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scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles

21st April 2026 - Link Blog

scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles (via) I firmly approve of Steve Cosman's efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles.

(To be fair, most of the examples I've published count as poisoning too.)

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