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The Emperor’s unused clothes

Created using ChatGPT based on the picture found at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg using the prompt "Please make a parody of this uploaded picture. Everything should stay exactly the same except for the following. First, the final image should be in widescreen format. Second, Louis XIV should be dressed in large paper shopping bags." In the public domain (like the original it is based upon).

I did a bit of clothes shopping the other day and it was only after I got home that I discovered that one store had cynically charged me an extra 15 cents for the paper bag that they had put my clothes in. But wait. Why is the store the cynical one here? Shouldn’t IContinue reading “The Emperor’s unused clothes”

Un-vital signs 02.10.2025

A few weeks ago, the following sign popped up on the garbage bin on campus that I pop my dog’s poop down every morning forbidding this practice in the future. Someone in Not-Bielefeld must be very proud of themselves. They need to work on their punctuation a little but did manage to use the genitiveContinue reading “Un-vital signs 02.10.2025”

Debugging biodiversity

Generated using the Jetpack AI using the prompt "A gloomy picture of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, with the horsemen being represented by insects and not humans." In the public domain.

Listen. Can we just make up our minds here? I heard on the radio yesterday afternoon that experts are predicting that this summer will see an insect plague in Germany, especially when it comes to ticks and tiger mosquitoes. Now, I can’t find any real support for this statement on the internet apart from allContinue reading “Debugging biodiversity”