Tunicate posted:

So there's an app? Sorta want to see that used in a photoshop phriday.


By which I mean, which goon is gonna make the piss tape first.

Agean90 posted:

https://twitter.com/dogsokaywooof/status/998973620654231552

Comrayn posted:

the half bangs blue hair is dumb but I mean this dweeb

hackbunny posted:

Prav posted:

oh please, they know what they're doing

hobbesmaster posted:

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/483417168806035456?s=21

Bert Roberge posted:

https://twitter.com/mental_floss/status/1009358448369307648

pushpins posted:

Has any other Supre Court pick literally swore vengeance during their confirmation?

Low Desert Punk posted:

i hope everybody realizes that deepfake-style fake videos are going to be used by the state to further control the populace, if it hasn't already started. Anyone with access to enough data can manufacture footage of confessions and illegal activity, fabricate multiple video sources for fake events, and make a gullible audience believe literally anything they want

and that data has been happily supplied by Facebook and Google

the future is hosed

pushpins posted:

This was a scene from Ready Player 1 where the ceo guy has a bunch of nerds feed him cool nerd facts through an earpiece

Farm Frenzy posted:

https://twitter.com/GQMagazine/status/1094764022694580224

smarxist posted:

Lamebot posted:

You've been deemed to carry a higher risk for suicide so your insurance premiums and credit score will be adjusted accordingly.

tillytown posted:

I actually don't mind Soylent. The chocolate flavor is pretty good and I have a soft spot for it because it helped me through a really rough period of depression. I couldn't even get out of bed to make a sandwich or whatever so I kept a box of Soylent next to me (it doesn't have to be refrigerated) so I could be sure I was getting sustenance. I liked it because it was specifically a meal replacement that had 400 calories per bottle, whereas Ensure has only 250, I believe, and at the time I associated it with weight loss. Maybe there were other options I could have chosen but a friend told me about Soylent and I liked it. -shrug- That said, I totally agree all the tech bros who are into it and the company itself are obnoxious.

Lazyhound posted:

this was Japan’s plan for defending the home islands in WWII iirc

Main Paineframe posted:

imo, the narrative there is heavily colored by the same sort of orientalist racism that led Americans to attribute Chinese successes in Korea to "human wave attacks"

on the one hand, yeah, the Japanese were arming civilians, gearing up suicide-attack training, and spreading propaganda calling for the civilian populace to sacrifice their lives to slow the enemy advance

on the other hand, the British did essentially the same thing, but it's mostly remembered as an instance of heroic Churchillian pluck, rather than the "insane nationalists declaring a glorious national suicide" narrative that tends to dominate the talk of Japanese civilian defense plans

it's doubtful how much either group would have lived up to the fanciful expectations of politicians. the effectiveness of Japanese propaganda on the Home Islands dropped a lot once the US had burned the country to the ground and sunk the navy

EasternBronze posted:

I think there's a difference between a civilian population RESISTING fascism and another FIGHTING FOR IT.

evobatman posted:

The franchise wars are coming, and all restaurants will be Pizza Hut Taco Bell

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Man, I loved it when I opened up my lunch bag as a kid and my mom had splurged and packed me an Unknowables.

ekuNNN posted:

Good news

01011001 posted:

look it cant be a gay robot blowjob

Rhesus Pieces posted:

pelotons are for conspicuous consumers and status-seeking social climbers who are incredibly bad with money

just get a $60 pair of running shoes and maybe an armband for your phone, and curate your own drat playlist that you don’t have to pay an absurd monthly fee to listen to

Entorwellian posted:

Every delusion that is common of paranoid schizophrenia is now reality.

vyelkin posted:

the whole point of all the constant passive surveillance is nobody has to be actively monitoring you, but nevertheless sitting on a server somewhere is all the information about you. yes, you specifically. your likes and dislikes, everything you post online, everywhere you go with location data on your phone, everything.

right now no one is looking at it except some advertising algorithms that want to use it to sell you a particular brand of toilet paper

but the whole point is that if for any reason they ever want to, they can just look you up and bam, there's you in all your glory

like how the police can now access everywhere your phone has ever been just by showing up with a warrant. they didn't even really plan to have access to that data but the data exists so of course they're going to use it

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1128298593377505281

im on the net me boys posted:

I used to work at a grocery store and I had a really weird training video about what they called "unconscious bias" but they literally went out of their way not to mention racism or sexism or any actual bias. The word "racism" was never once mentioned. In the video, one of the corporate folks, a black man, talked about how he was renting a room and the landlady didn't know he was black and wanted him to leave. He never once mentioned it's because he's black, and he talks about how he could have sued but he never did. The video was all about how you shouldn't profile people or follow them around the store because of how they look, but it never explicitly mentions race. It didn't mention gender discrimination or being hateful towards queer people either. It was literally just "don't do something that could get the company a bad name in the press" and they stressed this hard. This was after the Starbucks calling the cops on the black men incident, and they were very keen on avoiding that kind of press.
The thing that sticks out most about the video is that their example of unconscious bias has a picture of three white men. You're asked to guess who is most likely to become a CEO. I thought at first this was a trick question, because most CEOs are white men. The "correct" answer is the tallest one, because CEOs are generally taller than average. This was the only example they gave, at all. It was extremely tone deaf.