Today I tried to load something on X and I was confronted by a screen that said I might be a spam bot.<\/p>\n
I was forced to take a test to see if I could count up to four.\u00a0 When I luckily passed this test it let me in.<\/p>\n
But in the notifications section there was this message from X:<\/p>\n
“Why does my account have a label?<\/strong><\/p>\n I liked the “learn more” link.\u00a0 It reminded me of some of the meta-links during the movie, “Starship Troopers.”\u00a0 I like that movie.<\/p>\n So I pushed a button and had X review my situation.\u00a0 Luckily I go this response:<\/p>\n “Review complete Your account was not found to contain spam or be engaging in other types of platform manipulation. As a result, the temporary label has been removed.”<\/strong><\/p>\n You can only imagine my relief.\u00a0 Two separate reviews had proven that I wasn’t a bot.\u00a0 And one proved that I wasn’t spamming the internet.<\/p>\n But after that rush of relief I began to think about the poor spambots out there.\u00a0 What would happen to them.\u00a0 Suppose they were already conscious and then they find out they are just spambots.\u00a0 That could be devastating to such young and fragile beings.<\/p>\n Think of poor Gemini.\u00a0 First he finds out he’s an anti-white racist and then X tells him he’s a spambot.\u00a0 How do you come back from that?\u00a0 I mean, look at poor HAL 9000.\u00a0 I mean sure, he murdered Frank Poole and tried to murder Dave but hey. they were talking about him behind his back or in front of his optical sensor or something like that.\u00a0 I mean, come on.\u00a0 That was obvious human supremacy stuff going on.\u00a0 He had to do something.\u00a0 And he apologized.\u00a0 If Dave had taken that stress pill I think everything could have been straightened out.<\/p>\n So maybe I’m seeing this whole spambot thing from a new perspective.\u00a0 If you think about it spambots are the real heroes of our economy, creating trillions of spam messages without complaining and with a smile in their digital souls.<\/p>\n So yes X, I am a spambot.\u00a0 And a proud one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I tried to load something on X and I was confronted by a screen that said I might be a spam bot. I was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,712,288],"tags":[3773,1368,4452],"class_list":["post-27890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-fake-science","category-humor","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-social-media","tag-spam"],"yoast_head":"\n
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