I suspect X/Twitter will be a long distant memory well before these folks would be grandparents.

Come Back to Bed by Valley Lodge

https://youtu.be/z81PWYEQYpU?si=s8pkZcZ9RNL_khGl

I kind of don’t want to know, because the real answer would probably be terrifying.

Is it that Britons are more likely to doubt their health, or is it that Americans are pathologically afraid to be sick because it can bankrupt them, so they tend to overestimate their health in order to not have to go to the doctor.

imagine a high-level executive telling the art department to come up with something cool for the next product line. He fires an email off, waits for the result, maybe sends a couple notes back. When he unveils the product, he says “look how creative and artistic I am.”

The Steve Jobs business management course^tm

Because the entire western world seemingly has to tip toe around Israel and let them get away with whatever they want because of some collective shame and empathy Europe and America still feel for something that happened before most people in Israel today were ever born…

The holocaust was bad…yeah. But the fact that that tragedy somehow gives the state of Israel an unlimited pass in perpetuity to be assholes is just wrong.

When you write a prompt into midjourney or any other image generator, nothing get’s “made”, simply aggregated from datasets; a pixel from here, a pixel from there. An eye that is eerily similar to this image, a fold of a cloth that is taken almost exactly from a similar painting in it’s dataset.

All (or most) of those datasets are taken from the work of actual artists, without attribution or pay because for years we all got suckered in to posting our work online.

Now if you…as an artist…wanted to make a piece of art by cutting out parts of various paintings using something like photoshop, that’s a legitimate claim to art. But if you write three sentances into a text box and let the computer do that aggregating for you…you’re not an artist.

Even IF we take it to the extreme and say that AI art IS in fact art, you’re still not the artist, any more so than I would be if I gave a painter a description of what I wanted and got him to paint it for me. You’re the person procuring the piece, nothing more.

Mark Zuckerberg The Tobacco Industry says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media Smoking and teen mental respiratory health.

There…fixed it.

The impact brain chemistry has on all sorts of things is very poorly understood.

It’s not just an impact. Everything we are IS brain chemistry. Emotions, thoughts, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, skills, talents… they’re all just a combination of chemicals and firing synapses in the brain. We are biological meat bags. There’s no such thing as a soul.

Yeah. Sadly it’s a trap that no one is immune to. Correlation doesn’t necessarily imply Causation.

Do you think Jackson Delacroix Vance grew the beard so he would look less like the result of Adam Lambert fucking a Cabbage Patch doll?

I’m honesty sitting here trying to remember the last Ubisoft game I actually enjoyed. And I mean truly “couldn’t put down” enjoyed. Some of the older Assassin’s Creed games were fun, but the same endless gameplay loop was meh, even then.

I’d almost have to go back all the way to those original Rainbow Six games for something that felt (to me) fresh and innovative.

You mean making the exact same cookie-cutter game loop for more than a decade isn’t a good idea!?

Dazed and Confused

If this list proves anything it’s that the meaning of the phrase “cult classic” is entirely meaningless now.

Great. That means it’s only a matter of time before Hank Hill and his Hillbilly Sask Party decides to do the same thing in Saskatchewan…

Battletoads

Since we already know, thanks to Pulaski’s ageing incident, and the Picard, Ro, Guinan Kid incident, that cures are as easy as stamping a previous pattern onto them during transport, technically any one of them would be better than an actual doctor.

Throw them into the pattern buffer, upload the last stored healthy pattern from their most recent beam-out. voila…all fixed.

Early on in TNG he even says he can detect if humans are lying from the minute physical changes (although the writers clearly drop that later

We can’t have TOO many reasons to get rid of Troi…

Easily Converter Now. So darn handy.