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Mike Bracken

@horrorgeek.bsky.social

960 followers 390 following 930 posts

Writer, Powerlifter, Strongman, old school/underground/golden era hip hop junkie, was Beat the Geeks' Horror Geek, and host of Sick Flicks on The Horror Geek YouTube Channel. youtube.com/c/TheHorrorGeek

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Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 1d

I remember my first one from the 70s when I was a little kid.

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 1d

The usual. Nothing too crazy and less than the main channel.

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to everyone who's supported the new channel!

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 9d

That one made me laugh out loud. :p

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 14d

It's my favorite impulse buy!!!! :p

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 15d

It's so bizarre to me...what a weird marketing gig that must be.

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 15d

Weirdest thing in the world is getting discount emails from Quest Diagnostics. "Hey, we're having 20% off on heart tests this week!"

Am I supposed to be like "Well, I've been waiting for a good sale to make sure I'm not gonna keel over...better hurry on in! These prices won't last!"

So bizarre...

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 21d

Glad I can make the current hellscape a little more bearable. :-)

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 24d

Hey, thanks man! Glad to help people discover new stuff. :-)

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 25d

Haha! I never get sick of that! I'm glad someone likes the videos and the same movies I do! :-)

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · 25d

I love Matt's videos!

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

I've been following things like this for awhile. I don't know how they ever monetize the LLMs really. I would guess maybe the only way this becomes profitable is through like AGI, but even then, I don't know that business math works.

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm not taking that bet, because I know you're right. :p

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yeah, like who thinks this is a good use of technology? Like you can't find, in the vastness of the internet, an actual human who can tell you good shit to read, watch, play, listen to? Great work solving a non-existent problem, guys. :p

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

Haha! Thank you! That's a high compliment right there...the sleaze does bring out the best in me. :p

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm with you 100% on that.

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yeah, I like Ed's work a lot.

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

I've seen some real cringey tech-bro AI press releases, but calling people luddites for suggesting the internet is being overrun with AI slop while in the next breath calling LLMs "people" is now the top of the list. :p

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

That whole AI podcast thing has very strong "dotcom boom" vibes, like back to when everyone was promising the moon through the internet and never delivered any of it but got rich off selling the bullshit.

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

I didn't share the part where they said there will be "AI Influencers" -- like okay, how does that work? It doesn't actually have opinions on shit unless it just pulled it from some human. So why would I need an AI influencer in the first place?

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is the truth. AI can't write funny shit to save its life. Just look up puns on google and go to one of the top results and you'll find all these AI slop sites where the "puns" don't even make sense.

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 12

Right? like make it make sense.... 😂

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 11

We should shoot all of these fucking tech-bro grifters right into the sun. 😂

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 11

This quote is astonishingly stupid and why this will never work:

"We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life"

AI are not people. So, who's the luddite now?

Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social · Sep 11

3000 episodes a week...can you imagine the sheer amount of crap there'll be? We're gonna burn down the power grid so Chat GPT can tell me factually incorrect stories it thinks are real. Great use of technology there.