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Yo season 2 of The Rehearsal is in like three weeks

Everything is numbered here.

The monster is zero.

Angelynn Grant subbing for John Funke on Backwoods, nobody better suited! @wmbr

If things are going to be this terrible can we at least have Get Your War On back please?

What a great thing to watch Catherine O’Hara

Watching “The Studio,” was optimistic about it, but it feels kind of heavy-handed?

Gnutella

eDonkey2000

WinMX

Man, listen to some of this stuff #GhostBox #Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiQajnq1AGo

And here are some for their FM station, the Killer Bee, B96 #Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqmFzND_Nt8#t=147

Here are some old WBBM 780 jingles / tone logos #Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eb0VGLkpFU

The main thing in Dan Bejar’s work is that it’s “antagonizing”

Exterior day
Interior night
Fade
Fade
Travel light

Fiver on “Bologna” might also be the best guest vocals on a Destroyer record.

I’m only a few tracks in but this might be the best Destroyer record since Kaputt.

You know, it’s like Dan Bejar doesn’t know when to end a lyric anymore. At some point it just sounds like he keeps hitting the next suggestion on autocomplete, adding more and more clauses and overloading the imagery. Wrap it up, dude!

See? You can do it with anything, not just Ghibli. (“Max Fleischer’s Silver Hammer”)

There’s nothing unique about Studio Ghibli in OpenAI’s new image generator. They didn’t “turn on Ghibli” while keeping all other artistic styles off-limits. A spokesperson wrote, “We continue to prevent generations in the style of individual living artists, but we do permit broader studio styles.” For instance here’s a raccoon in the style of HR Giger.

Again, this doesn’t make any of this OK, but this isn’t a deliberate, targeted attack against Miyazaki’s for his harsh words against AI.

By the way you can access paywalled The Verge content with an Apple News+ subscription.

I still don’t get why nobody understands what a great value that is — the number of paywalled sites this lets you access is huge and constantly surprising me.

Wait I’m confused — people are making it sound like the new OpenAI image tool has a “Ghibli mode” or a “Ghibli generator.” But I think it’s just that some people decided to add “Ghibli” to their prompts, and the results went viral, and now a lot of people are doing it?

This doesn’t absolve OpenAI, of course, but this isn’t as brazen a slap in the face as it was being made to sound, as though there were a big “Ghiblify it!” button in the UI.

Something that could be cool is a website that accepts an upload of an OPML file of RSS feeds, fetches all the posts from those feeds, and shows them to you. No account creation, no subscriptions. Just an ad-hoc, one-time-use-only feed reader.