You rush a miracale man, you get rotten miracles.

I am a tool of the Japanese public education system. I occupy myself with picture taking, food making, playing dress up, and bouncing up and down in one spot. I also read certain webcomics, and am a little addicted to poking my phone screen.

[owlservice]

It can be quite frightening when you pour boiling water on a teabag and it inflates and hisses. But, remember, by that point the beast is dead and can no longer harm you.

[bogleech]

[mlarayoukai-archive]

having your own money is fucking dangerous because the only person stopping me from buying whatever I want is myself. and myself has bad judgment sometimes

[ef-1]

"Friend" is an AI wearable device designed to provide "companionship + emotional support"— i.e replace human friendships. Its literally an AI chatbot that you wear around your neck. "Friend" just paid for the largest ad campaign in NYC subway history

And Every. Single. Poster was vandalised, it literally looks like some of the most beautiful art you have ever seen

[c-rowlesblogs]

Kylie Robison and Boone Ashworth of WIRED both wore these stupid things for a couple weeks and reported the kind of experiences one might expect to have with an interactive AI device invented by a 22-year-old techbro:

I Hate My Friend

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can als

[dragon-in-a-fez]

why does my mother suddenly fail kindergarten whenever she tries to do anything on the computer

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I know she doesn't know what "the maximise button" is so I told her "click the square at the top right" and she clicked...the printer icon...in the middle of the toolbar. and I'm just like okay. this isn't a technology thing you are flunking basic shapes and directions. I'm turning off your computer and getting you a block puzzle. you have a master's degree

[myrinthinks]

[tvandfilm]

Only Murders in the Building (2021-present) Dirty Birds (S05E04)

[moviesludge]

haaaaaaaaaa

[crazy-brazilian]

[sandmandaddy69]

[blind3dbylight]

accidentally said Shirley instead of Siri and now my phone is stuck in Airplane mode

[dunkstein]

Maid cleaning a massive chateau surely belonging to the richest people you’ve ever seen, and as she’s walking from room to room you notice that every single portrait is of her

[dunkstein]

You specifically understand

[ozth]

[anexperimentallife]

[ohgodohfuckohgeez]

DISCORD HAS DONE THE SHITTY THING WE ALL HATE

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU UPLOAD

[mlembug]

license to use

If you send a message with an image to a channel, it gets sent to discord servers.

reproduce

Once they receive it, it has to be copied into their internal storage

distribute

and sent to others when they visit that channel. This is basic Discord functionality.

create derivative works of

someone on a mobile phone clicks on a channel and the discord app downloads a thumbnail (a downscaled version of the image), saving 4.7MB or so on transfer, and a whole bunch of time. the thumbnail is a derivative work, legally speaking.

display

the discord app can display messages sent by you to another user.

perform

the discord app can play audio and video files uploaded by you to another user.

limited purpose of providing, developing and improving our services

well yeah

This license is worldwide

they'd have to geoblock your messages otherwise

non-exclusive

you still own the thing as far as copyrights go

royalty-free

they'd have to pay you every time they show your messages to someone otherwise

sublicensable

they can let someone else (say, a bot like pluralkit) access your messages

transferable

actually not sure about this one. that being said while being suspicious of "privacy policy updates" is good, the screenshot above shows nothing and is more fearmongery than informational.

[cybercybertron]

Okay, so I’m confused. Isn’t this a bad thing?

[succubusboyfriend]

It isn’t. The breakdown in the response is basically laying out that these provisions are necessary for Discord to even function; it has to be allowed to distribute your content without paying you for it in order to send that content to your friends and servers. This isn’t saying Discord is going to take and use your content, it’s saying Discord needs the rights to distribute or it literally won’t work as a messaging app.

[geyfrog]

Used to be Italian but now I’m just ian because she took it al in the divorce

[maswartz]

[nudityandnerdery]

Wondermark

[phantomrose96]

YOU 🫵 can amass a friend group of childless people in their 30s as long as you pull from these 3 demographics

Queer freaks from the internet

Highly-educated weird women

Gamer men who became adjusted and compassionate in their 20s but still are not comfortable recognizing this in themselves so they’re putting off dating in order to play the horse girl gacha game

[aevios]

Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is

[aevios]

"wait but if u saw the paperclip why would u just leave it there?" its the adhd. Also if i had put it away then i wouldnt have been able to find it a month later when i needed it. So. Checkmate neurotypicals.

[oakenroots]

Problem is when the ADHD catalogue is out of date, when you go to check under the couch cushion for that paperclip and it ISNT there, sometimes your brain will just give you a montage of false memories of everywhere you've ever seen a paper clip, like this