Star Trek title card generator

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— Mike Spahn (@fistydollars.bsky.social) May 22, 2026 at 3:16 PM

Great thread showing how AI imaging tools turn clichés into nightmares

It gets grimmer and grimmer:

Take the image above: this is how Midjourney imagines »a family enjoying a barbecue«: an all-white, middle-class, suburban American dream world as if painted by Norman Rockwell – though he would never have depicted the whole family sitting around the burning grill
2/7 pic.twitter.com/l1hRiMxs51

— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen) July 11, 2023

Generative spam is coming for writers, and is already here for musicians

unbelievable. in an earlier draft of my newsletter piece i actually suggested spotify itself would try to save money by clogging up users’ listening experience with generative radio DJ chatter but i took that part out because it sounded too stupid. https://t.co/uoZumgBcIR

— jaime brooks ☭ (@elite_gz) February 22, 2023

Gizmodo:

Spotify has unveiled a new feature to help curate your music that is fueled by artificial intelligence. The company’s new AI DJ, aptly named “DJ,” helps guide you through your listening experience by feeding you music it thinks you’ll love along with computer-generated commentary on what makes those songs great.

DJ serves as a music curation tool from Spotify that feeds you songs you like and songs it thinks you’ll like, wrapped up in a realistic voice modelled after Xavier “X” Jernigan, Spotify’s Head of Cultural Partnerships. DJ generates charming and cheeky quips after every few songs that were generated via machine learning, and these comments describe your listening habits and fun facts about the album or song you’re listening to.

And from Brooks's newsletter, after stumbling on a suspicious track:

The case of "Jaime Brooks" perfectly illustrates how these scams will manifest in the world of music. By generating audio that is harmonically similar to classical music, "Jaime" was able to trick Spotify into recommending it to classical listeners. By deploying familiar sounds in a randomized, nonsensical fashion, the resulting compositions were able to bypass copyright filters designed to block infringement of existing works. By targeting a style of music that often appears in sleep-oriented playlists, "Jaime" gained access to the least discerning users on the entire platform. Unconscious adults are very unlikely to notice they're not listening to Mozart anymore and get up to hit fast forward, especially if the interruptions are brief and unpredictable. Babies don’t even have the option! This is how generators are going to change the internet in the coming years: by infesting the darkest, most neglected corners of our collective online experience with the digital equivalent of roaches, bed bugs, fruit flies, and mold.

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The reality is that Spotify is unprofitable. It always has been. Their single biggest operating expense is the cost of licensing music from the major labels, which continues to be the platform's biggest draw. Spotify is the market leader in streaming with about one hundred and ninety-five million paying subscribers globally, and they lose money every time one of their users hits play on a Taylor Swift album. They can't make money giving you what you want, because what you want is too expensive. Serving up music to customers is a tedious, money-losing business that Spotify only ever bothered with in the hope that it would teach them how to get us all hooked on something cheaper. The trajectory of the platform's shift from user-created playlists to in-house editorial playlists to personalized, algorithmic "Discover" playlists makes this clear. The business model only works if Spotify's users can be persuaded to see listening as a passive, solitary activity rather than an active, social one.

Podcasts were supposed to help them do this.

Speaking of music, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary) edition vinyl and CD for preorder at Amazon. 

The Verge used Tiktok's text-to-image AI generator to create troubling images

Verge:

The limitations of TikTok’s model may well be intentional, though. First, more advanced models require greater computing power, which would be expensive and resource-intensive for the company to implement. Secondly, TikTok has more than a billion users, and giving all these individuals the power to create photorealistic images of anything they can imagine would almost certainly produce some troubling results.

For example, we tested the models ability to create nudity and gore

Art tips from Olivia Jaimes; Frog Thor by Walt Simonson; When you just might own a magic figurine in real life

Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for Sat, 27 Feb 2021 https://t.co/NlSA91WHZA pic.twitter.com/qJVLCuHO9U

— Nancy (@SluggoIsLit) February 27, 2021

Thor frog promotional poster during my run on Thor for Marvel. 1985.

The original poster was printed as a two color one sheet. I believe the color here is by Steve Oliff for the Thor Omnibus. pic.twitter.com/BwKncjZA6b

— Walter Simonson (@WalterSimonson) February 27, 2021

This was a ride beginning to end 😂 pic.twitter.com/pI2Nw4xrIR

— This is the voicemail for Rebekah Weatherspoon (@RdotSpoon) February 27, 2021

This is an interesting site with a program that animates a still photo. I fed it a daguerreotype of the physicists of Michael Faraday.https://t.co/kGPuWt3b5d pic.twitter.com/QFj3B8b1cI

— Donald Mitchell (@DonaldM38768041) February 26, 2021

Great short story by Janelle Shane about a roomba of the future that becomes a space pirate

68:HAZARD:COLD.

Also, Dorth Darth Darth is a very good name:

Fun fact: the planet names Tatloor and Bal Panda were generated by a neural network I trained on Star Wars planets

Rejected names include:
- Bunlalavor
- Slorru G
- Tinahttps://t.co/1P3sH2ZCiM

— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) June 30, 2020

I used a neural network trained on Star Wars characters to name Greki

Rejected names include:
- Captain Kreet
- Darth Sans
- Ban Sand
- Dorth Darth Darth
- Comtander Janhttps://t.co/c0vhm7sFnJ

— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) June 30, 2020

Ten funny tweets

Odell’s face when he started speaking Spanish. 😂😂😂

pic.twitter.com/ECZiifpdwh

— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) September 17, 2019

Our holiday card pretty well sums up the dynamics in our household pic.twitter.com/YZJMW1QozJ

— Tina Bork (@tina_bork) September 18, 2019

i don’t like the person i become when i’m tracking a ups package

— daddy long legs xx (@ELLASCHU) September 15, 2019

The Cowboys' tweet about releasing a player was sponsored by LG Electronics. Jerry Jones is wild. 😂 https://t.co/eqEAojQja8

— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) September 18, 2019

Sam Darnold “Out Indefinitely” Generator https://t.co/odKk5wWCX9 pic.twitter.com/6ajPJd6Woy

— Burke Communications (@BurkeComms) September 18, 2019

What people think going viral is like: Fame, accolades, money, The Ellen Show, jobs
What going viral actually is like: The birds from the movie The Birds

— Kendra🏴‍☠️ (@kendrawcandraw) September 18, 2019

Tom Holland is Lili https://t.co/4dsqhtfuvM

— Kirby Enthusiasm (@TheBestKirby) September 18, 2019

Just sitting around, trying to think of how I could do enough damage to the nation or culture to get on Dancing With The Stars

— ObamaNetflixHat (@Popehat) September 18, 2019

It's not the most ethical move in the world, but in a pinch you can hand off a cursed object to basically any baby.

— Jason (@longwall26) November 24, 2013

I’m dying. pic.twitter.com/BIVXd5OXW5

— Sean Kent (@seankent) September 18, 2019

*More funny posts.

Video game roundup

That Michael Cohen testimony is big and all, but have you seen how in the new Mortal Kombat Johnny Cage can throw his sunglasses as a projectile AND THEN PULL OUT ANOTHER PAIR OF SUNGLASSES?! pic.twitter.com/gYtMkHun4N

— Matt Gerardi (@Gerardi) February 27, 2019

Startup generator

Generate your own unicorn.

Dungeons and Dragons character generator

For example:

How Long Will You Survive In The Chamber?

Great quiz at The Clickhole (I survived 5 hours).