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begging you all to also share the original historical images alongside 'upscaled' ones.
they just read totally different in many I've seen, and sometimes add or remove key features (e.g. eyes closed on this 2nd pic, or the shirt logo on the 1st)
ALT Baldwin in front of a refreshment stand with several customers including someone in US navy uniform.
ALT "A sherbet seller, his customers, and Baldwin at Yeni Cami (New Mosque), 1965."
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the past is not immune to sloppification, becoming increasingly common for nostalgia accounts to post AI unhanced versions of real photos, either to make them bigger or burn out watermarks.
e.g. this Getty snap of Oxford Street in the 1990s.
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A 12-storey building under construction collapsed along 9th Street in Eastleigh, Nairobi, with several people feared trapped under the debris.
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The entire first number in Beauty and the Beast is “damn this bitch is hot, shame shes so autistic” so anyway shes my favorite Disney princess because she’s also a monsterfucker
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I am not gonna lie, I almost cried. people are removing a large picture of Vojislav Šešelj the war criminal from a key building in my hometown that has been there for thirty years *since the nineties*. I feel we are literally confronting the bastards that destroyed the Balkans
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They are calling murder robots "next-gen search & rescue."
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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We are still alive here, and we are still breathing. If our lives matter to you, pray for our safety and raise your voice for us in Palestine and for an end to the war in Gaza. 💔🇵🇸
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Manchester Saturday: Zionism is the ideological belief that Israel should have a homeland by ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Palestine. They stole a whole country in 1948, violently and brutally stole 79% of the land to create Israel, then in the decades since occupied and forced out as many Palestinians as they could from the last part of the land remaining in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Zionism is what zionism does.
Ask yourself one question. What does Zionism mean to the Palestinians living in Palestine? The answer is the last episode of Zionism - the abominable genocide in Gaza, destroying 90% of the houses and schools, bombing all 36 hospitals in Gaza, murdering over 1000 medics, and killing over 20,000 children, with many more tens of thousands left under the rubble. Zionism can only be described as what it is in practice - Israel's ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people and shame on all those here in Britain who turn their backs on the Palestinians and pretend it was ever anything else.
