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Only Two Monday Memedays 'til Christmas!

Indiana is Basketball Country, but...

Between Mendoza being the first Hoosier to win a Heisman and then grandpaw Phil Rivers doing unexpectedly well in his first NFL start in five years on Sunday, there was a lot of football in the air this weekend.

(Oh, I forgot the NFL gets pissy about embedding its vids. Anyway, if you don't feel like clicking through to YouTube, it's Rivers' first TD pass since 2020. He seemed pretty happy.)

What a loss...

The sun went down on Saturday with the news of the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island and rose on Sunday with reports of an antisemitic terrorist attack in Australia.

Then on Sunday night comes the news from California, where Rob Reiner and his wife had been found stabbed to death in their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of LA. The danger here wasn't a random shooter or an ideological terrorist; no, the suspect in the double homicide is the couple's own adult son.

I immediately thought about 99-year-old Mel Brooks, who has already buried his best friend, Carl Reiner, and now will be attending the funeral of his friend's son, who was practically a nephew to Brooks.

What a legacy Rob Reiner left, though! From his acting role as Mike "Meathead" Stivic in All in the Family to maybe one of the most amazing decade-long streaks in motion picture directing history, starting off with the iconic mockumentary This is Spinal Tap in 1984, followed by...

Tab Clearing...

• The room-size multiplayer arcade game...


• The original Pike car (and also the only one I haven't spotted in the wild.)


• Stop, Shop, and Scroll.

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Person(s) of the Year

So, as you may have heard, whatever's left of TIME magazine announced their person of the year for 2025, and it was "The Architects of AI".

Fitting that the cover illustration is a half-assed remix of an actual artist's original work and also replaces actual workers who build things with extraction-class plutocrats, to include noted pretengineer Musk.

I'll note that, looking at the artist's other works, the metatext of the TIME cover is making a definite and deliberate statement.

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Friday Memes!

Oh, Mickey, you're so fine...

Disney inked a deal with OpenAI to allow the use of numerous characters from its formidable arsenal of intellectual property (which, remember, includes a lot of Marvel and Star Wars stuff, too) in AI-generated Sora videos.

I'm sure the idea here is that kiddos would make short videos featuring Goofy or Darth Vader and then buy more merch or beg mom and dad for a trip to Orlando. See, while movies and video are not a loss leader for Disney, they aren't the main profit center, either. That's all rolling in from licensing, merch, and their hospitality and amusement park arms.

I predict this arrangement will last about a week, during which time the 'net will be flooded with AI slop vids of Mickey and Minnie piloting the jets into the World Trade Center on 9/11 and Iron Man doing hardcore porn scenes with Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

We'll see. Disney's always been extremely protective of their IP.

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In the Middle of the Week, Suddenly Memes!

Tab Clearing...

• A handy guide for spotting AI slop animal videos on social media...and why they're bad. 


• "Why Does Generation Z Have Such A Fascination With Retro Tech?" Probably because physically owning something you paid for must hit like a drug if you're under thirty.


• America's political polarization has become the developing world's side hustle.

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Aiiiii, robot!

Check out the video from the Tesla robot event, where you can clearly see the robot mimic the tele-operator reaching up to take off their VR headset as the robot crashes out.

Tesla Optimus
byu/Decent_Cheesecake643 inteslamotors

Autonomy, my ass.

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Monday Memes!

Automotif DCIII...

A gorgeous Jaguar E-Type Series I fixed-head coupe, with its tiny little trout mouth and clear headlight covers, in Opalescent Silver Blue.

I go back and forth on whether I like the Jag XK-E or the C2 Corvette better from a looks standpoint.

This one was photographed with an Olympus E-M1X and a Panasonic Leica 12-60mm f/2.8-4 zoom lens.

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End Of Week Memes!

Hey, Look!

"One stretch of dominance that was nearly as total, if somewhere in between New England’s in the AFC East and Rome’s in Europe and the Mediterranean littoral, was that of the medium-frame, double-action revolver, which reigned supreme in the United States for something like a century.

If we define the Age of the Medium-Frame Revolver as running from the first adoption of Colt’s Model 1889 by the U.S. Military to the abandonment of the Smith & Wesson Model 65 and Ruger Service-Six by the NYPD in favor of semi-automatic pistols, that’s a solid 105 years of duty."

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"My Baby Said Beep Boop"

Apparently there's a surge of AI songwriting cresting in Nashville.

I should have guessed when the local country music station played the latest hits "She Put Cat5 Tow Chains On My Heart" and "My Chatbot Girlfriend Dumped Me For My Cybertruck"... 

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Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #261...

Nightstand photo from the other week when I was visiting a friend's place. It's a P320 X-Carry with a Grayguns/Boresight Solutions X-Compact grip module in an older Grayguns PHLster Classic IWB. 

(Plus the Pom spray and waved Spyderco Dragonfly, of course.)

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Memes to get you over the hump!

Tab Clearing...

• "I've written about loads of scams. This one almost got me."


• Where's the real poverty line?


• Think of the children!

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Ow.

I don't know if I slept in an odd position or what, but I just rolled out of bed and I feel like I've been beaten all over with a sock full of nickels.

I hope this isn't one of those things that just starts becoming more common with the passage of time.

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Monday Meme-ing!