People adopt tech because it's cool and does useful things. Later new people come in and make the tech shitty, but people are already locked in. AI is basically new tech created by the same type of people who make good tech shitty, and so it's shitty right away, and nobody wants it.

Also, why watch the SOTU when I know you haven't watched Strip Law yet?

Look, my birthday is next Friday. My birthdays generally suck. So this year, there's only one thing I want. It's the same thing I wanted last year, and didn't get. Y'all know what it is.

Final Draft moving to the inevitable subscription model, and here I am laughing, because I'm using a still perfectly functional copy of Sophocles, which hasn't been updated since its creator vanished 20 years ago.

I literally know nothing about Blazblue, but I'm playing the roguelite spinoff, and it's delightful. There's also a perfectly serviceable Dead Cells crossover level that actually replicates DC, albeit a bit easier yet much more complicated.

Anyone ever watch The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit? Written by Ray Bradbury and directed by Stuart Gordon. One of my favorite movies.

Related: so if you like Dazed and Confused, but you want something a little wackier, The Stoned Age is on Tubi. Something about it hit all the right notes with me back in 1994, when it came out.

The BEST thing about Tubi is how if there's an obscure movie that isn't streaming anywhere else, the odds are REALLY good that it's there.

Phil Spencer AND Sarah Bind leaving Microsoft, and the new Xbox head is coming from heading up their CoreAI department, and she's really close to Nadella. She's only been at MS for two years, and her last job was running Instacart into the ground. Things are about to get much worse at Xbox.

I'd like to remind everyone that Koch super PACs spent more money to kill Florida's tax incentives than Florida spent in total on those incentives. It wasn't about the money. It was about union busting, thinning out the liberal voters, and cementing GOP power.

I can always tell when my ADHD meds fully kick in, because I'm suddenly not congested anymore and have to blow my nose like 50 times.

Came home from band practice tonight to discover a pair of Jamaican patties that taste amazing, and a letter from my kindergartner telling me how much she loves me because I make her laugh. Immediately lifted my mood.

"I can't have Chocodiles, I'm a dog!"

I am starting up a new character for Diablo 2. It's been nearly 30 years since I have played a Diablo game. I have only played the original, on my 150mhz Pentium Compaq LTE 5400 laptop back in, I wanna say, 1997?

Yay! John Waters!

Started reading "Rattlesnakes" from You Like It Darker, and I was wondering why the protagonist's name sounded familiar. Vic Trenton. Tad's father from Cujo. That's pretty cool.

I always thought doing records digitization would be a good job for me and my form of ADHD. Just stick me in a big room with old documents and a scanner and leave me alone. My dream job is one where I clock in and then do my work without having to see or talk to anyone for eight hours.

Been so busy this week, but in three hours, I will finally be able to sit down and play Mewgenics.

I really am enjoying my second band, but we've got five Van Halen songs on the setlist and that may be a few too many.

I really like the Yakuza/LAD/Judgment games. There's just something about them that really tickles my ADHD brain. But it's also really funny how lazily they're put together, yet are still full priced games. Playing Pirate Yakuza, and it's basically just the bones and guts of Infinite Wealth.

So who won? Was it Budweiser or Bud Light?

For real. I just joined a second band that is more hard rock and metal focused, and they gave me a list of like 25 songs to learn preliminarily. They're all songs I've heard a million times, and I realized that I STILL don't know the full lyrics to most of them. Just the choruses.

Finally saved up enough to fix our car. The ev battery had finally shit the bed. Turns out the 12v was dead too after sitting for six months (my fault for forgetting to disconnect it). But $1400 we can't really afford later, and it works again.

LOL. Today is the day I discovered that not only is it possible to buy cryptocurrency on margin, but also that a LOT of people are actually stupid enough to do it.

Fallout season 2 is a perfect example of why the current television system SUCKS. Two years between seasons, and then they put out a mere 8 episodes, most of which serves simply to set up the NEXT season. Which will also be too short.

