Jim Sullivan
Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)
RTN
Barry Schwartz 🫖
Compressed Hare
@chemoelectric @MarkHoltom Now I have an idea of how to get rid of all the space debris.
Yeah, but take account of it attracting the nuclear missiles and the modern equivalent of ocean liners: cruise ships. Which are much, much larger and absolutely packed with horrible diseases.
Tuchowski
Andii
Aileen22@MarkHoltom Haha 😂
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@MarkHoltom Only in Alaska. 😂😂😂
Gin Kangaroo@MarkHoltom @blogdiva Someone enjoyed making that way too much! 🤣
EndicottRoad59@MarkHoltom Love that sign! And the worst part: some people really believe the cartoons are real.
Dr. Sobek
John Deters@MarkHoltom I went shopping at ACME Tools yesterday for the first time. Nice new store. But I was disappointed that they did not have a can of black tunnel paint.
Sebastian Lauwers@MarkHoltom I hate that the typo on “saftety” and the missing spaces is making me wonder if it’s LLM-bs.
AnneTheWriterThat's a valid concern these days. But a Google Lens search finds many instances of this meme on various platforms. One goes back to 2019 (before ChatGPT) and is from the "Juneau Empire" Xitter account [screenshot, as I am not on Xitter anymore], verifying that the sign was-- at least at some point-- a real sign.
#Juneau #JuneauAlaska #Coyotes #Signs
https://www.juneauempire.com/2019/05/08/yes-that-wile-e-coyote-airport-sign-is-real/#google_vignette
@AnneTheWriter1 @teotwaki @MarkHoltom
Why would anyone care how the picture were made, if the it were not a real sign? And who actually cares that much whether it is a real sign? It’s the same degree of funny either way, in my opinion. :)
@AnneTheWriter1 @teotwaki @MarkHoltom
(Were this Twitter instead of the Fediverse, there would now be 100 accounts posting that I am a bot.)
@chemoelectric @AnneTheWriter1 @MarkHoltom Because knowing there’s a real person that went through the effort and expense of making a real sign—typos and all—makes this a much more wholesome thought, than “it’s photoshopped”.
Also, please note my post did not lament the potential AI-ness itself, but rather that the common discourse has become so overwhelmed with slop that I find myself doubting every interaction, even the genuine ones, like this one is.
@teotwaki @AnneTheWriter1 @MarkHoltom
I used to make fake signs with GIMP and had a toolbox of things that now would be called ‘AI’ but then were not. It’s all hype.
They are just the latest in pattern processors.
I modified the beer sign that is near the Hennepin Bridge in Minneapolis to say something else. It’s surely in my ancient, dormant DeviantART account of the same name.
The only real signs are hand-painted ones!Those are rare now. Movie titles used to be hand-painted.
Lisa@MarkHoltom @briankrebs Beep…Beep.
Asahi 🖖🙂 | UFP-Liaison 🌈@MarkHoltom Ah yes...that takes me back to some of my fondest childhood memories. Thank you. ☺️