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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 8h

I snuck downstairs after my bedtime when my parents were watching Nightmare on Elm Street on VHS. I couldn't sleep for a week.

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Woman Shocked by Freddy Krueger

ALT: Woman Shocked by Freddy Krueger

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 19h

Lanterns: such a good show.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rewatching this classic. It is still THE best Batman movie ever made, live action, animated or otherwise. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamil killed it in this.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How internet old are you? I'm 13. Never used MySpace, I thought ZipDrives weren't worth it bc I had a CD burner, and I used mIRC, not ICQ.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

According to Bain & Co., AI needs to generate $6T in annual revenue with a T by 2031 to justify current spending, and requires 1% of global annual GDP growth to be sustainable. And it could supposedly kill us all. We live in the dumbest timeline. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

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AI Faces $6 Trillion Test to Justify Data Centers, Bain Says

The global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the capital being deployed to build data centers around the world, Bain & Co. said.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just because Elno doesn't want you to see it, you should definitely go see it. youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10?...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I first saw Principal Belding on Good Morning Miss Bliss, the show that would become the classic Saved By the Bell. RIP, Dennis Haskins. 2026 has been a ringer for my childhood.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

27 years ago today, OutKast dropped one of their greatest albums ever.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw a video of Captain EO randomly on YT today. They broke the mold with Michael. I remember seeing this at Epcot in the mid-late 1980s.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I went to Elno's Dumpster Fire(TM) to see it for myself. Gaming executive (CEO for WarDogs developer Bulkhead) says games are too cheap, and that's why studios are shutting down. He also claimed GTA VI wasn't priced high enough. Uh... WTF

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right in the feels. I miss the booklets that came with games.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is the real AI threat. Humans uncritically rolling with an AI that almost gets people killed. And hallucinations in LLMs are mathematically guaranteed, despite efforts to reduce them, just by the nature of how LLMs work. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I heard someone describe Lanterns as "the Batman Begins of Green Lantern" and now I can't unthink it. Makes complete sense.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I started playing Black Myth Wukong (it was on sale). I beat the Wundering Wight early in the game, before the wolf boss fight (took me 20 attempts). I couldn't collect his spirit when I beat him bc I didn't have "guidance". Am I screwed until NG+?

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm not sure why folks don't get that the most dangerous person in any room is an elderly Black person. Out of the population of eligible people who DGAF, elderly Black people given what they survived have the least amount of fucks to give.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I get a great deal of satisfaction wiping Windows from a new machine and installing Linux. Boots so much faster, and is much more responsive without the bloat and spyware/telemetry.

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Retro Blast 👻 @retroblastpod.com · 11/09/2026

Hey. Play more 90s FMV games. You're welcome.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why did I think Giulani had passed from cancer a couple years back? He’s actually still alive?

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Don't care what the haters say; I'm watching this as a set of Avatar twins (potentially) would be an interesting in-universe story concept. Poor Korra can't catch a break as they seem to say everything wrong with the world is her fault. youtu.be/nhdh962_ee0?...

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Avatar: Seven Havens | Official Trailer | Paramount+

YouTube video by Avatar Legends

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Remember buying new PS1 games and some of them including a demo disc of an upcoming game? Pepperidge Farms remembers. Demo disc was my introduction to Metal Gear Solid.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I remember hearing jokes about Death Stranding being a walking simulator. But then I actually played it for a couple hours this weekend to try it out, and it is in fact a walking simulator. It's the Postal Service during the apocalypse.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This was way better than I expected and brings George Lucas' inspiration full circle. This is basically a samurai flick dressed as Star Wars, which was inspired in no small part by samurai flicks.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When I was in consulting, I used to email my clients things I thought might be useful to them. Now on the other side of it, I find getting the emails my consultants send me annoying and basically auto delete them. Life is funny.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My first game in almost 3 weeks. Picking up where I left off.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: The Dark Knight Slowly Gets Out of Bed

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

All of the death made me lose track that 30 years ago today, OutKast dropped ATLiens - their sophomore album and iconoclastic (topped by Aquemini just 2 years later).

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In order for the math to math in a 10 year horizon: 1. 20% CAGR for 10 years 2. Enterprise customers have to 6x their spend with AWS; or, 3. AWS has to miracle 20 million new customers AWS would be ~1-2% of US GDP. Ask yourself how likely that is. currently.att.yahoo.com/att/andy-jas...

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Andy Jassy Believes AWS Can Hit $1 Trillion in Revenue. Here's When the Math Says It Might Happen.

The cloud computing giant should continue to benefit from the age of artificial intelligence.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly first and now Tim? Death is the price of life, but having them go at damn near the same time sucks.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Spending time with some wealthy Japanese people. Family owned business in Tokyo. You would have no idea if you saw them on the street just how ridiculously loaded they are. Offered to let me stay in one of their Tokyo houses (plural) while I'm in town. They have multiple scattered around the city 😳

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Devil May Cry came out 25 years ago today for PS2. This game was a banger.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Japanese pairs figure skaters that won gold at the Olympics got engaged and it's been making heavy rotation on the news here. Guess that answers the "are they or aren't they dating" question that hung around them during the Olympics.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I understand yet don't understand the PS blackout. If it's only 1 week during a slow part of the year for releases, is Sony going to pay attention? Or just wait out the week and continue like nothing happened? Is it a big enough message to meaningfully move the needle?

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sam Altman is indeed a public nuisance and if the stories about him are true also a psychopath and habitual liar. H/T: Karen Hao, author of Empires of AI

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I should be used to it, but it still grinds my gears when a Japanese person says I look like random black celebrity I look nothing at all like. I've been Jay-Z, Will Smith, DMX (when I shaved my head once), Michael B. Jordan, and just now Kanye West.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On this day in 1998, Wesley Snipes saved Marvel from bankruptcy with the theatrical release of Blade. You're welcome, Avengers Doomsday.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've been playing with Claude for the last week to help do deep research on a topic I know a lot about. It's actually been right a lot with only minor errors corrected with further prompting, but holy rate limit, Batman. I use up half of my 5-hour quota within 10 or so questions on the Pro plan.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm old enough to remember dating before apps when you *gasp* went to public places and talked to a lot of people. Talk to enough of them and you'd find someone you would want to talk to again, maybe be friends with and so on.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

First day back in Japan. Went to a restaurant, put my name on the wait-list in katakana, and when I was called and led to my table I was given a Japanese menu and spoken to in Japanese. Like a grown up. It was refreshing to be recognized as a foreigner but not condescended to.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

IDK if music videos are even still a thing anymore, but when this video came out it blew everyone's mind. It did heavy rotation MTV back when MTV was still music focused.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love games. GTA 6 will likely be a banger (muted by the ridiculous price and being digital only). But four days off for a minimum of 2 more years is not a balanced trade by any stretch. What happened to free college or cash bonus?

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Stephen A. is just going out of his way to prove what every black person says of him is true.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Save the cheerleader, save the world. 😥 Gone too soon.

Hayden Panetierre as her character Claire Bennet from Heroes.

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Skepticon @skepticonprime.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's the only way I can still watch my AND-1 mixtapes.

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