James Gleickgleick@mas.to
Oct 14, 2026, 4:54 PMCrazy gramps keeps posting fake AI-generated videos in which he performs phantasmagoric feats of bravery and strength. This one has a cruel extra component.
(Not a word in the NY Times, though.)
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Jello Bea Arthur 🎃lydialurch@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:57 PM@gleick "Don't ever mess with nature" from the guy who just cut down over 400 trees. 🙄
WenWen@mastodon.scotOct 14, 2026, 5:35 PM@gleick Just giving hop to those who expect a big cat to get him by the throat.
ThoriumThorium@social.linux.pizzaOct 14, 2026, 5:45 PM@gleick The orange buffoon has not a speck of dignity, intelligence, or morality.
schamspeareschamspeare@mstdn.socialOct 14, 2026, 9:17 PM@gleick NYTimes tunes out the insane, unaccountable, and sickening, and focuses on that which they can massage into normality.
kevin steinmetzlisp1984@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:18 PM@gleick Phantasmagoria is a point-and-click adventure horror video game designed by Roberta Williams for Gary Kildall's M$-DOS and Microshaft Windoze and released by Sierra On-Line on 24.August 1995.
you reminded me of this game by using the word "phantasmagoric." I never played it myself but i have watched a let's play of it.