Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
@Laurie0801 Non-cheese/vegan cheese bruschetta, vegan stuffed mushrooms, shrimp & cocktail sauce, turkey bacon wrapped dates, you can make a non-dairy smoked salmon appetizer no problem
“This girl should’ve been in Glee club and instead she was committing triple homicide” the vampires are finally speaking out against Buffy, guys I can’t breathe
So sad to learn of the recent passing of the great illustrator (& my favorite), Robert McGinnis. Here's his obituary, & some of his romance covers below to enjoy: https://t.co/IxfkSIHQS0
“A demonstrator pulls a mock guillotine in protest of Donald Trump at Malcolm X park in Washington, D.C. in freezing temperatures.”
Via: Wired
Photo: Getty/Reuters
I hope @AOC learns that no matter how many times you acquiesce to them and ask your followers to compromise and move right for them and make yourself a good team player, that the party will not hesitate to throw you under the bus and blame you for their own failures anyway.
The rental car situation is so annoying. I might reserve a sedan like a Camry and maybe hope that I get an upgrade to some kind of nicer car. Then I get there and the guy will be like, “sir, good news! I’m giving you a free upgrade to an entry level SUV!”
That is not an upgrade