The Cursed Images Thread: A Dilbert themed ethics game created by Lockheed Martin

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Waffle!: Aug 6, 2004; I Feel Pretty!

The video game company Acclaim went with that name specifically because they'd be listed before Atari.

E: curse for the snipe

# ? Mar 21, 2023 18:46

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 30, 2024 11:52

Karate Bastard: Jul 31, 2007; Soiled Meat

AAAAAAAAAAA Dentist Near Me, sister company to the AAAAAAAAAAA Psychotherapy Near Me and part of the American AAAAAAAAAAA Health franchise.

Say AAAAAAAAAAA

# ? Mar 21, 2023 19:05

Jabberlock: Nov 29, 2014

Trying to find what ASCII punctuation characters are organized before letters so I can be alphabetized before businesses with actual words.

!!!Dentist

# ? Mar 21, 2023 19:35

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Non breaking space poop emoji funerals at your service

# ? Mar 21, 2023 19:58

Jabberlock: Nov 29, 2014

seeing if I can put carriage returns in my business name

# ? Mar 21, 2023 20:31

Karate Bastard: Jul 31, 2007; Soiled Meat

Flipperwaldt posted:

Non breaking space poop emoji funerals at your service

Terminal bell funerary services.

# ? Mar 21, 2023 20:48

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Why only post half the curse?

https://twitter.com/deathcarpets/status/1638295658443714561?s=20

# ? Mar 21, 2023 23:59

codo27: Apr 21, 2008

Strikes me often how we used to be the weird ones for spending too much time on the computer, now billions of regular people spend countless hours watching mundane nonsense narrated by robot voices without any consideration or understanding why

# ? Mar 22, 2023 01:03

Cocaine Bear: Nov 4, 2011; ACAB

Yeah, the future loving sucks. I'll pay for my flying car with feet pics expect oops all we have is road battery cars that catch fire and run over kids.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 01:42

Dick Burglar: Mar 6, 2006

McGavin posted:

Why only post half the curse?

https://twitter.com/deathcarpets/status/1638295658443714561?s=20

That's not cursed though? That's a good shitpost. They're mocking the people who advertise trash products under their viral tweets.

Not that I really blame people for accepting money from trash companies. We all gotta live in this dumpsterfire world, no ethical consumption, etc.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 01:45

Tomfoolery: Oct 8, 2004

Dick Burglar posted:

That's not cursed though? That's a good shitpost. They're mocking the people who advertise trash products under their viral tweets.

Think about a poor guy trying to clean that apartment and just can't find that last bit of exploded vagina

# ? Mar 22, 2023 02:26

Tomfoolery: Oct 8, 2004

Oops wrong button, have some curse

Tomfoolery fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Mar 22, 2023

# ? Mar 22, 2023 02:27

Poohs Packin: Jan 13, 2019

Tomfoolery posted:

Greece.jpg

# ? Mar 22, 2023 02:44

Dang It Bhabhi!: May 27, 2004; ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

Tomfoolery posted:

how I pulled off the big hack.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 02:46

Railing Kill: Nov 14, 2008; You are the first crack in the sheer face of god. From you it will spread.

Tarkus posted:

It's no different than the phone book days when businesses would have names like "AAAAAAAAAAA Building Supplies"

There's a place in the industrial park where I work that I pass every day called AAA Tarps. I always read their sign as, "AAA! Tarps!" :ohdear:

# ? Mar 22, 2023 03:09

Slugworth: Feb 18, 2001; If two grown men can't make a pervert happy for a few minutes in order to watch a film about zombies, then maybe we should all just move to Iran!

Railing Kill posted:

There's a place in the industrial park where I work that I pass every day called AAA Tarps. I always read their sign as, "AAA! Tarps!"

Aayyyyyy, I got tarps here!

# ? Mar 22, 2023 03:21

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Tomfoolery posted:

Think about a poor guy trying to clean that apartment and just can't find that last bit of exploded vagina

Labial Gore would be a great name for a slam death metal band :rock:

Closest I could find was

# ? Mar 22, 2023 04:10

Silly Newbie: Jul 25, 2007; How do I?

Takes No Damage posted:

Labial Gore would be a great name for a slam death metal band

Closest I could find was

Golem of Gore did a split with Labia Majora, does that count?

# ? Mar 22, 2023 05:29

Spazzle: Jul 5, 2003

Tomfoolery posted:

Oops wrong button, have some curse

Johnny Dentonic

# ? Mar 22, 2023 05:46

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

Railing Kill posted:

There's a place in the industrial park where I work that I pass every day called AAA Tarps. I always read their sign as, "AAA! Tarps!"

AAAAA the French

# ? Mar 22, 2023 07:18

Stoatbringer: Sep 15, 2004; naw, you love it you little ho-bot

Mods change my name to Labial Gore, tia

# ? Mar 22, 2023 10:49

Stoatbringer: Sep 15, 2004; naw, you love it you little ho-bot

https://i.imgur.com/WgQThCR.mp4

# ? Mar 22, 2023 10:53

Drone_Fragger: May 9, 2007

Stoatbringer posted:

https://i.imgur.com/WgQThCR.mp4

What.... Is the purpose of this product? Is it one of those bizare mouth shaper scams or is it a sex thing?

# ? Mar 22, 2023 10:55

Das Boo: Jun 9, 2011; There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

Drone_Fragger posted:

What.... Is the purpose of this product? Is it one of those bizare mouth shaper scams or is it a sex thing?

Looks like it's to turn your mouth into a toothless fleshlight, yeh.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 11:11

Karate Bastard: Jul 31, 2007; Soiled Meat

Will I need that to face the filth of Oklahoma?

