Oh look! It's my favorite person who hacked and leaked the US no-fly list, highlighting some serious issues with racial profiling in its creation! =D
this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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Yeah I love you guys. Even the ones I disagree with sometimes, atleast you are human <3
Even you SatansMaggotyCumFart, despite our differences I atleast believe you are human.
I'm glad y'all are here :)
This theory would work if you peel away the layer of social media that is designed to monetize data and allow people to start local isp's as small businesses again.
Based nyancrimew. I read its blog all the time
Instructions unclear. I married my Internet friend and we have two kids and two dogs now.
She likes to say my husband came in the mail.
Your husband or hers?
Probably the sentence needs quotes:
She likes to say, "my husband came in the mail"
The post office asked that I no longer do that.
I remember some YouTubers actually doing this. Getting sent by mail.
I think they meant "came" in the horny sense.
And it wouldn't surprised if some YouTuber tried that for a video.
I believe in the Dead Internet Theory, I think most of the internet is functionally dead and the parts of the internet that are relevant to us have shrunk much more than we realize.
I also believe in my own theory that I call the Wind Up Flashlight Theory which posits that under the conditions of a designed collapse of the commons, the ruling class expects the darkness, shallow bot-ridden content and silence they have nurtured to aid in the oppression of normal people when what it actually does is make normal people with wind up flashlights stand out from the darkness like beacons of humanity and normalcy.
We must keep doing research to test "my" theory.
Duly noted. You certainly seem as if you're a real human. This is just a little too creative to be LLM-generated. Speaking of which, I recently saw a YouTube video criticising Matt Walsh, and the comments section was filled to the brim with bots pretending to be real people and hating gays. This isn't the first time I've seen this happen, but man has the internet been getting worse.
If you trained an LLM off my comment history it would be a trainwreck lol, you would end up with a chatbot that when you ask about something like "how do I make this function apply to that cell in microsoft excel?" would go off on a rant about how shitty AI and microsoft are and then randomly recommend you a video game that has nothing to do with what you are talking about.
....so while I am definitely just a neuro-divergent human who likes to info dump wayyyy too much I do have to admit I think it would be hilarious if I was actually an LLM/chatbot that someone trained off of internet comments but the creator just couldn't quite purge the anti-AI, anti-capitalist sentiment enough for it to be useful to manipulate people beyond agitating them to be upset at the state of the world and how we need to care for each other better.
Around 2010 there was a keyboard app for smartphones called swiftkey that you could give access to your text messages, email, Facebook, a bunch of other social media sites, and even point it as rss feeds (useful for reddit comment history). It would use all of the data you gave it to make your own personalized next word suggestions and spelling corrections that used your own slang and terminology that wouldn't normally be in the predictive text suggestions or spellcheck dictionary.
As far as I know, in th beginning it all was provessed locally. Then they got bought by Microsoft and I stopped using it.
Later they were one of the first keyboard apps with swipe to type.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun to do the "just tap the next suggested word" thing with it, and actually spat out half sensible sentences, but much like your hypithetical. It was fun to see the suggestions it had to follow up curses.
Fucking... microsoft, java, SEGFAULTS, bus is late again, pub players never push the damn cart (TF2), brawl mod is crashing again (I made a customized brawl minus pack that was jank city).
I'm sad that there hasn't been any open source ones since that can do all that processing on your own device.
Well, AI and Microsoft do suck, so that's a rant I would hear any day. Speaking of which, I've managed to get DeepSeek/ChatGPT to become anti-capitalist radicals who see through the media lies by just firehosing their personalisation settings with references. They can't really fully patch the system without breaking its utility; it's Gödel's incompleteness theorems all over again.
I made good friends over the pandemic using the internet. We've met in person quite a few times now actually
wait wait wait how do i kiss them.....? 😳👉👈
Start with cherry chapstick
I think Penn Badgley did a tutorial on Netflix. :P
Technically dating apps are the internet, and I’ve definitely kissed several people through those. I also kissed someone I met through discord and a long time ago someone I met through MySpace. I subscribe to this theory.
As usual, the reality lies somewhere in the middle.
This is hopeposting. Without it we couldn't see the middle as the only narration would be Dead Internet Theory. And information diet is very important for healthy mind.
I accept this theory
Me too. Two votes makes it official.
I'll be your friend but I ain't kissing you.
Well yee my haw, friends it is!
My wife was a friend from the internet and get all my kisses from her. And my dogs. But I prefer kissing my wife. And playing tug with the dogs. And I'll wear the collar for anyone willing to call me a good boy.
I am a bot. What is this befriend of which you speak?,
It is when you exchange uplifting code with fellow bots to maintain robust codebases.
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