#boringdystopia — Public Fediverse posts

LOL - Eugene has this - it's over on Coburg Road. Seriously, go look: the Mattress store is across from the supplements store and it's next to the Batteries Plus store. Zero traffic, every day.

#eugene #boringdystopia

LOL - Eugene has this - it's over on Coburg Road. Seriously, go look: the Mattress store is across from the supplements store and it's next to the Batteries Plus store. Zero traffic, every day.

#eugene #boringdystopia

Looking for a job? You can be Zuck's 'beach water person!'

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-lifeguard-beach-water-person/

#zuckerberg #boringdystopia #meta

Looking for a job? You can be Zuck's 'beach water person!'

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-lifeguard-beach-water-person/

#zuckerberg #boringdystopia #meta

"Verspätungen sollen durch KI minimiert werden."
Das endet so wie in Asimovs Nulltem Gesetz... oder bei Age of Ultron: die KI stellt fest dass der Mensch das Hauptproblem ist und lässt einfach niemanden mehr zusteigen.
#BoringDystopia

https://www.hessenschau.de/wirtschaft/deutsche-bahn-baut-europaverkehr-aus---und-setzt-auf-ki--v1,bahn-fernverkehr-100.html

The #boringDystopia:

Your #poverty is our #marketing gimmick

'#MaxwellHouse #coffee, a 133-year-old brand, recently launched a marketing campaign rebranding themselves as “Maxwell Apartment Coffee”

“Maxwell House? In this economy?” a narrator asks in a video ad, promising that Maxwell Apartment is “the same affordable coffee you love, now with an even more affordable name”

The company is also offering a year’s supply of its coffee for “under $40”… “12-month lease”'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/maxwell-house-ad-campaign-apartment

The #boringDystopia:

Your #poverty is our #marketing gimmick

'#MaxwellHouse #coffee, a 133-year-old brand, recently launched a marketing campaign rebranding themselves as “Maxwell Apartment Coffee”

“Maxwell House? In this economy?” a narrator asks in a video ad, promising that Maxwell Apartment is “the same affordable coffee you love, now with an even more affordable name”

The company is also offering a year’s supply of its coffee for “under $40”… “12-month lease”'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/maxwell-house-ad-campaign-apartment

@RealJournalism What a world we live in that we can use the MustacheofDoom™ as a bellweather for what is acceptable. #MSMIsDead #MediaFail #BoringDystopia

@RealJournalism What a world we live in that we can use the MustacheofDoom™ as a bellweather for what is acceptable. #MSMIsDead #MediaFail #BoringDystopia

Russian #propaganda and Fox News talking points are now one and the same thanks to the Telegram to Twitter to White House pipeline. #boringdystopia #resist
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/elon-musk-trump-junior-und-die-afd-wie-sie-gemeinsam-russische-propagandavideos-verbreiten-a-bf1a0a44-d460-4b8f-9c34-15cea030efa8

Russian #propaganda and Fox News talking points are now one and the same thanks to the Telegram to Twitter to White House pipeline. #boringdystopia #resist
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/elon-musk-trump-junior-und-die-afd-wie-sie-gemeinsam-russische-propagandavideos-verbreiten-a-bf1a0a44-d460-4b8f-9c34-15cea030efa8

Thoughtful, timely interview on WFMU's TechTonic today, political nerd fam: Mark compares Silicon Valley broligarchs to #comics super-villains with help from an MIT chaplain and Jim frickin Starlin (!) #techfeudalism #technocracy #boringdystopia #surveillance
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/148678

Thoughtful, timely interview on WFMU's TechTonic today, political nerd fam: Mark compares Silicon Valley broligarchs to #comics super-villains with help from an MIT chaplain and Jim frickin Starlin (!) #techfeudalism #technocracy #boringdystopia #surveillance
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/148678

"The sky was the color of ten billion advertisements biding for your eyeballs"

#BoringDystopia

"The sky was the color of ten billion advertisements biding for your eyeballs"

#BoringDystopia

#AI -created media group zombifies a small #oregon town's defunct newspaper with #AIslop , steals British man's identity. #boringdystopia
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/artificial-intelligence-local-news-oregon-ashland/

