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Lyrics on a karaoke machine: I guess it rains down in Africa I guess it rains down in Africa I guess it rains down in Africa

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

Its updated Felix The Cat. Oswald if he had powers. Mickey Mouse if he was cool.

A friend to smaller animals and protector of the natural environment.

I wanted to BE this guy when I was a kid 😅

Generative A.I., the thing that drives our whole economy right now, is a perfect metaphor for the abject failure of imagination on the part of the powerful. Generative A.I. has no imagination and offers no new insights. It's a mere predictive engine that uses statistics to find the most likely next thing. What's the next word in a sequence, the next pixel in a picture? This is the opposite of imagination, which is so often about finding the least likely thing, the startling incongruity. I worry that so many of us are outsourcing our imaginations and our whole creative selves to these stochastic parrots.

Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat

Six different viziers are currently wrestling over the phone that’s logged into Truth Social

PLEASE tell every author you know about this!

If we have a kid we are absolutely forbidding Roblox. I know I will inevitably cave on a number of other stupid things all their little friends are doing, but this is a hard line in the sand that no amount of screaming will change.

From a marketing perspective, I suppose it does make sense to *pretend* there's overlap between "people who have friends" and "people who enjoy interacting with ChatGPT"...

I only got half, maybe better than average for a white person but not great. Lots of room for improvement!

I would bet it's been tried already, I suspect the "matter of time" factor is that the concept of shame hasn't yet degraded quite enough for anyone to be comfortable admitting it publicly.

I say give it about six more months.

This is not in disagreement with OP at all, but I think we all quietly, lowkey imagine the very funny "are we the baddies" bit could be a real thing. But like, they know they're the bad guys. They think it makes them cool. Later, after you destroy them and their movement, they'll pretend otherwise

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us and sometimes even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

In early drafts of LotR, the mysterious ranger who helps the Hobbits was also a Hobbit, named Trotter for his un-hobbit-like habit of wearing clogs.

"if one word ends with the letter/sound the next word begins with, they can blend and the second word loses the sound" is something I learned from a screenwriting blog in like 2006, it's not just a slang issue!

The Washington Post is just straight up spreading misinformation. Total witchcraft. Not a single person at the Post has any basis for the claim that "increased enforcement of tougher laws" either happened at all or reduced murder. Maybe someone should write a book about it...

As far as I can tell, even the 19th century filibusters, often not the brightest of bulbs themselves, knew better than to go after Haiti.

Additional Tip:

Gmail is being a pissy crybaby and will dump all your promotions and social emails into your inbox, I ended up with 24,000 of them.

Before switching off the setting, go in and clean out your social and promotions tabs because those will go away once you turn off smart features.

The Fatal Allure of Yesterday's Tomorrows On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.

Warp drives. Orbital habitats. Space elevators. The golden age of 20th century science fiction produced dreams with some things in common — they're extensively designed, in no sense real, and possibly strangling the future.

@goldwagnathan.bsky.social on the weird platonism of sci-fi for Heat Death!

So why didn't Biden do it?

YouTube video by Miniminuteman America's Atlantis: The "Lost" Colony of Roanoke

I adore miniminuteman and his efforts as a science/history communicator, fighting the tide of bullshit out there. But he left one important note out of his vid on the "mystery" out the Roanoke colony.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl5...

As far as I'm concerned, anyone speaking positively of Obama-era Democrats is angling for this exact future.

"The richest man in the world built a robot to tell people he's cool" is the saddest, most bulliable fucking Twilight Zone thing in the world. You fucking LOSER. All that money and not a fucking _whiff_ of charisma. Start giving yourself a wedgie, you fucking dork, it'll take me time to get there.

Sharing fory own future reference

No Tarzan AND no villain songs? Oof!

Hellfire has already been mentioned but also:
Scar's cunty lil Be Prepared
Zira, Scar's sidepiece's, cunty little Lullaby

Gray Hiss? Guess I'm probably not on team JOE...

I am also avoiding the segregationist department store that's partnering with the plagiarism chatbot, and the burnt coffee purveyor whose employees are currently striking.

Good thread about writing, and eventually about AI

I gotta rewatch both of these tbh

How are you not embarrassed writing this headline?