"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of #ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The #sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the #peace and #safety of a new #darkage".

"The Call of #Cthulhu", H. P. #Lovecraft (1928)

[#AI, #antiAI]

He gives it 5 years...? He's more optimistic that me...We're already there.

Bill Gates warns the world is going ‘backwards’ and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age

Last year didn’t go the way Bill Gates hoped. As a philanthropist who has dedicated billions to improving everything from healthcare and education in poor countries to climate change action, Gates could only watch as the Trump administration slashed swathes of foreign aid contracts.

#tech #darkage #healthcare #education #ClimateChange #foreign aid

https://fortune.com/2026/01/09/bill-gates-world-backwards-funding-fears-dark-ages/

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DAWN OF A DARK AGE To Release Ver Sacrum Album In December; Details Revealed

https://bravewords.com/news/dawn-of-a-dark-age-to-release-ver-sacrum-album-in-december-details-revealed/

#DAWNOF #DARKAGE #ToReleaseVerSacrumAlbumInDecember #DetailsRevealed #album #newalbum #newrelease #BraveWords #metal #music

An interesting observation

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/1/2325433/-I-asked-AI-why-the-Islamic-Golden-Age-ended-in-the-1200s-Its-answer-is-a-red-alert-for-today-s-USA

#history #darkage #civilization #antiintellectualism