Cultural Jammer

Could forever exist in the seconds before our extinction? A story set in the future where infinite is contained within the simulations of a superintelligent AI commanded to find a solution for an existential threat that is about to wipe out humanity. The year is 2050. Humanity has used advances in artificial intelligence to improve life on earth beyond recognition. However, a singleton machine learning algorithm has calculated that humanity faces certain extinction soon. Imminently, an existential threat will wipe out all intelligent life on earth, but no algorithm can say  how  or when  it is going to happen. There is an equal chance that it could be climate change, an asteroid collision, a solar flare, a deadly virus, alien invasion or perhaps even at the hands of the machine itself. A global, hegemonic technocratic elite determine that for a solution, they must development hyper-realistic simulation technology that will allow them to simulate a multitude of possib...

Public service announcement (PSA for short, you imbeciles): this picture of me is circulating online. It is not, I repeat, NOT Margaret thatcher, even if that is what the left-wing ‘press’ (fake news) would have you believe. I was never pictured with Maggie, despite our fiery and tempestuous relationship behind closed doors. It was the anniversary of her death recently, so I've been reflecting on our time together and decided to write this message in order to dispel the rumours and finally put some ‘spec on her name. Maggie and I didn’t always see eye-to-eye, but when all was said and done, we would fall back into each other’s arms. Powerful in government and even more powerful in the bedroom, her penchant for bondage led to my sexual awakening as a young man and informed many of the fetishes that I still hold dear today. She would break me down psychologically until I was no more than a pupa, then build me up again using her command of the English language and deft te...