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They take warnings in popular culture as instructions or inspiration.
by rightbyte 2mo ago
They take warnings in popular culture as instructions or inspiration.
- fallinghawks 2mo agoHeck, we're living Idiocracy right now.
- fragmede 2mo agoThe UFC fight on the Whitehouse lawn was a bit much.
- yesbabyyes 2mo agoThat, and the FIFA Peace Prize. Too on the nose.
- croes 2mo agoCamacho made the most intelligent man secretary of the interior, Trump would never do that. So it’s kind of worse than Idiocracy
- hunterpayne 2mo agoBrought to you by Carl's Jr.
- 927373912092 2mo ago[dead]
- rightbyte 2mo agoExcept the strange dysgenics reason for the downfall of high civilization in Idiocracy it is a interesting movie. It should have talked more about cultural enshittification.
- verandaguy 2mo agoIt's basically the Torment Nexus meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus ... but I guess some people took this as positive reinforcement.
- rightbyte 2mo agoYeah. A bit overused by now I refrained from quoting it. Someone here on HN crowned Sam Altman as a "sociopat sociapat" i.e. playing sociopats for money. I think that was the insight of years for me. Battle Royal explodeing collars for the working class in his doomsday bunker. Or was that Seth of Reddit? It is a especially visible concept in the new tech sector war industry. Edgelord as a Service.
- hosh 2mo agoMaybe they got sucked into the cool tech? I remember my first pass reading of Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Diamond Age, I was bedazzled by some of the tech … it was later readings that the comments like “biomass” (the recent echo in AI “meat proxy”), or how the Primer was ultimately a failure sank in later readings.