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Why is there so much teal and orange in AI imagery?

Christmas will always make me miss Brian O’Donovan now #Boston #GBH @gbhnews

Wow Portishead’s “Dummy” turned 30 this August.

What’s the difference between Ghost Box and Belbury Music?

Anywhere here’s a new thing from them: https://belburymusic.greedbag.com/buy/prismatics/

#music

Corporate training modules are like:

You find a USB drive on the floor by the elevator. What should you do?

A. Mount it to your work laptop to see if there is any Bitcoin on it.
B. Throw it away. It probably isn’t important anyway.
C. Give it to someone in IT and explain where you found it.
D. Promptly swallow it while nobody is looking.

“Only Murders in the Building” just makes me so happy that Steve Martin and Martin Short got to do one last relevant thing that people like in the last quarter of their lives.

Has anyone confirmed that this “AI poopoo peepee podcast” actually was created with AI? The voices sound so natural, with all the inhales and inflections, and the dialog is so perfect.

The only giveaway for me is that they mispronounce (?) “dadaism” as “daydayism.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr4BP4V1R8?

“Fedified” was always so vicariously embarrassing to me. Like it’s the ultimate desperation for a check mark to just get someone else to put the link on their meaningless domain.

If you loved Espers or Josephine Foster & the Supposed, you absolutely need to hear this record: https://nighttimes.bandcamp.com/album/keeper-is-the-heart

#music

In Regis Philbin’s 2005 rendition of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” he starts losing it and introduces Rudolph to Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees.

(Also a certain vile president-elect makes an appearance, so listen with caution.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8YivKZrOno?

When GitHub is down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wbL88f4gI

Haven’t listened to this in an eternity, god damn. Just think about this record. https://fatcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/finally-we-are-no-one

Am I crazy? A Topre keyboard for ~$150? I thought you had to spend at least $200 to get these switches. I’ve been dying to try Topres forever. https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/products/topre-realforce-r3s-tkl-wired

This is incredible work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grBNYalWEZU

I’m an insufferable purist but I have to admit I enjoy this cover. It modernizes the song while retaining its spirit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM-n3s6SD2U?

Hallmark rom-coms reuse so many of the same actors, is there an online shipping community that thinks up as-yet unrealized pairings and argues about them?

Who’s that comic who plays a coach in those new Geico commercials

The most unbelievable thing about Home Alone is that Kevin kept dressing himself up in cute little sweater ensembles.