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David Landon

@4gottenfuturist.bsky.social

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Tommorownaut. Cynical optimist. Dreamer. Lover of Star Trek, EPCOT Center, Monorails, PeopleMovers, and other trappings of the great big beautiful tomorrow we never got.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 11h

Love it! Hope you feel better soon!

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe it's the getaway driver for the person who snuck out of the park with this under their shirt:

A jewel-encrusted Spaceship Earth inside a glass display case in a World Showcase shop.

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 16h

I grew up in a rural North Florida town where the two biggest employers were the Department of Corrections and a phosphate mine. The sole "ethnic" restaurant was a Chinese place called (really) the Fu King Restaurant. Not exactly a foodie destination. 😄

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 16h

WDW quick service is tough for uncultured Philistines like me, because the choices are basically fried fast food or stuff that violates my main rule "Never eat anything you do not know what it is". A shrimp & rice dish? Great! But what the frak are Kachumbari tomato salad & Tzatziki sauce?

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Oh ok. Not one of the sacred places, then.

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Or Super Mario Maker.

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Where is this?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Seems kinda anti-Semitic to me.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently Microsoft has a new Windows 11 Start Menu concept that allows you to scroll through your apps.

Gee, a Start Menu with scrolling. Where have we seen that before?

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, did Russia do it?

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

I never knew Ted Cruz did an episode.

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Now you've got me imagining an Eric Adams press conference. "North Carolina is the greatest school in the world. Some days Michael Jordan hits the game-winning shot for the national championship, and some days a plane crashes into our trade center."

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Eric Tr*mp

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

So, the size of a gumball?

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 1d

“Corvan Glivo” sounds so much like a Star Wars name. Like he should be sitting in a booth at Dexter Jettster’s with Bondo Reems and Elan Sleazebaggano listening to the jizz-wailers.

JoeRalat @joeralat.bsky.social · 1d

Corvan Gilvo from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “New Ground”

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing makes the bean counters happier than the sight of people trampling each other to grab armfuls of plastic baubles produced by child laborers in someplace like Indonesia and sold at a 10,000% markup.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

Or maybe, just maybe, a new POPCORN BUCKET.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

Seems to me that magic mirror could’ve given her some stock tips.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

All I know is the Villains Land better have an Evil Queen M&G or what's the point? I've always wanted to ask her why she got cheap and tried to get her huntsman to kill Snow White rather than paying a Sicilian?

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely not at MK or EPCOT. There have been no net-new additions at MK and EPCOT has added only 1 thing. (Ok, the Moana thing replaced a mostly-empty building so maybe 1.5 things.) Studios and Animal Kingdom have at least had big additions in the last 10 years.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

That's in a youth pastor's house, isn't it?

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

The thing is they're charging Pro prices for a device with a worse battery and camera. It's the G4 Cube all over again. It was beautiful, but it failed because it was priced too high and you could get a more powerful Power Mac for the same or less money.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

Or products that were unsuccessful because they made too many compromises to squeeze into a specific form factor. I was thinking of this because when I went to upgrade my phone the other day, the store was out of everything except the Air. Nobody wants it.

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2d

#Apple

The "same picture" meme. The first panel shows a picture of the Power Mac G4 Cube and the iPhone Air with the caption "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture." The second panel is Pam saying "They're the same picture."