• AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    cyberpunk advertising? dae think we'll get the giant holographic koi carp in town square? :so-true:

    the cyberpunk advertising:

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The lady who ran the project came on twitter to brag and she is getting absolutely dogpiled.

      • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too: “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart.”

        Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking, evil scumbags!

        “Ooh, you know what Bill’s doing now? He’s going for the righteous indignation dollar. That’s a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We’ve done research – huge market. He’s doing a good thing.”

        Godammit, I’m not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a goddamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet.

        “Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market. Bill’s very bright to do that.”

        God, I’m just caught in a fucking web.

        “Ooh, the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market – look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar…”

        How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don’t you?

        Godlike bit.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Advertisers and marketers are some of the worst scum on the planet. All kinds of other crimes can be justified by circumstances, but there's no excuse for commercial advertising.

          • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            They are vile. It’s the only job that I can think of that is designed to study the human condition to only learn better ways to exploit it. Across cultures, backgrounds, genders, and history, they study people. They use just about every field of learning to sell shit people don’t need, or worse yet incept the idea they need to buy it. pretty much every facet of a person or group of people to learn best how to separate them from their coin. It’s only worse with the “Big Data™️” and “AI assistance”, it really puts these parasites on overdrive. A truly vile, rotten, toxic profession.

            • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              Nothing made me less enthusiastic about studying anthropology than learning that one of the most common employment opportunity for an anthropology undergraduate degree was advertising. I'd rather work 100 years at an nonunion coffeeshop than spend a single second of my life on advertising

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Advertising and military intelligence. When I was in college the first time the war in Afghanistan was still brand new and a bunch of fascist traitors were selling their anthropology skills to the US Military as part of their "Human Terrain Teams", which meant teaching soldiers how to be respectful of Afghan cultural expectations and norms so they could better wring intel and cooperation out of them. It caused a huge ethics debate and I'm not sure it was ever really resolved.

          • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Watching the new Yugopnik video and trying not to think about what he does for a living

        • edwardligma [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          oh wow thats the same lady who was getting dogpiled for tweeting about her unionbusting efforts the other week

          shes really on a roll

    • UlyssesT
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      18 days ago

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      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Thiel's intelligence company is named Palantir. You know, the evil crystal balls that Sauron used to spy on people and mind-rape Pippin.

      • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They would probably call themselves "TTN Capital" and part of their founding "myth" would be like

        "Chester, Conner, Chaaya told me we couldn't call it "Torment Nexus Investments" but I was feeling pretty zany that day. So when we sold our own souls, and the livelyhood and future of an entire county in West Virgina to some unknowable horror from beyond the seventh veil at the Delware office of Coporations... you know I had to 'do it to 'em' :DaBiden:. Haha, it's just part of brand of just doing what other people are afraid to do, which is why started investing directly into the "Nightmare Thresher" project as soon as they pitched it to us..."

    • PissPoorGrandpig [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      The Yankee ones aren't just tasteless, they're also so shit in comparison haha

      I'd love to see the Chinese ones

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Chinese drone show: 3d walking deer, incredible display of technical achievements, actually amazing to watch

      Amerikkka: billboard in the sky for a shitty mobile game

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      These things are so terrifying. Have y'all seen the mslaughterbots mock documentary? We're already seeing it start in Ukraine.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    You're telling me that for the price of a drone, a drone disabling device and a couple hours in the garage with a power drill, I can be a Drone Poacher?

  • UlyssesT
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    18 days ago

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    • FlintstoneSpiceLatte [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Off-topic, but I LOVE that we have our own slang in Bazingas.

      But holy shit, after the revolution, we should definitely add a shit-ton of emphasis on media literacy to English classes.

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They would add have added a mouth to the "great soft jelly" thing that you can personalize its unceasing agony and torment

  • JK1348 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Speaking of the Unabomber, i don't know why people use his motives as a anticapitalist stance. He was basically an an-prim terrorist

      • JK1348 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        That's exactly what they were for as well as monitoring how drugs were affecting everyone in that scene, that's my take

  • Malagueta [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    aww shit this gave me a good idea

    Edit: https://hexbear.net/post/232086

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    How difficult would it be to destroy covertly? I've got a drone, and it's quite a feeble being. Obviously these things would be a lot bigger than my little camera drone, but it really can't take a whole lot, surely? My drones rotors sometimes get stuck when I land it in grass that's over a few inches long. Surely that means a sturdy piece of string could tangle up those advertiser drones.

    How surveilled are they? How does one even surveill something so high in the sky in pitch blackness? How hard would they investigate the destruction? It would be a very fucking expensive thing, if even one drone was destroyed. One drone would probably fly into the rest though and then you got mega damage bucks on your hands...

    What is the best method of destroying them, do you think? Send up your own drone and drop a bunch of netting over a section? Perhaps having your own drone would be too traceable. Maybe it wouldn't if it was a home built one though. No trackers that feed info back to a company like MAVIC, for example.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    My aunt in Queens couldn't tell. They were basically only visible in Lower Manhattan.