Schrodinger’s Grandma.

meant to be viewed in a polished cylinder.

“cylinder”

That isn’t money, those are Pokemon cards.

viral dark matter

TIL. I got a chill just reading this term.

So you’re saying that one’s a bug-hunt, and the other’s a stand-up fight?

I dunno if Insane Clown Posse started throwing out packets of Flavoraid instead of spraying Faygo at their concerts it just wouldn’t have the same effect…

Awesome! Facebook becomes nothing but AI, undergoes a singularity, and sucks capitalism in with it. Then we can just put it all in a box, bury it, and the rest of us live in utopia.

So… there was some kind of thought experiment about an AI that was optimized for making paperclips and it took over the world… I never really got the point of that one.

But if you’ve ever called tech support at a big company, at some point you realize you’re not talking with people, but with scripts that someone wrote and are forcing the people to read. So: how about a steampunk novel in which a company becomes “sentient” because everything is automated through business processes, including executive decisions? This sounds like something that might already have been done, so you’d have to do some background reading.

Alternately, I believe sophisticated algorithms are used to predict market trends… but imagine if one of those algorithms begins defining itself in such a way that “something happens”… I dunno this one requires a bit more thought…

ooh then don’t miss !garfieldism@lemmy.blahaj.zone and !imsorryjon@lemmy.world…

Is there like a specific instance of her doing something?

I’ve read the following arguments:

• her humor is bland, Cathy-level stuff. I like !garfield@lemmy.world so I’m not exactly an expert on humor, but fwiw I like her art style and I find her strips funny more often than not. That sort of thing’s subjective anyway.
• she had reddit comics-strip mods delete any critical comments about her. Yeah, reddit sucks, that’s why we left, I dunno if it’s fair to blame her for that.
• she supported reddit during the API protests. I kinda disliked her for a while because of this, HOWEVER since then she’s done a lot of anti-MAGA comics (most recently like this, this, and this) so I think she’s cool bc that’s a far more important issue, and I’m not gonna be hung up on reddit forever.
• in her strip she sometimes makes fun of people who criticize her. I see this kinda like a stand-up comedienne dealing with hecklers, i.e. it’s part of the show, and good on her for not taking shit from people. But some people apparently think this is inappropriate. Others assume that her “hecklers” are sexist, insecure, etc and that creates even more defensiveness. Not sure if there’s an easy solution to this.

Don’t feel bad, fam. As far as haters go, these are pretty mild.

No use crying over spilt milk.

kek this comment was funnier than the strip itself.

That’s not a true statement. It’s barely coherent. But it’s kinda got a kind of surreal charm to it… like with a bit of work you could turn it into a great science fiction story or a thought experiment.

see here:

• !internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee
• !smolweb@slrpnk.net
• !retronet@lemmy.sdf.org

also, as you kinda hint at, the fediverse in general is aimed at giving us a space away from corporate social media.

Yeah, or if the car had a sticker on it saying “award - safest student driver” on it, it might be ironic.

That song (which is insipid and bland) gets a bad rap for that. I’d argue that the song is indeed using irony effectively. irony is subjective: it tells you what the speaker believes to be a contradiction. the song says: these things are ironic; the implied presupposition is something like “everything turns out well like in a romance movie.”

• STATEMENT: rain on your wedding day is ironic
• PRESUPPOSITION: it should not rain on your wedding day bc that is a magical time
• CONCLUSION: life is not ideal

I mean, it’s not a very deep conclusion, but it is logically defensible. anyway, if you’re in high school and you need an English paper topic, there you go.

One of my favorite Heinlein stories. Fascinating details about it.

• Campbell’s comments about the story makes me think of the reaction to Sinclair Lewis’ novel Elmer Gantry, which is about a fundamentalist Christian pastor. Funny how some things about both stories are very dated, but the general ideas are still relevant.
• TIL a new word - “mulligrubs” - “Sullenness; sulky behaviour” apparently
• “it’s going to take a lot of careful reworking and shifting of emphasis.” - so the magazine version at least was heavily edited. sounds like the novel version had some stuff put back in; I kinda remember stuff about a confessional.
• I was looking at the wikipedia page and it quotes some still-relevant stuff from the novel’s postscript:

“There is a latent deep strain of religious fanaticism in [America]; it is rooted in our history and it has broken out many times in the past…[T]here has been a sharp rise in strongly evangelical sects in this country in recent years, some of which hold beliefs theocratic in the extreme, anti-intellectual, anti-scientific, and anti-libertarian…The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.”

Those cats were all mortal enemies until they were brought together by catnip.

Put it on the menu!