Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Related to my previous post:

Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die

Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.

www.businessinsider.com

I don't want to repost the Don't Build the Torment Nexus meme, but there is literally a Black Mirror episode about why digital ghosts are a terrible idea.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I don't want to repost the Don't Build the Torment Nexus meme, but there is literally a Black Mirror episode about why digital ghosts are a terrible idea.

I literally can't think of a single instance in entertainment where having someone's disembodied consciousness (or a facsimile thereof) existing in cyberspace ever ended well.

 

[overgeeked]

I mean, damn. Your description is so alien that I can't imagine you have ever even played one of these games.

 

[pukunui]

It depends, are we talking 10 posts per page, or 20 posts per page?

Given that 20 posts per page is no longer an option here …

 

[Mad_Jack]

In other news, have you ever met one of those people who's wrapped up their entire sense of self in being "the weird one", and they constantly try to be performatively odd so that you know they're weird/crazy/creepy/strange/insert-adjective-here?

While at the supermarket today, having a nice conversation with the pleasant, intelligent 19-20-ish woman I seem to keep running into lately and a couple of her friends, another one of their friends quite literally bounced up to me, got far into my personal space, stared intently into my eyes, and said, "Hi! I'm Dana! I'm the weird one!"

I simply looked at her for a moment, paused another moment, and said...

"No... You're not."

The only reason Dana didn't stab me with a cucumber is that we weren't in the produce aisle...
I'm fairly certain that ridiculous child is probably at home right now trying to cast a spell on me or something.

I really hope I run into my conversational partner again at some point, if for no other reason than to hear what her friend had to say...

 

[prabe]

In other news, have you ever met one of those people who's wrapped up their entire sense of self in being "the weird one", and they constantly try to be performatively odd so that you know they're weird/crazy/creepy/strange/insert-adjective-here?

While at the supermarket today, having a nice conversation with the pleasant, intelligent 19-20-ish woman I seem to keep running into lately and a couple of her friends, another one of their friends quite literally bounced up to me, got far into my personal space, stared intently into my eyes, and said, "Hi! I'm Dana! I'm the weird one!"

I simply looked at her for a moment, paused another moment, and said...

"No... You're not."

The only reason Dana didn't stab me with a cucumber is that we weren't in the produce aisle...
I'm fairly certain that ridiculous child is probably at home right now trying to cast a spell on me or something.

I really hope I run into my conversational partner again at some point, if for no other reason than to hear what her friend had to say...

"I've found weirder things than you in my breakfast cereal."

 

[RealAlHazred]

Huh, we're coming up on the anniversary of Sophie Scholl's (and several others') death, which put me in mind of The Line. This Sunday, it will have been 83 years since she died.

 

[Mad_Jack]

"I've found weirder things than you in my breakfast cereal."

Ye gods, I hope not... Ingesting that much glitter can't be good for you...

 

[payn]

Ye gods, I hope not... Ingesting that much glitter can't be good for you...

 

[prabe]

Ye gods, I hope not... Ingesting that much glitter can't be good for you...

Wow, glitter, the most mundane form of weird available, that also gets everywhere and into everything, the stuff is like inanimate vermin.