You’re invited to watch what is possibly the weirdest, most incomprehensible short film ever made (if you discount everything from Cyriak Harris). Sunspring was written by an artificial intelligence program. It’s only eight minutes long, but it will confuse you in every one of those minutes.

Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that's not entirely what it seems. It's about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle. You know it's the future because H (played with neurotic gravity by Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch) is wearing a shiny gold jacket, H2 (Elisabeth Gray) is playing with computers, and C (Humphrey Ker) announces that he has to "go to the skull" before sticking his face into a bunch of green lights. It sounds like your typical sci-fi B-movie, complete with an incoherent plot. Except Sunspring isn't the product of Hollywood hacks—it was written entirely by an AI. To be specific, it was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM for short. At least, that's what we'd call it. The AI named itself Benjamin.

They fed Benjamin a whole slew of well-received science fiction films and then gave it a couple of prompts to build a screenplay around. The filmmakers tried their best to render it as written. If you’ve ever worried about artificial intelligence taking over the world, this will assure you that we’ve got a long way to go yet. See the whole thing at Ars Technica.

TV shows like to teach us about responsibility, and adult TV shows like The Daily Show teach us about adult stuff like drinking responsibly during Spring Break.

Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell are both responsible fellows, so they were selected as the spokesmen for moderation in this 2001 clip from The Daily Show.

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Colbert and Carell are both saucy fellows even when they're not hitting the sauce, but after about eight cocktails it was hard for Carell to contain his sauciness, let alone serve as the spokesman for responsible drinking. He looks like he'd be a really fun drinking buddy though!

-Via Laughing Squid

For some reason the argumentative people in the world love to ask us what we think of certain things, like movies, TV shows or music, then berate us about our lack of taste when we don't agree with them.

Oh yeah, that's because they like to argue about really stupid stuff, like movies and TV shows...

Haters are gonna keep on hatin', but now thanks to this comic by Julia Lepetit from Dorkly you can flip the script when they start in on you for *gasp* actually having your own opinion about pop culture!

-Via Dorkly

Without saying anything that will give away too many spoilers (as if the internet in general hasn't), those up to date on Game of Thrones know why Hodor is essentially the world's largest doorstop. If you wish you had your own Hodor to hold your door, you're in luck because there are all kinds of them out there these days. Etsy has an ever-growing page of listings -including the 3D printed one pictured above, and a recent Kickstarter featured on Nerd Approved already raised $84,000 for a particularly impressive design.

Everybody deals with their problems in a different way, and even though we've all been warned against using a crutch to help us cope there are certain vices in life that can become part of who we are.

Stoners keep it stoney, drinkers pound shots to dull the pain, and foodies like Guy Fieri stuff their sad little goateed faces, sometimes while listening to Johnny Cash's somehow even sadder rendition of "Hurt". (Barely NSFW due to language)

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So Guy is swallowing all of his pain, choking it down like a chili dog of discontentment...explains a lot about his look, actually.

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If you know any horror movie fanatics, or you are one yourself, then you know that die-hard horror fans like to surround themselves with scary stuff, to make them feel more comfortable in polite society.

But horror heads who work in an office are forced to hide their morbid interests while at work, so as not to scare the suits, and therefore must find sly and creative ways to frighten the place up.

So creative director Jacques Pense created a subtle yet utterly horrifying way to bring horror to the offices of 13th Street Television- bloody zombie stationery.

This clever stationery set features zombie details placed in the perfect position to be stabbed through the face by a 3-ring binder, stapled in the eyes, or simply torn apart when you open a letter.

-Via design you trust

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, Mattel is releasing a new set of dolls in their Barbie line that are based on Captain Kirk, Lieutenant Uhura, and Mr. Spock from the original Star Trek series. While there have been Barbie dolls based on Star Trek before, these are the first to resemble the actors who appeared in the original series.

Amazon will have them July 15 for $34.99 each. They are also available for preorder from Amazon in a set of three for $200 to be released in September, but why would you wait longer and pay more?  -via Geeks Are Sexy

One of the unfortunate side effects of geek mania is the never-ending stream of crappy licensed products that flow through the stores like pop culture sewage.

This cheaply made crud often passes the in-store visual test only to fall apart when you get it home, literally making it an overpriced piece of trash.

One poor fella named Nick Borelli was left feeling burned when he discovered the awesome looking Infinity Gauntlet oven mitt he bought from Loot Crate melted while pulling a tray of pizza rolls out of the oven.

No wonder Thanos wants to destroy the Earth!

Nick took to Twitter to warn those who possess the Infinity Gauntlet oven mitt against using it for its intended purpose, but as expected the interwebs was more concerned about Nick's pizza rolls than his hands.

-Via FAILBlog

Kids can be mighty crafty, which is why you should always keep an eye on your offspring when visiting a place full of breakable and/or valuable stuff, or else you might get stuck paying the bill.

But sometimes kids don't understand why destroying something, such as a LEGO sculpture, is wrong, because they just see that giant statue made of building blocks as a deconstruction challenge.

It took LEGO artist Zhao three solid days (at a cost of around $15k) to build his amazing looking sculpture of Nick from Zootopia, and it was only on display at the LEGO Expo in Ningbo, China for an hour before a kid knocked it down.

Zhao declined compensation from the kid's parents because he feels the kid didn't do it on purpose, but if a rival LEGO artist suddenly sells a statue of Nick from Zootopia we'll know exactly what that little destroyer was up to...

-Via Mashable

Don't you hate it when you go to save an image on a site by right clicking only to find right clicking has been disabled?

Now you're forced to use your screen capture software, or to hunt down the image in the source code, and in the end they're usually protecting an image that doesn't even belong to them.

