Actually… yes. This was back when “source control” meant keeping the code on an extra floppy in a dusty desk drawer, and “security” meant throwing an extra lock on the office door, and “looking stuff up” meant trying to find useful books at the local bookstore. It was awful.

Politicians will announce policy MONTHS in advance.

So, what you’re saying is we should just read the congressional record and day trade?

**sharp exhale** You’re probably right. It’s just like the gas pumps. A big soda cup takes a few seconds to fill up, and the system knows that’s when you’re holding the button down, staring at the tap. All that makes you an advertising target for the duration.

Is there some version of Occam’s Razor where “enshitification” is the most likely answer?

I agree. Murphy’s humanity is what sets him apart from the wishes of OCP, and is ultimately what saves the day.

To me, the whole ACAB thing implies that people have agency and can make moral and ethical choices on the job. Yet we see police do unethical and amoral things given the chance. Murphy is unable to deviate from his programming, yet in the grey areas where he can make a choice, tends to make the right one.

I’ve mentioned this before but not only is he resurrected so he can continue to work, but he’s property now.

Also, Murphy’s lack of agency due to this status was further exploited in the movie by scabbing a strike.

All this (satirically) suggests that, were death itself available as slavery and union-busting loophole, someone would exploit it given the chance.

Exactly. This implementation makes no sense. Unless the logos are animated, need to change frequently, or supposed to show advertising (I hope not), a backlit plastic label would do the same job just fine. In fact, that has done the same job for decades at this point.

Bad news is “bios crash” has no real flavor and every sip is just raw brain freeze.

You’d think that with QR codes every-fucking-where these days, that we could easily swing back to everyone having their own website. Back in the bad old days, it was hell on wheels to share URLs with folks. Now? There’s nothing stopping us.

Wait until they figure out how senior engineers learned all this stuff.

I have one of those.

It’s labeled “screw it.”

As long as it has a massive IKEA logo embossed (or with filigree) on there somewhere, you have my vote.

I think this is a crucial observation to understanding this whole mess.

Not everyone lives in a “heliocentric world”, where they’re just a small part of a bigger system, everyone is just multiple shades of different, and average/normal is statistical fiction.

To a lot of folks, their vantage point is: “people like me are normal and it’s everyone else that is on the deep left or right.”

Meanwhile they’re ready to metaphorically murder Copernicus because it’s too painful to admit that these political epicycles they’ve mapped out are masking the truth.

Already done: Johnny English

Okay, but only if Pauly Shore gets to be Q.

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Look… I know you’re trying to get the word out, but ya gotta format this so it’s readable. Right now, it’s giving “jesus sticker and/or conspiracy van” vibes, and that doesn’t help.

I’m more intrigued by all that and the potential for a mesh-net that shuttles discrete ‘memes’ like this around.

I would bet that research would show that it’s possible, but there’s bound to be pruning and errors in the payload as the ‘song’ gets passed around. So the actual practical amount of storage for a network is going to be a lot smaller. At the same time, data could be optimized to better match the bird’s memory, behaviors, and vocal limits. One might also employ different encoding strategies too, based on that fidelity information.

Glad you’re okay, Choom.

This, right here. It’s like Nixon’s “war on drugs” that went on, and on, and on… The goal was not drugs, per-se, but to use drugs as a pretense to police people of color.

(waking up old thread)

I sometimes just use SCP as a creative writing starting point to make a joke or riff on themes on social media. Other times, I use my familiarity with it to riff alongside other users. Example here.

That said, after reading a bunch on scp-wiki and playing Control, I can’t get it all out of my head. I’m sure one of these days I could be bothered to write a real one.