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A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 12-Sep-2026 21:53:20 JST Cory Doctorow

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI "hyperscalers" consists of cooking your brain by locking yourself in the bathroom, holding flashlights under your chins and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until you wet yourself in terror, a lot of things snap into focus:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake
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