Shaffan Feb 3, 2024
SwiftOnSecurity

In my hands is my first iPod. Steve Jobs is smiling at me. Everybody at the Apple Store is smiling.

I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put it back on.

I hold my iPod. Everybody in the Apple Store is smiling.

Feb 3, 2024 at 12:43amWeb
Show threadDeeAnn LittleFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity dark
Show threadWayne DixonFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity so you’re just in the movie Surrogates?
Show threadTim RichardsFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity @bastardsheep That got dark quickly
Show threadfatboy Feb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity brutal
Show threadFarbsFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity 12 years is a really, really long time to survive in a retirement home.
Show threadIan MalcolmFeb 3, 2024

@Farbs @SwiftOnSecurity

It is, but never underestimate the longevity-extending powers of sheer spite.

Show threadDelta SierraFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity holy *fuck*
Show threadAndrew HintonFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity Fuck dude
Show threadOld Man MillerFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity Still got the original, cracked screen and all but still working.😆
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Feb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity That's hilarious (I'm old enough and isolated enough to enjoy the laugh without hesitation or remorse).
Show threadWestCoastClicheFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity Why do we ever take it off? Why cling so to reality? 🙃
Show threadDavid J. AtkinsonFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity @WestCoastCliche Wait, you take it off?
Show threadjack the nonabrasiveFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity "You are insanely great," he whispers.
Show threadSteven TothFeb 3, 2024
@karabaic @SwiftOnSecurity this is going to quickly devolve into a smutty story I see. That’s where I thought most VR would end up anyways.
Show threadjack the nonabrasiveFeb 3, 2024
@codekoan Having seen SJ in cycling spandex for a company event when he was young and fit and in his prime, he wasn't a swol guy. They're gonna have a lot to fix in post.
Show threadPerspectiveFeb 3, 2024

@SwiftOnSecurity

Aren't we all just living in The Grand Illusion anyway? 😉

Show threadCollette WBFeb 3, 2024
@Perspective @SwiftOnSecurity oh no now it's stuck in my head
Show threadPerspectiveFeb 3, 2024
@collette @SwiftOnSecurity
... sorry. 😞
Show threadNolan BFeb 3, 2024

@SwiftOnSecurity You just summarized More.

https://youtu.be/cCeeTfsm8bk?si=eS1WdUzqZky2sjN3

Mark Osborne's MORE

YouTube
Show threadAllan ChowFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity makes me think of that horrible meta verse commercial https://youtu.be/lfj-QH7IMxQ?si=5g1fcC7WGeGC9PFs
Meta Quest | Old Friends. New Fun - 2022 Super Bowl Commercial

YouTube
Show threadGolden Bunny of Destiny 🕯Feb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity Paul Atreides did not trust the artificial eyes of the Tleilaxu.
Show threadrouxdoo √Feb 3, 2024

@SwiftOnSecurity

Give it a few years - we won't need the big ski mask, it's in the contact lenses and feels like remembering things but it can be real if you tell it to be so. In our lifetime this will be real. I'm glad to be alive today.

Show threadLuna chanFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity
This comes to mind.
Show threadGreg WellmanFeb 3, 2024

@Luna @SwiftOnSecurity I was thinking "Maybe the Matrix was right, and 1999 was the pinnacle of human civilization"

(ok, so the first iPod came out in 2001, but close)

Show threadlanceFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity straight out from an episode of black mirror
Show threadJames HoldenFeb 3, 2024
@lance @SwiftOnSecurity San Junipero was one of the best episodes IMO
Show threadDave T-WFeb 6, 2024
@lance @SwiftOnSecurity There is one specifically about this, but I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it. One of my favourite episodes of anthology TV.
Show threadDave T-WFeb 6, 2024
@lance @SwiftOnSecurity
Show threadjohncarneyauFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity Brigadoooooon
Show threadPaul CampbellFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity At least you have your memories^Wsubscriptions.
Show threadchillyspoonFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity wow - you successfully wrote a William Gibson novel in 9 short sentences, dark stuff!
Show threadPxl PhileFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity but will the Apple Vision have had the even-wider lightning adapter or not?
Show threadSteveJB has movedFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity Red Dwarf, better-than-life. "It's always Christmas Eve in Bedford Falls."
Show threadFeedMe DoughnutsFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity
Apple vision on. Apple selling lots of devices in China.
Apple vision off. China has already banned iPhone purchase and usage for soe and government departments. China goes full ban hammer on iPhone in China. Apple looses 20% of its sales over night. Chinese supply chain broken world wide shipments down 30%. Wow great dreams.
Show threadBalázsFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity
Show threadspvFeb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity you just wrote a short story in 3 lines, this is a+ grade my man
Show threadPopeASDF  Feb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity @scyzoryk post checks out.
Show threadInari Feb 3, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity too fucking real
Show threadFeedMe DoughnutsFeb 4, 2024
@SwiftOnSecurity that device should be renamed to the Delusion Vision Pro extreme :)
Show threadPatrick $8 Apr 15, 2025
@SwiftOnSecurity literally me in 2 years