#consequences of the technology

[fruttymoment]

Facial recognition system moment

[herotome]

How controversial were the tests to find out if newborns had powers?

Extremely!!!!!

[girlwhoisgoingtobeokay]

honestly i used to have this idea of like “oh yeahhh tiktok trends/twitter discourse they dont represent people’s views in real life!” boy was i fucking wrong. seeing my friends completely change how they acted based on micro-trends just to move onto the next, hearing little boys as young as 8 laugh and joke about andrew tate and seeing little girls take over sephora obsessively searching for makeup

[aro-in-danyl]

Alastor's Furby Organ - Fic Prompt

Vox is attempting to sell the benefits of advancing technology to Alastor for the umpteenth time, either genuinely or patronizingly, when Alastor sees it.

The second greatest piece of technology he's ever laid eyes on.

He interrupts Vox in the middle of his tirade and zips up to it and is absolutely tickled pink by its creepiness and charming exterior.

Alastor, trying not to sound excited: And what's this delightful little thing?

Vox: Oh that's a Furby, a creepy kids toy up top, we're thinking of scrapping it actually-

Alastor: Oh? Then maybe I can take them off your hands.

Time skip to a few months later, Alastor and Vox are having another battle (duet) when Alastor manifests a new instrument Vox has never seen him play before made up of-

Oh no. no. no. nononono. NO.

A fucking Furby Organ!?

[bananonbinary]

yeah no the agent orange thing is actually wild - my grandpa was drafted to vietnam and was exposed to it, which gave him health problems later in life that he ended up passing away from BUT the military insisted that he hadn't been exposed for a full ten years after he passed until they finally admitted a few months ago that yeah actually he had been exposed and our family was supposed to have been receiving financial compensation this whole time but they just. hadn't done that

and that's the way the US government treated an actual american who was exposed - it's so so much worse from the vietnamese perspective

yeah im reading the wikipedia article and it says

the Vietnamese Red Cross estimates that up to one million people were disabled or have health problems as a result of exposure to Agent Orange. The United States government has described these figures as unreliable, while documenting cases of leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and various kinds of cancer in exposed U.S. military veterans.

which, considering how very very neutral wikipedia tries to be, reads like a loud blaring "THEY WERE LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH"

also tho the part that gets me is like. i never knew about "herbicidal warfare" in general, that's....so evil. like, we were not even just using this weapon on soldiers (which would already be fucked up), we were trying to destroy the entire country itself? the land and animals and plants so even those who werent exposed are starving and destabilized??? just indiscriminately raining down death over vast swathes of land? what the FUCK.

that...genuinely sounds as bad as hiroshima and nagasaki to me, morally speaking. just...slower.

[z428]

10am and on. Multiple factors, single results. Building temporary tooling to shape vast loads of input, considering needles and haystacks again. And falling for the temptation to dig into technology all too deep, losing track of time and priorities that way. Focus as an ever-present, unmatched challenge.

#outerworld #office hours #technology and its amazing consequences

[victoria-weee]

hi hey hellœ

could I request something with Conseq and Engie? up to you what exactly, I just want the sillies to have a good day for once

He loves playing games with someone:)

[existential-dread-in-the-am]

Every once in a while you find an absolutely brilliant scifi au on the fanfiction website with the most perfectly made first 7 out of 8 chapters, only to find that the final chapter 8 consists of a long and unhinged sex scene and little else. And you have to still bookmark the thing because the au is still brilliant and you cannot let it go (and also because you may be aroace but you are not weak and you refuse to be defeated by sex scenes)

[ghelgheli]

since 2016 canada has had an expanding program of "medical assistance in dying" (MAiD) which is essentially euthanasia. this was foreseen by disability activists to be a disastrous policy, and that is what it has turned out to be. there are numerous reports of MAiD being suggested or prescribed under coercive conditions. euthanasia policies disproportionately target poor, disabled, both (since there is a huge overlap), and by the same tokens, racialized ppl, because it is very often coercive economic forces that drive people to make these decisions.

it should not be surprising that when "euthanasia" of people is implemented in policy, it will find its uses wherever it is most useful to hegemony. solving poverty is more expensive than prescribing MAiD to poor people; building and maintaining the infrastruture to support disability is more expensive than mentioning that MAiD is an option; dismantling the institutions that wield power is so much less convenient than telling a patient, who has to pick from the least bad options you give them, that they have a legal out. this is not the right hill.

[tracfone]

No matter what you hear people say about electric dreams 1984 on Tumblr or the fanart you see it does not compare to watching the actual movie and the emotions it will make u feel. The fanart did make me want to watch it but getting to watch it was an Experience

[fruttymoment]

Wi-Fi warmth sharing technology 🔥

[randomalistic]

I wish the internet wasn't so good i love this place so much but it also sucks

[mocacheezy]

Having sensory issues that you haven't quite registered as proper, real and VALID issues yet can be real interesting. For example;

Me, overwhelmed and fuming with rage and anxiety: How can I fuckity fuck make this better?

*remembers that sunlight and seeing what's outside can make people feel less claustrophobic ergo lowering anxiety*

*forgets that bright lights and colors are a sensory FUCK NO when overwhelmed*

*partially opens the window shutters*

*closes the window shutters*

[thoughtportal]

Brian Merchant on the Luddites and their view on technology and work.

[z428]

3pm and on. Clueless error handling, be like: Exchanging smaller subsystems, step by step, until behaviour changes to the better. (So far, it won't.) With things reasonably complex, one ends up in unchartered territory just way too soon. Here be digital dragons. And no model as a guiding light.

#outerworld #later that day #office hours #technology and its amazing consequences

[spinitback]

What is going onnnnnn my entire pc crashed and I lost the drawing I've been working on for so many hours. withoug saving. which i will never learn to do