@malwarejake I recall a spate of companies adding a lower case "e" or "i" to product names in order to show that, yes - they too could relate with this new fangled internet generation. The addition of "ai" to product names is an extension of this sort of marketing IMHO.
Extrapolating from here - I predict that we'll see TonyDanzification (add "ao") and Fonzification (add "ey") to products by 2039
@valkyrie It is times like this that words are insufficient to convey the complete gestalt of rage, disappointment, and a sense of smugness about being right in the first place.
It is for these occasions that I reserve the use of my "Interpretive I-told-you-so" dance*
*in extreme cases - this dance can be performed clothing optional.
Carbon Credits are a scam. Not just because a lot of the projects are literal scams but because the fundamental idea is fucked. The market will not solve this. Quite the opposite.
(Title: Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact) https://arstechnica.com/?p=1963543
"In 1999, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris designed a study to test what psychologists call 'inattentional blindness.' 3 Participants in the study were instructed to watch a short video of people in white shirts and black shirts playing basketball and to count the number of times the players in the white shirts passed the ball. At one point, someone in a gorilla suit walks into the frame, looks into the camera, and beats their chest before exiting through the teams of players. Post-viewing, about half of the participants said they had not seen the gorilla." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY&t=3s
***** Korean researchers say they're developing "Otto Pilot" *****
Korean researchers apparently are developing a humanoid robot that they claim will fly planes better than human pilots, and can simply sit where a pilot would normally be and operate the human-oriented controls.
This of course instantly triggers images of "Otto Pilot" from the comedy classic film "Airplane!" (1980), an inflatable emergency pilot who had to be inflated via a tube at his ... oh never mind. -L
the year is 2143, people customarily greet each other with a saying of long-forgotten origin, "let me share my screen", eliciting the enigmatic yet empathic response, "I can see your screen".
@mcc pretty certain this is one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia,’ but only slightly less well known is this: 'NEVER use MURIATIC ACID.'
It's not that I find "fediverse" cringe, more like clunky and unpoetic. I would rather we used "the Federation". "yes the Federation helped me solve the technical problem"' "I got a job thanks to contacts in the Federation" "hanging out at the Federation tonight".
sci-fi, ominous, rolls off the tongue, inspires ppl to try anarcho-syndicalism
@loresjoberg That's all well and good until the chickens organizing at the co-op start getting the idea they need to throw off the oppression of the man.
Then, you've got yourself a chicken coup - and that's just fowl.
