Night. Somewhere in desolate wastes of the internet. Anwen and Letterboxd stand on either side of the river of internet movie reviews. Between them the flaming wreck of Letterboxd’s review of the Mummy slowly sinks.
Anwen, “Hey Letterboxd! Looks like I’ve got the all the opinions!” Letterboxd, “Hey Anwen! Looks like we’re going to call you’re bluff!”
Me, threatening to throw Letterboxd over the edge of a boat: Well, if it ain’t my little buddy Letterboxd. I think I’ll send an email.
everyone’s talking about how unhinged fans are nowadays about their blorbos. well let me tell you that when the polish writer henryk sienkiewicz first published his novel ‘with fire and sword’ in parts between 1883 and 1884, and killed off the beloved character longinus podbipięta, people nationwide were so upset they’d go to church and ask for requiem masses to be held in his memory. match THAT freak
yes i know about the arthur conan doyle sherlock frenzy this isn’t about that at all stop english cultural imperialism #slavicpride
About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It’s sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything – A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm… but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.
It gets so bad he’s always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.
So he buys the ad-free tier, and it’s great… for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from ‘premium partners’. So he goes up a level… and the same thing happens.
So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila… he can sleep.
Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he’ notionally have bought if he’d watched their adverts, based on some weird ‘The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y’ calculation.
The judge is like ‘well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors’ so he RICO’s this guy’s house and possessions and sends him to jail.
… which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money… there’s no ads and now he’s happy because the only place he’s free… is in prison.
Which at the time was a bit much and now it’s like: Called it.
Elon’s suing companies for not advertising because he’s losing revenue. He’s also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts… and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.
And google’s going around freaking out about ad-blockers.
OP did it hurt when Apollo’s dodgeball hit you and made you write that story?
The legislation, which passed along party lines in the Democratic-controlled House and Senate earlier this year, would expressly prohibit a landlord from denying individuals who receive any kind of government aid, including housing subsidies, public assistance, social security or veterans benefits.
Whitmer argued in her statement that the bills were expected to help more than 34,000 families “afford a roof over their heads.”
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