Man, if anyone is gonna meet a Peter Lorre ghost on a cargo ship, it's the Nerd Poker DM.

I'm not proud of it, but I love when movies come out related to books people lie about having read.

"Why was Nosferatu slow?"

"I don't know Sarah, why wasn't there a 10 minute sequence where Orlok kept asking Hutter about train schedules in Wisborg?"

I would too

(I've had two bursts of these types follow me, suddenly.)

Having even a remotely creative jobs means people at parties saying, "I want to [make a thing], I have great ideas! I should get hired as the 'idea guy.'"

(They don't wanna learn or work and their ideas suck).

I guess at least these wretched shits broadcast it now, calling themselves AI "artists."

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A+ sweater tho

This is what happens when TrainingPeaks won't let me dismiss the persistent pop up about adding an event.

God it felt good reading that.

This boring person zany take predates Twitter. But also, part of its development process was showcasing Christmas in LA as a unique thing in 1988. Even as a summer release, it was purposefully made to be a perennial Christmas movie.

I have one of these giant tortoises. The thing they don't warn you about is the non-stop hump fest every October.

Don't fly with one in October is what I'm saying. Real strong. Real horny.

In today's belated episode of Old Punk Yells Happily at TV: the Dickies' "Eve of Destruction" over the What We Do in the Shadows credits was DELIGHTFUL.

Since John Prine's death, no one has had the hero's courage to end a song by yelling "Hot dog bun!"

A greyhound making a sad, mischievous face after being caught messing with the Christmas tree.

A-Number-1 Stupid Baby™️ figured out there was a Christmas tree in the room with him after a week and a half and is now mad I won't let him steal ornaments/drag the whole thing to his dog bed.

Grammatical butchery. I need an edit button.

Strike that first "that." Damn it, all.

FWIW, the relationship/gulf in the concept of "precision vs recall" are regarded as an intractable law in NLP use.

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but that companies are recognizing that their data being used to train the AI they use should be fairly compensated.

Anyone who says artists and writers shouldn't expect the same level of control over their work should be pushed in a hole and covered in ants.

For 20 years, tech companies that use NLP for med clients have used that client data (and end user acceptance rates of the outputs) to train the AI.

Last year, clients started demanding "no AI training" clauses, or to be paid.

Don't ever believe anyone playing dumb on GPT plagiarism.

Look nobody cares but: the new episode of Day of the Jackal needle dropped a fucking Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros song?!

What's the artful, thoughtful way to say "No, not that guy, the shareholders. Okay sure, that guy too, but the shareholders! The shareholders!"

I *really* did not see the wholesome, popular Muppet fan account doing a quad box notes app apology for being a sex pest coming.

AFI fireside bowl - Chicago 1996/97ish - He Who Laughs Last/ Brownie Bottom Sundae YouTube video by Ricardo Cozzolino

Talking to my cousin @muldowney.bsky.social about old shows and the memory of being in this crowd lit up in my brain.

Fun fact: the venue (Fireside Bowl) had what was voted to be the worst bathroom in Chicago, comedian Kyle Kinane even has a whole bit about it.

Zwift in 2015: We gave you a game-ified UI so you can be less bored and ride with friends!

Zwift in 2024 apparently: welcome to our new map, it has an earthquake and is revealed when a huge egg opens like a fist. Watch out for the dinosaurs, we added those in 2022.

the original Twilight Zone is one of the best television shows ever made, but the best part is how it always opens with a haggard 58-year-old man ambling out of a condemned building and Rod Serling says "Meet 32-year-old Thomas Normal, leaving his regular home"

I was gonna do this but it was just the first four original Planet of the Apes movies (with the 5th as an honorable mention).

Shower curtain rings.

This also applies to climate change and the kind of lube that dissolves condoms.

I heard a bird singing a sad song yesterday- so unlike a bird call it had to be a loose parrot (too common in the Southeast)

I went nuts trying to place the melody and this AM realized it's what Gizmo sang in Gremlins.

How the actual fuck am I supposed to process something that sad and weird?

I don't think there's a philosophical concept as misunderstood as nihilism. If you can't get into Eugene Thacker, please go read the Becky Chambers novel "A Psalm for the Wild Built." It's a cozy delight of a story, and it also beautifully and gently defines practical nihilism as kindness.

N=3 but aging punks who like bikes that get into RC cars seems like a thing so I'm announcing that not only will I be building and painting one (or many) styled after Mad Max vehicles, I will be coming to tracks dressed as Lord Humongous if he were made of mashed potatoes.

Seeing @kaaaren.bsky.social's question about chicken sentients literally right after this was an incredible object lesson in "set em up, knock em down" comedic timing.