He’s famous as a really good geo-guesser (a game where people get random google streetview images and try to drop a pin as close to the coordinates as possible).

People give him challenges all the time, and it’s really impressive.

Here he is finding someone’s location based on a picture taken from a plane.

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

Or

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

It looks real, and the follow-up gets weirder.

A quick search found the following panels here, if anyone is interested:

Go for it! I stole this anyway.

Gotcha, sorry. I’ll hold off on posting reddit screenshots here.

RIP to a legend

Just did some digging, and it’s legit and from a 1994 book called “The Internet Guide for New Users” by Daniel P. Dern.

Mildly interesting side-note, I found someone’s blog about posting this image and book to a (now non-existent) fediverse server. https://doughnut.neocities.org/blag/15

It’s so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it’s flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos…

Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I’ve been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven’t added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.

Ok, I’ll put Akira on my list…

For sure. I bet there’s a substantial number of people who only know of it from the references and haven’t seen the show.

Oh!

Could it mean “this changes everything!”?

As in, a fancy way of saying we’ve truly entered a new age? I’m trying to think of a modern equivalent but am drawing a blank.

Oh.

I honestly have no idea where this originated, but it looks like it’s been everywhere, has t-shirts and posters, etc.

Including arguably the most famous episode!

Also, fun fact for the other Trekkies on here: the main character in this episode was William Shatner.

Yeah, the conspiracy-prone side of the internet has a lot of overlap between people who believe stuff about “the Jews” and also constantly talk about elite pedo rings (e.g. Pizzagate). They’ve really latched on to the Epstein case because it’s the closest thing to a smoking gun for the latter.

These people are very angry at the Trump administration right now, so it makes sense to assume that’s the profile of the hacker.

Elmo has since been taken care of.

Just uh… don’t look at the rest of what Elmo said.