead – what about the calamitous coiffure crisis at OpenAI? Calamitous Coiffures, Part I This showed up for the Google Image search of “Coiffure Crisis”. WLBOTT Wonders: Why is Macron wrapped in bacon? Calamitous Coiffures, […]

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Curated Absurdity Random Acts of WLBOTTness

WLBOTT Mood Enhancer

Guaranteed to Enhance Your Mood by 3.14% or Double Your Money Back![1] [1] Some exceptions apply. Offer limited to one personality per person. All refunds paid in FTX crypto hedge futures. Liberated and curated from the Facebook Group Sign Appreciation Society More signs… And finely, for all those preparing for the WLBOTT 5K

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Adventures of the Elders Lasting Love

We Salute our Caregivers!

With a little help from HotPot.ai

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Adventures of the Elders The land, the people, the culture

The Lives of the Elders: Sunday, Nov. 11th, 2023

In celebration of the Lives of the Elders, the following have be approved by the WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice. [UC#3] A man named [UC#1] got a new knee For awhile, he’ll have to use a Zimmer to go pee Hoping the pain in his knee will reduce in size And the doctors bills […]

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DPOMLATMIR Late Stage Capitalism

Carbon Capture and the Unit Tree

Interesting article in today’s New York Times concerning carbon capture. The first US commercial carbon capture plant (Heirloom Carbon Technologies) went on-line in California. This reminds me of an Onion article: “Top 10 Products to Battle Consumerism.” Kim Stanley Robinson, in The Ministry for the Future, give us so much to think about: It is […]

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Africa Exonumia/Philately are not contagious The land, the people, the culture

Space Stamps!

[Thanks to UC#1 for his philately[1]] [1] WLBOTT learns something new: DPR [North] Korea WLBOTT learns something new: we weren’t aware that North Korea had stamp technology! Iran WLBOTT learns something new: Cuba WLBOTT learns something new: Cuba is home to the smallest bird in the world – the bee hummingbird (from Fact Animal) Ecuador […]

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Meaning of Life Random Acts of WLBOTTness

Welcome Newcomers to Planet Earth!

WLBOTT welcomes all Newcomers to Planet Earth! November 2nd, 2023 To help you get started, here are some fun facts from history for November 2nd. 1755 You share a birthday with Marie-Antoinette, the queen consort of King Louis XVI of France (1774–93). First of all, what is a “queen consort”? A queen consort is the […]

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Book Club

Book Club: the WLBOTT Equation

Our readers may be familiar with the Drake Equation. Basically, you plug numbers into an equation to determine the probability of having friends and neighbors in the Milky Way. where N = the number of civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on the current past light […]

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Adventures of the Elders TechnoBLOTT

R5-D4 moves!

[UC#1] This is the robot that my son [UC#1-P1] has been working on for the last year or more. Most of it was 3-D printed on his printer. He had to figure out all the wiring and computer programming and all that stuff. This was the final part, getting the wheel motors going and responding […]

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Adventures of the Elders Fine Arts

UC#3 IRL

WLBOTT HR has granted UC#3 S/UIRL[1](pronounced /səˈrēəl/), but he leaves us with the following non-haiku limerick: There once was a man named Jerry He farmed a bog full of cranberry Every morning he put on his hip waders And would sell his harvest to OceanSpray traders But he secretly only enjoyed pie made of blueberry […]