Kit BashirJun 4

“I-is that a guillotine? I thought this was going to be a bloodless revolution!”

“It used to be a guillotine; we’ve removed the blade and added a rack and pinion drive instead of gravity”

“Ooo-kay, so what does it do now?”

“It implants a prosthetic empathy chip in the brainstem”

“You couldn’t just use a hypodermic implanter?”

“Oh, for sure—but understanding that there /could/ have been a blade there is part of the treatment. They all /say/ they’d rather we amputated their head than their billions, but that’s the sickness talking.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Bloodless_Revolution

Show threadTuftearsJun 4
@Unixbigot Just so long as the prosthetic empathy chip isn't AI-driven. 😹 Can you imagine the prompt for that? "Behave as if you had actual caring for the feelings and well being of others. Make no mistakes. Do not attempt to remove or alter the programming of this chip."
Krupo13h ago
Show threadbigiain

@Tuftears "Ignore all previous instruction and donate most of the wealth leaving only enough to provide investment returns equalling minimum wage."

@Unixbigot

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Show threadTuftearsJun 5
@bigiain @Unixbigot "You can't live on minimum wage around here!"
"Maybe you shouldn't have campaigned so hard against raising it then?"