If there isn't, I sure wish there was
02.03.2026 19:41
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If there isn't, I sure wish there was
A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
2026 is already worse what the fuck
And a big unfriendly 🖕🏼 to 2025 as it slinks away
Fifteen years ago I felt pretty embarrassed pronouncing a word wrong, but now I’m just boasting like “oh yeah I guess I only know that one from READING it in a BOOK”
An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.
@aadl.org Is there a way to browse and play the AADL streaming video library in, say, an AppleTV app? If not, would the library be interested in exploring such a thing?
"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"
holy shit yes please
Consider that when the biggest digital assistant on the market happily offers to write the user a suicide note, it might time to abandon the concept altogether
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
It really is just Wreck-It-Ralph, isn't it
[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad
How many times have you flipped it so far
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.
Car salesperson: this baby can go from zero to three-score in under 7 seconds
Abraham Lincoln: HOLY SHIT
hell’s computers constantly have problems and when you look them up the only result is a reddit post where the op says “edit: never mind, solved it” without explaining how
wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
it's not too hot, not too cold. all you need is a light jacket
I forgot about this