Get wise, sitesters, and stop disabling right click or, as this comic from CommitStrip shows, the Coders will come for you...

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

Calling an Instagram account “the most controversial” instantly makes people think it's full of nudity, profanity, or horrifyingly violent material, but controversy is in the eye of the beholder.

Eye can't sleep #specialfx #specialeffects #specialeffectsmakeup #sfx #sfxmakeup #fxmakeup #fx #makeup #makeupartist #mua

A photo posted by Marc Clancy (@powdah) on Nov 1, 2015 at 8:48am PST

Therefore you'll either see Marc Clancy's Powdah FX Instagram account as really gross, extremely controversial or one of the coolest social media accounts out there, and that's because Marc is a bit of a sicko.

I had a close friend over for dinner tonight and she said she loved salad. @powdah and @freakmosfx YouTube collab coming very soon. #specialfx #specialeffects #specialeffectsmakeup #sfx #sfxmakeup #fxmakeup #fx #makeup #makeupartist

A photo posted by Marc Clancy (@powdah) on Apr 10, 2016 at 5:49am PDT

The Powdah FX Instagram page is full of photos of Marc's amazing makeup work, much of which involves optical illusions that make the wounds seem more grievous, and some people think his work looks a bit too realistic.

Nose pick gone wrong. This was actually looking kinda cool then it all fell apart before I had a chance to take any good photos

But Marc thumbs his nose at those nervous Nellies and keeps posting his unnervingly realistic makeup fx works to Instagram, so people can see how his mind works.

Step by step build of the melted face makeup #specialfx #specialeffects #specialeffectsmakeup #sfx #sfxmakeup #fxmakeup #fx #makeup #makeupartist #moulage

A photo posted by Marc Clancy (@powdah) on May 25, 2016 at 9:02pm PDT

See more from This Guy Runs The Most Controversial Instagram Account here

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Leia Organa wants a seat in the Imperial Senate. She presents herself as brave and intelligent. But can we trust her? This thoughtful ad by concerned, loyal citizens barely touches upon the many problems that the leadership of Leia Organa will bring. It's a promotional video for Bloodline, a new Star Wars novel.

-via The Mary Sue

Disclosure: I'm a member of the Committee to Elect Gorga Desilijic Aarrpo to the Imperial Senate.

Extreme game shows are so popular that show creators keep pushing their shows, and the contestants foolhardy enough to participate, as far as they can go without killing them.

Contestants died after appearing on the shows Wipeout and Survivor, due to health reasons so not totally the show's fault, and a guy almost drowned on the show Dog Eat Dog.

But no game show has tried to kill its contestants quite like Fox's The Chamber, where people were strapped into a torture chamber and forced to endure killer conditions for $100k.

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Only 3 episodes of The Chamber were aired back in 2002 (even though six episodes were shot), and only one conestant ever made it through all seven rounds of torture.

With this laundry list of torturous conditions it's no wonder:

In the Hot Chamber, the contestant faced the following:

• Heat beginning at 110°F (43°C) and increasing to 170°F (66°C).
• Real flames surrounding the contestant, getting bigger as the game progressed.
• Muscle contractors strapped to the limbs.
• Simulated earthquake tremors (Richter scale 5.0 to begin, going up to 9.0).
• The chair would begin to rotate back and forth (level two), then up and down, through 270 degrees, and finally it would spin in complete circles.
• On the last show, foul odors were piped into the Chamber after the fourth round.
• Wind gusts of 40 miles per hour (64.3 k/h) joined in at level two.
• Falling oxygen levels throughout the game (90 percent down to 70 percent).
• Air cannons blasting at up to 140 miles per hour.

If the Cold Chamber was chosen, this is what the contestant got:

• Temperatures beginning at 30°F (-1 °C) and decreasing to -20°F (-29°C).Muscle contractors and simulated earthquake tremors (as in the Hot Chamber).
• Water jets squirting the contestants, causing ice to form on their bodies.
• Ice blasted at the contestant.
• Wind gusts of 40 miles per hour (64.3 k/h) from level three onwards.
• Falling oxygen levels (95 percent down to 70 percent).
• Air cannons blasting at up to 140 mph (as in the Hot Chamber).

Read about The Game Show That Could Have Killed Its Contestants at mental_floss

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It's not surprising when celebrities reveal they come from normal or privileged backgrounds, but when they had to overcome really bad situations to become big stars their backstory becomes inspirational.

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Some stars, like Charlize Theron or Joaquin Phoenix, don't like to talk about their past because it was so bad, and in Charlize's case I don't blame her for staying silent.

Charlize grew up with a father who physically and mentally abused her and her mother, and the abuse got so bad Charlize's mom killed the man in self defense when Charlize was 15 years old.

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As for Joaquin's backstory it's more embarrassing than horrifying- his family was part of a cult called “Children Of God”, who traveled across South America as missionaries.

The family changed their last name from Bottom to Phoenix after they left the cult, as a symbol of rebirth.

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And speaking of rebirth, young actress Leighton Meester was tied into her family's criminal activity from birth- because Leighton's mom Connie was pregnant with her when she, and three other family members, were arrested for smuggling 1,200 pounds of marijuana into the country.

Leighton's mom gave birth to her while in prison, and her aunt made the Ten Most Wanted list when she escaped from prison, making the crime that is Gossip Girl pale in comparison.

Read 33 Shocking Stories About Celebrities With Surprising Pasts here

Candace Payne, the woman who became famous on the internet for her unboxing video of a Chewbacca mask, has become a celebrity. She's done well for herself, appearing on TV and getting a lot of money--about $420,000.

But perhaps best of all (as a Star Wars fan), she recently got the chance to meet Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca on Star Wars.