When I’m on the phone with a real human being in customer service, I’m often actually talking to an egregore of the company. They’re reading scripts (written by AI?), being scored by an AI that’s listening in to the recorded conversation, and responding in ways that the conversation tree tells them to respond. Even in the call center jobs that aren’t so managed, there’s really only so far someone can go off script. So while I definitely want more genuine human interaction in the world, I dunno if this is the hill to fight on. All that said, we’re definitely headed for the cyberpunk future, cause everything’s run by a buncha gonks.

I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few AIs in my time.

Nah, it’s from wikipedia.

Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.

So, like neon tubes, I guess. Tron and Cyberpunk aesthetic… Cybertron?

Probably Nausicaä, although it woulda been the ~85 English dub Warriors of the Wind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology

L…l…l…l…look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?

Mysticism has a way of filling a volume. They’ll ask question after question until they get the answer they want: “No, we’re not sure why charge is a property that a particle can have in our universe, but…” - “Got it, mystery.” Then they’ll turn around and shepherd all these “mysteries” into their god of the gaps to demystify them anyway, so they can feel wise when they should feel curious.

Obligatory Gremlins 2 Brainstorm Key & Peele sketch

The UK food laws may be partially to blame. But American junk food has also degraded over the decades. A twinkie from the 30’s-70’s didn’t taste the same as a modern twinkie, with some unknown portion of its sugar replaced by HFCS. But at least sugar is still the first ingredient in a twinkie. Plenty of other iconic junk food has been engineered into nonsense and just rides on the fumes of its former glory.

The USOC and IOC facilitate all sorts of heinous shit.

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

100%

I feel like the AI should also have a beret here.

The spiral’s more fun, anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables

Palpatine and Dooku commissioned the clone army in secret, then revealed it as a solution to the robot army attacks, which they also funded. The Jedi/Republic accept the help begrudgingly. Unfortunately, I rewatched ep 1-3 recently.

I work with someone who never closes a tab. They’ll just keep plowing ahead until they literally have to reboot their computer for lack of resources. Physical clutter doesn’t bother me much, but I have to look away when they share their screen.

Fun fact, in the US, we have 3 train derailments per day.