Gaffgarion did nothing wrong

Blood is the price of progress! It is the ink in which history's pages are writ. Look around you, boy! Ivalice rots from within!

[Gaffgarion did nothing wrong @brightswordlol]

@atlanticesque which way, western man?

[Chris Ward @MasterWambo]

Not only do we not live in cyberpunk, but cyberpunk will never happen for the exact reason it's such an alluring setting: The downtrodden underclass are never going to become super high agency computer wiz genius street samurai warriors, hacking into corpo supercomputers and committing acts of terrorism against THE MAN. They're actually just going to be fat degen gooners and addicts, outsourcing all cognitive function (and gambling action) to machines, eating kool-aid pineapple and sharing AI videos of African kids doing autobody work with brick and mortar. "Oh my God, can you believe this!?” And they'll drink fabric dye elixirs because their penis doesn't work, and shop at Walmart and traffic in novel hybrids of conspiracy theory on the techno-occult app.

The great conceit of cyberpunk is that it assumes most people are transhumanists at heart. That they're incredibly savvy and talented, and they'd all do so well if THE MAN just got out of their way and let them upgrade. As it turns out, people can't even handle the internet. They could barely handle the television. The camera has stricken them in hypnosis, reorienting their gaze to see things for it rather than themselves. Ubiquitous access to food has destroyed their bodies. All communication now routed through a sensory deprivation box, and suddenly they want to end their life. There will be no laser katanas.

The pioneering writers of the genre always assumed, like many people still do today, that technological pessimism relies on a corrupted design. There was nothing essential about it. The revealed dilemma is that man interacting with highly optimized systems doesn't need to be coerced into dysfunction much at all. We can do bad all by ourselves. You merely have to leave too much kibble in the bowl.

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

Enemies of Rome.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

exemplified by a feudal serf misting a fan with a spray bottle to swamp-cool his peasant hovel, coping that this is somehow noble, the entirety of europe is populated by those whose ancestors were not intrepid enough to cross the atlantic to america. thats why theyre like this

[Gaffgarion did nothing wrong @brightswordlol]

@Helot_ extremely bad that the damage of bezos' infidelity is externalized upon america while the philanderer himself simply purchases isolation from it

[Gaffgarion did nothing wrong @brightswordlol]

@powerbottomdad1 der ewige boomer

[Mathieu BP @_mathieubp]

@LoicBerthelot They do whatever they can to save compute 😭

[✨Ella is here✨ @EllaDisaster]

Hi yes I’m the one that stares at other people for several minutes because I’m trying on their glams. Oops 😂

Art: @The_Eggroller

[Fenrys @DuskenVow]

can you tell I just finished final fantasy tactics ivalice chronicles

[Nhim | Mimi Plushie Out Now! @Nhim_Art]

Fine Dining.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many smart people/AI insiders are saying GLM-5.2 is the first Chinese AI model to match and often beat the American big lab public AI models with no compromises. Incredible timing given current events.

[Gaffgarion did nothing wrong @brightswordlol]

@mapeslover69 socialism is when wordcel ngo employees live like shape rotators for mag7

[Jay 🕋☪️✈️ @jay_kobbe]

Sorry I can’t hear the sound of the europoors dying over my HVAC fan

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Oh no.

[Gaffgarion did nothing wrong @brightswordlol]

@BarneyFlames the main problem with this dynamic is they also promote rent-seeking with low wage immigration and retarded protectionism for sugar/cattle/etc

[Gaffgarion did nothing wrong @brightswordlol]

@yacineMTB most normies are fpgas made of meat

[Baby Eru @BabyEru]

Educational strategy board

[kache @yacineMTB]

Heard the AI datacenters use water again meme in real life. It's absolutely fucking insane how endemic this piece of misinfo is. People legitimately have 0 cognitive defense against anything

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Is this literally the most ineffective altruist in history?

[Lokir Greystrand @lokirgrey]

Here to purge all of your sins