Kelly ✨️ HAS MOVEDAug 8, 2023
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Here in tech bro world we have so many innovations for you! Why not try our:

- Expensive unregulated taxi!
- Expensive unregulated hotel!
- Picture of monkey (formerly valuable)!
- Imaginary restaurant that serves bad food!
- Imaginary scam money (in 17,382 flavors)!
- Expensive unregulated television!
- Another picture of monkey (never valuable)!
- Twitter but it sucks now!
- The news but it also sucks and steals your personal information!

Plus, try our greatest achievement yet:
- Expensive unregulated scam concert tickets!

Aug 8, 2023 at 6:01amWeb
Show threadJill FellowsAug 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly If you love dystopian fiction and wish it was more real, but also more glitchy and less impressive, can we interest you in an expensive unregulated and broken metaverse?
Show threadJulia Rusty Ralston 🍉Aug 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly i refuse to let the tech bros pry my tv antenna from my cold dead hands
Show threadBellycanAug 8, 2023

@imrustyokay @LadyDragonfly

A Raspberry Pi running Kodi, with a TV receiver add-on, and you can record / play back free-to-air TV and stream iView / SBS On Demand while the tech bros cry. Needs the occasional reboot 🥾

Show threadJulia Rusty Ralston 🍉Aug 8, 2023
@pelicangut @LadyDragonfly damn, i'd totes go for that, I assume that set-up would also work in the US
Show threadBellycanAug 8, 2023

@imrustyokay I don't see why not. Of course, it won't stream Australia's ABC iView nor SBS On Demand (likely IP restricted to Australia), but there's heaps of free streaming services. We also watch Youtube videos on it, if they aren't IP restricted to some other country.

I got a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB memory, a 256GB MicroSD card for storage, and a TV "hat" to plug the antenna into. Installed LibreElec for TV and music. Does the job, best with Bluetooth speakers or USB sound output. Also a nice little wireless keyboard which makes it easier to type in searches.

If I built it again, I'd consider a USB TV receiver (tuner), instead of a "hat" which is an extension card on top of the Pi. It would allow a better case like a passive cooling Argon Neo or Argon One case.

A nice thing about this setup is that there are no ads like a smart TV would have!

https://libreelec.tv/

LibreELEC

Just enough OS for KODI

Show threadFrost「｜霜の狼｜人面獣心」Aug 8, 2023
@pelicangut @imrustyokay You don't need a Raspberry Pi, either – you can totally run Kodi and stuff on a desktop plugged into the TV!
Show threadSelzeroAug 8, 2023

@LadyDragonfly

You forgot the Metaverse land! We have solved land scarcity! Take that Marx AND Ricardo!

Show thread🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥Aug 9, 2023
@selzero @LadyDragonfly
🥥 #DavidRicardo has a lot of 'splainin' to do! 🥥
Show threadArlo James BarnesAug 8, 2023

>Another picture of monkey (never valuable)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_full_body.jpg

File:Macaca nigra self-portrait full body.jpg - Wikipedia

Show threadcuan_knaggsAug 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly weird how the word "unregulated" crops up so often. must be a coincidence
Show threadTom Bellin Aug 10, 2023

@mensrea @LadyDragonfly Their definition of "innovation" includes lazily ignoring the reasons why things are done in certain ways.

After all, how can you have a bank run if you don't have a bank?

Show threadMarcus Marcius MarcellusAug 8, 2023

@LadyDragonfly Hey! Not *all* imaginary restaurants that serve bad food...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor

How Oobah Butler Made His Shed the Top Restaurant on TripAdvisor

And then served customers frozen dinners on its opening night.

Show threadsilentashesAug 10, 2023

@LadyDragonfly @marcas

Complete tangent:

As an experienced dumpster-diver,
I’ve frequented those behind restaurants.

Got to say;
this story isn’t much of an exaggeration.

say, you go to some hyped-up #bougie restaurant in a yuppie area.

Woman-owned.
Locally-owned.
Strong reviews.
Very popular.
Attended by health nuts.

In their dumpster?
Canned:
Contains bioengineered ingredients.
High fructose corn syrup.
Corn oil.
Canola oil.
LARD.
Costco.
Kroger.
Walmart.

Show threadFox LeeAug 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly "Not impressed yet? Wait until you try Second Life But We Replaced All The Sex With Ads!"
Show threadPup Mellow Aug 8, 2023

@LadyDragonfly reminds me of one of the best commentary sites on this phenomenon.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

Molly is amazing.

Web3 is Going Just Great

A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.

Show threadAndy HerdAug 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly hi I’m Troy McClure, you may remember me from such scams as…
Show threadjeffronAug 10, 2023
@herdingdata @LadyDragonfly did someone say…monorail?!
Show threadGwyllmAug 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly
Show threadAura  Aug 9, 2023
@LadyDragonfly I have to ask what the TV one is because I can't think of any off the top of my head
Show thread𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶  Aug 10, 2023
@aura636 Netflix/Paramount/Max/Hulu/etc
Show threadAura  Aug 10, 2023
@LadyDragonfly Oooh right, I was thinking something worse came along and I missed it somehow lol
Show threadChris Dillon 🌹Aug 10, 2023
@LadyDragonfly I hear this yelling as a doppler effect as I drive by, decreasing in pitch until it hits sub-bass
Show threadTom Bellin Aug 10, 2023
@LadyDragonfly People say we take great ideas and ruin them, to which I reply, "We also ruin terrible ideas!"
Show threadDrYakAug 10, 2023
@LadyDragonfly 👆100%, aka @pluralistic 's #enshittification
Show threadanyMouseAug 10, 2023
@LadyDragonfly Waiting for expensive unregulated air travel.
Show threadToast RiderAug 10, 2023
@LadyDragonfly I can’t wait for expensive unregulated sea and space travel to be more available!
Show threadJP EtcheberAug 11, 2023
@LadyDragonfly But have you tried the “profiting off the unpaid labor of hundreds of anonymous people while simultaneously advocating that the social safety nets those people use to live be eradicated”?
Show threadSome Kind Of AnhedoniaAug 19, 2023
@LadyDragonfly expensive unregulated submarine tours!
Show threadFace ThumbOct 9

@LadyDragonfly And now:
- Unregulated self driving
- Unregulated self driving with sight only, no LIDAR or anything that can make sense of what it sees
- Unregulated copyright infringement that you can claim as your own work!
- Less jobs and higher unemployment. But also no UBI or universal healthcare because fuck you!
- AI and privacy issues really just shoved into everything because line must go up
- Peoudly bending the knee since 2025

Sorry, really channeling my inner #juicemedia there.