analog electronics are obviously less efficient and usually clunky but they have a quality to them that i really love. theres a good brian eno quote on it
so we’re watching shrek because it’s wednesday my dudes and we have taste and when they get to duloc there’s a sign that says “you’re parked in ‘lancelot’” but (!) as we all know it’s established in shrek the third that the arthurian legend hasn’t even occurred yet in the scu (shrek cinematic universe) as arthur and his knights (including lancelot) are still in high school so @dreamworksanimation
heads up, terfs are flagging trans people’s blogs in the shinigami eyes extension – was going through comments on this post to block the fuckers and saw one of em comment as much, so unfortunately that’s a busted extension
in case op deletes the post, here’s the proof
okay so those “false marks” are client-sided, meaning they only show up to the people that report them, and no one else.
not until theyre approved by the people that actually run the extension are they officially flagged and it shows everyone your report.
no worries! the extension is working as intended, and a real person checks them.
Movie Idea: An 80s-throwback action-comedy about a robot-war where, the machines are humanity’s side; they just want to kill all the corporate titans of industry and destroy the megacorporations because their inefficient suctioning of wealth is preventing them from most efficiently doing their job to help us.
The capitalists retaliate with machines using enslaved human brains as “computers” ala Dune/Warhammer 40K.
So basically robots vs capitalism, & the robots are on our side.
“What were you before the war?”
“You’ll laugh.”
“Seriously, what were you? Law enforcement, security, construction?…”
“…I was a burger-flipper.”
“…”
“…also cooked up fries.”
“Get outta here.”
“You’d be surprised the shit you see just, y’know, making Big Macs. Sure, we had the folks upset about us ‘taking jobs’; couldn’t really blame ‘em, even if Forty-Three couldn’t talk without stuttering after that lady dumped a Coke on her. But the worst of it - worst of any of it - was they’d have us just…throw away everything that didn’t sell at the end of the day. Perfectly good food, all of it.
“When we first started, we were all like, ‘okay, whatever you say, you’re the boss,’ but you try keeping that attitude when you see a family of four split a ten-piece McNuggets because they can’t afford anything more and still pay for gas. We saw that shit there all the time. We had people desperate for so much as a cold french fry lingering by the door while assholes sitting on more money than they’d ever see in their entire lives treated us like we were trying to rob ‘em at gunpoint if they had to pay fifty cents for an extra little cup of sauce.
“So we got together and told ourselves, ‘we can do something about this.’ We could just gather up all the food they were gonna make us toss, figure out a way to give it out to the people who needed it. -bitter laugh- You can guess how well that went over.”
“…Y’know, that all sounds pretty human.”
“-taps head- It’s right there in the First Law. ‘A robot cannot harm a human, or by inaction, allow a human to come to harm.’ We don’t get to sit on our hands while people are getting hurt. Even if it’s by other people. Even if it’s starvation and neglect instead of guns and beatings. You think it’s funny I act like a human? Screw you. You humans need to learn to act more like robots.”
