TRASHFUTURE - *PREVIEW* Seven Orbs for Seven Dwarves feat. Sophie from Mars

Episode Date: July 15, 2023

A rare in-studio episode with Riley, Milo, Alice, and friend of the show Sophie from Mars, in which we discuss the anti-LGBTQ backlash that's making corporations decide that actually they were always completely homophobic. We also discuss orb-related news and a deeply strange AI-generated store that's paying for ads on Twitter.   Check out Sophie's videos here! https://www.youtube.com/c/sophiefrommars   Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/86062748   *LIVE SHOW ALERT* We're going to be recording a live podcast in London on July 26! Get tickets here: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/trashfuture-live-in-london/   *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows and check out a recording of Milo’s special PINDOS available on YouTube here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRI7uwTPJtg *ROME ALERT* Milo and Phoebe have teamed up with friend of the show Patrick Wyman to finally put their classical education to good use and discuss every episode of season 1 of Rome. You can download the 12 episode series from Bandcamp here (1st episode is free): https://romepodcast.bandcamp.com/album/rome-season-1 Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

I want to move on to one more thing. I think this might be part of the great happening, which is we've really we got to do something about this great happening. We got to get it. Yeah. It's awesome. I want more. So I was received a suggestion because I'm very interested in the ongoing collapse of Twitter as a going concern. I find it fascinating. We're the five minutes. Yeah. It's all, like revenue. I don't worry about that. It is what I find now is I got I'm a little bit like the Super Bowl. I watch Twitter for the ads. I am interested to see who is advertising on there. I'm sure.

I pulled on a little thread. It's doing the Twitter half time show. That's the big question. You have bought so many lamps and vibraces. I look I am relaxed and well lit. Right. Yeah, I really is coming in a brightly ever. You've got so many vibrators you're starting

to actually use them as back massages. So I received a suggestion from Twitter, from a Twitter app saying, let's party with sexy, enabolic dwarves. Enabolic dwarves. Now I can't, yeah, I'm not steroids on good pyramid. I string you not someone enabolic dwarves. Inabolic dwarves. No, I can't. No, steroids aren't good for you, mate.

I shrink you not someone inabolic dwarves. This is like some, some history of guys. It's all this ad as well. It's some shit that a guy says to you at a club in like one of the smaller cities in Austria. You go to like Innsbruck and a guy comes up to us like the party of the church. The party of the church.

And on wavering determination, these dwarves are on a mission to redefine what it means to be a garden home that sounds like the plot of like a b-movie from the 90s like where you know like the hero is a dog and the villain is Donald Trump somehow and a bunch of anabolic dwarves yeah so the anabolic dwarves are everyone who's familiar with this show especially those who's new for a while knows knows that I find the site wish.com infinitely charming, or I did when it was still like, go going. The post-straightening medieval torture device. Yeah, you can get the sort of like a bowl for like hitting people with that has marketed

with like anti-wolf power. My favorite wish adverts are always on Instagram because then they can put the swipeable images. And then you've got latex gimp mask, obviously just a baggy of weed, impossible contraption you cannot figure out in which way this is meant to kill you. And then just like some shelves. Ready for everything the die throws, man. So what I looked at, I said, okay,

who's selling the Annabelle like dwarves? Yeah. And it's a company called Kona. And this is a kind of a, right, right, right, Kona, C-O-N-A, like the shape of Kona. What was that? Interesting.

They're part of the habit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. No, I connected this to the habit. I'm not gonna be drinking Daniel Bunkan. Why? So that most of these are,

this is a company where everything is clearly I I generated except for a few product descriptions included in which are the Anabolic dwarf awesome someone clearly wrote that what is the word anabolic actually mean so We have a head of the door the break up that that that this wall dwarves this what they're actually what has actually happened here is I believe this is one of about actually what has actually happened here is I believe this is one of about a thousand corporate Twitter accounts for the same online store with different AI generated names and logos and product sets. The terrifying thing is that anabolic means tissue building. So those dwarves are going to build tissue on like on themselves on you on the cone. The dwarves that grows out of your own. Yeah. The dwarves are actually loaded with all-going energy. And if you arrange them around your house,

you'll just get more and more ripped, as time goes on. So the anabolic dwarves are interesting. It's, yeah, all-time-sensing. And this is, you really envisage yourself saying, when we started this podcast, you're really trying to make animal-like dwarves happen, right? Absolutely. It's a really interesting, I promise.

I like the phrase. I like sort of rolling that one around in the mouth. You know, animal like dwarves. I'm not dating an animal like dwarves in my mind right now. I don't do that. I really don't do that. I don't know how to do that. That's gonna encourage the happening.

But animal like dwarves are in your neighborhood. Out of interest. I went and I looked at a few other products available on the site, some of which are very unusual. And I looked at a few of its sister sites. So another example of a product available on this site, and that's available on every other site that's like its identical twin. Only the Annabelle-Twarves are only on the Kona. Everything else is on all the other twins.

