I fucking love this sort of supernatural horror movie, not necessarily “oooo spoopy ghost”, but some eldritch otherworldly horror that bends reality.

Highly recommend checking out Oculus, Session 9, and Grave Encounters. All of them share the theme of “this place/thing is evil, and it will fuck with your head extensively before killing you”. Event Horizon is also good and in the same vein, I’m told, though I’ve yet to watch it.

It’s almost like having a single point of failure, putting your entire digital life and livelihood into the hands of a single uncaring corporation, is a bad idea or something. wild!

keep going, I’m almost there

I know this is a shitpost, but

“Your details are […] not stored”

“We’ll search for you in our database of breached personal information”

you know, it would’ve cost you zero dollars to not post sexy grinch.

Not one red cent.

It’s not different at all, is it Steve?!

Because “brain chip that reads your mind to help with depression/bipolar disorder” is barely a hop, skip and a jump from all sorts of fun dystopian nightmares. On the tame end, something that already happens, is the makers of implantable devices going out of business; and then you have unsupported, degrading medical hardware implanted inside you that, if it malfunctions or breaks, you’re just stuck with and can’t get it fixed. Bad enough when that malfunction is with a vision- or hearing-related implant, but a brain chip could fuck up all sorts of things if it goes wrong.

On the more fanciful, yet-to-be-realized end of possible terrifying outcomes, the sky’s the limit – mind-reading, malware, rudimentary mind-control, the list goes on. I realize that sounds very sci-fi and like I’m a paranoid crackpot, but this is actually far more viable than you might believe at first. If they’re actively already trying to make them effective at treating mental disorders, if they are indeed effective, then that doesn’t require much further tweaking to go from treating them to causing them.

Truthfully, BCIs have the potential to be so dangerous that they either should not be developed or should only be developed with open standards and user control in mind. And absolutely not developed by for-profit entertainment companies.

Truly heartbreaking.

just to save time for OP: Gemini thinks it’s Komika Text, which does look extremely close but slightly different to me.

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I fucking despise this kind of gaslighting. YouTube does it too, with their “experiencing interruptions?” popup that then takes you right to the FAQ section telling you to disable your adblocker and that it may cause problems. no, you drooling fucking simpletons, you are causing problems deliberately, problems I will circumvent without disabling anything out of pure spite.

[jaunty guitar begins]

Welcome to the Vibe Economy. Just nobody sneeze, and the market will be okay.

authentic first-hand piss drinking experience, the kind of content that only lemmy could deliver. excellent

Right? I’m just saying, the chart is clearly incomplete, we can make this funnier.

Needs to have a photo of Vanilla Ice on there somewhere, maybe Ice Cube too

I’ve had people tell me Reagan, and other people tell me we’ve sucked since FDR died. I’m tempted to believe them, with what history I know.

The more they alter, the more chance it is they fuck it up somewhere.

this is the dumbest timeline

this has been the dumbest possible timeline for longer than you or I can probably remember. I remember noticing the difference between pre-2015 and post-2015, but I’ve been assured things have been imploding consistently since at least 9/11 and definitely by the 2008 financial crisis.

In other words, it is entirely possible, yes.