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  1. "And, all because of an autocorrect mistake, butter and yam on toast became a thing."

    #Microfiction #FutureHistory

  2. "And, all because of an autocorrect mistake, butter and yam on toast became a thing."

    #Microfiction #FutureHistory

  3. @stefan Remember that time when the US built all those data centers for AI and then realized that LLMs didn’t work after all?

    #llm #futurehistory #ai #repeatinghistory #collapse

  4. @stefan Remember that time when the US built all those data centers for AI and then realized that LLMs didn’t work after all?

    #llm #futurehistory #ai #repeatinghistory #collapse

  5. The Great Enscrapening: a period in history when AI hoovered up everything it could find. Various authorities place its end date around the mid- to late-2020s depending on how much AI generated content was mixed into the material. It was followed by the Missing Century when AI-generated content swamped everything else making original content difficult to find until the Post-Post-Modern Internet arose from isolated communities connecting based on real human relationships.

    #futurehistory

  6. The Great Enscrapening: a period in history when AI hoovered up everything it could find. Various authorities place its end date around the mid- to late-2020s depending on how much AI generated content was mixed into the material. It was followed by the Missing Century when AI-generated content swamped everything else making original content difficult to find until the Post-Post-Modern Internet arose from isolated communities connecting based on real human relationships.

    #futurehistory

  7. #reading #octaviabutler #ChapterTwo #politics #society #social
    #FutureHistory
    Book of the day:
    Re-reading "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler, which focuses on 2025 and the decent into chaos in the cities and violence on the streets.
    As I begin ch 2 I read "Books of the living, jul 21, 2024.
    Starts off talking about how she was affected by religion.
    Seems oddly appropriate in view of current events.

  8. For anyone contemplating an alternative future history of Trump's pressure on the Ukraine and NATO causing NATO to pull apart with the Baltic States pushed to open fronts on Russia's West flank, with Germany joining in the US appeasement of Putin, hold on a bit unless you want to be burned as a witch.

    #FutureHistory #Geopolitics #USPolitics #EuroPolitics #UkraineWar #Russia #Baltic #BalticWar

  9. As humanity pushed on into the 21st century, our problems increasing became not about what we know but what people collectively found convenient to believe.

    #futurehistory #social #poetry #humanity

  10. As humanity pushed on into the 21st century, our problems increasing became not about what we know but what people collectively found convenient to believe.

    #futurehistory #social #poetry #humanity

  11. Eat dirt, users of #facebook and #twitter. Historian Jill Lepore of Harvard fame is not on Facebook or Twitter and says: “I think the social networks will be looked on as having been fairly catastrophic.” #histodons #JillLepore #FutureMediaHistory #MediaHistory #Historiography #FutureHistory

  12. Eat dirt, users of #facebook and #twitter. Historian Jill Lepore of Harvard fame is not on Facebook or Twitter and says: “I think the social networks will be looked on as having been fairly catastrophic.” #histodons #JillLepore #FutureMediaHistory #MediaHistory #Historiography #FutureHistory

  13. "Oxygen was banned in 2040 due to media reports that it was being widely used by immigrants."

    #FutureHistory

  14. "Oxygen was banned in 2040 due to media reports that it was being widely used by immigrants."

    #FutureHistory

  15. @madelineostrander Historians mark the start of the global climate wars with implementation of this old idea.

    Oh damn, did I really write that? Hope I didn’t screw my timeline. #futurehistory

  16. @madelineostrander Historians mark the start of the global climate wars with implementation of this old idea.

    Oh damn, did I really write that? Hope I didn’t screw my timeline. #futurehistory

  17. Spoilers for Picard season 3.
    More in here than I had heard previously anyway.

    If I was writing the headline:

    #StarTrek #Picard S3 beams Enterprise-F from the #StarTrekOnline #VideoGame to onscreen canon.

    But damnit, I'm a #Nerd not a copy editor.

    #LLAP #Trek #1701F #FutureHistory

    denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-pic

  18. Spoilers for Picard season 3.
    More in here than I had heard previously anyway.

    If I was writing the headline:

    #StarTrek #Picard S3 beams Enterprise-F from the #StarTrekOnline #VideoGame to onscreen canon.

    But damnit, I'm a #Nerd not a copy editor.

    #LLAP #Trek #1701F #FutureHistory

    denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-pic