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Wisdom of the Pentium-M Man

#unix_surrealism #comic #penguin #ai #technomage

Mage and a liberated fully sentient Pentium-M Man stand by a brick wall, overlooking the desert. They are talking. Mage is looking anxiously into the eyes of the machine. Penguin is standing behind her, holding on to her. Pentium-M Man: "...they despise your kind because you understand the machine, while they have to turn jungles into fuel and enslave thousands of computers just to pretend that the machine speaks to them too."
#ai #comic #technomage #unix_surrealism #penguin

two hackers encounter a relic of an ancient past

stanley lieber (stanleylieber.com) said this to me once during a heated debate on the best web browser (mothra v links2). The quote stuck with me ever since.

#unix_surrealism #internet #links2gang #comic

Two hackers encounter a destroyed ancient poster of a child surfing on a keyboard with the word INTERNET above their head. The hackers pause for a minute, until finally, one says: "It all seemed so innocent once."
#internet #comic #unix_surrealism #links2gang

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