Steinar Bang

I am trying to figure out if I feel the slightest urge to check it out....?

Nah... not a twinge.

Looks a bit like a terminator skull, doesn't it...?

Or maybe a Cylon...?

Ah, well... at least John Deere can't arbitrarily brick it.

@bruces Inspired by the Cylon Raider from Battlestar Galactic 2004?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.kYdidUmoGdNr16ctZYpPmgHaE8%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=3d5940a82ec975a33d2b03b3071c8123e8c0be2cf3d156a26c1c69d9da1a920b&ipo=images

@bruces communist farm collectives, only now it's just one guy with a laptop

@bruces Looks like our Robot Overlords are saving some millet for us.

@bruces China is absolutely eating our lunch.

(I read "chinese pirate ships" and thought: "That's interesting!")

@bruces Word!

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Eh, fork Sam Altman

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Maybe they got one thing accidentally right though. Everyone on Earth is living in the Arctic because thanks to the pursuit of this farcical techno-dystopia the rest of the planet is uninhabitable.

@bruces maybe you need to reissue Schizmatrix

@bruces Those digital upload people are unrealistically confident that their consciousnesses will be backed up and restored religiously and not left to rot like an old film reel.

@bruces the earth people hanging out on .. earth ..1 ? or did we decide to make twin earths ? either way i wanna sit outside in nature with a bottle of wine ..

@bruces I don't agree between choosing between valuing terrestrial life and space exploration.
Imhi, both are interlinked

As in, instead of mining and destroying our planet, we should find asteroids with the necessary materials and get those

If we worked towards doing stuff in space, instead of inside our planet, we could surely have both

P.S. Before the "is expensive" crowd comes in, that's because we currently don't calculate the ecological impact in the expenses.We throw that to the future

@bruces maybe the solution is to just sell those B ark people a blockchain enabled dongle with a Wifi antenna, an AI generated booklet on how to drill this in their skull and a cyanide fork acceleration pill.

@bruces I call bullshit. Fork 4 is actually Fork 1 and has been happening for a while now. It’s also the only one that actually matters.

@bruces this would be a great time to discover paratime technologies and watch humanity Spork

@bruces Why do so many AI-generated images illustrating space travel or "progress" feature an archaic Space Shuttle?

@bruces I guess it’s just another instance of “fork around, find out”.
On a more serious note, none of these suggested "forks" are actually biologically incompatible, so it seems more like a lifestyle choice, albeit at a larger scale. Since most of the choices fall straight in line with financial capabilities (you can’t have a nice simulation of you running if you’re broke), new options will only widen the social gap some more.

@bruces it’s also woefully and to be expected from AI unoriginal sci-fi.

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I have a better use case for forking. It may or may not involve a fork and Sam Altmann's face.

@bruces Having thought about it, I think I'd rather spoon.

Of course, this also raises the worrying possibility that humanity might spork, and I don't think anyone's ready for that.

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

@bruces source https://metatrends.substack.com/p/humanity-is-about-to-fork

@bruces motherforkers!

@bruces I believe the only acceptable response to this is "Fork off".

@bruces We are so forked

Back in my youth we had these things called "maps".

Was on paper.

No radio or electricity required.

Yeah, and also compasses,

@bruces Organic Maps, from F-droid.

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🤔

Almost as if we shouldn't rely on a government provided service that can be disrupted/jammed/destroyed by anyone including that same government...

Who'da thunk it?

🙄🙄

Maybe have a backup plan like map making/printing/reading...???

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