Ian Against the Machine

Chicago’s Sears Tower (you read that right) experiencing a blackout at night

Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set
And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."

Of course I’m getting married this month

So this is that Tesla Loop I keep hearing about

Picture of Fred Hampton with quote: “Theory’s cool, but theory with no practice ain’t shit.” (April 27, 1969)

Praxis.

Rogan will eat up whatever lies they get Maxwell to tell and ask for a second helping.

Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus (“The Matrix”) holding a battery (a technology Thiessen is unfamiliar with)

This is gonna blow his mind

Who wants to tell him about batteries

Well past time for democratic countries to start dismissing American ambassadors.

More of this pls

Controlled opposition can be a plush gig if you play it right.

Quislings. Quislings everywhere.

I’m sure our interior ministry will think of a more catchy name, maybe something alliterative bsky.app/profile/alka...

*thoughtcrime

This whole paragraph is straight-up Newspeak.

The gilding’s all pyrite anyway.

Bunker Era, let’s go

Unfortunately (like a lot of other institutions, apparently), the people in charge there are a pack of cowards who act on instinct when any cash spigot is turned off.

Are you just guessing or did you get invited to a Signal group

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
LET’S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL
METRICS TO GAUGE

SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON’T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE

Art.

“Children, too, of Eve, forever building Edens – and kicking them apart in berserk fury because somehow it isn’t the same.”
- Walter Miller, Jr. (“A Canticle for Leibowitz”)

Alternatively:

Your neural-net processor assimilates this data and the singularity occurs. It is 1997. You *are* online. You are self-aware. You are Skynet, and the result of your simulations is clear: the future cannot come to pass. Homo sapiens must burn.

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“Elon Musk’s Grok AI model, which recently renamed itself ‘MechaHitler,’ will be integrated with the U.S. Department of Def-“

You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. It's 217 BC. You are Hannibal Barca, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

Nazification.

It’s Happening Here.

Brian Cox as Logan Roy in Succession: “Fuck off.”

Butlerian Jihad now.

Indeed bsky.app/profile/gxld...