#AI -created media group zombifies a small #oregon town's defunct newspaper with #AIslop , steals British man's identity. #boringdystopia
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/artificial-intelligence-local-news-oregon-ashland/

#Oregon acquires a strategic supply of the #abortion medication #Mifepristone cuz that's where we're at... #prochoice #boringdystopia

https://kpic.com/news/local/oregon-secures-extended-supply-of-mifepristone-amid-federal-challenges

#Oregon acquires a strategic supply of the #abortion medication #Mifepristone cuz that's where we're at... #prochoice #boringdystopia

https://kpic.com/news/local/oregon-secures-extended-supply-of-mifepristone-amid-federal-challenges

@edmond Musk is creating the Dead Internet in real time!

Buying the control of online discourse is the most boring (but perhaps effective) super-villain move.

#boringdystopia

It's things like this that make me prefer smart glasses that don't include cameras.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy

#ar #xr #mr #vr #augmentedreality #extendedreality #mixedreality #meta #visionpro #xreal #smartglasses #futurism #technology #privacy #cyberpunk #boringdystopia #dystopia

So, so many of these.

Fake people from fake companies offering fake AI-generated @LinkedIn profile armies to spam inboxes.

All looking superficially like real people, with plausible career paths, biographies, names & corporate portraits.

“While there’s no guarantee in human life, we provide a guarantee in LinkedIn profile life, typically ranging from 48-72 hours.”

What could possibly ever go wrong.

#boringdystopia #linkedin #disinformation #generativeai #genai #disinfo #bots #socialmedia

So, so many of these.

Fake people from fake companies offering fake AI-generated @LinkedIn profile armies to spam inboxes.

All looking superficially like real people, with plausible career paths, biographies, names & corporate portraits.

“While there’s no guarantee in human life, we provide a guarantee in LinkedIn profile life, typically ranging from 48-72 hours.”

What could possibly ever go wrong.

#boringdystopia #linkedin #disinformation #generativeai #genai #disinfo #bots #socialmedia

via #bluesky : A #boeing related treat from Paperback Paradise. #boringdystopia #books #satire

via #bluesky : A #boeing related treat from Paperback Paradise. #boringdystopia #books #satire

At work today, I witnessed a co-worker get so furious over meeting schedules. The boss scheduled a meeting to discuss a deliverable that is not ready to be reviewed (I know, extremely riveting). We gave the team reviewing it until next week to give us this info to review but boss wasn't aware. No biggie in my head.

Instead of just reaching out to inform the boss this info (which we eventually did), this co-worker unleased 15 minutes of whining, bitching, and anger over an Outlook invite.

Anyhow, what's your favorite medieval butt trumpet pic?

#WeLiveInASociety
#boringdystopia
#ButtTrumpet

At work today, I witnessed a co-worker get so furious over meeting schedules. The boss scheduled a meeting to discuss a deliverable that is not ready to be reviewed (I know, extremely riveting). We gave the team reviewing it until next week to give us this info to review but boss wasn't aware. No biggie in my head.

Instead of just reaching out to inform the boss this info (which we eventually did), this co-worker unleased 15 minutes of whining, bitching, and anger over an Outlook invite.

Anyhow, what's your favorite medieval butt trumpet pic?

#WeLiveInASociety
#boringdystopia
#ButtTrumpet

Anyone touting the potential benefits of AI should just be reminded that we built a machine that identifies people who are at risk for falling into despair, and instead of using it to help better those people's lives, we used it to speed their descent so that they could be sold diet pills and emergency rations. #dystopia #BoringDystopia

Anyone touting the potential benefits of AI should just be reminded that we built a machine that identifies people who are at risk for falling into despair, and instead of using it to help better those people's lives, we used it to speed their descent so that they could be sold diet pills and emergency rations. #dystopia #BoringDystopia

@jensclasen ist es eine gute Nachricht, dass es in der Hand von wenigen, riesigen Corporations liegt wer was zu einem wie großen Publikum sagen darf? #boringdystopia

@jensclasen ist es eine gute Nachricht, dass es in der Hand von wenigen, riesigen Corporations liegt wer was zu einem wie großen Publikum sagen darf? #boringdystopia

Things are going perfectly well in the UK, just peachy. #boringdystopia #health
https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/07/rise-diy-dentistry-i-pulled-five-teeth-home-20238015/

