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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 4d

Mezamē, a curious sheep, is a mascot who is the editor of Asupresso, an information site about 7-Eleven in Japan.

A sheep mascot with three green circles on its head and a vacant stare poses on a pavement with its hands raised.

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · 10d

As part of AI generating me a daily webpage of interesting info, I have it draw me a daily doodle, and they absolutely rule - I think this one is a rabbit that ate a carrot? (The prompt for today's message was the carrot emoji)

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · 14d

The Wikipedia entry for Camelot Music could certainly use a better feature photo if anyone finds some vintage Polaroids from their childhood mall: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot...

The Wikipedia entry features a photo of the dark interior of a seemingly closed mall with a Camelot Music storefront barely visible in the darkness

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · 16d

I have 55 more events that I need to sort through and see if they're still active in 2025 🤪

A Great Big City @agreatbigcity.com · 16d

Boo! 👻 The AGBC Halloween events page has been updated for the first time since 2021 🙏
agreatbigcity.com/halloween

60 Halloween Events in New York City for 2025

🎃 Updated for 2025 👻 Find times and locations for 60 annual Halloween events in NYC

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · 28d

Putting a whammy at the *end* of all of that really has my ears stretching to imagine the end result!

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 29d

hang in there

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Sep 22

A very funny trip I just took:

Looked up Omarchy to figure out what it was... see DHH has Grok open in the screencast... 🤔

Searched BlueSky to see if he has an account... found your post instead!

I'm pretty happy with my decision 15 years ago to use Sinatra for everything 😆

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Sep 9

It's absolutely wild that 'The Glow Pt. 2' was released on 9/11, so I'm going to take the opportunity to remind you about it today, instead:

Happy 24th to one of the greatest albums ever made: pwelverumandsun.bandcamp.com/album/the-gl...

The Bandcamp version has 20 extra tracks and is only $9 🙌🐘

the Glow pt. 2, by the Microphones

40 track album

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · Aug 27

We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most.

Learn more:

‘The Toxic Avenger’ Partners With Undue Medical Debt to Erase at Least $5 Million in Medical Debt

It’s the final week of marketing and promotion for The Toxic Avenger, and the teams here at Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have decided to do something a little different. Rather than spending the re...

bloody-disgusting.com

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Aug 9

I finally got an answer (after pushing through another false refusal) and somehow GPT-5's actual answer is even worse! The follow up saying that she is Korean didn't help either - GPT just said it wasn't Yut Nori or Go 🙄

Even with "Korean" and "dice game", it couldn't work out the correct answer.

A response from ChatGPT that fails to identify the game shown being played in an image

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Aug 8

New model day means... new failures!

Not a strong start from GPT-5 on the "game recognition" game: (I tried the prompt 3 times to 3 errors - on the 4th, I got "Sorry, I can’t help with that" - an old-timey false refusal! 🙄)

OpenAI's GPT-5 AI model is shown responding with an error message when asked what is shown in an uploaded image.

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Aug 5

Hey-o, Algernon Cadwallader is back! And sounding more like Joan of Arc than Joan of Arc has sounded for awhile 🤷

youtu.be/YgWklrkn5cA

Algernon Cadwallader - Hawk [Official Video]

YouTube video by Saddle Creek

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jul 12

Intrusive thoughts while digging through old junk: There's no way these 1998 newspaper coupons are preserved anywhere - I got a fun twinge of nostalgia flipping through them, but what am I going to do, scan them into a PDF and create an Internet Archive collection of them?

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · Jul 5

DC's air quality last night was around the worst in the country because of the fireworks... CODE PURPLE or hazardous.

It was still CODE RED this morning will improve today as the smoke disperses.

More at cwg.live

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jul 2

This was a split-second emotional journey from "Ida? ... *the* Ida?!" to clicking the video and devolving into a blubbering mess 😭 It's perfect.

"Maybelle" by Ida youtu.be/LgCvdv6YKzw

Ida - Maybelle (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 28

They went with the vacuum instead

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 26

lol they didn't even use the taxi for the taxi rollout?

Think there's anyone left at Tesla who remembers they're supposed to be making a bronze "Cybercab", a $25K Model 2, the new Roadster, a semi, a $40K Cybertruck, a 4 wheeler, a robot that's not a person in a jumpsuit, and solar roof tiles?

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 26

Writing an AI to read my to-do list and suggest the next tasks I should do - Very fun!

Upping the intelligence after the initial testing phase and getting back a prioritized and non-blocking schedule for the day showing how to accomplish every task I've been putting off - Slightly embarrassing!

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 23

Incredibly niche recommendation, but this episode of The Great Gildersleeve has the funniest sitcom "hiccups" bit that I've ever heard - this is the hardest I've laughed in years 😆 #comedy #otr archive.org/details/Otrr...

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · Jun 20

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 13, Episode 4

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 20

Tonight's music, The Sunset Bent And Gathered edition: "Awaiting Elemental Meltdown" by The Six Parts Seven youtu.be/_hCqrBJ-_5o

Awaiting Elemental Meltdown

YouTube video by The Six Parts Seven - Topic

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 18

If you're shopping Amazon with a photo of a set of barcodes, definitely do some comparison shopping to get the best price:

(So many of these listings are just model numbers with multi-thousand-dollar prices ?)

An Amazon shopping page showing a "search by photo" set of results - products with only barcodes as images are shown, ranging from $9 to $4,900.

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 18

These folks spent 366 days in isolation and this is what they get 10 years later: 2 out of 3 of the "professional websites" return broken links and the Gimlet podcast redirects to the Spotify homepage.

Don't make me tap the sign!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS...

A Wikipedia linking to blogs written by HI-SEAS 4 crew-members who simulated living conditions on Mars. Two out of three of the links no longer work.

A sign says "Cool URLs Don't Change", a reference to Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee's statement that a link should function forever at its original address once published. The image is in the visual style of a joke on the Simpsons, when a bus driver taps a sign above his head instead of speaking.

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Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 16

Nice-looking ad for the original Nintendo in this November 1989 copy of Woman's Day magazine

Trace Gilton @tracegilton.com · Jun 15

There are some pretty specific examples in the Youtube guidelines for labeling AI content! support.google.com/youtube/answ...