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AI will kill us before the fungus.

I also wonder if any of the people that are creating this shit, and robot police dogs, and every other terrible dystopian idea, have ever watched movies.

 

Also, no one is prepared for how this will be used to scam people out of their money even more.

 

Gonna be funny when the plot to Detroit: Become Human actually happens

 

cant wait for when my mediocre life gets upended and i have to do some will smith stuff

 

Hear me out: AI fungus

 

This has always gotten me.

*Sits down to watch Terminator*
*Terminator destroys humanity no matter what they do to try to stop it*
*Dystopian robot future*

Engineer: Think I could build that, actually.

*Does*

 

"Trust the fungus."

 

“Whether they’re trans or not, whatever that is” immediately reminded me of Hannibal Burress’s homeless man character in 30 Rock saying “Get a room….whatever that is”

 

How TikTok failed to make the case for itself

Hearings like these are often framed as a precursor to stringent regulation, but in the United States they are a substitute for them. Congress yells at social media companies — posting clips of their sickest burns on the very companies they criticize — and then fails to pass a single piece of legislation.[…]

Four, TikTok really reckoned with the fact that ranked feeds often make people feel uneasy, or even bad. In fairness, none of the social companies have figured out a solution to this problem. But I think it dampened support for TikTok broadly, and it’s a reason we haven’t seen users marching in the streets to oppose a ban. (At least not yet.)

Here’s a statistic that helps capture that. In a recent Post survey, 17 percent of daily TikTok users — nearly one in five — said they would support a ban. For people who use the app at least monthly, support for a ban came in at 21 percent. How else to explain that, if not a deep concern that using the app so much is not good for us?

some interesting points of where TikTok screwed up today

 

AP would have been banned over a decade ago if the decision was based on daily user feedback

 

Hahahaah. This is very true. Probably woulda saved me a few breakdowns along the way.

 

I’ve never rooted harder for an officer involved shooting than I’m about to. Which should be like rooting for gravity at this point in America.

 

Out of control

 

Pretty cool that 54% of the party wants to vote for a guy who can't spell the word "truly."

 

How Pence can even back Trump is insane. Trump basically told his followers to kill Pence on Jan 6th.

What the fuck is going on

 

I actually wonder if Desantis does not even end up running this cycle. Just wait four more years and you don't have to deal with Trump and you would think their would be more of a power vacuum in the Republican party.