# ? Mar 22, 2023 11:30

Archonet: Mar 12, 2022; it is time to boogie

Karate Bastard posted:

Will I need that to face the filth of Oklahoma?

To tongue the filth of Oklahoma, maybe.

I'd not recommend that, however.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 11:32

DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

Karate Bastard posted:

Will I need that to face the filth of Oklahoma?

all you need is a pure soul and a smooth brain

# ? Mar 22, 2023 11:51

!Klams: Dec 25, 2005; Squid Squad

Poohs Packin posted:

Its also almost always a very good looking woman in a well appointed house saying something like "this is how we do this recipe around here".

Its an affront on all levels because:

Internet hates women
Internet hates rich people
Internet hates fake confidence
Internet loves arguing over ideas of "authenticity"

And they do the children's algorithm thing of slow build up to inevitable weird pay-off.

Well, this was how I heard it, and I stand by it, because it encompasses everything that everyone else is saying but wraps a neat bow on it:

It IS the children's algorithm thing. But not just for children. The way I heard it, he basically hit on this formula that "The Algorithm" really liked. These videos are really viral, and jump to the top of all the suggestions etc, but that was the thing, in the interview I read, he said he didn't really know why. He didn't know who his audience actually was. So, yeah, fetishists, hate watchers, edgers, clickbait followers. Just all of them, in this perfect Venn diagram, all hit on these types of video.

But to me, that was more cursed than any of the other explanations. Like a sacrifice to a vengeful god, if they don't make these weird poo poo videos that The Algorithm� likes, then they all stop getting money. And no human knows why. Even if it turns out to just be majority fetishist or majority hate watchers or whatever, doesn't really matter, this is without any doubt the shape of things to come, where lots of human people do things for money without understanding why those things make money or who wants them.

It's something that we're struggling with in my job, trying to define audiences. Because, you can do it like "People who like sport" and just group together people that like sport, sure. But, there's no insight there. But what about correlations between specific different TV shows? Like, if there's some group that's actually clearly defined that likes A question of sport, Antiques Roadshow and Rick and Morty. If you can identify that THAT is a specific audience, you can advertise directly to them, you can create content specifically for them, etc. And with AI, we've identified a bunch of these groups! Cool!

But! How the gently caress do you talk about them. How do you actually USE that info? It's basically impossible. It would be essentially impossible (For a human) to tell if content / ads targeted at them was successful! But the AI can do it! The AI doesn't need to be able to give them meaningful names, and it has no problem identifying trends among them. So we're gonna get way more of this sort of thing going on. Stuff that literally no-one can see the point of, but that is somehow hugely popular.

Think of it like this, if you like A, B and C, and I like D, E and C, and someone else likes F, G and C, in that order, then clearly, C has the broadest appeal, even though non of us would say it's our favourite. But with a lot of things (like memes) there's about 100 things that come before C. Such that no one would even think it's something they rate highly. But that enough people share as a common 100th that an algorithm can find it and go "That poo poo thing actually has the broadest appeal". It's gonna be really cool when this approach makes tons of money and you see it everywhere!

# ? Mar 22, 2023 12:48

Drone_Fragger: May 9, 2007

DrPossum posted:

all you need is a pure soul and a smooth brain

Years of dedicated meme training is complete. My brain is completely smooth, my mind empty... It's time... I am finally ready to have the filth of Oklahoma revealed to me.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 12:54

Alucard: Mar 11, 2002; Pillbug

!Klams posted:

... this is without any doubt the shape of things to come, where lots of human people do things for money without understanding why those things make money or who wants them.

Always has been.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 12:58

Karate Bastard: Jul 31, 2007; Soiled Meat

Let it wash over your smooth brain, unblemished.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 13:50

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

TOVA TOVA TOVA

!Klams posted:

But that enough people share as a common 100th that an algorithm can find it and go "That poo poo thing actually has the broadest appeal". It's gonna be really cool when this approach makes tons of money and you see it everywhere!

This approach is not all bad, given the Sirius XM Yacht Rock station has a catchphrase along the lines of "Yacht Rock radio, everyone's seventh favorite song from 1981"

# ? Mar 22, 2023 14:43

MrUnderbridge: Jun 25, 2011

Tomfoolery posted:

Codpiece.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 20:15

Smik: Mar 18, 2014

MrUnderbridge posted:

Codpiece.

Outstanding. :five:

# ? Mar 22, 2023 21:35

ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

Hacker News is the most cursed site on the entire internet:

quote:

I�m all for holding companies that have supported dangerous regimes to account. However, when it comes to data management, totalitarian regimes rarely indicate inadequate implementation. IBM�s role in Germany in the 40s was horrific, but it proved their ideas of tabulations and files were promising. Just like with rocketry, there were many valuable things to learn that defined the rest of the XXth century.
The FSB likely has a lot of crimes to atone for. Still, suppose one of their specialists publishes something on data management or how to manage hundreds of sock-puppet social media accounts. In that case, I�d be tempted to listen and learn from a likely expert�unless you suspect that they think this article is not sincere and meant as a distraction from actual good practices.
Similarly, the CIA has done very problematic things, but the people who worked in the disguise department have a creative take on changing your appearance. I�m unsure when I would have to do that, but I�m always curious about how data is stored efficiently. And yes, like the FSB, the NSA has opinions about that, and those are typically well-informed.
Was their practice constitutional? Seemingly not, IANAL. But do they have good insights into caching video files at scale? Definitely.

# ? Mar 22, 2023 22:41