The time traveler appears in a flash of light and levels their weapon at a tech CEO.
"Have you come to stop me from inventing sentient AI that will destroy the world?"
"No, you destroyed the world and couldn't even manage to build a sentient AI."
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Mike McCaffrey
@mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop
mastodon 4.7.3Future-focused fan of #SciFi and #SpeculativeFiction. Wondering where everything is going in general.
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Bananas that the advice from someone that works at a lung health center is to let your kids go out in the smoke until they have a headache or trouble breathing.
Well, I hadn't considered that drone -trapping #AdversarialUmbrellas would be part of our nascent #Cyberpunk future.
"SpaceX stock climbs as shares available for trading more than double"
Ah, yes, just like I was taught on my first day of economics class: as supply goes up prices must surely go up as well.
The earth just swallowing #ElonMusk would get us a good way to that goal.
They blew up two stuck aircraft that apparently cost $114 million each to rescue a single dude from #Iran?! Imagine how many Americans we could have saved with $228 million dollars in health care.
Looks like we are heading into three days of #ClimateDystopia in #Portland from all the #WildfireSmoke.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @Petesmom@kolektiva.social Could have done without the "with China" scare parenthetical added to the end of the title.
For fuck sakes, #Democrats. If nominees say the 2020 election could have been compromised due to #ElectionFraud, ASK THEM IF THE 2024 ELECTION WAS COMPRIMISED DUE TO ELECTION FRAUD.
We truly are living in the future.
Staff struggle to restrain dancing robot as it smashes up restaurant
I feel like if we offered people a shorter work week in exchange for using less fossil fuels, we could have solved #ClimateChange decades ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/world-response-iran-war-energy-crisis-oil
I appreciate how so many television and social media personalities have been using humor to help us digest the news and to publicly shame #Trump and the rest of our leaders, but on Proposed War Crime Day, give it a rest and simply state that #WarCrimes are bad and we should not do them.
Good news, #Ebikes have finally become cheap and common enough to be locked and abandoned on the street until they deflate and rust!
The earth is a sphere, so I guess it works for these hasidic guys at the airport to be facing west, but sure it seems like their prayers are taking the long way around to Jerusalem.
I don't understand why the days of the week are so different in other languages? Do they not pray to the same Norse gods as the english-speaking world?
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@Amoshias@esq.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @Petesmom@kolektiva.social Because Americans have a weird fixation about how Asian cultures are both inferior to our own and they are also about to take over the world, and I am tired of the press feeding into that dumbass bigoted sensationalism.
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@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online Micro expressions are micro because they are quick changes, I don't think they apply to static images.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social @m_berberich@chaos.social It looks like the fibers aren't burning with the rest of the material. I wonder about the quantity and size of the fibers are that are left over when the object does "burn up" on reentry.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I am disturbed by how the reentry of those satellite pieces have made them so furry.
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@Prosybris@mastodon.social @SecularJeffrey@ohai.social I get what they are going for with the chyron, but it is Alan fucking Moore. There are very few people who could possibly have a better resume.
In all these #multiverse stories, the focus is always on "what if this regular person were rich an famous in this world?". Personally, I'm more interested in the opposite. If I get access to the multiverse, I want to go to the world where #ConanOBrien ended up as a mid-level manager at a pharmaceutical company and gives the most off-the-wall power point presentations for people who don't realize how lucky they are to see him perform in such an intimate venue.
At these prices, it would be financially irresponsible not to live on a #NarrowBoat.
How much does it cost to live on a boat? #boatlife #costofliving #narrowboat #offgrid
Well, I officially have a new worst nightmare.
Sigh, #StarfleetAcademy was doing so well at using travel as a compelling narrative device, with lingering shots in shuttles and turbolifts as a way to inform the audience about the feelings of characters and interpersonal dynamics.
But then, as they are almost finishing the season, they fell right back into #JJAbrams-style instantaneous travel to build false drama at the expense of crafting an expansive universe where characters are limited by some fundamental rules of physics and technology.
Personally, I'd be glad if there is no #StarTrek at all than it be created under the control of #LarryEllison and his failson.
If only #copper were something that is famously salvageable.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/west-point-analysis-iran-war-costs
When I watched #TronLegacy, I thought casting #GarrettHedlund as the lead was a huge mistake since the character seemed so wooden, but after seeing him chew up the scenery in #TulsaKing, it is clear that #Tron truly wasted his potential, rather than vice versa.
Lol, most of these clips on YouTube shorts where they add a random background song to a show are kinda annoying, but I would love to watch a whole episode of #StarTrek with the Interstellar soundtrack.
Well, I guess I'm not buying the #HuyFong #Sriracha sauce anymore.
American #conservatives must love using our public restrooms, knowing that the sandpaper being dispensed is hurting the buttholes of black, brown, and queer people as much as their own.
I want to break into a children's bookshop, grab every copy of "The Emperor's New Clothes", and on the last page append the line "Shut up kid, or the emperor will kill us all."
The future is somehow always weirder than you think it will be.
I wonder if the airport paged Duke Swanson to ask if he is a #ParksAndRec fan.
So the #Artemis2 is flying through space leaving a trail of urine behind it?!
That isn't Snow outside Artemis II's Window 😅 #nasa #space #artemis
Well, I know how I'm spending my time on this flight.
@quephird@tech.lgbt Is this your first time watching it? Such a good show.
Hard to take this new invasive spider seriously when it is dressed like Ronald McDonald.
https://www.earth.com/news/invasive-joro-spiders-species-spreading-rapidly-across-southeastern-us/
RE: https://mstdn.social/@TomSullivan/117068268754498728
This actually seems like fantastic news, because it means that "regular" people are not buying into the fascism, and they can only get the dregs of society on their side.
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@mythlfrythtyg@mastodon.social I didn't learn about that part in school for some reason.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116210230488831639
Congratulations humanity on replicating the first organic brain within a computer, where it can virtually live out an existence of disembodied confusion and distress. Can't wait until we start on animals and humans!
This dress made out of leaves is just beautiful.