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8Lee's avatar
Mar 20Edited

> The substacks are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their doom scrolls and memes will foam up about their waists and all the bots and humans-in-the-loop will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll whisper 'no.'

— Ghost of Rorschach (Walter Machine God Kovacs)

... slightly adapted for this post.

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Yes but, at least because our AI overlords are (so far) making all their money from coding apps that they're shutting down their doom scroll swamps (Sora) in favor of (maybe) more productive robots. Until one of those robots builds Sora and we all get addicted again.