Alex Stoklasa

New addition to the bookshelf (hi randy)

shout-out to everyone else who had "the first 500 strips of Questionable Content as a formative experience"

thought we were photobombing someone's shoot on the Venice boardwalk, but it was just Michael Richards taking candids. waved us past as he kept snapping away. I think it was 2008. I wonder if we're in a burner Flickr account somewhere

while anthropic secretly buys and destroys millions of books in hidden warehouses, let it be known that human staff at @archive.org carefully scan physical media by hand as always and there's literally a daily livestream because the process is so wonderful to watch!!!

I'm lacking a couple of these for Orc City and Europa War from last year

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Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

i wouldn't put it that way, in that the vast majority who are trying to be great filmmakers don't do these things, but there's definitely a style of film, mostly from the '70s and '80s, that some young filmmakers think they should replicate, and they believe that's part of how to do it. not good!

screenshot of David Sims' twitter feed. The only thing after 2024 is a repost of One Piece news yesterday

@davidlsims.bsky.social David are you interested in Netflix One Piece or has your twitter been hacked? I've seen some other film people lose access to their accounts recently, maybe something's going around right now

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

The whistleblower, for his part, worked to amp up the pressure. He told me he had shared the document with other reporters, putting me into a competitive crunch. He asked when I thought I would publish. I asked him if he could point me to any current or former coworkers of his who could help me understand the document better. “Not really,” he said. By this point, alarm bells were starting to ring. I wondered if the employee badge the whistleblower had shared with me might have been AI-generated. While AI systems are notoriously unreliable at identifying their own outputs, Google Gemini can detect SynthID watermarks embedded in images that it produces. I uploaded the badge to Gemini and asked if Gemini had made it. “Most or all of this image was edited or generated with Google AI,” it said.

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

if I speak I will get banned off everything forever

Avatar the last airbender had no cultural impact but yall ain’t ready for that conversation

Been watching more Jeopardy! recently and:
1. It’s hilarious and absurd they even tried making someone other than Ken Jennings the host after Trebek
2. Ken’s great as host but I wish like once a month he’d roll up his sleeves and hop in the game for a round, see if he’s still got it

Omg we used to essentially make “second screen movies,” but in those days the first screen was making out vigorously in a car 😌

very blackpilling to see a high school classmate rise through the ranks of far-right media. I know she's sold her soul, I know her catholic conversion is bogus, I hope she's miserable, but it's hard to see that evil freak make shitloads of money and not feel a little jealous.

i love to post 300 times about killing myself and then go to therapy and lie about everything

also I don't think peanut butter m&ms were a thing yet! the red packaging is very distinctive

Steam Frame, Steam Controller, Steam Machine announcement is expected soon, here's a first look!

Can’t stop laughing at this

grokipedia inspired me to read about commercial Wikipedia clones/derivatives and omg "wikiwand" is such a racket! brands itself as "beautiful wikipedia UX" but basically just slaps ads on articles and charges $5/mo to remove them. and misleads you into thinking the $ supports wikipedia!!!

if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one.

your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.

hate hate hated living in a place where the landlord did this. If he was around when I got home, I'd hear the notification on his phone and see him looking at the video of me. Hello! I'm right here in front of you! Look up and perceive the world!

In our increasingly polarized and partisan America there’s only one thing that can bring us all together again: Johnny Bravo But A Girl

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working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"