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The Unified Theory of Viral Song Describing Extremely Specific Social Phenomena
“WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN YOUR MOUTH?”
“Blarlarlarlblar,” said the Demon of Lust, nearly dislocating its own legs as it fought like a baby evading a diaper change.
“Could you stop! Eating! Garbage! For! One! Minute! STOP WIGGLING.”
The Demon of Lust, in a simultaneously guilty but reproachful way, stopped wiggling. Instead, it held still but stretched itself slowly but relentlessly backwards. Its eyes fixed on a new object of desire. The heap of steaming hot garbage throbbed in its vision. Upside-down, just out of reach - or was it? Carefully not wiggling, it stretched its neck backwards, extending its tongue. It could practically taste it.
“Don’t think I don’t see - no! That’s literally burning garbage!”
“Blarlarlar!”
“No! It’s burning your actual face!”
“Blarlarlar.”
“That’s it. Kennel. KENNEL.”
“Blar,” said the saddest demon in the world, staring fixedly at the hot mess.
“Lust CAN help itself around trash fires,” the angel said sternly, handling the demon in a method popularized by people trying to administer pills to struggling cats. “You can’t fix it. You’ll hurt yourself making it worse.”
“Blar.”
“Oh, tell you what. You can have a blorbo as a treat. Nice blorbo. Come on, puppy, into the kennel. Nice blorbo for you.”
The report says that by year four of the Alexa experiment, "Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week, but most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather." Those questions aren't monetizable.
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So they didn't want people using the very things they advertised as being useful; the reasons you'd tolerate an always-on virtual assistant in your life.
this is the kind of stuff the cyber dystopias never think to include. "spying on everyone couldn't make enough money :(" like what
I am not a Jack O Lantern.
My name is Lewis!
Lewis~
I’m screaming. I asked my students to pick a familiar character (Santa Claus, Little Red Riding Hood, SpongeBob Squarepants) to imitate for a game and one of my students chose “Lewis.” ALL my students instantly picked up on the reference and began saying this quote back and forth to one another.
I am just now receiving this context. I thought for sure this was some character from a film I missed but nope. Target decoration










