I love Blade Runner, but I don’t know if we want that future. I believe we want that duster he’s wearing, but not the, uh, not the bleak apocalypse.
there’s nothing more painful than when capitalists think they understand cyberpunk
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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and the sequel, 2 Blade 2 Run
The Blade and the Runner: Tokyo Drift is my favorite
…ok I’m fucking saving that for an RPG campaign I haven’t written yet
Run Blade, the prequel
Cyberpunk is when cool coat*
*said coat is a trench coat, not a duster
…huh, you’re right (for the movie — the shitty AI image is a bad amalgamation of a trench coat and something like the shoulders of a duster). maybe the fucker was thinking of fallout or some shit.
and now I’ve convinced myself to go dig up my duster
This wasn’t from a place of knowledge. I made a social read. Musk is absolutely the type to call a trilby a fedora and feel smug about it; I extrapolated from that.
so I just fucking realized, this asshole wasn’t originally going to bring up the duster but he panicked. here’s the original, so much better-looking photo he ripped off:
and the spinner (a VTOL car) in that, viewed from the back, looks a lot like something he knocked off for the design of his shitty cybercab, including how the doors open and its general shape and color (though the latter’s due to the scene’s color grading if memory serves, but musk ain’t smart), though the cybercab doesn’t have any of the design elements that make the Blade Runner car interesting because of course it doesn’t, it was designed by a creatively bankrupt billionaire from someone else’s work
so that spinner’s missing in Musk’s generative AI ripoff of that image, because the model couldn’t make a spinner-like car that didn’t look fucked up. and that’s why the AI image has “NOT THIS” hastily applied in one corner and he had to change his speech from “I believe we want that car” (followed by revealing supposedly “that car”) to “I believe we want that duster”
unbelievably lazy, but not unexpected
Image: musk in trench coat
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@dgerard Let's make him watch the Fifth Element I want to see what he does to his hair
I think he would probably identify more with a different character.
I just really want to see him try to rock the transparent plastic hairpiece. maybe some of his hair plugs will come undone in the attempt
Karmic justice for that poor Neuralink patient
neuralink is what happens when someone shows him saw
Lets make him watch Videodrome I want to see what he does to his hair
a Tesla that gets an erection when you drive it. by the visionary elon musk
Okay, personal thoughts:
This is just gut instinct, but it feels like generative AI is going to end up becoming a legal minefield once the many lawsuits facing OpenAI and others wrap up. Between the likes of Nashville's ELVIS Act, the federal bill for the COPIED Act, the solid case for denying Fair Use protection, and the absolute flood of lawsuits coming down on the AI industry, I suspect gen-AI will come to be seen by would-be investors as legally risky at best and a lawsuit generator at worst.
Also, Musk would've been much better off commissioning someone to make the image he wanted rather than grabbing a screencap Aicon openly said he was not allowed to use and laundering it through some autoplag. Moral and legal issues aside, it would have given something much less ugly to look at.
Also, Musk would’ve been much better off commissioning someone to make the image he wanted rather than grabbing a screencap Aicon openly said he was not allowed to use
Well, Musk is famously great at taking a no as an answer.
We've also already seen internal documents from nVidia executives directing their employees to violate the CFAA, and it would be naive to think they were the only company knowingly and willfully violating federal law to get their llms up to functionality.
Never forget that Aaron was hounded to death for doing similar, but at a far smaller scale and for the benefit of humanity
Yea who would want to live in a dusty, arid, brown and yellow wasteland city like that? Certainly not the "Occupy Mars" guy.
The dark theme is nice, btw.
holy fuck, the event was held at the Warner Bros lot because Musk and whoever’s balls he’s buttering at WB assumed that would mean he could use the Blade Runner still without licensing it (via The Verge):
Though WBD owns some licensing rights for Blade Runner 2049, because the event would be live-streamed internationally, clearance for the images had to come from Alcon directly. And when Alcon’s legal and licensing departments were made aware of the situation, they sent back a firm refusal to the interested parties “so that there would be no mistakes in the conduct of the event.”
Along with the larger copyright infringement, Alcon also says it was never made privy to any of the agreements between Tesla and WBD that would have been necessary before the We, Robot event. Along with giving Tesla the ability to use Warner Bros.’ lot and equipment, Alcon believes that agreement also included a promotional element that “allowed or possibly even required Tesla expressly to affiliate the Cybercab with one or more motion pictures” from the studio’s catalog.
Then force him to read Dune and make him understand the Butlerian Jihad
I recall him and Grimes being Dune nerds, but only the imperial fantasy part of it
Honestly, knowing Musk’s MO of huffing his own farts, I’d have thought he’d be into the stillsuits of it all
he'll think he can breed the kwizatz hadderach
"So you're, eh, saying I can, emmm, emmm, become god, right, emmm, ehh, if I snort the, ummm, correct drugs?"
honestly this sounds like the worst trip possible
He'll just watch the movie and bribe a CIA run terrorist cell to nuke the middle east.
His recent attempts to get involved in politics must've been inspired by Duck Soup.
Why hasn't he attempted to make a robotic owl yet? Poser...
Now construct the rest of the fucking androwl
Ok, what next?
Sly 2: Band of Thieves final level spoilers
Technically, this would be a gynowl. Or, uh, whatever you call the corpse of a male cyborg owl taken over by an athro bengal tigress.