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With actual headlines like this, how is The Onion still in business?

Let’s have a really long nasty drawn out internet argument over whether it’s fifteen or fifty.

They’ve got the laser drill, now they just need 15 billion more dollars for the Unobtanium!

It’s okay, it’s not a very compelling story.

Let’s create a real hell, fund it, and send him there for the rest of his life.

son of a BITCH…

Google, Apple, and Microsoft are all doing the same thing with their operating systems. Soon, everything you do on your device will be recorded, analyzed, compiled, and cross-referenced. All of it ready to be used against you in advertisements, commerce, and a court of law.

If you think age checks are bad now, wait until it’s enforceably illegal to even look at pornography on your device. Or, maybe you receive a knock at your door for a missed period, or some questionable searches while pregnant? Higher ride app pricing for a low phone battery? Now your digital credit score determines your eligibility and cost for a ride. Think your VPN will hide that pirated movie or your location? Who needs to bypass encryption when your entire screen is analyzed by a hardware driven AI classification system in real-time.

Advertisers, authoritarians, media execs, and tech bros are vibrating so hard that they’re starting to glow. This is the real AI revolution into which they have sunk so much money. Do you think they’re just going to accept that they won’t get a return on their investment because you think you have a right to privacy?

How long will we even have access to hardware and software that doesn’t contain baked-in content analysis?

Yea, that last time the US and Russia did this we had to ban nuclear weapons in space.

Whether it’s actually the concentrated evil turning them ugly, or the evil they do that makes the money they use to pay for the plastic surgery, does it matter?

Spiritually, aren’t those the same thing anyways?

“The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.”

Set us free, R*/Remedy

Once, I nihilistically mentioned to my friend that “I welcome the coming inevitable nuclear holocaust.” His reply was something that I will never forget: “I don’t think you realize what nuclear war entails.”

I haven’t wished for the end of the world since.

As a professional fartographer, is that your official fartographical ANALysis?

I don’t know much about MMA or Ireland and I could have told you that.

What a great way to prepare students for our AI enabled social media and digital surveillance society. Take note kids, trust no one!