you really have to look out for baseball players these days. they’re everywhere. a few minutes ago i turned on a baseball game and there were like 12 of those fuckin’ guys

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OpenAI Is A Confidence Game Empowered By The Media and Investors That Is Rigged To Explode I tend to be pretty light-hearted in what I write, but please take me seriously when I say I have genuine concerns about the dangers posed by OpenAI. I believe that OpenAI is an incredibly risky entity, not due to the power of its models or its underlying assets, but due to Sam Altman’s ability to con people and find others that will con in his stead. Those responsible for rooting out con artists - regulators, investors and the media - have not simply failed, but actively assisted Altman in this con. Here’re the crucial elements of the con: Creating a halo of uncertainty around the actual efficacies of LLMs, to the point that a cult of personality grew around a technology that obfuscated its actual outcomes and efficacies to the point that it could be sold based on what it might do rather than what it actually does. Creating a halo of “genius” around Altman himself, aided by constant and vague threats of human destruction with the suggestion that only Altman could solve them. Normalizing the idea that it’s both necessary and important to let a company burn billions of dollars. Normalizing the idea that it’s okay that a company has perpetual losses, and perpetuating the idea that these losses are necessary for innovation to continue at large. Sam Altman is a dull, mediocre man that loves money and power. He appears to be superficially charming, but his actual skill is ingratiating himself with others and having them owe him favors, or feel somehow indebted to him otherwise. He remembers people’s names and where he met them, and is very good at emailing people, writing checks, or finding reasons for somebody else to write a check. He is not technical - he can barely code and misunderstands basic machine learning (to quote Futurism) - but is very good at making the noises that people want to hear, be they big scary statements that confirm their biases or massive promises of un…

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average bluesky users

I've been working on it myself and I feel like it's been ignored by the culture for the superior zx spectrum.

@highretrogamelord.bsky.social are you a member of Gaming Alexandria discord? You should join up and join in the adding of zx81 type-ins over on their website!

Adobe Is The Best Example of the Worthlessness Of The Modern Public Software Company That I Can Find Adobe is a company that bathes in the scent of mediocrity, constantly doing an impression of an ever-growing business through a combination of acquisitions and price increases that are only possible in a global regulatory torpor and a market that doesn’t know when it’s being conned. It’s also emblematic of how the modern software company grows - not through an honest exchange of value built on a bedrock of innovation and customer happiness, but the eternal death march of enshittification of its products and monopolization of whatever fields it can barge its way into. In many ways, Adobe is one of the greater tragedies of the Rot Economy. Beneath the endless layers of subscriptions and weird upsells and horrible Business Idiots lay beloved products like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign that are slowly decaying as Adobe searches to boost engagement and revenue. A great example is a story from Digital Camera World from 2025, where writer Adam Juniper talked about features he loved that were disappearing for no reason: …in this case it was the Shape tool which, I admit, isn't an essential for most photographers. I wanted to put a speech bubble onto an image which is something I've done in the past (and like I have done for this article) to illustrate stories and it was dead simple because one of the built-in shapes in Photoshop's shape tool was a speech bubble. Sure, it's not super elegant but, hey, we live in a world where an entire generation or two communicates using crudely drawn faces and representing emoji and that's apparently fine, so why can't I make a two word joke in a bubble like I used to be able to? All I wanted is for a robot with a camera to be saying "Smile, Human!" to illustrate a piece I'd commissioned for this very site about, well, how A.I. might not be the best at getting pictures of people. That makes sense, right? As an editor, it's mo…

Adobe Is A Depressing Corporate Parasite With A Genuine Loathing For Its Customers - And AI Is The Final Insult An unintended consequence of Adobe’s pivot to subscriptions is that it emboldened the company to disregard the wishes and opinions of their users, and its aggressive pivot to AI threatens to destroy what’s left of its good will. You know, like when Adobe quietly changed its terms of service to allow the company to use customer data to train its AI models, but not to worry, the company later pledged not to do the precise thing that it paid a lawyer to write that it could do, and then insert into its EULA. Or when it marketed AI technologies as being something that could replace photographers -- who, I remind you, are a major customer constituency for Adobe. Adobe’s Chief Strategy Officer even described AI as the new digital camera (it isn’t). In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying: “When artists say to me, ‘I hate generative AI, why are you even allowing it in any of your products?’ I’m like, ‘Because [otherwise] people are gonna go to illegitimate places and you’re going to end up getting paid nothing.’ ” Belsky said. “This is a revolution, this is the new digital camera, and we have to embrace it.” Belsky didn’t clarify what he meant by “illegitimate places,” or how technology unapologetically marketed as being something that could replace creatives could somehow, at the same time, see them get paid “something.” Nor, for that matter, did he say whether that “something” would be enough to live a dignified life. Then there was the time when Adobe sold a bunch of AI slop images that were created “in the style of Ansel Adams” - one of the most celebrated photographers in American history - only to backtrack when the estate of Adams pointed out that it wasn’t exactly in the best taste, saying that Adobe was “on their last nerve.” It’s worth reading the full comment from the Adams estate: “Assuming you want to be taken seriously re:…

