ilzolende:

ilzolende:

luminousalicorn:

Okay, leaving aside the incompetence of this apparent attempt to embed an infohazard, why would a parrot be a good mascot for warding off meat?  Parrots are made of the same stuff.  Why not “reblog Meatbane Terminator” or something?

Outside-Setting:

Thanks for getting me (both you and the commenter) to look up Langford’s Basilisk content!

He’s apparently an SF author, it’s great.

Read this! Or, if you’re ridiculously paranoid, turn on an image blocker and read it. ;)

…Probably one of the reasons I like it is it’s fictional evidence for “don’t censor kids’ lives”, despite the fact that it is not an actual argument for not doing that.

That is probably supposed to be the point, but I was distracted by “don’t blanket censor, fine-tune censor”. I would expect biochips to work more like antiviruses, selectively blocking the dangerous bits and leaving everything else intact, though at the cost of a window of opportunity where weapons that are new enough can still affect you. (Mind you, the window of opportunity would still be far shorter than their current one. The Parrot’s been around for so long that kids old enough to hold their own in adult conversations can’t remember a time before, and it can still affect people? Really?) Rendering yourself blind should be an option available for the paranoid just as disconnecting your Internet access is an option available for the cyber-paranoid, perhaps also the “site whitelist” system like what they’re currently using, but these should be neither the first choice nor the only ones available.

Yes, vaccination would be better still, but my complaint is not so much “they should do that” as “why aren’t they already doing that?”. Not the ideal, but the baseline upon which they should be improving.

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