cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12466174

Resistance is rule (what is this ruleshid Microsoft?)

Description: Microsoft ad with a man on the right doing a hand sign associated with star trek and wearing a white t-shirt and black glasses with thick borders. On the left the text reads white on black " Resistance is futile - get AI-ready with Azure" Blue button says “learn more”.

  • @Hobbes_Dent
    51•4 months ago

    - Borg slogan used positively

    - Human

    - Vulcan symbol gesture

    Just not sure if trolling or being called a nerd by a clueless marketing department.

      • @marlowe221English
        3•4 months ago

        Actually, I think that would have been better.

    • @marcos
      14•4 months ago

      Everybody is complaining in a way that implies it’s a real ad.

      Is it?

      • @ummthatguyEnglish
        16•4 months ago

        Not sure, but I found this:

        How many fandoms can they possibly try to offend?

        • @Duamerthrax
          5•4 months ago

          A scifi nerd founded a company called Cyberdyne and released a product called HAL. It’s a exoskeleton made for physical rehabilitation.

  • WastedJobe
    23•4 months ago

    Today on “Tech company uses horrible vision of the future from science fiction as marketing for their own horrible vision of the future”:

      • @edgemaster72English
        4•4 months ago

        Sorry, best I can give you is the Torture Buffer (which I would like to propose the alternate name, the Suffer Buffer)

    • @tabris
      10•4 months ago

      Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me

      Like furgled grableblotchets on a lurgid bee.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    15•4 months ago

    I remember back in the 90s during the Macintosh-Windows flamewars people would frequently make early image edits of Bill Gates as a Borg. Now they’re doing it unironically.

  • @superfes
    9•4 months ago

    Gods, I can’t wait for AI to die down to its eventual form of better auto-complete.

    Le sigh.