My partner has one of the Percepterol implants. She uses it to tag names to faces, so we got it on PBS.

Anyway, I was scrolling my news feed, and saw an alert about a manditory product recall on Percepterol implants, so I asked "Hey, sweety, have you had a ping from Percepterol about the recall?"
"No, I've not seen anything."
So I showed her the article. That was when things got weird.
"It's great to see that Percepterol is doing so much to help war refugees" she said.
I looked over her shoulder, and I saw the recall notice.
That's why I'm calling 000. My wife needs to have the implant updated or removed immediately, and is not able to request it for herself.
"Thank you for your call, but triple zero is not the correct number to call to complement a private company for their compassionate works."
Fuck.

#SF #SFF #Horror #IAmWriting #microfic #tootfic #microfiction #scifi

Inspired by a comment by @NanoRaptor about AI screwing with people's perceptions.

@rdm

At least "find me a human" still works on _most_ AIslopbots...

The true horror of that story is it's ALL TOO PLAUSIBLE.

"I have come to kick ass, and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum." -- "They Live" (Roddy Piper, improvising after drawing a blank on his line - they kept it.)

@NanoRaptor

@stonebear2 @NanoRaptor

That is what has been creeping everyone out, I think!

@rdm

Now we just gotta find a bunch of good people some of those sunglasses...

@stonebear2 Never knew that line was improvised!

@rdm @NanoRaptor

@tylerstone

Oh, my bad, according to this, he didn't forget, _there wasn't a line_, director John Carpenter _told him to ad-lib_. Wow.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/they-live-how-roddy-piper-came-up-with-bubblegum-line (and what's more, the article _has its own receipts_... )

@rdm @NanoRaptor

They Live: The Story Behind How Roddy Piper Came Up with the Movie’s Most Famous Line

He’s here to chew bubblegum and kick ass: How Roddy Piper came up with that epic line from John Carpenter’s They Live.

SYFY