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Forget the artwork and check out the accompanying song and lyrics for the new release. I think it's one of the funnier ones so far. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

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Just as cringeworthy as the QT4 dance

To me that cringiness is oh so wonderful. Everyone is so weirdly afraid of their image, of how others think of them.

We've become sterile; caricatures of ourselves so that we can adhere to the groupthink. It's refreshing to see people unashamed to be themselves, with all of their weird parts.

It lost one eye, but that's ok, it still has two left.

Is it a pun?

The Simps on AI

The Simpson AI?

And then the 3 eyes fish makes a reference to Blinky

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Two_Cars_in_Every_Garage_an...

Nice! Think there was a gap in release-accompanying songs from 7.4 to 7.8 or I missed them. Seems they are back on track now.

“Back in my day we didn't have artificial intelligence, we had real stupidity - and we liked it.”

Real stupidity is still available, you just have to opt in. Yesterday I spent an evening writing Game of Life in Prolog for no good reason, and it gave me 941 live cells instead of 18,885 because my neighbour rule counted diagonals twice. Finding that bug by hand was more fun than anything an agent did for me that day. The pointless tinkering didn't go away, we just have to choose it now.

Now implement Prolog in your Game of Life and observe the Universe fold in on itself.

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