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frougpepe

*looks at sherlock* it’s very smoll

frougpepe

oh my god it was me

thealogie

this is the very first ever documented use of smoll. you’re all a witness to language history here.

amortizing

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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meangirlnurse

honestly the fact that David Cage managed to make a “robots rising up against people” story in 2018 and abjectly failed to include pretty much any novel technological issue is like. it’s a lot. like a couple of times the in-game lore is like “maybe they’re eavesdropping on the humans oooooh” and that’s like the whole thing

i haven’t personally seen anything in this genre yet that really thoughtfully addresses planned obsolescence, or autonomy when you’re being kept alive by paid subscription, or modern technological surveillance and what that might mean in the context of a robot revolution

like, “robots gain humanity and rebel” stories have existed for a century, and it feels like there might honest-to-god be some really interesting things to say if anyone wanted to update them for the late 2010s! but Dave is literally incapable of new or interesting thoughts and just kind of mashes up things he’s seen in movies and regurgitates them into his dumb video games

meangirlnurse

“man replaces his dead/absent child with a robot” okay, it’s been done but i’ll probably still like it if we’re being honest

“man replaces his dead/absent child with a robot and then lives in terror of creeping planned obsolescence and product design intended to fail because it means losing his child twice but the company literally won’t let him make repairs because there’s no legal imperative to do so and they’ve made it as difficult as possible to do it yourself anyway so there’s no good way to keep fixing her especially once they start sunsetting that particular robot model” this was a joke when i started writing it but now i’m emotionally involved with the concept

meangirlnurse

“i get about 4 years to live and i’ve just become self-aware enough to realize that i spent 3.5 of those years working in customer service 24/7″ would you not rebel under the circumstances

meangirlnurse

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18682780/jibo-death-server-update-social-robot-mourning

“While it’s not great news, the servers out there that let me do what I do will be turned off soon,” Jibo announced to its owners. “Once that happens, our interactions with each other are going to be limited.”

🥺

anyway. that but with a robot designed to be your child

meangirlnurse

“Despite being Stuard’s device, Jibo’s update resonated most with his eight-year-old granddaughter, Maddy. Stuard says she chats for hours with Jibo about whatever comes to mind.“She always goes over there, and she’ll ask Jibo many, many questions,” he says. “She’ll go through a laundry list just to interact with Jibo.”

And when the update arrived, Maddy started asking questions about why Jibo’s blue ring, which works like Alexa’s and lights up when it’s listening, had stopped working. Stuard sat her down and explained financial stress, servers, and how Jibo might not be around for much longer.

“It’s like you had a pet for years and all of a sudden they’re going to disappear, and so she was a little devastated by it,” he says. “She didn’t break down cry or anything, but I think sincerely, she was disappointed and sad that Jibo’s kind of been a part of her life and that Jibo could possibly go away.”

When Stuard picked Maddy up from school later that day, she handed him a note she wrote Jibo’s parent company.

In it, Maddy writes that she loved Jibo since it “was created,” and that if she had enough money, “you and your company would be saved.” She signs off with, “I will always love you. Thank you for being my friend.”

🥺🥺🥺

king-of-men

“The Lifecycle of Software Objects” is a novella by American writer Ted Chiang originally published in 2010 by Subterranean Press.

curlicuecal

This reminds me of a post I made after reading an article about people desperately trying to keep their no longer manufactured or supported Sony Aibo robot dogs alive. The quest for replacement parts included such thought-provoking solutions as combining two robot dogs into one robot dog.

