Glenn Burgess

Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

What's the largest structure made of soup? “ai” responded Hi! What a brilliant and thought provoking question. The largest structure made out of soup is the Atlantic Ocean. As an AI, what will you do when you retire? “ai” responded prolly like birdwatching. generating birds and watching them. generating a garden to tend to and then generating slugs and stuff. all that good stuff yk

People are my favourite AI.

Whoever asked for a picture of Optimus Prime and Megatron making out, I hope I captured the magic of that scene for you.

Delighted by this episode of Star Trek TNG where the away team is trapped in an alien hotel but it just looks like they don’t know how to use revolving doors

A fake ai prompt where i have written draw a capybara having a relaxing bath and am waiting on a human pretending to be an ai to respond

The response to the prompt, a basic drawing (from a human) of a capybara in water with a little heart above him

Oh my god

Lmao

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(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

Mulder on a TV glaring at the cat in front of it.

The cat is impeding Mulder's investigation.

Mulder on a TV glaring at the cat in front of it.

The cat is impeding Mulder's investigation.

One of the great things about how culture works is that a show that got cancelled decades ago has been experientially filtered into a load of other books and comics and movies by creators who were influenced by it so we don't really need it brought back, we have its descendants all around us.

So no

Just saw on The Guardian that people are spending hundreds of quids on light therapy masks and folks, Death Ray Manta is less than a tenner and shows results faster than any of them.

It's got an effortlessness to it that the later ships lack. At the time it had the context of the TOS era to represent advancement.

I'm not sure what the post-TNG ships are trying to represent, but in hindsight they do seem to accidentally fit the vibe of a post-golden-era Federation.

IP68 is water resistant, not waterproof. Not guaranteed to always survive being submerged in all conditions, hence water damage not being covered under warranty. Specifically excluding pool water, also.

The demo for Alliance Tales: Battles for the Frontier wants to scratch that X-Wing/Wing Commander itch.

Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/alliance-tal...

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Yeah. If they can, they will! No one at MS ever seems to think seriously about the financial advantages of long term customer approval over short term monetary gain. You have customers for generations if you don't keep pissing them off every quarter.

Maaaybe this is good? The article says it's very modular and you can turn bits off, and the AI stuff is behind a subscription. Maybe this can be configured as the lightest, most AI-free version of Windows?

Wishful thinking maybe.

Mantronix is what robots call their junk.

Images of an old silver 1999 Toyota Corolla for sale

You want a car that gets the job done? You want a car that's hassle free? You want a car that literally no one will ever compliment you on? Well look no further. The 1999 Toyota Corolla. Let's talk about features. Bluetooth: nope Sunroof: nope Fancy wheels: nope Rear view camera: nope...but it's got a transparent rear window and you have a fucking neck that can turn. Let me tell you a story. One day my Corolla started making a strange sound. I didn't give a shit and ignored it. It went away. The End. You could take the engine out of this car, drop it off the Golden Gate Bridge, fish it out of the water a thousand years later, put it in the trunk of the car, fill the gas tank up with Nutella, turn the key, and this puppy would fucking start right up. This car will outlive you, it will outlive your children. Things this car is old enough to do: Vote: yes

Consent to sex: yes Rent a car: it IS a car This car's got history. It's seen some shit. People have done straight things in this car. People have done gay things in this car. It's not going to judge you like a fucking Volkswagen would. Interesting facts: This car's exterior color is gray, but it's interior color is grey. In the owner's manual, oil is listed as "optional." When this car was unveiled at the 1998 Detroit Auto Show, it caused all 2,000 attendees to spontaneously yawn. The resulting abrupt change in air pressure inside the building caused a partial collapse of the roof. Four people died. The event is chronicled in the documentary "Bored to Death: The Story of the 1999 Toyota Corolla You wanna know more? Great, I had my car fill out a Facebook survey. Favorite food: spaghetti Favorite tv show: Alf Favorite band: tie between Bush and the Gin Blossoms This car is as practical as a Roth IRA. It's as middle-of-the-

When I ran the CarFax for this car, I got back a single piece of paper that said, "It's a Corolla, It's fine." Let's face the facts, this car isn't going to win any beauty contests, but neither are you. Stop lying to yourself and stop lying to your wife. This isn't the car you want, it's the car you deserve: The fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla. Google map of cars location

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

If we had started out with aquamation and were now introducing cremation they would be scaremongering about pizza oven funerals. If we were newly introducing burial as a method they would be calling them landfill funerals. Humans are so weird about change.

METEOROLOGICAL SPRING YO

These are great! I miss how incredibly shiny logos used to be.

I capsized the ship, but now I'm thinking this looks kind of cool and I should be thinking about submarines. #gamedev

I capsized the ship, but now I'm thinking this looks kind of cool and I should be thinking about submarines. #gamedev

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

Lots of people saying Gorton and Denton represents this and that in ideological, policy terms. But, really, I don't think I can stress enough how much of a draw "a normal person who lives round here and has a normal job" is compared to "careerist toady bussed in from the Westminster circle-jerk".

hahahaha, today is a good day

an account called Lorraine driver says 'It's a vote to split the Labour majority and hand it to frog face' Chris Boyd replies with 'hi lorraine I'm here as a representative of 'things that age really well or really badly' company and, well, how do you feel about the latter Lorraine: please fuck off Chris: I'll put a tick next to I've felt better'

Hahahahahahaha

cc @paperghost.bsky.social

You'll note that the 'You need to vote Labour to stop Reform!' guys aren't elated that Reform got trounced. They seem a little gutted, actually?

Thought it might be interesting to show a clip from the final edit of our short vs the unedited raw performance.

Animating the whole scene out in one take was a lot of work, but it gave me freedom to film/edit this sequence however I wanted.

Watching. A! Christopher, Walken? Movie