#fucking bizarre

[nintendont2502]

crazy how i've been more productive after getting a full time job than i ever was when i had all day free to get uni/con/general life admin done. like it's not even that i'm not busy at work, i just have a ton of half an hour gaps between tickets where i can hammer out a couple of emails or some code documentation for my assignment

[donabene]

discovered today that i am personally solely responsible for the childhood illiteracy rate in wales. which was. a revelation.

[brain-rot-central]

Oh so yesterday at work I was calling a durable medical equipment company and instead of an automated system, they had an AI virtual assistant that picked up. Told me their name and the speech pattern was somewhat normal but definitely off enough that I could tell. I asked it outright if they were AI, to which they replied, "Yes, I am an AI assistant trained to help you with all of your needs."

I kept trying to say the patient's name and they couldn't understand the first name. I ended up just asking for a live agent. But when I kept telling them that the name was wrong, they said, "Oh, my mistake. Let's try that again." It was a bizarre experience.

The creepiest thing about it was there was a noise track going on in the background to make it sound like they were sitting in an office, but there was the same distinct laugh repeating itself every 30 secs.

Anyhow yeah AI is real and it's already taking the place of actual jobs and it's more cumbersome than helpful in these stages. A lot of the pharmacies in my area have started screening calls with AI assistants and I often have to hang up and call a couple times because the fucking assholes can't understand what I'm saying and start going down incorrect prompt paths, but yet when I call back and say the same thing, suddenly it's fine.

So either AI is still a blunder or I have rocks in my mouth when I talk.

[killmurderfuck]

Emotional in a way I can't put into words. Good luck at coolleg though!!!

going to sail in there w all my fandom merch like an insane person. onwards

[nevesmose]

Had a dream last night in which 90s prime minister John Major seized back the modern day reins of power in a dystopian coup d'etat.

He was still the same [not getting overly political in case I get jumped by any John Major stans lurking in the no doubt very active John Major tag on tumblr] but for some reason, in the dream, people were whispering in hushed tones things like "oh, John Major wouldn't like that" and "as John Major once said..." as though he was some towering figure of Stalin-like awe and terror.

Patrols of grey-uniformed John Major dictatorial stormtroops roamed the streets, brutally suppressing any dissent against the new regime. Relentless John Major propaganda blared from every source and peas were mandatory at every meal. Vast bonfires of traffic cones and BSE-infected cattle blotted out the horizon in all directions.

So as a bit of escapism from the John Major dictatorship I now lived under, I listened to a Warhammer audio drama. All the voices and narration were as you might expect, except for Perturabo.

He had Plankton's voice.

People acted like I was the weird one for pointing it out. So far as anyone else was concerned it was just an accepted normal fact that Mr Lawrence-as-Plankton was and always had been the official voice of Perturabo in all Warhammer media.

[woodchoc-magnum]

Buck: Oh hey this is Lucy, we used to work together

Lucy: Remember that time we drunk kissed???? REMEMBER??? I think it's important to bring that up while you're clearly on a date

[seefasters]

i had a dream that alan alda had a minor role in the last of us, except they digitally youngified him like they did to mark hamill in the mandalorian. and he went viral bc his character had a charged homoerotic history with one of the male characters (it wasn't joel though)

[robotblues]

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