I combined photos of Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg in FaceApp. The result: John Mastodon, CEO of Mastodon
@parkermolloy that just... looks like Jack.
@parkermolloy i feel like that's a violation of the UN's rules against torture
@parkermolloy @mmasnick few remember why the ai Parker ban of 2022 was passed but it has been hailed the law that prevented Skynet
@parkermolloy @mmasnick eeeehg not leading any place I’d want to go - try dialing down the Zuck.
@parkermolloy @mmasnick this one looks like Randy Rainbow

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The last thing you see as the cellar door creaks shut

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Holy crap that scared the hell outta me 😮_o:
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@parkermolloy @mmasnick NO!
How can you someone less human looking than Zucks?
@mmasnick @parkermolloy this like that thread of pictures of corgi cross breeds and the corgi genes dominated in every one
@mmasnick @parkermolloy that "kind of" looks like Jack Dorsey, if Jack Dorsey quit trying to look like a pretentious little hippie/hobo.

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Oh! That's what I said! But I now can't find my reply.
Anyway, big problem is that John Mastodon would not smile. He's a cross between that mythical giant lumberjack, and Spartacus. If he did have a smile, it wouldn't be like that.😐
John Mastodon is not a Smilodon.😏

@parkermolloy @mmasnick

God, that's MUCH better! You've got John's moody determination just right!😉

@parkermolloy @strangetruther @mmasnick How about “not a white man”?

@marcibadwolf303 @parkermolloy @mmasnick

Interesting!

As we are estimating what we have in our minds, rather than what he ought to be,. I suppose that has a bearing‽

@parkermolloy @mmasnick @strangetruther I think so. Why not use Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Chow Yun Fat, Antonio Banderas…??? Anyway it’s a thought experiment. Schrödinger’s #JohnMastodon.

@marcibadwolf303 @parkermolloy @mmasnick

Well, I'm happy for John Mastodon to be a dead ringer for Stringer Bell! Doesn't violate many of my expectations!😆

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@parkermolloy @strangetruther @mmasnick I’m getting a Ryan Reynolds vibe from this one…and I like it.

@TriciaA17 @parkermolloy @mmasnick

Never heard of Ryan Reynolds, but I've known about John Mastodon for years. He used to be part of the Thiel-Musk-Zuck-Jack ratpack, but fell out over the right-wing stance of that rag they published. He's gay but left wing, having been influenced by his time as a student in Germany, before he meet them while he was studying cog-sci in Stanford, alongside Reid Hoffman.

You'll know the rest🙂

@parkermolloy no way John looks like a youth minister at the rock music church.
@parkermolloy oh great, yet another role for the Netflix movie will be already claimed by Ryan fuckin Gosling
@parkermolloy @hammancheez Or Chris Evans. I see Chris there too.
@cordeliane @parkermolloy Hollywood AI is 5 years out from just digitizing a combination of Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ryan Reynolds into Ryan Evans and never having to pay a human leading man again
@parkermolloy how did combining these 3 dudes produce a much handsomer person than any of them individually
@mtsw @parkermolloy A barrel of mucus is a much handsomer person than any of them individually.
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@mtsw @parkermolloy I think the trick is that Jack Dorsey would actually be really attractive if he ate a carb now and again.
@parkermolloy oh he was on that Hallmark Christmas movie. The one with the white people ina a small town.
@gwync @parkermolloy I think that one is on the Great American Family network now...
@parkermolloy "A guy with a beard" lol 👍

@parkermolloy this guy already exists and he's a TV presenter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas_Heufer-Umlauf

Klaas Heufer-Umlauf - Wikipedia

@parkermolloy He looks like half the men in Hollywood.
@parkermolloy not bad aside from the Tom Cruise teeth
@JoParkerBear It's like he has too many teeth.
@parkermolloy Glad to see you haven't lost the knack of doing horrible things with images 😬
@parkermolloy That’s the beauty of Mastodon—it doesn’t have corporate owners, so it can’t be sold out to lunatics with too much ego & money and too little sense!
@parkermolloy Nice! His ears are a little mismatched but still.... NICE!
@parkermolloy #JohnMastodon’s nickname is ‘Sybil’ when he’s being nice. And ‘CEO with fucking multiple personalities’ when Elon comes out to play.
@parkermolloy Can you do another that doesn't resemble any of those three people in any way?
@parkermolloy Mac Sabbath is easier to look at. And has tusks.
@parkermolloy handsome guy who obviously knows what he’s doing 😂
@parkermolloy it looks like a Winklevoss with a beard