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The most repressive motherfuckers do the absolutely gayest shit.

I don’t get it. Just be honest and find a twink boywife and don’t sell your body to uncle sam.

You my friend, have aphantasia. IIRC its about 1-3% of the population.

Its actually wilder than that, some people have aphantasia where they can’t imagine shapes or forms in their mind. If you describe a dog, they do not have a mental image of the dog.

If you’re building new microslop installations in 2026 you deserve everything you get.

jsyk your posts here just hurt the point you’re trying to make.

I strongly recommend you delete and revisit these thoughts and restructure them so you’re not being told “sir this is a wendies”.

Just saw their LinkedIn… Looks like they already outsourced their cognitive abilities to a computer.

I swear the k8s brainrot has escaped containment

Can we have a button to filter out the AI shite peddlers please?

I got excited seeing “EURouter” and “OpenRouter” as maybe an alternative to Unifi but its just AI middleware shite, and its promoted to the front page.

didn’t ask, also, you’re not cool enough to be your namesake.

Living in it is kinda tiring tho

May I also strongly suggest The Culture Series.

It answers the “what if the (real) AI singularity happens” but instead of the typical “and then we all die” its just that the Minds are actually just cool with us. And I realised after about 4 of the books that the humans are like pets for this curious hyper-intelligences that kinda enable the humans to become better people, if at the loss of some cultural identity.

The Culture is The Borg, but you want to join them because their shit is dope. The luxuries and comforts of The Culture leading to the demise of other societies as they absorb in.

It also explores a lot of interventionism (or when not to) in some of the stories. One is a short story set at the time of the cold war. Which is interesting since earth barely ever is relevant in The Culture novels. Its just another backwater that has pre-spacefaring humanoids on it.

It explores a lot of quite dope concepts, and the visual imagery of the destruction of Vavatch Orbital, and down in the tunnels on Schar’s World happening in Consider Phlebas.

The realisation I had a few days later that it went past me that the god that inhabits Schar’s world wasn’t even the one to create it, this god-like-being is like a hermit crab and just wants to be left alone.

The way that seeing space from a starships perspective was described in Excession when one of the humans is basically given Meat Fucker/Grey Area’s perception was dope.

Its some damn strong good scifi with hopium undercurrents even while entire societies perish (willingly, intentionally). As VR simulations of sentient life is created to give societies a real hell to send people to. As people live and die whole lives inside the VR hell to break in and then break out to prove its existence to bring about its destruction. The unsettling creeping sensation of realising you’re in a simulation, but not because the simulation is imperfect, but because at the bottom of your vision, in big block red letters, it reads “SIMULATION”. Or in a moment where we’re looking through a soldiers eyes as we slowly realise he’s a human mind re-bodied into a turret during a simulated battle. Or later, when the same soldier is squeezing through the cracks in between grains of sand and rock as an amoeba.

I was also high as fuck while reading a lot of this series.

I could espouse its praises for hours, but it would be quicker to read the novels.

I think its actually brainworms in a subset of the population who don’t see the rest of us as human.

I’ve worked/been adjacent to manufacturing and seeing every single plastic panel of a budget electronic product coming in its own plastic sleeve with plastic film pre-applied to the outer surface, assembling these things and seeing the mountain of single use plastic films being used is monsterous.

And then you see what happens with returned products at places like amazon and see the whole ass product being crushed by a baler completely unused.

We’re a stupid fucking species. We have enough. Its a distribution problem and we’re being held captive by 8-10 specific rich assholes.

I wish godzilla was here.

He’s been holding all that sweat in, makes you get puffy and age faster.

Did… Did he just try to shake the pope down?

Yeah we used to do things like messing with your history, messing with local storage, messing with your browser cache, messing around with flash and other exploitable plugins.

I can make you download a specific favicon and ID you that way.

Also, most peoples browsers are actually quite unique in terms of fingerprint. My browser, for example, is unique among the 4.8M fingerprints in their database.

Its not about permissions, its about giving you the occular patdown and making observations.

I don’t need to know who you are, but that you’re unique and heres how I tell you are you.

I can later relate that back to PII if I’m clever.

I hated working in the marketing/tracking space.

What the hell is your problem lol

In the bad old days where I was forced to make spyware in exchange for a white collar paycheque, we used to make things called “supercookies” that used basically any fingerprint, storage, glitches of a browser to store a token or otherwise identify you with or without identity

We had something like 98% confidence even if you had no cookies, based on just using JS to eyeball your browser and probing it.

Not saying its a “supercookie” but the internet is funny like that. The current bleeding edge of it seems to be abusing favicon caches

I did, I’ve deleted my habitual bookmark and put lemmy in the same place on the bar.

But the volume of discourse isn’t quite here yet.

But I do like not being banned (twice, the second time an experiment to determine if it was automated, it was) for suggesting Peter Thiel should be turned into soup.

To the point that I’m gonna get it printed on a T-shirt.