Robert Rankin also wrote prophetically about a future where your media devices could detect and reward the attention of your eyeballs BUT HE REALLY WASN’T IMPLYING IT WOULD BE A NET POSITIVE THING #TormentNexus

if you haven’t already, it’s time to start training yourself to sleep with your eyes open… that skill is going to be money soon

it’s cool how google saw that episode of black mirror where you get fined for not watching ads and immediately put it on the product roadmap #TormentNexus

Felt cute. Might delete. #TormentNexus #devconf #onlyfans

Unlike #ChatGPT, Google’s #Bard has heard of the #TormentNexus. It was definitely from a science fiction novel, but at different times it says the author was Alex Blechman, Neal Stephenson, or Niven and Pournelle. I especially like that last one. 1/

I had a writer block me because I said that Steve Jobs was a smart guy about tech but that's not the same thing as knowing beauty. Validating to read this.

#TormentNexus

https://mastodon.social/@jhpot/110187867049565187
@jhpot - Tech is run by barely literate people who get through classic science fiction books and, not grasping the message, attempt to build whatever horrifying shit the author was warning us about. This is the best argument for mandatory liberal arts education I can think of.

#startup #technology #futurism #NikolaTesla #TormentNexus

@kkarhan

Write some talking points to counter journalists who raise awkward questions about the publicly proven use of the product to assimilate its users into a cybernetic hive-mind collective, subjugating them to a never-ending cycle of manipulation and servitude.

#TormentNexus #TheBorg #ChatGPT

... aaand we come full-circle.

So the #TormentNexus is ... Google Apps?

Make it even more dystopian.

#TormentNexus

Make it even more dystopian.

#TormentNexus

Make it even more dystopian.

#TormentNexus

Make it even more dystopian.

#TormentNexus

#ChatGPT images what the #TormentNexus is and writes some marketing copy for it.

@aweiss #TormentNexus

Apparently #TormentNexus transferred over from the bird site and I’m pretty happy about that.

@senil888 @itsOasus I believe that is the #TormentNexus

@jaelisp @paulecooley Sadly, the #TormentNexus was already built in our time.

We are #TormentNexus. Hello, Fediverse 👋

#SciFi Author: I invented the #TormentNexus as a #CautionaryTale

#Musk: We're currently looking into how to add a #TormentNexus feature in #TwitterBlue