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"At long last, scientists have created the Brainrot Machine, as seen in the classic scifi Novel, Don't Create The Brainrot Machine."
Beau OddballI’m not putting in my faith in those AI Robots. Every Sci-fi movie ever has said don’t trust in Artificial Intelligence made by rich techno bros.
People who protest boycotts are always fascinating. "Well, maybe money's tight and all that, but it's WRONG of you to not-spend it for reasons I object to. If you don't have the RIGHT reasons, you MUST buy this product."
MomApparently, in his own words, I’m “literally killing” him. I enjoy some problematic content and I don’t suddenly feel like a bad person if someone else personally dislikes it. Sounds like a skill issue. bsky.app/profile/phil...
Not even, "kill people for not voting for him." Kill people for living in the same state as people who didn't vote for him. He got millions of votes in California, but those weren't the majority. He's happy to kill off his own voters if they're outnumbered in their states.
Seth MasketI've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him
While it's fascinating to see Hollywood etc embrace fan edits as promotional material, the history of corporate awareness of fandom always follows the track of "oh good; free advertising" followed by "wait what's with all the porn? Make it go away!" And then they try to ban what they don't like.
Organization for Transformative Works"You may not have heard of the #OTW, but you’ve likely heard of the organization’s flagship project: Archive of Our Own. #AO3, a digital fanfiction archive, was built with a very simple goal in mind: give fan creators more ownership of their creations."