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danmeinews_feed) wrote2025-09-16 08:27 pm
Seven Seas revealed the cover for Vol. 4 of Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu, a danmei novel series by Fei Tian Ye Xiang.
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extrapenguin) wrote2025-09-16 09:54 pmlanguagehat_feed) wrote2025-09-16 08:07 pmI was over at XIX век and happened to glance at the list of Russian literature sites in the right margin, and my eye fell on the obdurately lowercase obdurodon. When I clicked through, I found an amazing collection of “Digital humanities projects,” many of them Russian-related, from The annotated Afanas′ev library (“Selected Russian fairy tales from the Aleksandr Afanas′ev collection with glosses and linguistic and cultural annotation”) to Twitter register variation (“Corpus-based study of linguistic properties of English-language tweets”). It’s well worth checking out. And “obdurodon”? Per Wikipedia, it’s “a genus of extinct platypus-like Australian monotreme which lived from the Late Oligocene to the Late Miocene”:
The holotype tooth was placed into the newly erected genus Obdurodon upon description in 1975 by American palaeontologists Michael O. Woodburne and Richard H. Tedford. They named the genus from the Latin obduro “persist” and the Greek ὀδών (odṓn) “tooth”, in reference to the permanency of the molars, a feature which is lost in the modern platypus.
So it’s a bastard formation, but if I can take “television,” I guess I can take “obdurodon.” (It’s not in the OED yet even though it’s been known and named for half a century.) I have no idea why the site is called that, but there’s an image of a pair of them at the top of the main page, and it’s quite cute.
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iddyiddybangbang2025-09-16 10:34 pmpurplecat) wrote2025-09-16 08:32 pmtinny) wrote2025-09-16 09:28 pmretro_icontest provided three themes and I made three icons for each theme.
facethestrange) wrote in sid_guardian2025-09-16 09:07 pmsasheneskywalker) wrote in enemiestoloversex2025-09-16 03:38 pmgwynnega) wrote2025-09-16 11:29 amqueen_ypolita) wrote2025-09-16 06:53 pmbadly_knitted) wrote in get_knitted2025-09-16 06:57 pm
oursin) wrote2025-09-16 06:14 pm‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy:
Designed for kids aged three and over and built with OpenAI’s technology, the toy is supposed to “learn” your child’s personality and have fun, educational conversations with them. It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys.
I thought I'd linked somewhere to the instructive tale of techbro who made, was it an interactive doll or was it a teddybear for his daughter, that would talk to her, and in very short order she turned the thing off and played with it as Ye Kiddyz have played with dolls since dolls were A Thing (Ancient Sumeria???). Can't find it, however.
Anyone else read Harry Harrison's 'I Always Do What Teddy Says'? which also springs to mind, although that is about plot to subvert conditioning via teddy.
alisx) wrote2025-09-17 03:16 amWe kept getting fed the same bullshit, and it’s being laundered in the same kind of stories. [The New York Times] sucks, man. It doesn’t suck because it posted something dumb that betrays the paper’s poor commitment to video gaming’s wider place in our culture and artistic landscape. It sucks because it’s doing to games, and AI, what it seems to be doing to every other important beat of the 2020s: taking the worst people at face value.
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andrewducker) wrote2025-09-16 09:58 am
No, daddy, it's definitely not a "pointy duck"! Have you even read the sign?
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iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-09-16 05:47 pmWriter: Roger Stern
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Scott Hanna
Will's estranged father is dying in hospital, so he goes to visit him one last time.
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