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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 1d

Rabbits aren't habitual carrot eaters, but that got ingrained in the culture because Bugs Bunny was inspired by Clark Gable's character in the film It Happened One Night, where he's introduced standing in a field munching on a carrot.

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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I eventually learned the old Looney Tunes cartoons had more pop culture references than The Simpsons, they were just all movies and radio serials from the 1930s and 40s, many long forgotten.

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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of the space tech and transporters, a lot of Star Trek tech is merely cutting edge. They had walkie-talkies in WWII. Automat restaurants were even older. Audio cassettes were brand new in the mid-1960s. Automatic doors existed but were 10-15 years away from being ubiquitous.

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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 1d

Even that conception is also almost obsolete. My kids have only ever watched TV on streaming; a dead channel to them is a buffering wheel endlessly spinning, or some kind of error code page.

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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 1d

I used to consider it one of the lesser I, Robot stories, but "LIAR!" now feels prophetic concerning LLMs and GenAI.

And The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun were hands down better than the Foundation trilogy.

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 2d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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🎵 Animusic 🎵 @anisongs.bsky.social · 4d

OP1 - Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon (2024)

Sleep Walking Orchestra - BUMP OF CHICKEN

#Anime #Animesky #Opening #AnimeOpening #DungeonMeshi #DeliciousInDungeon #RyōkoKui #Trigger

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 5d

So there's this Vietnamese logger named Ho Khanh. One day he's out searching for agarwood (aka eaglewood aka Wood of the Gods), a fragrant, resinous wood used in incense & perfume.

Ho Khanh is out in the jungle and finds what seems to be an entrance into an undiscovered cave.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 2d

That was the first film I remember marking that a bad movie could still have good performances.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 3d

Truly

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 4d

On Oct. 11, 1979, the first episode of the revival of The Littlest Hobo debuted on CTV. Based off a 1958 movie and 1960s TV show, it aired for six seasons and 114 episodes.
With its famous theme song, it is beloved by generations of Canadians.
This is the story.

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A collage featuring the title "The Littlest Hobo" in bold yellow letters, with four images of a German Shepherd dog: one sitting at a desk with papers, one standing near trees, one near a brick wall, and one in a natural outdoor setting with greenery, all set against a black background.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 4d

4 years

How it How it's
started going

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Movie Magic Liker @latexmorbidity.bsky.social · 6d

In Prince of Darkness (1987), John Carpenter predicted that pure evil would take the form of slop

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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SCIFI.radio @scifi.radio · 4d

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two…

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two of them).

scifi.radio

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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 4d

Comic: cartoon figure in blue shirt talks to frizzy haired figure in labcoat in front of a death ray contraption

Title: The Truth about mad scientists

Blue shirt: Why did you build a death ray?

Mad scientist: To take over the world.

BS: No, I mean what mad hypothesis are you testing?

BS: Are you just making mad observations?

MS: Look, I'm just trying to take over the world. That's all

BS: You are at least going to leave some of the world as a mad control group, right?

Caption: Sad truth: Most "mad scientists" are actually just mad engineers

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone should go watch Innocent Blood if you want something fun for Halloween, this is an absolutely incredible schlocky horror movie. What's it about? A vampire who only feeds on criminals accidentally turns a mafia boss who starts making a whole syndicate of vampire mobsters.

VAMPIRE.
MOBSTERS.

Innocent Blood (1992) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers

www.youtube.com

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Lore Bard @lorebard.bsky.social · 4d

"He had beautiful eyes, but very sad. Rule number 1: never play with the food." 😄 This one's an old favourite.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 5d

artwork of some guy hunched over looking at like a bird thing, orange high-relief terrain with starry sky and gigantic skull in background. caption over skull reads actual deadly diseases, caption near guy reads RFK Jr looking for penis autism

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 5d

The Trillium is hammering this story.

"Months before he was put in charge of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, cabinet minister David Piccini was at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in front-row seats with a director of a company his office would later give $7.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants to. #OnPoli

Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding to

The ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attended

www.thetrillium.ca

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