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it’s just a silly little cowboy game right? RIGHT?

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my husband

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"podcasts are a passive form of media" then why the fuck am I listening to this gripping the table like I'm on a goddamn rollercoaster

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“queer horror podcast” ok? wet water?

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Malevolent kill arc

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If the podcast ain’t about a stressed-out British man who doesn’t know what the hell is going on, then I don’t want it…

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Surely this next six minutes of hitting the snooze button on my alarm will leave me feeling well rested. Surely this time.

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5000 years ago.

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how it feels to be online these days

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so like I said, I work in the tech industry, and it's been kind of fascinating watching whole new taboos develop at work around this genAI stuff. All we do is talk about genAI, everything is genAI now, "we have to win the AI race," blah blah blah, but nobody asks - you can't ask -

What's it for?

What's it for?

Why would anyone want this?

I sit in so many meetings and listen to genuinely very intelligent people talk until steam is rising off their skulls about genAI, and wonder how fast I'd get fired if I asked: do real people actually want this product, or are the only people excited about this technology the shareholders who want to see lines go up?

like you realize this is a bubble, right, guys? because nobody actually needs this? because it's not actually very good? normal people are excited by the novelty of it, and finance bro capitalists are wetting their shorts about it because they want to get rich quick off of the Next Big Thing In Tech, but the novelty will wear off and the bros will move on to something else and we'll just be left with billions and billions of dollars invested in technology that nobody wants.

and I don't say it, because I need my job. And I wonder how many other people sitting at the same table, in the same meeting, are also not saying it, because they need their jobs.

idk man it's just become a really weird environment.

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Lmao oh they were mad as hell

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when i was shopping earlier i saw a product where, instead of there being a price tag, there was a qr code. and they wanted you to scan it to get the price. i wonder what it would feel like to be a wolf and to full force bite onto something's throat. your hunger satiated and your thirst quenched. your enemy defeated. in one swift follow-through.

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stop talking about the USA. I have heard enough about that wretched place

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i think its pathetic that journalists and even some casual speakers call twitter "X" now. weak fish behaviour. you dont have to play along

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[COVERED IN BLOOD, EYES LARGE] i have been working. On my resume