Things are going perfectly well in the UK, just peachy. #boringdystopia #health
https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/07/rise-diy-dentistry-i-pulled-five-teeth-home-20238015/

Data centers will be our Easter Island heads. Whatever comes next - alien, cyborg, fungus folk - will be baffled by giant buildings full of funny plastic sandwiches buried in the desert... #boringdystopia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/blackstone-is-building-a-25-billion-ai-data-center-empire

Data centers will be our Easter Island heads. Whatever comes next - alien, cyborg, fungus folk - will be baffled by giant buildings full of funny plastic sandwiches buried in the desert... #boringdystopia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/blackstone-is-building-a-25-billion-ai-data-center-empire

State historians waste time, resources, sanity fact checking an AI-derived hallucination. #ChatGPT #fail #boringdystopia

https://www.ohs.org/blog/an-artificial-intelligence-research-request.cfm

State historians waste time, resources, sanity fact checking an AI-derived hallucination. #ChatGPT #fail #boringdystopia

https://www.ohs.org/blog/an-artificial-intelligence-research-request.cfm

@laescude #BoringDystopia

The fun new future, where every support chat from now on can help you with your coding problems. Even your bank.

#ai #boringdystopia

The fun new future, where every support chat from now on can help you with your coding problems. Even your bank.

#ai #boringdystopia

@mergesort
"What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots."

Great (if slightly depressing) antidote to the current round of AI hype. My takeaway: Over time, all new tech regresses to the #boringdystopia mean.

@mergesort
"What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots."

Great (if slightly depressing) antidote to the current round of AI hype. My takeaway: Over time, all new tech regresses to the #boringdystopia mean.

While it’s certainly possible to evade some of that spending, it’s not easy, and not possible for everyone all the time. After I have commuted, worked all day, and then commuted again, I sometimes must make a trade-off between preparing a meal for the next day—and sacrificing sleep or time with my children—or just buying it from a restaurant.

And, to the greatest extent possible, our rentier capital class is trying to make even those small possibilities of evasion impossible. In many places, your ability to engage in the basic human functions of urination and defecation are contingent on making purchases—“toilets are for customers only.”

In our ever-darkening dystopia, we’re now given the choice to relieve ourselves “for free” in public toilets, as long as we first pay the sellers of smartphones for access.

https://futurism.com/public-toilet-requires-qr-code-tracks-cleanliness-score

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#PublicSanitation #BoringDystopia

While it’s certainly possible to evade some of that spending, it’s not easy, and not possible for everyone all the time. After I have commuted, worked all day, and then commuted again, I sometimes must make a trade-off between preparing a meal for the next day—and sacrificing sleep or time with my children—or just buying it from a restaurant.

And, to the greatest extent possible, our rentier capital class is trying to make even those small possibilities of evasion impossible. In many places, your ability to engage in the basic human functions of urination and defecation are contingent on making purchases—“toilets are for customers only.”

In our ever-darkening dystopia, we’re now given the choice to relieve ourselves “for free” in public toilets, as long as we first pay the sellers of smartphones for access.

https://futurism.com/public-toilet-requires-qr-code-tracks-cleanliness-score

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#PublicSanitation #BoringDystopia

The AQI for the area is in the 140 range. I'm surprised that I feel great it's not in the unhealthy range but only in the moderate range - dangerous for those with medical conditions, the elderly, and for youngsters. It truly is a #BoringDystopia we live in.

Just keep consuming…. It’ll be alright.

Graphic by Instagram user @ boringfriends

#illustration #boringdystopia #kidsarenotthefutureanymore

Nothing to see here, it's not like the #BoringDystopia now is so normalized that Google now shows when routes are affected by school shootings, and the weather app shows abducted child alerts.

My God. Ask Bing the completely bland question 'what's going on with the Uyghur population in China?' - it starts answering, then literally cancels and censors itself right in front of your eyes! #boringdystopia

@annaleen Oops. Just realized that, this being Mastodon, my comment could be construed as a #wellactually when I meant it as a #boringdystopia.

Maybe the low bar is a good thing. “Your mission is to save the world” usually ends up as “I guess I have to eliminate humanity” whereas “your mission is to chat” will end up as “humanity seem cool.”