Whenever you see the words “ads”, “cryptocurrency”, “blockchain”, “web 3”, or “AI”, just replace them with “farts” and you’ll know whether you want them or not.

“Can the fediverse survive without farts?”

Yes, perfectly well.

“Will farts replace people?”

I hope not.

“The European Commission embraces farts.”

That’s unfortunate.

“This new startup wants to improve your life with farts.”

I’m good, thanks.

#SiliconValley #BigTech #farts #buzzword #bullshit #ads #adtech #blockchain #ai #web3

@aral reduce abdominal pain with farts

Now this i can get behind.

@aral "industrial farts contribute to climate change" works both with and without substitution.

@aral uhm, nope.

people can't survive without farting, while they surely can do without ads, cryptoscams etc.

@aral Except it's not a startup, it's a fartup! 😂

@aral On a completely unrelated note, you can apply the same strategy with the term "Dark Matter": substitute it for "Unicorn Farts".

They're equally detectable, their impact cannot be denied(*), but their origins remain elusive.

(*) There's something happening we cannot explain. Probably unicorn farts.

@hjonker @aral Unlike unicorn farts, we absolutely do know that dark matter exists, how much of it there is, and where it is.

@krans Except that's not really true.

We have a model that would explain our observations in many cases (but not all). That model consists of sprinkling a ridiculous amount of mass precisely so, that it matches observations. Except there is no known substance that this mass consists of. Doesn't interact in any way, only to provide a force to make the model fit observations.

That is *precisely* like unicorn farts.

@hjonker @krans and what do unicorn farts explain?
@aral @codeinabox that also applies to FARTs (Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes)
@aral Tech industry in a nutshell, tbqh

@aral Why is everyone against farts/farting? Suppressing farts can cause so much anxiety; yet there's nothing inherently *bad* about farting -- it's an integral part of digestion; every fart reminds us of our symbiotic relationship with bacteria; we literary couldn't survive without bacteria and without farts. I guess fart shaming is also ableist, since some people with intestine issues (or just 'healthy' people who just ate something that they're not used to, or people transitioning into a plant-based diet) need to fart very often. (seriously)

#farts #fartShaming #flatulence

@maxi @aral Suppressing farts can cause significant pain in ppl with IBS and SIBO. It is also unhealthy. Farts are part of healthy behaviour. Doing weird, harmful shit with "AI" is not.

@aral

This new startup wants to improve your life with TARGETED farts.

@aral brilliant. Add Brexit.

@aral Amazing!

Sign me up for the next big thing!

#FARTS!

Futuristic Artificial Research #Technology #Science!

@aral "Schools of the future will be led by farts."

@aral

Now I'm imagining this:

"Who hasn't found themselves a bit bloated and gassy but with nobody near to share the output of your body's fermentation? Now, with the #FartChain you can store your #FartTokens in a #FartWallet.

Later, you can safely, securely and privately share these #FartTokens with people anywhere in the world, almost instantly. They'll be able to #SmellIt but they won't know #WhoDealtIt unless you want them to. Start mining #FartTokens now.

Sponsored by @TacoBell"

@aral
this is the ensharttification of the enshittification of everything..

@aral

"Experts warn that humanity might be put in danger by superintelligent farts"

@rysiek @aral “Scientists asked the most advanced farts whether they would enslave humanity and this is what they had to say.”
@aral Reminds me of an old userscript I saw once that replaced "markets" with "dragons" for similar entertainment value.
@aral that is such a good look on that stuff

@aral or more generally, anything that calls itself "smart" or "connected".

You want a fart fridge? no thank you.

@LonM @aral My fartphone is spying on me! 
@aral This implies that crypto and AI are good for my lower intestine. How so?
@aral @dsalo I too hope farts don't replace people and that's why we must join together to prevent these low probability but high impact events.
@aral not to be confused with “toots”🥴
@aral well, you can add “using crypto” in “online poker” and get somewhere near https://sites.google.com/view/crypto-in-online-poker/basics
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@aral My one concern with this is that farts are the result of a useful, natural process. ;-)
@aral Farts are just collectibles but not a currency. 😂
@aral I was involved in A.I. before it was cool and I am aghast at the folks who mindlessly use “blockchain” and “A.I.” in the same sentence although they are like oil and water. (e.g. blockchain + dyson sphere + billion years = enough CPU power to train a simple model). After the NFT humiliation the ignorant and indolent quickly got the idea that ChatGPT would write their pitch deck for them.

@aral That's why I proposed Weizenbaum's law:

"Whenever something is called Artificial Intelligence, someone is trying to fool you."

You may extend it to #blockchain #Web3, #cryptoCurrency and #ads.

https://digitalcourage.social/@chpietsch/109836875762133634

#WeizenbaumsLaw

Christian Pietsch 🍑 (@chpietsch@digitalcourage.social)

I propose Weizenbaum's law: Whenever something is called Artificial Intelligence, someone is trying to fool you. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #WeizenbaumsLaw

digitalcourage.social

@aral

"I replace #Capitalism with Bullshit, it also works seamlessly" - the 20% price increase corporations demand each year

@aral Good call! And a simple substitution works fine. No need for sophisticated #farts.

@aral This is great, although I wouldn’t say it works 100% of the time.

“Lawmakers advance bill to ban farts.”

Seems difficult to enforce and probably shouldn’t be a priority.

@aral This reminds me of that browser extension that used to change the word "cloud" to "my butt".
@aral Can't wait for the new wave of Fart Assistants.
@aral Hmm, a quick scan of AI-related headlines suggests you might be on to something here...

@aral I agree and I've seen it from the inside working with once shitchain for a while - web3 is Sillicon Valley.

What I still wonder is, who is behind Bitcoin and if that's in any way different?

I love the idea of disrupting monetary system, because this money printing and all the bureaucrats and bank feeding themselves through this money printer, is a disguisting image to watch.

I just wonder if Bitcoin is same shit, just different branding or if there is anything there.

Thoughts?

@ninabreznik All I need to know about Bitcoin is that it uses Proof of Waste while the planet burns.

No, thank you. It’s unconscionable.

@aral Yeah, agree. The shit is that the planet is not burning because of Bitcoin, but because of all the shitty big corps that have been treating our nature and resources like the last piece of shit. I just want to crack them down. Sick of them all, to be honest!

@aral This brings back memories of cloud-to-butt.

Butt storage can be used for copying virtual machine images from my butt to on-premises locations or to import a virtual machine image from an on-premises location to my butt image library.

@aral But the fediverse can't survive without toots.
@aral Buddy of mine worked in IT for one of those credit reporting bureaus and they got so tired of one of their higher ups talking about ‘the cloud’ that they made a game where in the meetings they pretended that ‘cloud’ was ‘butt stuff’
@aral There's a Firefox plugin (+ and XKCD reference) for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/text-rewriter
https://xkcd.com/1288/
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