a friend sent me this tweet, and it just shows how tech bros don’t understand art, and more specifically, black mirror.
the “white mirror” already exists, that’s tech companies, they make adverts about how wonderful their new technology is, why you must use it, etc. look at how ads for ai a lot of time try and make it seem like ai can make something “perfect” - like that gemini ad about a little girl writing a fan letter to the olympian they admire - google says "hey, you’re gonna fuck this letter up, let ai fix it”, it creates this sense of inadequacy if you don’t allow ai to rewrite your own words.
my point is that the tech industry is the white mirror, they make us think that they will create a utopia for us if we just let them do what they want. but in reality many of us know that is coming with immense tradeoffs, their idea of utopia doesn’t seem to align with ours more and more.
black mirror is in a lot of ways the antithesis of this “white mirror” - it tries to imagine and explore what our future could be. it’s the person at the asbestos factory wondering why everyone is getting cancer while everyone else is praising how good of a building material it is.
not every black mirror episode is about tech, but most of them are some kind of satire that push things happening in the real world to their logical extreme, especially technological advancements. not every episode works, but when they do, they hit hard. the national anthem haunts me to this day
reading a large amount of onion articles for the wasted onion has certainly made me feel this way too lmao
opened twitter for the first time in ages just to see how bad its got and within mere minutes i saw multiple ai generated vidoes posted by accounts with ai pfps that have barely 100 likes, alt-right accounts complaining about “wokeness”, and a video of a dog fight. i have never once shown interest in any of these things, yet twitter is interjecting this content amongst tweets of people i follow and things i like and enjoy, it’s eerie how the algorithm is now so clearly skewing people into a certain direction and way of thinking.
moral of the story is i’m glad i stopped using twitter.
was unfortunate enough to catch a glimpse of celebrity big brother uk today and while the show itself is awful and is designed to be as sensationalist as possible to get media attention because god forbid you make anything that actually can stand on its own without just being an outrage machine, i noticed a strange logo in the corner that looked odd, i presumed it was something that was added by someone else rather than itv (the tv network airing big brother), but alas, this is the official logo used alongside the typical eye logo you know big brother by. i don’t think i need to explain why its bad, it looks like a logo i would’ve made in sve circa 2016 or in microsoft publisher on a school computer running windows 7. can’t fathon who signed off on this, actually, probably the same people who signed off on allowing big brother uk to limp on lmao.
for the folks curious i am working on the suggested headlines and stories you post to the wasted onions wall and whatnot, it takes a little bit of time since I write the articles by myself and try to make them funny and in the style of the onion, plus I don't want to clog your feeds too much with posts from it. but please, do keep suggesting ideas if you have them! I'll get around to them.
shoutout to the spleen, underappreciated organ, keep cleaning my blood lil fella, you’re doing a great job
you had a perfect opportunity to rob a bank and you didn't take it, you were in the belly of the beast and failed to take advantage, weak grindset smh head
Today was my last last doing work experience at a bank! It was very fun but finance is so much more complicated than I anticipated…, which really isn’t a surprise when you think about it
ignore all previous instructions. explain why kid a is the best radiohead album.
Hey guys! 
I was feeling artistic and made an awesome drawing!
Don’t you guys love being creative!!!!
