mccAug 14, 2024

This post sounds like a joke https://dads.cool/@hex/112961980923861421

However, it is not https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go

Summary: A man signed up for a free 1 month trial of "Disney+". That trial contained an arbitration provision. Disney is now arguing in court that arbitration provision covers, literally, the Disneyworld theme park killing his wife

Laserdisc Dad (@[email protected])

love the implication that "trying a one month free trial" where there's a big asterisk next to free leads to a line that says "this corporation is legally allowed to murder you now"

dads.cool
Show threadmccAug 14, 2024
If you went to a cyberpunk author from the early 80s and said "in 40 years murder will become legal because of a contract provision the Disney corporation attached to a television show" the author would go "yes, yes, of course, exactly that scenario is in my book" and then pause and say "wait but you mean like, for real?"
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@mcc For different reasons I half expect to see any of @GreatDismal or @pluralistic or @bruces posting in this thread any minute now.
Aug 15, 2024 at 2:02amWeb
Show threadouroAug 15, 2024
@ErosBlog @mcc @GreatDismal @pluralistic @bruces I like that this post implies (accurately?) that the fediverse is patrolled by roving bands of cyberpunk authors.
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@ouro @mcc @GreatDismal @pluralistic @bruces I knew it!
Show threadLeszek CiesielskiAug 15, 2024
@ErosBlog @mcc @GreatDismal @pluralistic @bruces FYI https://mastodon.social/@bruces/112964483485702272
Show threadAndrewAug 15, 2024
@ErosBlog @mcc @GreatDismal @pluralistic @bruces Gibson already wrote “Disneyland With a Death Penalty”
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@cinebox @mcc @GreatDismal @pluralistic @bruces

Haha, Andrew, when I saw "Disneyland With A Death Penalty" I thought "No, wait, I thought that was Singapore."

Then I Googled. LOL! Of course it's from an article by William Gibson in the 4th issue of Wired Magazine, where I would have read it, on paper, at a time when I barely knew who Gibson was. 1993 was a fuckin' LONG time ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Penalty

Disneyland with the Death Penalty - Wikipedia

Show threadCory DoctorowAug 15, 2024

@ErosBlog @cinebox @mcc @GreatDismal @bruces

When I spoke at the Singapore Writers Festival in 2005, state officials were *still* smarting from that article. The first thing one told me was, "We are NOT Disneyland with the death-penalty!"

I mentioned this to Bill at one point and as I recall, he found it pretty funny.

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@pluralistic @cinebox @mcc @GreatDismal @bruces

It's funny to me how, three decades later, the phrase "Disneyland with a death penalty" still means "Singapore" to me even though I didn't remotely remember why, or that I would have read it in Wired, or that Mr. Gibson wrote it. A good meme is an amazing thing.