As long as this company is run by scummy MBAs that don’t give a shit about their products, Adobe will continue to fester and decay, punishing its customers in the process. To close, I want to share a quote from Bloomberg that really boiled my blood: Narayen’s nearing departure—after 18 years at the helm—comes amid intensifying pressure on the Photoshop maker to adapt its business to the artificial-intelligence era before AI rivals eat its lunch. Adobe is in a class of major software giants—including Atlassian, Intuit and Salesforce—that’s struggling to figure out this transformation. It used to be that software was eating the world, but now AI appears to be eating software. Or at least making the expectations ridiculously high for those in the jaws of this technological upheaval. Adobe posted solid quarterly sales on Thursday and said its annual recurring revenue from its suite of AI-first products had more than tripled from a year earlier. Yet the stock price slid on the earnings news and has dropped almost 40% in the past year. This is an offensive, ahistorical description of what’s actually happening. There are no AI-powered incumbents challenging Adobe - in fact, few challengers really exist, because if they did, Adobe would try and buy them, much like they tried (and failed) to buy Figma for $20 billion in 2023, a company that lost $226 million in revenue in its last quarter but would’ve added a billion in annual revenue to a company that’s incapable of coming up with its own ideas. As I’ve previously said, framing Adobe’s issues as “AI-related disruption” allows you to rationalize a company built on fucking its customers and acquiring other companies is facing the limits of gravity. It’s emblematic of a software industry that constantly tests the limits of good taste and consumer happiness, and how far one can take a business through usury, deception, exploitation and rent-seeking. Adobe is no longer the company that revolutionized printing, or digital…

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Watched a revival of this movie on St. Patrick's Day! I had never seen any of the Leprechaun movies before. It was great fun. Very funny and really silly. Warwick was so good as the Leprechaun. It was also nice to see Francis from pee wee's big adventure playing a big dumb guy. Jennifer Aniston was also quite funny as she both was annoyed with, yet falling over herself, at the guy playing the male lead. The effects were pretty bad, but in a charming way. The best part is all the ridiculous ways the Leprechaun kills people. I particularly liked the pogo stick. In conclusion, Leprechaun is a land of contrasts.

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A sneaky picture of a movie theater screen. The title card for LEPRECHAUN is on the screen in a slightly blurred manner because the lens wasn't clean.

Went to see Leprechaun for the first time!

You think you know someone then Marathon comes out and you find out they were gaming on a Mac in the 90s 😞

Disgusting

A painting of the 20000 face but done on notebook paper and taped across a huge wall. A man is walking towards the camera to get past.

A painting of the 20000 reward face but only visible if you stand far away from it.

A painting of a woman's foot in a high heel shoe, but the heel is a man. Text on the painting says "introducing the ungrateful fucking bitch. Based on a true story"

A painting of a woman sitting on a kneeling man. Text on the painting says "PAIN OR PLEASURE Gimme a lil bit of both"

An art piece displayed on a brick wall.

A window of a store with the sign DO I LOOK HAPPY TO YOU painted underneath a smiley face with a 20000 reward face sticker. People are inside and art is visible.

A painting of a face on a Chinese food translite sign.

A painting of several men lined up to have sex with a lady. The piece is called "I just need some time to work on myself"

Went to a gallery show for $20000 reward art show called DO I LOOK HAPPY TO YOU? and the first 20 got a free silkscreen! I got #003/100! Very fun art on display at The Gas Lamp Hotel in Philadelphia.

"I hope you die" is weak. "I hope that obscure Japanese-only game you wanna play gets a fan translation done entirely by ChatGPT" is way more hurtful. It's real. It could happen to anyone.

imo the greatest sin Requiem commits is inaccurate portrayal of Saturn game cases. Get it together, Capcom.

Go play the game I typed in!

A four panel comic book poking fun at black lightning/cyborg/steel/etc and Guy Gardner

Here's part two!

A four panel comic poking fun at Guy Gardner and green lantern.

@bearforceone3.bsky.social found this comic. It's by @jobafett.bsky.social but I found it on Facebook

This was really fun! Very much in the vein of Drag Me To Hell with its gross stuff. This story goes a lot of places you won't expect! Be sure to catch it in theaters with a crowd.

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A sneaky screen photo of a movie screen. The ceiling is illuminated by the movie. On the screen is the title card for SEND HELP.

Went to a movie today!

A cropped photo of a crt showing Goemon 64. A man is saying HECK at Goemon.

Great minds think alike with taking pictures of this shot.

Bangai-o is amazing. Everyone should play some form of it! (DS, Dreamcast, N64)

Guitar Wolf teaches an irrational man that "love has no borders, nationalities, or genders."

"Fix your hearts or die" -- Guitar Wolf

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

A hand drawn map of the original NES Castlevania game.

The full map to the original Castlevania. This is a brilliant map. Despite seeing a map in between stages, you don't really think about how it all connects, but the flow lines up almost perfectly making one cohesive castle.

This girl sure likes glass water vessels. A very artsy film. Not sure I understand totally. But it's very well animated!

Just saw Angel's Egg at a revival theater.
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handshake meme: wandering around an island full of cheerful villagers -- Animal Crossing/The Prisoner

@lisa-frank.bsky.social this is very up your alley

An IBM Personal System 2 Model 80 desktop computer from 1987, often abbreviated as PS slash 2

Me: Can we get a PS2?

Mom: We have a PS2 at home.

The PS/2 at home:

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