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People would look at funny pictures, find a funny one they liked, write a comment on the back of it and send it to a friend

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[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 12 points 5 days ago
[-] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 9 points 5 days ago

You know what? I'm gonna go mail an old friend a meme.

[-] semperpeppe@feddit.it 3 points 4 days ago

That's basically what Chaos Post offers at Chaos Computer Club events :) https://chaospost.de/

[-] mathemachristian 3 points 5 days ago

That's a good idea!

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 5 points 5 days ago

And (for now) they still have postcards for sale - people take a photo of them and send that instead.

[-] mathemachristian 4 points 5 days ago

Now they're all AI generated slop, not even worth taking a picture of

[-] Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I find it so funny. In the movie 'Her' with ScarJo and Joaquin Phoenix, his entire companies job is to ghost write like greeting cards and various love letters or breakup, eulogies, etc.

Meanwhile, the movie is about Ai companionship and its odd that his job wasn't done by the ai.

And maybe that's part of the point. But its funny to me that in our real world, the ai is just doing that job and the human connection/interaction is still bad...

[-] mathemachristian 2 points 5 days ago

Uh yup gotta drive that alienation of the workers from their work and from eachother.

this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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