@cstross Slopularity is still available…

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Remember when the cell phone seemed like a modern miracle.

Then you had to add a call blocker for all the spam and scams (a CBSS, I guess)
And a message filter (a CMBSS).

And a security system.
I I had to learn how to access those "advanced" folders to find the spot where I could remove I requested add-ons to the system.

Nowadays, except for Mastodon time, my phone is just work.

@cstross Can it be fried with eggs?

@cstross Spam Spam Layoffs Spam Hallucinations Spam Spam Stock Bubble Scam Spam Tech Debt Spam Spam Spam Eggs and Spam

@cstross I was reading about the mind boggling number of viruses in seawater and it reminded me of the mind boggling amount of malware traffic on the net (spam, vuln scans, slop...).

Shower thought of the day.

@cstross This reminds me of the late Christina Schulman's contention that true AI would come about, if it came about, due to the arms race between spam bots and spam filters.

The personality and objectives of a Mind that arose from spam filters makes an interesting thought exercise.

@cstross Project completion time stretches as you apprach the Slop Horizon entering the Spamularity.

@cstross Look on the bright side ... and tell me what it is when you've found it.

@cstross taking from @pluralistic - it's the Enshitularity.

@cstross we hear a chorus of "*I'm* singular!"

@cstross
Which runs on the Antinet.

@cstross

No, no no no no no no.. This is the singularity.

@cstross Slopocolypse Now

@cstross I'm currently working on a game where the antagonists are a cult of spammers for whom clogging the Internet with spam is a sacred duty.

A dumb idea that I originally came up with a decade ago, but it doesn't seem all that implausible any more 😞

@cstross Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age comes to mind... 🙈

@cstross A spamularity is implied to have happened at some point in the history of Neal Stephenson's book ‘Anathem’

@cstross maybe we're on the white hole side.

@cstross instead of a brain-in-a-box which slowly goes insane as the illusion can't be kept up, we get slop-in-a-box which drives the user insane with intentional lies.

@cstross the singularity ? a black hole of slope ?

@cstross always has been

@cstross i'll be honest: i still have no idea what the singularity is supposed to be

@cstross slopularity, I'd say.

@cstross TBH, at this point it's be happy with single parity. At least the error correction's better than what we're being offered.

@cstross the ai bros have decided the torment nexus is the singularity