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An early 1990s ad for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TTRPG by Palladium Adapting the comics, it launched in 1985 using Palladium's "Megaverse" system. By 1991, TMNT had become a huge phenomenon thanks largely to the cartoon series which, allegedly (and ironically), tanked sales in the TTRPG.

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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Obsessed with these illustrations from a 1940s book on spoonbills

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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EUROPEAN ROBIN: a precious feather baby, a ruddy sky dumpling, a good friend, will help you find your keys, full of ice cream AMERICAN ROBIN: big, often wet, surly, has your wallet, killed a rat underneath the bird feeder to make an example to the other animals

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Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/

The Shareholder Supremacywww.wheresyoured.at I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta, Microsoft and Google can proliferate unprofitable, unsustainable

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1: "Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal." 2: "What happened?" 1: "Uh, we had a slight *autoclave malfunction*, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"

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programmers will say shit like "this architecture is smelly,, i think" and want to be called "engineers" for it

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The tragic truth is that there was a cancer at the heart of the franchise from the first moment an Ewok opened his hairy little pie-hole to say yub-nub. From there it was no distance at all to Jar-Jar.

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