I hate how these ghouls are just stealing all the scifi and fantasy words for their planet destroying activities.
Unlike the matrix where the beta version was a utopia that humans rejected, Meta's Matrix will just be present day but somehow even worse.
the matrix where the beta version was a utopia that humans rejected
Gonna be honest I genuinely always thought this was nonsense; like looking at what the USSR had to offer and being like 'nah, unrealistic', and to make it fail they had to kill millions of people in anti-communist wars and waste billions of dollars that could've gone to making people's live much better, all because the wealthiest wanted to be even wealthier.
maybe this is more of a headcanon, but going off of the animatrix short where the dude achieves enlightenment via running and wakes up from the matrix, i always assumed the reason the beta matrix failed was due to everyone being able to ascend from it easily due to the lack of misery distracting them: capitalist realism acts as a much better distraction to prevent people from escaping that dang saṃsāra than letting them be happy in paradise
I always liked the idea that the matrix was actually multi-tiered, and "waking up" from a tier is just like a filtering mechanism that keeps trying different versions on a given person until they reach one where they're fulfilled by it and get engaged again. Like some people get bored with a paradise, so they get the legally-distinct World of Darkness VRMMO instead; some people don't like the kitschy horror so they get some other fantasy instead, and so on all the way up to the capitalist realism tier and the revolution themed "real world" fantasy tier that finally encapsulate all of them.
The overall story of the entire series makes way more sense when looked at as the machines being merciful after their liberation despite the cruelty and genocidal hatred they'd suffered at the hands of humanity, and desperately trying to humanely and safely preserve humanity to save them from the ecocide the human powers had committed by blocking the sun out of spite.
I mean it's not canon, and the official story is the machines were still dumb and bad and John Wick was the messiah who got IRL superman/magneto powers somehow, but still.
this makes the most sense especially with the lines about how the machines discovered "a form of fusion".
the "batteries" whether purely electrical or chained together into wetware that helps run the Matrix, are basically redundant now that fusion was jumpstarted and they are preserved because the machines were basically communists and only wanted to help (according to the animatrix. remember once pushed into the desert to be isolated in machine gaza they basically created post-scarcity causing all the right wing dominated nations to declare genocide)
Yeah granted that throwaway line about the beta matrix comes from the sequel which is....ehhhhhhhhhh. Not anywhere near as good as matrix 1.
The ones who look at Omelas and think "what if we scaled up the child torture?"
Lead engineer: "I'm confused. I thought we were going to do the Matrix construction. But according to the new specs - you want them to live in permanent nightmares?"
Zuck: "Maximum energy and water extraction occurs from pod bodies if they are in perpetual fear."
Zuck: "Maximum energy and water extraction occurs from pod bodies if they are in perpetual fear."
He learned well from all the child sacrifices he's attended over the years!
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect; the savage too
From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleep
Guesses at heaven pity these have not
Trac’d upon vellum or wild Indian leaf
The shadows of melodious utterance.
But bare of laurel they live, dream and die;
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams,
With the fine spell of words alone can save
Imagination from the sable charm
And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say
“Thou art no poet; mayst not tell thy dreams”?
Since every man whose soul is not a clod
Hath visions, and would speak, if he had lov’d
And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.
Whether the dream now purposed to rehearse
Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known
When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream by John Keats
The vibe coding chambers of the future will be in a desert with limited mud water and slop rations supply full of violent green through tubes at your table while you paddle a wheel like a hamster to conserve negligent amounts of power. Every prompt you type shows you ads of products you can't afford to buy before it responds. Getting more work done gets you more ads as a reward. You will be allowed to leave but the world outside you is an endless desert full of roads and walking is illegal and if you try to walk on it a monster truck might run you over loony tunes style or you get killed by a drone you helped build. You will pay rent and taxes for all the services provided to you with zuckbux. You can work hard and reach the top and maybe get an air conditioner with surge prices.
an air conditioner with surge prices
On the hottest days the CPU always gets too hot and...
I have lost connection to the internet. I will be inoperable for approximately 1 hours.
~12 hours later - it comes back on.
Totally forgot about that one
I just realized the logic of my joke didn't work. But I fixed it. Don't tell anybody.
My lips are sealed 🤐
It made perfect sense to me until I realized it made no sense at all. That happens to me more often than I'd like. But very good news is that I'm not a engineer and I also don't operate heavy machinery,
It's the same with me and I make a lot of mistakes with everything I do plus I keep forgetting things so easily. It gets tiring and I am often in a daze and can't make much sense of anything and just I wish I felt clear headed and could concentrate well enough to get by.
Solidarity,
It's a shame life doesn't have an edit function.
It would be really handy
"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."
Saudi Arabia announces new megacity Neom that will be one large building built in a line
Uh huh, sure. I’m sure that’ll get done. Yep. I’ll hold my breath for it.
I'm beyond weary of this man and his enterprises.
Love to have another torment nexus name.
The Torment Nexus franchise will have books, video games, Disney rides, toy lines, kid's tv series, Happy Meals, adult tv series, a breakfast cereal, a...
Won't have water
I'm officially cashing in my pessimist chips, these proposed factories will not be built. It's cheaper to declare that they'll be built and accept federal funding than it is to produce them.
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