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The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading: Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)
CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"
Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"
The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"
My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
It used to be the most reliable “I just need to eat something” lunch place when traveling but we’re talking… 20 years ago now.
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
I liked that show and thought it got cancelled, but apparently there was a second season! … and then it got cancelled.
It creates a worse experience in many cases and relies on an economic state where people aren't just walking out of the store so... yeah I guess it's a good comparison for LLMs.
You can look back from the Pandemic on and see every company's own version of the Metaverse. Sure some people got hired for bullshit roles but many places took it as an opportunity to spin up every CEO's pet projects hoping one would stick.
They still should have, it's better for companies to chase even dumb ideas than do stock buy backs or hoard it in some tax haven, but it would be nice if things like health insurance and retirement weren't tied to trying out dumb ideas.
I hope lots of new people discover Search Party now that it's on Netflix!!!! I had nothing to do with making that show but I like it so much!
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
What we could have had if Guy Ritchie was born in America.
Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them
This is an excellent reminder that no matter what happens with AI or data centers, we are going to need a *lot* more electricity in the future.
Screenshot of TikTok terms of service For Legal Reasons We may share Information We Collect → to comply with the law, including to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims, or government inquiries. We may also disclose Information We Collect → to enforce any terms applicable to the Services, and to protect and defend our rights, interests, safety, and security, and those of our affiliates, users, or the public. Information You Provide may include sensitive personal information, as defined under applicable state privacy laws, such as information from users under the relevant age threshold, information you disclose in survey responses or in your user content about your racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information. For example, we may process your
TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.
They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
Bring back stick shifts so people don’t have a free hand to text with
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
Dogbert superimposed over Seymour, the dog waiting for Fry in the episode of Futurama that makes people cry.
screenshot of a tweet from 2016 of an edited dilbert comic by leyawn: panel 1 (wally and dilbert talking to the pointy haired boss): wally: the separation of art from the artist is fascinating to me. panel 2: boss: why is that? wally: i should clarify - not just the separation, but the reclamation of art for another use. the artist loses their work to the world. panel 3. boss: like pepe? it must feel so awful to see that happen. wally: exactly. your work is no longer personal but public. panel 4: wally: and aspect that comes with the territory. to share one's art is to risk parody and theft. it can both inspire and desecrate. we've seen pepe, a once beloved meme, turn into a mascot of trump supporters, as ridiculous as that sounds. panel 5: dilbert: even before that, pepe wasn't some meme. he was a character in matt furie's web comic. pepe the frog is a thousand steps removed from the source. his comic is great by the way. panel 6: boss: so it's hopeless? our work can be turned into terrible things and we can't do shit? panel 7: wally: well there's one thing you can do. take some asshole's art and make it good. it turns out scott adams is a huge dumbass. it's great. panel 8: wally: he thinks a paid cabal of trolls is out to get him. he praises trump. dilbert: i thought his characters in dilbert were satirical but it turns out he's just as stupid as they are. you are what you write ahaha
scott adams' blog how to insult me on twitter 10/21/2016 i've noticed that a lot of people are struggling to come up with creative ways to insult me on twitter. as a public service, i will organize the common approaches in this post so people can insult me by number
1. act like you think i draw garfield 2. proclaim that i am the pointy-haired boss from dilbert (assume a million people havne't already told me the same thing) 3. label me irrelevant 4. note that dilbert used to be funny but now it is just sad, like its creator 5. make a fake dilbert comic and have the characters mock their misinterpretations of my opinions in a way that you mistake for satire
in 2016 i made an edit of a dilbert comic and scott adams got so mad he blocked me and then blogged about it
If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻🍳 💋
A chart outlining the RIP BOZO Readiness Condition (RIPCON), which is a riff off of DEFCON. There are 5 levels, with 5 being lowest and 1 being the highest. The chart details descriptions of these levels, examples and actions to take in the event something occurs.
Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.
Went to the John Le Carre exhibition today and was pleased to learn that the greatest spy novelist of all time in addition to bleak epics of gnawing doubt and tragic moral compromise liked to doodle little animals getting fucked up.
we’re living through the national version of that conversation where you’re like, hey, I don’t think grandpa should be driving anymore, but our cousins are all like, fuck that, give him the keys! grandpa rules! I bet he could drive 1000 miles per hour!
House on a cliff labeled MY MENTAL HEALTH. Cliff: LOGGING ON. Ocean: THE INEXORABLE ONSLAUGHT OF EVENTS.
where i'm at
Men in their 40s love to pretend they’re not sleepy. Fighting for their life just to pass out mid conversation.
Kids should still learn how to code, they just shouldn't all expect to be highly paid software engineers.
I'm glad "slop" is a recognized word, but we need one for people who are into "tech" but only by way of looking at outputs of things they don't control. Like comparing different AI tools, or reporting on how their self driving cars drive.
