Mr. Encyclopedia

Mr. Encyclopedia

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πŸ“— I'm the creator of Dimestore Novel. πŸ“˜ I treat other people the way I want to be treated πŸ“™ All my art is CC BY-SA 4.0 πŸŒ‰ bridged from ⁂ https://retro.pizza/@mrencyclopedia, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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The models of six months ago are not the models of today. Frontier models are generating humor that far exceeds human capability. Just look at the way they're referring people to 404 media for tech support.

"Please don't shoplift from Spirit Halloween. I'm a manager there and I don't want you to trash my store!" My brother in Christ, it's a Spirit Halloween. Any shoplifting will be removing trash from your store.

"If we taxed all the billionaires it wouldn't even put a dent in the national debt!" Great, that's why we're not wasting it on something stupid like that, we're spending it on federal programs that actually make people's lives better.

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but god, LET IPS DIE. Even if the Devs are still around and supportive, don't you want to see the OTHER COOL SHIT they might come up with???

Apparently a car mechanic used AI to vibe-code an Arduino to replace part of a car's computer. He didn't even know what an Arduino was before the AI suggested it. This is touted as a testimony of how good AI is now. Call me crazy but I don't want a mechanic that fucks around with shit he […]

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Still thinking about the guy who loved animation but didn't know who James Baxter was and when I showed him he was like "This is just Disney animation"

Nostalgia isn't about revisiting a lost cultural object from the past, it's about revisiting a lost feeling from the past.

Josh@geekcritique.org

> Do you think nostalgia for the Switch era will be different because everyone still has access to all of the games from that era? You can’t miss BotW because you can still play it on your Switch 2. The children are extremely nostalgic for "old Minecraft," which you can play via a dropdown box.

And even then, you can be nostalgic about anything, even things that never really existed. What matters isn't how that thing made you feel then, it's how it makes you feel now.

Rapidly becoming clear that the most Sci-Fi element of Star Trek was individual people retaining any level of competence in a world where you can ask the computer to do everything for you.

I was going to argue that I have in fact watched Echo but then I realized I was thinking of an episode of What If.

BEAT@beatskelton.bsky.social

10/10. YOU DIDN'T SEE ECHO! YOU DON'T KNOW!

Zaphod Beeblebrox is literally a two-faced swindler that will show you both of his hands while stealing your wallet with his third.

Having your own blog remains undisputed best way to post online

Idea: Fictionalized biopic like The Social Reckoning or Musk but it ends with the rich asshole subject tried and imprisoned for the illegal shit we all acknowledge that they have done.

"Hey do you remember when that guy commissioned thousands of different artists to all draw his OC?" "Yeah! He even got an animated pilot made."

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

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It really sucks It feels like there the options for artists are very limited when it comes to social media and there is basically no escaping generative ai Very disappointing