Korean woman hugs in Japan to take heat out of ‘wasabi terror’
By Hong Dam-young
A Korean woman dressed in traditional attire has held her arms wide open for a hug in the middle of a busy street in Osaka, Japan, where anti-Korea sentiment has been running high recently.
A wooden sign in front of her read in Japanese: “I am Korean. Anti-Korea rally is taking place across the street. But I trust you. Would you like a hug?”
Her eyes were covered and nervousness was etched on her face.
Yoon Su-yeon stood on the street Monday to offer hugs to Japanese passersby.
A group of anti-Korea protesters marched behind her waving “Rising Sun” flags, a reminder of Japanese war crimes and imperial aggression during the Second World War. The use of the flag is considered heavily offensive in Korea, a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945.
Also it’s fucked up that the automated robot voices have typing noises in the background so old people think they’re talking to an actual person sitting at their computer, like that shit is insulting as fuck
I was listening to this podcast once and the guy on it was
telling a story about how he got a telemarketer call which he was talking to
when he started wondering if it was a machine or not so asks “Wait…am I talking
to a machine right now?”
And the woman’s who’s calling responds “Oh wow am I that bad
today?” and of course he immediately feels bad an apologizes and tells her that
he used to work in telephone marketing so he totally understands it just starts
getting monotonous after a while, and the machine laughs it off like “Oh don’t
worry it’s fine.”
So he keeps talking with her and it gets really weird again,
like she’s not responding to what he’s actually asking or repeating the
questions he just answered and he starts getting kind of freaked out by it and he
realizes the voice never actually said
they were a real person, not a machine.
So he’s not sure what’s going on so he asked again. “Wait….is
this a real person I’m speaking to or a machine?” And there’s a long pause.
Then the caller hangs up.
Once we’re programing machines to literally imply they’re
not machines (not say they aren’t because it’s probably illegal) that’s too
far. I don’t know why that freaks me out as much as it does but it’s kinda
scary to me. I feel like going that far with it should be a crime.
It should be, these little steps in blurring humanity and automation are fucked up
THAT WAS A ROOSTER TEETH PODCAST, OMG
(here’s the animated version that gets to the point)
apparently ppl don’t know about waifu2x??? despite its… concerning name it’s literally the most convenient website i’ve ever come across as an artist
it allows you to resize artwork without it becoming pixellated. this is a MASSIVE help if you, for example, make lineart too small or something. it works best with things that 1. have no textures 2. have smooth lines 3. have cel shading, but it still works really damn well for things that don’t fit that profile
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