Corey Thomas

Mac support geek. Movie watcher. Comic reader. Night owl. Occasional Bowler. Misanthrope.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Earth @earthcurated]

NOT FLAT…

[Malwarebytes @Malwarebytes]

Adulthood is just getting letters from a company that you've never heard of, telling you they leaked your data that you didn't know they had, and including a multi-step to-do list for you to protect the data that they did not.

[John Carpenter @TheHorrorMaster]

As you may have heard, “The Thing” has been added to the Library of Congress. We made the movie to push against the edges of what we could pull off, and it carries that strain in its bones. Seeing it now treated with the same care and reverence we had making it means a great deal to me and everyone who brought it to life.

I especially want to remember TK Carter, who brought heart and humor into that desolate, frozen place and should be standing here with us today sharing in this recognition. 

Thank you to everyone who continues to keep it alive.

[ULTRA🏝️BLAST @ultrakillblast]

ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993)

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️

[Cool Comic Art @CoolComicArt]

The Transformers (1984) cover by Bill Sienkiewicz @sinKEVitch

[Pro Wrestling Pop Culture Addict @PWPCA123]

Here is your daily reminder to #SaveTron

[Stammy @Stammy]

i don’t know who needs to hear this but don’t update to macOS Tahoe if you use 3 dongles to connect to your original iPod via FireWire. Tahoe removes FireWire support

[Dan Jurgens @thedanjurgens]

If only the planets would align in such a way that a reprint of the book might seem like an opportunity to be taken advantage of.

[Cool Comic Art @CoolComicArt]

Dan Mora @Danmora_c

[Retro Film Series @retrofilmseries]

RETROLEAK #68: One of the most-requested 90s films is coming to Escapism this July. Redford, Poitier, Aykroyd, and Phoenix in a caper from the writer of "Field of Dreams". There were a ton of cyber-themed flicks in the 1990s, but here is one that has gained a genuine following.

[Mad Monster @MadMonsterMag]

The Rabbit of Caerbannog From Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). At 50 years old this sequence has lost none of its terror #easterbunny #easter

[ULTRA🏝️BLAST @ultrakillblast]

DRIP-ALONG DAFFY (1951)

[ULTRA🏝️BLAST @ultrakillblast]

FRIDAY!

[ULTRA🏝️BLAST @ultrakillblast]

monday comin'