If you see this, QTP with a title screen that's iconic to you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJFJ...
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If you see this, QTP with a title screen that's iconic to you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJFJ...
But makes some people furious that someone is getting something for nothing, so we somehow need “one more trial” before implementing it.
If I owned a coffee shop, this would be on display as a museum piece. Snoopy and Woodstock rollerskating!! OMG
I feel like Australia or New Zealand should make a spy film where their job is to discretely save the world while the US and UK teams blow up everything under the sun, two countries over from where the real problems are.
A better world IS possible. I am 100% on-board with this reaction.
My mom spent all weekend vacationing in a remote cabin that had no internet or TV. So on the one hand she didn't have to read the news for three days. On the other hand, she didn't get to speculate on the aliveness of the president all weekend, so I think she missed out.
My main memories of San Francisco are visiting friends, walking up the most ridiculous hills, and drinking far too much but it was OK because I was younger and invincible. The SF they're describing sounds wretched and un-fun.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Trump take shawls. Trump take blankets.
A better world is possible. There are roadmaps for our collective liberation. We don't have to be reinventing the wheel during the biggest crises of our own lifetimes, we don't.
Had a team lunch at Jollibee and now I need a nap to recover. Also you are limited to 10 fruit pies when you go through the drive through. Think of others, won't you?
Actually, crap, this is probably some ChatGPT artifact and the robot doesn't know who Jack Kirby was.
This is like bringing up how the Highlanders got their powers from Planet Zeist, OMG
That's a lot of words for "I've never actually read Mary Shelley's book"
Whose Dead Man is this? Was it yours? YOU PICK UP AFTER YOURSELF
I covet the hat that Benoit Blanc was wearing in the opening of Glass Onion, I cannot wait to see what fashion choices he makes this roudn.
Make sure and leave out some milk and cookies for the 25th Amendment before going to bed.
"I just saw this sweet documentary called Wild Wild Country and it's given me some ideas..."
The computers in the Apollo LEMs weighed 70 pounds, ran on 2MHz, and had hand-woven memory cores. Your average LLM has 100s of gigs of memory to use billions of parameters, and consumes the power of a house. Yet the latter cannot subtract one number from another and come up with the right answer.
Gonna convert my entire portfolio into cases of Celsius, bags of rice, and crates of sardines. This will all end poorly.
This is always in my head as the sound of 8pm on a Sunday in the fall and I can't tell you why
Back on my tinned fish thing. (Never left.) King Oscar Tiny Tots on Triscuits in the back yard. Lunch of champions.
Nightswimming, though depending on my mood it could also be Fall On Me
A special Labor Day #MST3K Forever-a-Thon We're in the back half of Manos: The Hands of Fate. "More delicious A-1, my pet?"
If you liked the character of Tyrea (and I do), there's a lot for her to do in this one, and the Inspectorpon mechanic is a lot of fun. Reminded me a little of collecting fairies in Shining the Holy Ark for the Sega Saturn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqG...
YouTube threw on the fight theme from #XenobladeChronicles Future Connected as the next video in my queue. One of my personal favorite pieces of music from that series, combining disco, choir, and flute in an 8-minute extravaganza that I never heard the full version of until I got the soundtrack.
This is really good. What is the better world that we can imagine and work towards? youtu.be/t0Trm8k1lgc?...
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
Every time I watch this I wonder where his guitar goes at the end. I think the simplest explanation is that he used his magic to make it disappear back into the ether. Such an amazing performance
I really should have put "I'ma gonna go celebrate a Labor Daybor" in my out-of-office message for today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL7J...
A bit of a Gamera festival on the #MST3K Forever-a-Thon this evening. Now playing: Gamera vs Guiron, featuring one of my favorite self-referential riffs. "Oh it's just a bunch of Christmas lights against a brick wall!" "Who would believe that!?"
It's not as if we don't have several elections where trying to be a less-offensive version of the GOP proved unsuccessful. It's why I despise everybody doing "Make X Y Again" campaigns or using red hats for merch. Cut that shit out. Forge your own way. Newsom is terrible AND unoriginal!
The President will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings. He continues to inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, the mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell) in his body producing adenosine tri-phosphate for energy.
Oh no, tissane happening
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
You laugh but presidents only post "honk shoo mimimi" when they are both extremely alive and very comfy.
I know I have to like, walk the smol dog and stuff but there is this new @charliejane.bsky.social book and it’s real real good and it’s calling me.
Frank’s freakout in the intro is one of my favorite things they’ve done. “Push the button, Frank.” “I… AM the button!”
I love this but there I need them to have a table or something, my back hurts just watching them. youtu.be/jCNNNv7AAYk?...
re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.
It was a delight to watch this from afar last week. This clear vision of New York as a city for everyone easily becomes the America as a country for everyone. (Why yes I watched a lot of Schoolhouse Rock as a kid, why do you ask?)
You can't fool me, I remember this scene from Independence Day.
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
Those crows ARE very handsome, more people should be talking about this.
They JUST rebuilt that from the fight against Megalon, too
I really need to hear him say, "You are the most devious bastard in Minas Tirith"
I can
I used to love this series so much and the opening theme is a banger. youtu.be/EQXqHNHPLHI?...
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Because Frank is the best Frank that ever happened to meeeeeeeeee Many happy returns of the day to @frankconniff.bsky.social!!
