Reposted by RycarMatt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 2h“ChatGPT, rewrite ‘Cats in the Cradle’ so it’s about what an awesome dad I am.” 06913
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 4hA "takes his sword with him everywhere like a weirdo" and "breaks his fucking toe and keeps acting" madman. And we love him for it. 140
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 4hIneed! Viggo will always be my favorite, since it reads like a ticking clock script scenario. He was a last minute add and needed to make a decision that day, and didn't know what a LOTR was, but hia kid was *ready*. He then proceeded to commit to the bit like a madman. 140
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 5hTFW when you go to wishlist a thing, but find out you've already done it, because of course you did. Lookit that fuckin' art! 110
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 5hDon't you understand?! You'll only ever be able to buy a Stratocaster in stores! *Maybe* a second hand Ibanez if you're lucky. 000
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 5hKinda takes the edge of their whole, "we're smol beans, come shop with us again. Remember Tar-gay? Good times, fellow woke children." 020
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 5hCombined with the delightful "children bullying their parents into taking acting roles" genre See also: Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) Frank Welker (Skeletor) 140
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When I said I wanted to give your agent the finger, this is NOT what I meant! 020
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Will never forget when my father watched me change a diaper, and looked at me like I'd done a magic trick. It wasn't even a cloth one -- it was a velcro strap disposable. Helluva way to learn the man never changed a single diaper in his life. 180
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Who's that wipin' poop from his butt? D-O-M Mysterio? Gotta go. 020
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fucking hell. Nothing like having to chase down the recruiters after a month-long interview process, only to be given an unceremonious Dear John over email explicitly telling me there's no feedback to share. Fuck. New low bar. 010
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026LFGstatic.klipy.comSquirtle Sax SquirtleAlt: Squirtle Sax Squirtle He's groovin so hard on that sax. He's got them pointy triangular sunglasses for extra groove. 010
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Postscript: Since I cannot read Arabic, I had to do a reverse image search to learn about the UAE Space Agency. I guess they're planning to do some exploritory asteroid mining in 2028? Unexpected wikipedia dive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...en.wikipedia.orgUnited Arab Emirates Space Agency - Wikipedia 000
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So yeah, I'd be super embarassed to be featured in this scroll if I was a company, but maybe that's just me. 🤷 100
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A sexualized fictional black woman whose job is to tell the bosses whether AAVE is accurate IMMEDIATELY tells you exactly the Kind of Guy this is for. I'm floored by how textbook an example it is. Racism through a megaphone. 100
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As for the actual product... it's all just the laziest digital avatar pitches I've seen. Lip service "it's not a human replacement" next to "teach it how to do your job!". Just real amateur hour stuff. That said, the very first AI "producer" they highlight pretty much gives the game away... 100
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Our entire business model is that you can build a "digital twin" that is an agent custom tailored to behave and make decisions just like you. Also: 100
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Another good treasure trove is the privacy policy. At the risk of sounding like Jeff Foxworthy, when your privacy page has a special caveat for every locality under the sun, there's some privacy fuckery going on. It's like a guy who suspiciously knows every state's age of consent... 100
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm seeing a lot of questions answered by may "dedicated page for reporting Napster employee behavior"... 100
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"'It’s a revealing thing, an author’s index of his own work,' she informed me. 'It’s a shameless exhibition—to the trained eye.'" -Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle 110
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026...when I see "reflects a global audience" my first thought was, "oh, they do business with Saudi Arabia". I was thinking too small. My bad. 110
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The whole job posting was a turduckin of red flags. "Diversity of backgrounds and experience" is a classic. It means, "we think unpopular (READ: fascist) political opinions are a the REAL underrepresented minority" But before I could even process that, there's that last sentence... 110
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When you play "VC Zombie Brand" bingo, "Steal the valor of the IP you just bought" is the free square. Oh yeah, buds. *YOU'VE* done this before. That's the stuff! Bonus points when you have a "[OUR GRIFT] is the same thing as [THING YOU LIKED]!" 100
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Today, from the depths of job hunting in 2026, I learned that Napster exists and is hiring. Oh boy, I wonder what they do now. Oh. Every AI grift known to man packaged in the most offensive way possible. Cool cool cool. Need to thread some of these later, because they're wild. 130
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Crown jewel of many a late 90s/early 00s prank call sound boards. Usually sitting beside the equally sublime if perplexing, "lemme buy you a pack of gum. i'll show ya how to chew it." 010
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That interview after the show remains one of the most incredible "accidentally telling on yourself" documents on the planet. "LOL we got handed billions of dollars to learn how to make movies wheeeee" 060
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Still thinking about that Lanterns finale. The ADHD urge to write a overlong essay about John's "nature vs. nurture is a fucking cop out" philosophy... 000
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I look forward to next year when Skydance rebrands to whichever of its subsidiaries still has a modicum of nostalgia associated it. Fuck me if i know who that could be at this rate. 000
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comSnl Coffee TalkAlt: Snl Coffee Talk: DISCUSS 010
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When my partner and i switched places in our bed, this confused our old cat. As he could not discern that our bed is in fact the same height at all points, he would consistently hop up to my old spot, and walk over her head to get to me. He was such a lovable dummy. 050
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In one of the BtS segments, someone said, "the Lanterns are cops, John Stewart is a superhero" which captures the show's ethos super well, imo. 030
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And man, that *hug*. And how you know the script page *must* have read, "[CHARACTER REDACTED] exhales". IYKYK Getting choked up over here. 0170
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026...and understands that if he wants to do a better job, he needs to be accountable for his choices. And it ends up being something you can retroactively apply to every decision he makes. And the healing effect of being able to do that on your own terms. Chef's fuckin' Kiss. 1190
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026SPOILER HEADS UP I also loved how they manage to contrast the Hal/John approach to the [CENTRAL PROBLEM] Hal *does* have sympathy, but he can't see past his rigid worldview, and only makes things worse. John struggles with how his actions will *impact* the people he's empathizing with... 1161
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The "that's fucked up"/"you're missing the point" exchange in the finale was calling me out, so to speak, by saying, "don't try to empathize with me, you can't know my lived experience, let me tell you what it means to *ME*" ...and puts a nice bow on how empathy is his real superpower 1240
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm really glad @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social called out the comparitive IMDB reviews of the origin story episodes. I didn't love the latter one, but I can't give myself too much credit, because it's only in retrospect that I get what ep3 was going for. It left me disturbed (and that was the point)... 1210
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Lanterns plays like True Detective and Training Day doing a fusion dance in the middle of artist alley at Comic-Con." Fuckin' spot on. There's a line from the BtS where someone says, "The Lanterns are cops, John Stewart is a superhero" which I thought captured their ethos nicely. 1743
Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don't remember the incident so much as the aftermath... Slept with a bamboo cross over my bed for much of my formative years, because dad couldn't wait for bedtime to get his Hammer Dracula fix, and Christopher Lee is terrifying. Don't know which, so let's go with "Brides". That windmill rules. 000
