Jon Uleis

Checking out the Billy Joel Facebook group

@shmuplations Wonderful stuff. Thanks for translating and posting. Some highlights for me

Today we have an amazing roundtable interview from 1989 with Shigeru Miyamoto, Shigesato Itoi, and author Seikou Itou. Conducted shortly after the release of Mother, it's full of deep musings and observations about realism, creative exhaustion, the moral panic over kids and gaming, and prescient visions of the future. shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/

@tmbg '70s Sparks had a lot of Mid-Atlantic accent

JF: revelation-I love singers who use a fake British accent.

@peterlanee Get Back truly looks like dogshit

Thank you Peter Jackson, now PLEASE FIX GET BACK

@tmbg And enjoying a snow treat last night

@tmbg Cinnabon snoozin away in Brooklyn

JF: it’s a snow day and it’s time to stay cozy. Join MC Fresh Step and storm this feed with pics of your snoozing cats or dogs. Housebound pets of the world—unite and sleep in!

The artists hurt the very most by generative AI were the people who drew your family in front of The Simpsons house

@willhines Okay, you cooked with this one

Who here thinks everyone is full of shit

@janbican2 @lennonpube It changed their expressions and facial structure

@lennonpube gpt

PLSSSS I NEED A BETTER QUALITY VERSION OF THIS PICTURE... SOMEONE MUST HAVE IT IM SO FUCKING SAD

@lhateshrlmp @favoriteveg there is a way to do this without talking to anyone

@favoriteveg can i use this as my phone background

My name is Captain Olimar. While traveling through space, my ship was struck by a meteor... I must have blacked out...

@VaporSoup7 @CommanderHales1 @lukasdrawsart The show sucks, just download it from archiveorg and nobody loses money

@CommanderHales1 @lukasdrawsart I wish all the rights holders would quit being a bitch and properly release these

Why did the third season intro for the Beatles cartoon lock the fuck in out of nowhere

@NwistyOnline Thank you for the shows yesterday Sincerely, a pedestrian

@steipete Go with Pinchy

Crafted a beta of the next one. With the rename I need a bit more feedback. curl -fsSL molt.bot/install.sh | bash -s -- --beta

@MEOWFINN_ @cowboyfelix_ @froggycrossing "C" sounds like "Sea" That's the entire joke

@MovingToTheSun @cowboyfelix_ @froggycrossing Thats not it though? If it is about school grades, then how does a sea bass relate to school grades

I'm gonna say something I've been scared to say for 6 years. I don't understand the sea bass joke and I've been too afraid to ask what it means

@cowboyfelix_ @froggycrossing This isn't it, lol. The jokes are localized and do not require knowledge of Japan fish markets. It's about school grades

@froggycrossing Apparently it’s this???

@goodtechorno @bitfloorsghost This is good because it's teaching some principles of programming

last night my son told me he wanted to make a game or an app, so he came over to my desk and I explained the whole process between claude, github, vercel, etc., the best I could, walked him through step by step he’s 9 and he ended up making two legit browser based games that we played last night first thing he said when he woke up was he wanted to make more games after school this is an unbelievable unlock

@lexxbarn Desktop IS a folder, very easy to get to in Finder

@MovingToTheSun mine wasn't in a folder I had them defaulted to desktop - don't ask me why lol but I've avoided cleaning for months

I could cry. Claude Cowork ily.

@tedscavingpage "am I terrible for not giving a shit about the bad green screen shots" Damn, twitter has done a number on you

am I terrible for not giving a shit about the bad green screen shots in pluribus, there were literally like two of them out of an entire season of stunning visuals

@JohnnyFocal ChatGPT please write me a whining post about Criterion and make me sound like an expert

Criterion, how have you managed to do this to Eyes Wide Shut? This should have been a definitive 4K release — a reference-grade presentation of one of Kubrick’s most precise, most controlled, most intentional films. Instead, what you’ve put out feels like a compromise dressed up as prestige: a substandard home-video version that flattens the image into something lifeless, electronic, and fundamentally wrong. A 10-bit, Dolby Vision minimal-enhancement, TV-version approach to a film that demands cinema-grade 12-bit full 4:2:2 treatment, this is not “good enough.” It isn’t even close. Compared to the DCP, the disc looks drained of depth — the texture, the nuance, the delicacy of shadow and colour separation are gone. The atmosphere that is the storytelling in this film has been thinned out until it feels generic. That isn’t “a different look.” That’s damage. And the most infuriating part is what this disrespects: the work. Larry Smith’s cinematography and grading choices weren’t accidental decoration — they’re the film’s bloodstream. Every subtle tonal decision, every controlled shift in warmth and cold, every balance between glamour and dread was crafted to serve Kubrick’s intent. When you blunt that, you don’t just change the picture — you change the film. I worked on this film. I know what it’s meant to be. And I’m appalled at how casually this release treats that legacy — not just Kubrick’s, but everyone who carried this to the finish line: Larry Smith DoP, Jan Harlan Producer, Joe Dunton cameras and the Deluxe lab teams, the entire chain of authorship. This isn’t “Criterion being Criterion.” This is the physical-media market slipping into a depressing new normal where “4K” becomes a badge, not a promise. And it’s the same rot everywhere: compromised masters, missing premium audio, releases pushed out that feel like the minimum viable product rather than a definitive archival edition. If physical media is supposed to be the last refuge of quality and permanence, why are we accepting versions that are visibly and audibly second-rate? Eyes Wide Shut is not a casual catalogue title. It’s a landmark. A final statement. A defining piece of cinema. If you’re going to put that “C” on the box, then act like it means something. Because right now, Criterion, this is not preservation. It’s vandalism. @Criterion @warnerbros @mdbmhk #EyesWideShut @Dolby @BrightSideHT @LegalBeagleOK @RalphAVSreviews

@Sonicboom2410 @cracker_island Asked, probably

@cracker_island i'm still so confused how that ended up there like what did they do to get that??

Plastic Beach lore is insane because why was one of the unreleased songs found in a fucking Netflix documentary bro