Tonight I realized that I've never seen the 1939 film, Gunga Din. At least I don't think I have. It's on Tubi, so it's an easy fix.

You mean Jeffrey Epstein's good friend, Steve Bannon, who was strategizing policy for Donald Trump's first administration with him right up until his 2019 arrest? That Steve Bannon?

They actually did do this. The indexing had still showed unredacted and misredacted information for certain documents, even ones deleted. Problem is, they half assed it, and there's a few terms that were mostly fixed, but still return docs improperly redacted.

El. Oh. El.

I'm not typically a Christopher Nolan fan, though I do like some of his work. However, the fact that he cast the eternally beautiful Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, sending the usual suspects into a tizzy of outrage... Let's just say if I were a producer, he'd always have a blank check

I gotta start digging through my contacts and calling in favors to see if I know anyone who can get me involved in this. I'd love to help with set design and/or prop making.

Y'all want to see pages and pages of DOJ fuckups? At the Epstein library, do a search for "kaktus" and see what happens.

Y'all want to see pages and pages of DOJ fuckups? At the Epstein library, do a search for "kaktus" and see what happens.

Wrecking Crew was fun! A lot of people have been comparing it thematically to Lethal Weapon, but in terms of beats, I felt it was more Tango and Cash. Definitely recommend.

Heads up if you order pet supplies through Chewy. They've recently added OnTrac as a shipping partner. If you're not familiar, they used to be called Lasership. They will 99% of the time mess up the delivery. Contact a Chewy rep and tell them to not ship your stuff through them.

We auditioned a new lead guitar last night. He played well, but ultimately decided that his job as owner of an AI-based small tech company meant he wouldn't have the time to spend getting up to our level of professionalism. SOUNDS LIKE HE'S ABOUT TO HAVE A LOT MORE FREE TIME THAN HE THOUGHT.

It's hilarious news about Epstein getting banned from Xbox Live for being a sex offender. But, looking through the files seems to indicate that he had set up the account for someone else, and was paying for their Marketplace purchases as well.

This show is better than Marvel and Disney deserve. But goddamn, I love everything that's underneath it. Especially as a film "professional".

OH MY GOD, I FORGOT ABOUT CHAMOY CANDY! To be fair, I moved away from California in 2004, and you don't really see it where I've been since then. I'm craving it now!

Let me guess. The auditors were connected to Americans For Prosperity; the same ghouls who successfully lobbied to get the incentives in Florida destroyed a decade ago?

Is THAT why people have been talking about Midnight Cowboy? Okay, WARNING! Do NOT watch Wonder Man if you haven't seen Midnight Cowboy, because about 13 minutes into ep 1, it spoils the hell out of the ending.

Been reading books on Libby while waiting in line to pick up my kid from school. Mostly catching up on like a decade of Stephen King that I've missed. It's surprising how he's managed to STILL be so consistently entertaining as an author. Reading You Like It Dark, and digging it a lot so far.

I'd like to point out that Miller literally has no authority to give directions, so it's entirely on her that she chose to follow them. She followed his directions because she agreed with them.

This whole speech reads just like every other company that brought in a new CEO to shake things up that didn't need shaking, and then they tank the company within a year.

Fucking awesome. I'm Canadian. Thank you Bill C-3!

Can someone please recommend a decent 4K Blu-ray player that won't break the bank and is relatively no-frills? My only actual player is the one built into my old Xbox One, and I really need to bite the bullet and get one, because I have a ton of Blu-ray media I haven't even opened.

I wasn't expecting to like Starfleet Academy as much as I do, but it's a nice surprise. But then again, the only reason I'm watching it is because I have access to Paramount+ for free.

Question for singers/vocalists. I use a Shure Beta 57A because I love the pattern. But I really like the aesthetic of the Super 55. Any other Beta users have any input on the 55 before I drop the money on one?

We already require warrants, and the agents who have thus far murdered American civilians have been with DHS long enough that they weren't subject to the currently reduced standards for training. And requiring identification? Yeah, right, like Noem will enforce it. The entire DHS must be dismantled.