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I would love to see this reflected in an actual board meeting.

Like, the sales manager pumping up the team with projections like, "OK! So, last year we sold enough donuts to make it halfway to the moon. This year, we're GOING TO THE MOON! I'm talking a GALAXY OF POWDERED SUGAR!"

Every episode of Unwrapped, has at least one brand rep who describes production quantities in the weirdest metric.

"If you stretched them out they'd go from NY to LA 6.5 times."

"If you melted it down, it would fill a football field."

"It's like 3 Empire State Buildings of candy every year."

OK, good to know, thanks. I have found that on occasion, as great as Tubi's selection is, better versions of films can sometimes be found elsewhere, so I totally get it.

Screen grab from an interview inside the ice cream shop. A blonde woman wearing a pink jacket is identified as "Whitney Thompson, owner Pink Pelican Ice Cream Bar."

Ken and Jennifer from Dancin': It's On have just sat down at a table with huge bowls of ice cream at The Pink Pelican Ice Cream Bar. It's a very classic-looking ice cream shop with teal counter and white tile counter front. It's the exact same location as the interview from the other photo in this post.

It's only because we just watched the ANTM documentary this week that I just realized this random fact during our current viewing.

The Pink Pelican - the "he throws ice cream at me, daddy" shop from DANCIN': IT'S ON - is currently owned by America's Next Top Model Cycle 10 winner Whitney Thompson.

Dancin': It's On! For decades, moviegoers have loved to watch people dance. But there was always an unanswered question lurking: was It, in fact, On? But finally, a movie slithered out of “This film was not screened

No exaggeration, we watch @rifftrax.com DANCIN': IT'S ON! at least once a month. It's basically our therapy.

One of my favorite things about it is how much you can hear the team laughing at each other's jokes throughout the recording. It's just pure joy.

www.rifftrax.com/dancin-its-on

I surely saw this on cable way back when, but I just recently revisited it on Tubi for the first time in probably like 30 years, and it was mildly amusing if very stupid to see again. :)

Finally saw this for the first time just a few weeks ago, and it was not only great, but very interesting thematically.

Definitely one way I saw the show back then!

a cartoon of a man being touched by a pink object Alt: From STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES. An off-camera red shirt (maybe Scotty, I don't remember the circumstances) thrusts a small pink throbbing tribble at Kirk's face as he turns, acknowledges the action, and smirks with a raised eyebrow.

STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES has always been canon.

But also, canon doesn't matter, because whatever you want it to be is what it is. It's all made up.

So just be happy is what I'm saying.

Screen grab from an Amazon listing one of my friends once sent me, saying at the time, "Saw this and thought of you." It's a woman in a bedroom and she's hugging a human-sized white duck-shaped pillow.

Oh, sure. When a baby monkey does it it's cute.

But when I try to bring this with me to the grocery store it's all, "Ma'am can we call someone to come pick you up?"

Every time I see a former colleague write some bullshit LinkedIn post about "responsible" or "thoughtful" use of genAI, I get pushed closer to full-throated screaming at them in public.

I just want to ask every single one of them what they think they're going to get in return for their souls.

“What happens?” They just use something else and adjust the game accordingly, because like everything else in our world, it’s all bullshit we made up?

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This entire thread.

Rob from the current US season of The Traitors. He's standing in the turret wearing his green cloak and backwards baseball cap. He's staring glassy-eyed into the middle distance, frowning and looking so tired it's as if his soul has left his body.

Rob is a whole mood on tonight's episode of The Traitors

I'm not a sports guy but it seems to me that this kind of genuine unbridled emotional joy, generated by actual human achievement, and not data centers, is something we really need to see these days.

Every joyous celebration of creativity is a welcome breath of fresh air.

I got turned down for a job as a cashier at my local grocery store because they said I had too much professional experience and they worried I would just quit to take a marketing or editing job.

And I'm like, there ARE no marketing or editing jobs. That's why I'm applying to be a grocery cashier.

This. First bit of news from this revival that made me wince. It's a shame.

Jonathan Coulton is the Ernest Cline of Guitar Guys. Just a snide, winking little dipshit for Millennial Dilberts.

Also, he still owes me a parking lot fistfight.

OH GOD NO WHY

III was criticized and is a flawed film, but II is usually regarded as a masterpiece perhaps even superior to the first. And if you like them all, more power to you! :)

For me, he’ll always be the Pallid Man from the 12 MONKEYS TV series. Maybe somewhere, sometime, the cycle will begin again.

So if you’re an AI guy who is miffed that we loathe your product, sorry, not our problem. As the meme goes, that’s not how any of this works. Go raise another 900 trillion in funding, make everyone else love and want and PAY for you (you know you have to do this eventually!) and leave us out of it.

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Me, every time someone aggressively tries to insist I'll be "left behind" if I keep refusing to use AI.

A screencap of an online headline with a category header that reads "BIOLOGY" in small green letters, while the headline is in white on dark gray: "Bacteria Frozen Inside 5,000-Year-Old Ice Cave is Crazy Resistant to Antibiotics"

Upon sharing this headline with @positivelynatalie.bsky.social , her immediate reaction was: "Put it BACK in the ice cave!"

And don't get me started about that gravity hole under Antarctica...

Consider me intrigued. :) I just found it on Tubi (of course), so thanks very much!