Our recency-bias is to imagine, That AI will rise - Armageddon, That technology progression, Cranks our stakes up to eleven, But the stakes in fact remain break-even, Take the discovery of how to control fire way back when, Which made cooking food and warm sleep possible way back then, But also got used to destroy other’s villages - arson, Be it controlled fire or AI’s the newest innovation, This New-Improved vs. More-Effed-Up tension, Is not a question, Of volume-level one b

Christmas break 1987. Halfway through 9th grade. They had designs. All drawn-up of all four sides, plus one from up above aerial. But not the right stuff. They still needed, they still needed the most needed’est material.  twas time to get ill Jim lit his lighter to check his watch. It was already 5:29 a.m. Still nothing. He was waiting. And was growing more convinced that his friend was not going to show up.  And was itchy. Itchy as hell because he had a scorching case of po