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What we named our account after: We're twin brothers who draw cartoons and write comedy skits. We saw the name Twin Images on an album at W. Bell & Co.; they were a twin sister singing duo. They're clearly not using the name anymore, so we took it. That's been the name of our "troupe" ever since.

broken earbuds method

a logo change is one thing, editing it's on-screen logo is a WHOLLLLLLLLE OTHER STORY. #soraverseau

Very funny to see ChatGPT replicating the failure state of government bureaucracy ("go to your local librarian" being the answer to needing help with anything)

So apparently Elon Musk released some of his AI Odyssey slop, and even the Musk fans hate it. Lmao.

"Every single dramatic moment – Odysseus’s cod-insanity and his agreeing to fight, taking leave of his family, the hardship and adventure of the sea journey and the climactic decision – is all as motiveless and meaningless as the movement of shapes on a laptop screensaver."

Lot of comments on this slamming the writer for "legitimizing" AI slop by reviewing it, but just one of those points I fundamentally disagree on! A critic should absolutely be engaging with garbage and articulating what makes it garbage!

Yes, Firefox (much like DuckDuckGo) does have AI features. But they're easily turned off/ignored, and the fact they felt the need to spend this much money going "we know you don't necessarily want AI features" shows that corporations are realizing the public writ large doesn't like AI.

Peanuts by Schulz: Wednesday, December 4, 1974

We got the lame cyberpunk future where every evil corporation is named some shit like “Gleebo” or “Drivr”

cyberpunk readers when the evil multinational company got an asian name

cyberpunk as a genre is really funny because when you think about it its basically the "x, but japan" meme applied to capitalism

they should do this actually i think it would be funny me opening a steam game and seeing "2000 Nader - 2004 Bush - 2008 Ron Paul - 2012 Obama - 2016 Evan McMullin - 2020 Jill Stein - 2024 Kanye West"

i got logged out of youtube for some reason but it did lead me to the funniest front page ive seen in years

If lost my job and saw 200,000 people signing a petition not to help me. But to "rescue" their favorite fictional character. I'd be pissed.

I think part of it is that people will hear about a massive studio closure with hundreds losing their jobs...and then just go "but what about the IP?!?!"

Im glad I saved this before deactivating my twitter and losing my discord where I had posted it

Bluesky has four kinds of users.

China lost $2.4 trillion on the AI bubble are you fucking kidding me

In China, the AI bubble has already burst reut.rs/4BlW1Uh

China’s first AI-generated theatrical film, ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’, has bombed at their domestic box office, only making $121,000 USD against a budget of $1.5M USD. In contrast, the crudely animated ‘Niu Lai’ made nearly $10M USD against a budget of $200-500 USD.

A lesser man holding the roles of so many Looney Tunes would have fallen silent when Coyote Vs Acme was shelved. Eric Bauza got louder. He poked, prodded and called out his bosses at every turn, just like ol' Bugs would've. We have lost a champion of the arts, one with rare scruples.

genuinely shocked i haven't seen this on the tl yet with all the winstonposting

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

been having a lot of fun time making a 'heckmaniverse timeline' for these major companies, kinda probably inspired by @sorathepanfloof.bsky.social

"COBRA Commander is hatred and evil personified. Corrupt. A man without scruples. Possibly the most dangerous man alive!" (2/2) -excerpts from the original COBRA Commander filecard written by Larry Hama, 1982

"Absolute power! Total control of the world...it's people, wealth, and resources--that's the objective of COBRA Commander. This fanatical leader rules with an iron fist. He demands Total Loyalty and allegiance." (1/2)

Sadly there is a loud enough contingent of Dickhead Joe fans on the wrong side politically who still collect that Hasbro wouldn't have the nerve to alienate

Do a story where COBRA wins, because COBRA won, and we are all average Joes fighting back.

Forget your Himalayan mutant Snake cults, THIS is who COBRA has always been, and Larry Hama knows it. He wrote this scene two years ago:

Lots of talk in the replies about GI JOE being an irrelevant brand in the replies, which is a shame because there is definitely an angle you could work to make the property relevant to the moment, even it Hasbro wouldn't lean on it in a million years:

Not for nothing, but after other GI Joe Springfields taking full advantage of being anywhere in the US, Hama had this scene of COBRA assisted police brutality happening expressly in Springfield, OHIO

From “I won’t let the government stop me from exploiting people to get rich” to “Make Millville Great Again”

I suppose the really damning truth is that Larry Hama always saw the Far Right for what it was but now, with no need to evem pretend to be respectable, their rhetoric is indistinguishable from syndicated cartoon villains

Here's that time in 2024 where Larry Hama placed his generally anonymous suburb of domestic COBRA insurgents of Springfield in Ohio

"COBRA lowkey are just Republicans" is my favorite fundamental truth of the franchise that folk who revisit it years later are finally cottoning to

I had the utmost displeasure of being in a sport bar and seeing one of the TVs playing an ad for "Houdini: Back From The Dead", and you can guess how it was made. All I'll say is making a fully generated TV series about goddamn Houdini is the most tone-def concept I've ever heard.

This is eminently reasonable, extremely well-argued, and essential reading. Erin is correct about all of this, and it is doubly urgent given what we've seen in the UK. 2026 is the time to correct the Dems about this. 2028 may be too late.