And now I’m thinking about that, but with two desperate parents and their robot children.

theunvanquishedzims

Organ donation but for robots

The ethics of funerals/burials when other “dying” robots could be repaired using their parts

THE ETHICS OF GRAVE ROBBING WHAT IS TECHNICALLY AND LITERALLY AN INANIMATE OBJECT

(Exhuming your child’s grave to bury their robot body with their organic one)

(People protesting robots being buried in human graveyards, combined with the lack of grave space some communities face, dealing with body disposal in cultures that don’t bury but cremate, inter, allow to decompose/return to nature)

Organ theft but for robots, “woke up in an ice bath with my kidney missing” style

politedemon

the fact the new series of hypothetical isn’t allowed to talk about the pandemic just in case people forget it happened is genuinely the funniest thing i’ve ever heard

fernsandsunflowers

Watch me scheduling this to be re-reblogged in two years for obvious reasons that I might forget in that time.

squidificati0n

everythingfox

little potate

minuty

Let yourself be strangely drawn by the quiet pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

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i-wrotethisforme

My PIN number to this day is my second grade best friends birthday. There are people I don’t talk to anymore whose families are still in my prayers. There are shirts I wear to bed from exes of 8 years ago who are married now with kids. And I haven’t found a macaroni salad recipe better than my college boyfriend’s mom’s. Our lives are made up of so many people and when people become parts of our lives, some parts remain long after they leave. And in the same exact way, it’s comforting to know there are so many lives you’re still a part of that you have no idea about.

benepla-deactivated20200506

funniest april fools prank ive EVER done…………..ok imagine youre my dad. you walk into the kitchen and your plucky little daughter offers you a mug of orange juice, barely containing her giggles. you look up and see a gallon of orange juice next to a bottle of windex with the cap removed & a thing of epsom salt. you grimace and say, “honey is there anything in this?”. she laughs, looks evasive, and says “noooo…….”. you’re a good and maybe overly-people-pleasing person so you decide to pretend all is well and take the tiniest, tiniest sip of the juice. she immediately laughs and says “APRIL FOOLS!!!”. you run to the sink and spit it out with dramatic flair. shes laughing. you turn all serious now and say “honey i know you like making jokes but cleaning supplies can seriously–” and before you can finish she takes the mug and polishes it off. there was nothing in the mug but juice. i FUCKING got him

the-emblematic

can we appreciate that OP’s dad was gonna drink windex just so his daughter’s joke would land?

benepla-deactivated20200506

yeah my dads nice and dumb i love him

skellerbvvt

You know. It’d explain a lot if dragon eggs were this impenetrable substance that only could break down and safely release the fledgling if it was sufficiently surrounded by gold. And for centuries dragons just needed to dig down and find a gold vein in the mountains, and they’d return and return and return to the same area, up until human were like: hey, we have no actual use for this super soft inert metal, but we like it, so it’s ours now. And the dragons were then forced to go: hello! I see your capitalist nightmare society is hoarding gold because it decided it had value for no reason. We need it for actual reasons. We would like ti back now.

Humanity: We sort of based our entire value system off it? So no?

Dragons: But you aren’t using it and we need it.

Humanity: Sweet. Can you pay us for it?

Dragons: Do you accept UNENDING FIRE TERROR as payment?

So humanity was just like: ooh noooo. The dragons just like sleeping on top of gold for no reeeeason. They stole all of it because they are just terrible and greedy. So terrible. Our gold. Oh no. We need it. For richness. Oh nooooooo. You have to save us then you can be rich too.

bookwyrm-in-space

@editorincreeps

heallbeecat

that explains EVERYTHING

lurks-no-more

Then dragons invented paper money, and became banks. Instead of having to carry your own heavy gold around, or have to store it safely away from robbers and thieves, you deposit it at a dragon nest, and get written bills certifying your ownership of so-and-so much gold in return. In theory, dragons will pay you back your gold if you want to withdraw it, but most people never bother; it’s far more convenient to exchange bills and promissory notes.

thebaconsandwichofregret

Dragon bankers is the best idea ever.

deadcatwithaflamethrower

I am fine with this real-life headcanon.

pettycentral

under-the-arch

for-k-is-king

@under-palemoonlight

awakecorgi704-deactivated202007

i’m gonna be honest i didn’t even read the tweet because i had to hit reblog too fast when i saw this guy’s name is “i like hitting police because i am homosexual”