Nobody said 8 was better than 10.

The problem with the fediverse is that not enough people get how it works, so they don’t use it, so there’s not enough content, so there’s less incentive to use it. The benefits of the fediverse are that you can’t exploit and ruin something for everyone if there’s an alternative readily available for them to use instead, and the fediverse is BUILT on those alternatives.

The problem with web3 is it does nothing practical enough to justify its existence. The only people who found a use case for it just used it like stock shares, being something worthless that might be valuable if enough time passes. Calling it an alternative to money is absurdly naive at best, manipulative at worst.

Imagine if you had a boss who told you they would only pay you in company stock, and tried to say that it’s better than being paid money. That’s what this is.

No, like you’re part of some tech-bro cult. Which is worse, I will point out. Rejection of the current status quo doesn’t mean we want a WORSE status quo.

And we already have plenty of people in the current establishment who want to pay their employees with something other than actual money. We call those people scumbags. At least being paid in exposure isn’t bad for the environment.

Humans, probably. Just look at the impact COVID had on the environment.

Does Robogeisha count? A robot chops a building and the building bleeds, and I don’t know if that counts as “bad” or “transcendent human experience”.

Trailer, for the curious.

A + B = C
A = X
D != Y
X + Y = Z
B = Y
Does C = Z?

…What if someone made a captcha that’s deliberately unsolvable by anyone BUT a machine? So the only way to prove you’re not a bot is to say “I can’t understand this”. Sprinkle it into a normal, solvable captcha at a 30% chance, and there you go

Is the kitty big, or is the man small? And how big are the shoes? This is a difficult question.

A sudden amount of undeclared income in cash would set off alarms to anyone in law enforcement. Even if it’s not a crime by itself, they’d absolutely want to know how you got it.

Well, I guess we know why the money disappears now.

You take it from the hungriest person about to eat it, assuming there is someone at the time. You cannot turn this ability off, and it happens even when you aren’t referring to the food. I hope those birthday cakes taste good, you monster.

Back in secondary school, before AI art was even a thing, there was a guy who sent me a pic of a girl in her underwear. The head was out of frame, but he claimed he had been sent it by another girl in the school.

Of course, it wasn’t her. Pay even a little attention to the picture beyond the boobs, and it’s obvious it’s someone else. It was a shitty thing to do, especially for the girl he claimed it to be. I think he just wanted the credit for something he found with very little effort.

We don’t talk anymore, but I feel like he’s the kind of person who really enjoys AI porn. He gets to put in very little effort, then claim credit for something that falls apart if you pay attention to it. And he doesn’t like people, so he’s fine with them being completely removed from the action.

You have analysis paralysis. You can do everything, but you can’t figure out what you want to do at any given time, so you just do nothing.

It only works when nobody’s looking, and everyone just thinks you were using your hands.