Charlie Stross15h ago

SF STORY PREMISE:

SETI program decodes an alien signal clearly targeting us.

Hi! We see you're still facing the Great Filter! We want to help! Based on your anatomy per broadcasts we decoded, here is a blueprint for a device that will solve your problem!

Humans: decode blueprint.

It's for an improved guillotine.

Show threadSeachaint

@cstross Don't go there, murder is already so normalised and so attractive for its catharsis.

We absolutely must push for expropriation of excess wealth, and a just reckoning for hoarders who undermined society. But what happened to a progressive movement that was optimistic about humanity and against capital punishment?

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Show threadJacob Christian Munch-Andersen14h ago
@seachaint @cstross The rich control the law, you can't defeat them within their own domain.
Show threadD. G. Marshall13h ago

@seachaint @cstross

I wish the Epstein Class long lives.

In prison.

And not one of those cushy, country club, white collar prisons.

Show threadSharp Cheddar Goblin12h ago
@seachaint @cstross Nah. We aren't voting our way out of this.