They're just unique to that one. I have looked at dozens of these. Yeah, they all have, like very nearly identical AI-generated logos, which is so unsettling. Nice. I don't like that that's part of the world now. There's one called Shock Roulette, where it's like a little plastic thing and you put your finger in, and then you hit a button, and then it shocks one of you. Oh, and I was the ghost.

Hey, yeah, that's, that's, I'm gonna buy the game. I'm gonna buy this in like the 2000s. They sold shit like this in the gadget shop. But the version I had was, it was like four people when you each took a handle, and then you would like press the button and then it would just round the way. Yeah, what if this game operation had no novelty?

Yeah, no, because this was the thing too, wasn't it? Because everyone tried to implement the thing from that one James Bond movie, where the guy at the villain has the game that shocks you when you lose. And it's like, okay, I guess. So, my God, this GOM Jabara is only $5. I'm gonna get one. The description of Shock Relat is sick of seeing this

in the replies like, best GOM Jabara. Yeah. This game is perfect for those fun occasions when friends are getting together and needs an entertainment. The thrill starts when all friends insert their finger into a bucket and the light indicator starts moving. You can see it's a translate of the finger every time. You can see it's been like kind of translated clumsily.

Put any part of your body in your soul, the finger for example. Finger optional. Just off the top of my hand. The screaming starts when the buzzing sound stops and one of the friends gets hit by a of your body and its whole. No finger for example. Finger option. Just off the top of my hand. Yeah. The screaming starts when the buzzing sound stops and one of the friends gets hit by a current. Yeah, they're actually throwing like little dried fruits at you. And again, the advertising for this is also very fun because it is clearly again, AI generated pictures of friends hanging out with then this thing badly photoshopped onto the table.

That's all product photos now. I don't know if you noticed this, but I don't remember what for what reason, but I had to Google above ground pools the other day. And every product photo, in fact, every photo period of an above ground pool is a clumsy Photoshop from a product thing now. It just is, that's the piece of the internet,

that's just gone. Yeah. So you generate the, you basically get, you generate all of this by AI, all of the websites, all the copy, all the code possibly, or you just copy and paste the code, all of the everything, and then all the same products, and then because then you just pay Elon Musk a small amount of money, and then this is just what's keeping that website afloat now. That's what it is.

It is born a lost on the show. You know, it's the anabolic doors. So yeah, I'm gonna say, I understand in principle, the business model of, yeah, you can like, generate the product description and everything, whatever the website by AI. So it's very like low overhead

to set up your online store. It's kind of like these people who've been hustling on Shopify for years, well by just arbitrarizing drop shipping for stuff in SEO. But in the case of this stuff, like, anabolic dwarves, like, I just, who's buying it? Like, I feel like they're losing money because they're paying for, I think, an interesting product to get you onto the site the site to get the something like it. Because all of the my wife says I can't have anabolic wall. So we do need a new shock roulette. But then I looked on on similar accounts and I found

Keve, Vogue, Dossie, Tobo, Laro, Koso, Keva, Lanna. And we're speaking of the members of the Ghibah Group chat. Each one says, this store sells decorative items, household items for daily use. The only difference is only Lano has a tweet. And by the way, all of these companies, I read the, this is the rantings of a map map. I read the terms of use and they're all subject to the law. This is so much. You're also subject to the law. This is so much. You're all subject to the laws of Vietnam.

So I think, my guess is that this is a kind of Vietnamese take on wish.com. Although all I know is to suggest that it's based in Vietnam is this. But it's probably, it's at least legally based in Vietnam. Yeah, exactly. We're all subject to the laws of Vietnam. It's true. We will be sooner or later. The only thing to the Vietnamese is this podcast. Yeah, so glory, Tronkelho.

So, I mean, the way I see stuff like this is being increasingly core to most business models on the internet in the future and a kind of corollary of, I think, my basic idea that the AI isn't the printing press. It's the opposite of the printing press. It is not communication, it's anti-communication. It makes it harder to understand what is real. Well, it's like the lazy, you know, simulator based capitalism was doing all this shit before. It's the AI that enables it to do it faster and has the deadly floor of like creating a feedback loop where it's drawing from its own set and then destroys itself and creates. The Elsa Frozen Spider-Man Doctor's Short Dentist Office Mickey Mouse videos, one AI, but

they were much more precursor to what we're talking about now. It's still very fundamentally capitalistic. It's like when conservative influences go to Cuba and they're like, look, there's only one brand of cornflakes. And then a Cuban person's like, why would I need different kinds of cornflakes, that they're cornflakes? You can't do them different. What are you talking about?

And it's like, the capitalism breeds innovation. It's just, no, capitalism breeds. It just makes more of... Breeds more fucking... Three more... More topper brands yeah yeah more like that more more tall brad duals what you all pushing the definition of the term dual

would you like to hear lano's one tweet please things will go bad you will struggle you will fail you will fall you will burn you will break you will fall you will burn you will break you will break you will fall you will burn you will break you will and it goes on and it can save you the anabolic this is the computer talking i was raised on chat gpt

the computer is trying to tell you something Some.