Isn’t it just a bit suspicious that the industry is preemptively asking for deregulation? It’s like they know they’re going to do some shady shit and want to make sure no pesky laws get in the way.

I bet he’d be really good at DDR since he’s got four feet.

Not much, time. What’s up with you?

It’s where they hide the space laser control panel.

Please be The Onion, please be The Onion

Damn.

His “announcement” reads like it was written by Google’s marketing department.

Either they conned the government org in charge of purchasing it, or that org just didn’t care enough to look deeper. They got a professional-looking demo that made it look like the tech worked, and signed the contract without a second thought.

AI = Actually Indians

The term “AI” has been misused and misrepresented so much that it’s more of an aesthetic than a technology now.

If H. R. Giger had directed Miracle on 34th Street…

I don’t feel like my life is scripted per se, but sometimes I’ll be talking to someone and all of the sudden it feels like someone else has taken control of my body and is doing all the talking while I just sit back and watch. I have to concentrate to get back in control.

That sounds like a perpetual motion machine.

Even the parrot wanted a piece of that.

Instructions unclear, I searched for “fun throbbers” and now my browser is buried in gay porn ads.

I update when I log on, then again before I log off. I use Arch, btw.

Thank you, this is a great explanation. I look forward to the rest of this series.

Edit: I successfully booted a Debian kernel using this tutorial, though I wrote the init program in C++ instead of Go. The process is pretty much the same, but you have to add the -static flag to g++ since the C runtime is not included in the initramfs. This might be obvious to more seasoned programmers but it took me a minute to figure it out.

Ah yes, because some historical context will certainly justify the genocide.

Neuromancer by William Gibson contains some similar themes.

Hey Rand, I made a Mad Lib for you:

[person’s name] is either ‘incompetent’ or ‘lying’ over [latest crisis], says [another person’s name].

It’s nearly guaranteed to be accurate, no matter the choice of names and crisis.

Am I to believe, as God’s own truth, that the sea’s abominable and wriggling fish stuck tongue from mouth and licked this bread?