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Well, I didn't say that I also hope he spends the rest of his days locked up in a cell, Hannibal Lecter style. Which I do.

Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a ~~sperm whale~~hammerhead shark had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a ~~whale~~shark, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a ~~whale~~shark before it then had to come to terms with not being a ~~whale~~shark any more.

This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.

Er, excuse me, who am I?

Hello?

Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?

What do I mean by who am I?

Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.

Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

No.

Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

I hope he lives just long enough for them to give a Nobel prize to whoever fixes the humanitarian nightmares he's creating. He deserves to see all his bullshit unravel in front of him.

Jesus Christ...

I just read the first two books of Dean Koontz's Jane Hawk series in January. It uses exactly the same sort of AI programs in OP's commented article. The AI targets people who may at some point change the world in a way they don't want. Through a series of other AI and human elements, they can track any person, anywhere, as long as they're using technology. They then send someone to inject the target with a nanomachine version Elon Musk's neurolink, which rewrites their brain and turns them into a manchurian candidate slave/sleeper agent. They literally start calling them "Rayshaws."

Good series, but fuck, that's just way too close to what's going on in that article...

Our president is a moron who's been quoted to say, "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any."

The head of Health and Human Services is an antivaxer with worms in his brain who believes in Chem trails and that HIV is a harmless virus that doesn't cause AIDS.

It's not eroding, it's

Considering we're not even prepared for hurricane season, either, and our president is trying to dismantle FEMA, I think it's safer to just say the US is just a little more fucked in general.

This is the only other site I could find with the same title. https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2025/06/20/3338600/multi-dimensional-cyber-operation-destroys-israel-s-internal-communication-infrastructure

No idea how reputable it is, so take it for what you will.

Tasnim News Agency (Persian: خبرگزاری تسنیم) is a semi-official news agency in Iran associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Edit: just gonna leave this here from their wiki...

COVID-19 pandemic edit According to the Anti-Defamation League, Tasnim has alleged in a series of propaganda articles that COVID-19 was part of "an American and Jewish plot at world domination through population control" hatched by Henry Kissinger, who is described as "the unique Jewish scholar and American strategist" and "a master controller of government and international finance."

This is the shit they're worried about???

It was totally fine all those times Israel targeted Americans though... Just sayin'

Absolutely loved both of them! I think UFO Defense was the first pc game I played on our first 486. It was one of the first games I ever successfully hacked.

Not sure how many people know, but there's another game from Gollop, Rebelstar Tactical Command for Gameboy Advance. It's part of the Rebelstar series dating back to the ZX Spectrum. It plays pretty much the same as the original XCom games.

X-Com - UFO Defense and TFTD are definitely my favorite. Fallout 1&2 are a close second and I've been meaning to play through them again. Ogre Battle is a distant third, with Front Mission right behind it.

But... Stephen King alone has written 65 novels...