Tab Clearing...

• The room-size multiplayer arcade game...


• The original Pike car (and also the only one I haven't spotted in the wild.)


• Stop, Shop, and Scroll.

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Meme Dump!

Meme Dump!

Person(s) of the Year

So, as you may have heard, whatever's left of TIME magazine announced their person of the year for 2025, and it was "The Architects of AI".

Fitting that the cover illustration is a half-assed remix of an actual artist's original work and also replaces actual workers who build things with extraction-class plutocrats, to include noted pretengineer Musk.

I'll note that, looking at the artist's other works, the metatext of the TIME cover is making a definite and deliberate statement.

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Friday Memes!

Oh, Mickey, you're so fine...

Disney inked a deal with OpenAI to allow the use of numerous characters from its formidable arsenal of intellectual property (which, remember, includes a lot of Marvel and Star Wars stuff, too) in AI-generated Sora videos.

I'm sure the idea here is that kiddos would make short videos featuring Goofy or Darth Vader and then buy more merch or beg mom and dad for a trip to Orlando. See, while movies and video are not a loss leader for Disney, they aren't the main profit center, either. That's all rolling in from licensing, merch, and their hospitality and amusement park arms.

I predict this arrangement will last about a week, during which time the 'net will be flooded with AI slop vids of Mickey and Minnie piloting the jets into the World Trade Center on 9/11 and Iron Man doing hardcore porn scenes with Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

We'll see. Disney's always been extremely protective of their IP.

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Meme Dump!

In the Middle of the Week, Suddenly Memes!

Tab Clearing...

• A handy guide for spotting AI slop animal videos on social media...and why they're bad. 


• "Why Does Generation Z Have Such A Fascination With Retro Tech?" Probably because physically owning something you paid for must hit like a drug if you're under thirty.


• America's political polarization has become the developing world's side hustle.

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Meme Dump!

Aiiiii, robot!

Check out the video from the Tesla robot event, where you can clearly see the robot mimic the tele-operator reaching up to take off their VR headset as the robot crashes out.

Tesla Optimus
byu/Decent_Cheesecake643 inteslamotors

Autonomy, my ass.

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Monday Memes!