Post #2886824

2026-05-14 20:45 UTC

"AI is going to replace a lot of jobs." Ok, what do you think is gonna happen when you stop paying the "don't riot" bill? How long can you go without paying that bill before an angry mob is gonna come to collect? You can tell from their vacant eyes that they never considered that. They're gonna go in their bunkers... And then what? They all care about getting into the bunkers and never consider that the doors can be welded shut and the vents filled with concrete.

Replies (15)

@WideEyedCurious@mstdn.social 2026-05-14 21:17

@Hex@kolektiva.social People were already fairly close to that point BEFORE the AI slop machines.

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@jokeyrhyme@aus.social 2026-05-14 22:30

@Hex@kolektiva.social well, this is what surveillance capitalism is for: identifying the guillotine-makers so that oligarchs can rule without fear of a revolution

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@TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com 2026-05-14 22:51

@Hex@kolektiva.social 👍👍

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@bignose@sw-development-is.social 2026-05-14 23:15

They also don't know how much to pay the armed guards to ensure the guards won't just ignore their orders and take over the bunker. @Hex@kolektiva.social

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@drwho@masto.hackers.town 2026-05-15 00:08

@Hex@kolektiva.social They're mass producing people with nothing left to lose.

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@klausfiend@mstdn.ca 2026-05-15 01:18

@Hex@kolektiva.social These weirdos have clearly not seen enough George Romero films. The mob always wins. Every motive notwithstanding, the lesson remains: the mob always wins.

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@dahie@chaos.social 2026-05-15 05:23

@Hex@kolektiva.social it is also underlined by a hope that today's softpower (media, fear) and hardpower (surveillance, policing, violence) structures are more powerful, harder to avoid and evade and thus drive up the (human) costs of rioting.

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@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2026-05-15 08:44

@Hex@kolektiva.social Billionaire bunker mentioned @9mmBallpoint@mastodon.social comic triggered https://9mmballpoint.blogspot.com/2022/10/bunker-buster.html?m=0

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@nihilistic_capybara@layer8.space 2026-05-15 09:11

@Hex@kolektiva.social i like the way you think

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@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-15 14:55

@Hex@kolektiva.social A simple sign will be added, saying: This is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about a danger. The danger is to the mind, and it can kill. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk 2026-05-15 16:26

@Hex@kolektiva.social Nah. Tip a metric fuck-tonne of venomous scorpions down the air-vents, THEN weld them shut!

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@Habrok42@chaos.social 2026-05-16 10:52

@Hex@kolektiva.social Why waste valuable concrete when dumping trash on/in the vents can achieve a similar result? ;-)

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@d_a_n_a@mstdn.social 2026-05-16 12:03

@Hex@kolektiva.social 🔥

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@MiriShuli@mstdn.social 2026-05-16 12:53

@Hex@kolektiva.social And those armed protectors and body guards? Ha!

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@jhaas@a2mi.social 2026-05-16 20:59

@Hex@kolektiva.social Time to get out the filk tapes and play some old tunes: (Lyrics: https://genius.com/Leslie-fish-hello-remember-us-lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O68DedIacWM

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