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aeronmelon @lemmy.world

1y ago

Microsoft: "Greetings, fellow Trekkies."

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".

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smorty/maria [she/her] @lemmy.blahaj.zone

1y ago

Resistance is rule (what is this ruleshid Microsoft?)

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Borg slogan used positively
Human
Vulcan ~~symbol~~ gesture
Just not sure if trolling or being called a nerd by a clueless marketing department.
- I've got faith
  in their marketing.
  They could have said "Today is a good day to AI"
  
  Actually, I think that would have been better.
- Everybody is complaining in a way that implies it's a real ad.
  Is it?
  
  Not sure, but I found this:
  How many fandoms can they possibly try to offend?
Today on "Tech company uses horrible vision of the future from science fiction as marketing for their own horrible vision of the future":
- Sorry, best I can give you is the Torture Buffer (which I would like to propose the alternate name, the Suffer Buffer)
Vogons agree!
- Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me
  Like furgled grableblotchets on a lurgid bee.
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.
Gods, I can't wait for AI to die down to its eventual form of better auto-complete.
Le sigh.
Team Microsoft, reliably unreliable.
I want AI that can potentially destroy the world, but in a fun, Hollywood way. Not like this... Not like this...
Well Double Dumb-ass on you!
thinks resistance is futile...
Is this a legitimate ad? WTF?

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