LEM 1689

The Vile Offspring from the book Accelerando.

Vile Offspring: Derogatory term for the posthuman “weakly godlike intelligences” that inhabit the inner Solar System by the novel’s end.

Also Aineko

Aineko, is not a talking cat: it’s a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think they’re dealing with a furry toy. The cat body is a sock puppet wielded by an abusive monster.

That’s the plot from the Logan’s Run TV show

In a change from the book and film, the television series had the city secretly run by a cabal of older citizens who promised Francis a life beyond the age of 30 as a city elder if he can capture the fugitives.

Damn people, enshitifying the internet for the advertisers.

I switched to GrapheneOS which uses Vanadium browser by default, which doesn’t support any content blocking yet. I use ProtonVPN which seems to block everything.

I always carry a spare

First let see what happens with the uploaded brain-scans of the California spiny lobsters

I’m looking for an AI to crew my nascent spacefaring project—the building of a self-replicating factory complex from cometary material.

(paraphrased from Accelerando by Charles Stross)

And Gowron is ready! For the glory of the Empire!

Looks like a dark cave. It could use a few more windows.

Dr. Rem to the rescue!

For more enjoyment and greater efficiency, consumption has been standardized.

Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. Thou art a subject of the divine. Created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses.

Some didn’t make it. Like the Pony Express, they swapped horses.

Companies were also allowed to swap their androids with substitutes when they could no longer compete

Good thing I always carry an extra.