Jason Isaacs as Marshal Zhukov has one of the greatest entrances in film history. Slow-motion throwing back his coat and growling, "Right, what's a war hero got to do to get some lubrication around here?"
I'm doing my part! We've just been introduced to Stalin's drunken failson. "There was no plane!"
The President will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.
I need this to be on MST3K or Rifftrax. I bet Kevin Murphy has an sing an amazing song about tape dispensers just waiting to go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3D...
Michael Stipe, waving arms around: "Big plastic head"
Gonna open an asparagus food cart nearby
This is now canon.
About to enter the “Find Out at level 10” portion of the program.
I asked ChatGPT What You Did Last Summer It Told Me to Kill Myself and Also a Village Has No Water Now
This is the content the internet was made for. OMG those poor kids
How was that not the end of his campaign right there?
They should have arrested him that night. I will never understand why they didn't.
It's the custom bill of lading that really sells it to me
Ahem @optimstie.bsky.social I believe this is relevant to your interests :)
Clearly we need to devote all of our energy into integrating this into every facet of our lives.
I think even the Baileys despise Chuck Schumer
You know what my old buddy Jack Burton always says at a time like this? “The check is in the mail.” Can’t wait to see what new goodie Movie Madness has for the collection. www.instagram.com/p/DN65mW2Dyq...
“The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.” - Jack Kirby Happy birthday King
This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
Half the reason that so many films are mostly CGI is that those artists are one of the few Hollywood groups that isn't unionized so they get treated like dogshit. But do go on
Talking about project naming with a coworker and one of my favorite project names of all time was react-helmet, a component from NFL devs to manage HTML header attributes. Because it protects your header, you see! www.npmjs.com/package/reac...
This is so much more organized than my “drawer near the stove with bags of bulk spices without a date on them and a bunch of jars loose in a cupboard” system. Which isn’t even a system now that I write it out.
The fact that the Pod Save America boys want to use this guy as a "debate" participant about trans lives says a lot about everyone involved. Oregon has been voting by mail for decades, it should be the standard nationwide. Opened my eyes when I moved here about how great it is.
I use Meeting Ticker during large/long meetings to estimate how much that meeting cost so far, given the salary of everyone participating. It's never great for my mental health, yet I keep doing it. Of course, people could stop doing inefficient meetings...? tobytripp.github.io/meeting-tick...
I think this keeps coming back to the key thing about Trump's rise: Republicans like the surface signifiers of patriotism, but they deeply hate America. They hate America so much and want it destroyed
If you need an alternative to coffee, I can highly recommend hiring a small Irish man to hide in your house and randomly leap onto your back while shrieking gibberish. Your alertness will go through the roof, and you will be too busy to notice caffeine withdrawal.
Dealing with time zones and time is way worse than credit card stuff. At least PCI has rules. "Human-readable dates can be specified in universally understood formats such as 05/07/11" is one of my favorites. gist.github.com/timvisee/fcd...
Anyway, just thinking about one of television’s greatest series, no reason.
There’s a moment in Babylon 5 where the Centauri Emperor asks the enigmatic Vorlon Ambassador Kosh, “How will this end?” “In fire,” was the answer. I don’t think Kosh truly reckoned with disease or starvation. Then again, he had that sweet encounter suit, so no worries there.
This is brilliant. "Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money."
Great, now I'm gonna have "I Saw The Light" running through my head for the rest of the day.
I'm calling it the mail loneliness epidemic
(I try not to think about how much time I have spent building the wrong thing because: the designs were unclear/unfocused, we only considered the happy path, we were not based in reality, solved a non-problem, were actually making the problem worse, and so forth.)
Asked at work about a genAI thing. The problem in building software is often not the building part. It's the "figuring out what the hell you want to build in the first place" part. All the technology in the world won't help if you're bereft of ideas or don't know what problem you want to solve.
Ban all ice-breaker questions in meetings, too. Never a good idea.
uhhhh
I never did trust those Holo-Clowns, I would look at them first
(Every time you think of something and how it sucks? Odds are really good it has an origin in his damned administrations)
January 20, 1981. Everything has been in motion since Reagan took office
You know, the thing I am doing now is extremely tedious, but at least it's a distraction from watching government recreate the Hindenberg disaster in realtime.
Tell me you've never read John Keegan's seminal book "The Face of Battle" without telling me you've never read John Keegan's seminal book "The Face of Battle" etc etc etc.
I sometimes wonder if the comic he had up in Bushnell's Turtle is still there or if it makes sense now. I know the glorious store that was Things Things Things is gone, alas. (It is so fun to say that store's name!)
I can see why they're trying to get a lot of legal protections in place for AI as soon as possible, this is absolutely horrific and they should be sued into oblivion.
He's so mad about his golf course and we're all gonna pay
this is what it always looks like. there's not a cool, smart version of fascism. Just a bunch of horrible clowns lashing out at the world because they're simply not good enough
Bloom County was one of those strips I saved to read last, to savor it. Same with Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side. Later, in college, I lived near the house that Breathed used as a reference for the boarding house in the strip. I think it's still there. One of my core texts, for sure.
The eliminationist rhetoric is accelerating. We're so far beyond "very fine people on both sides." Between this and the "cockroaches" talk, it's not a great place right now. Can't wait to have two major world sporting events here in the future, gonna be great.
Thinking of the joy and community that arose when COVID vaccines were available. And how a walking piece of beef jerky is going to destroy them because he believes in the power of tallow.
