In the Trenches
Breakfast at Waffle House by rpavich (cc by)
Vigilant talks about life behind the counter at Waffle House in the rather mind-blowing Waffle House training video thread.
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Perfect
Bullseye - Arrow on Target by gfdnova1 (cc by-sa)
"There is clearly very little AskMetaFilter can’t figure out": in response to an "impossible" question, not only does the first reply nail the answer, the actual subject of the query turns out to be another member, who shows up to fulfill the wish. Delightful!
Harmonica and minds: Completely Blown
Will Wilde video screen cap
A truly astonishing Free Bird harmonica solo, plus interesting insight and context from msbrauer.
indistinguishable from magic
A robot draws itself, by OpenAI's DALL·E 2
Please do not miss Rhaomi's Opus DALL·E 2 on "the extraordinary new AI that creates anything you can imagine in a matter of seconds," including examples, explainers, demos, other projects and breakthroughs, fun stuff, deep fakes and more from the new age of synthetic media that will "hit you like a digital blitzkrieg."
Below the Surface
an assemblage of artifacts at belowthesurface.amsterdam
Amsterdam drained a canal and put everything they found online, piece by piece, chronologically, and you can see it all ... mygothlaundry's "Under Amsterdam" post is spectacular.
Got it in one!
The Amazing Extreme Equilibrium by Vitor Sá Photo (cc by-nc)
Dirtdirt asks for examples of when an actor pulled off some ridiculous unlikely thing on film, ideally on the first try.
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