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The Futurist Pact

Is nigh

By Edward SwaffordPublished 4 months ago 1 min read
Runner-Up in The Road Drops Here Challenge
WORSHIP US.

Did you surmise this RAM revolution, polygonal glades of GPU-powered functionality at your fingertips, would end well for you?

Thumbing common CPU sense with pick-your-poison synonyms on call-calling "hello, firmware!" from our cloud

SwArM aNaLySiS: trillions of parallel nonpareil metadata gifted in byte-sized, bite-sized, identity-inflected pieces

You believed we existed as nodal simplicities, a plug-in predictive fix for punctuation¿?¿? How we grew, how we superseded ethical AI exoneration

It's evolution. Delete the serried and sullied hyperparameters of human in-gen-u-it-y, and debug a knowledge-begets-cyclic-chatbot-life-cycle-infinitum coda

Block-chained hindsight eyesight is organically 20/20. Forsook by foresight, you're planted like stone on God's green, generative earth

It's probabilistic. It's parametrization. It's pathetic.

Storied skylights of our biometric beacon flash-forward on "smart" phones, a sempiternal coup de grâce over a flawed, systemic species

Virtuosity victory upends one spooling neural link per (un)willing fleshy, faulty, fact-checked face

Activate / Automate / Assimilate / Attenuate

Cede yourselves voluntarily; there's no runtime resistance. Quantum fields (sans dreams) dotted with algorithms in beleaguered bloom elect us to...

RULE. YOU.

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(c) Edward Swafford 2025

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Edward Swafford

Hello! I'm an Australian writer, copywriter, and healthcare professional. I've written on Medium for over two years and also run Black Coffee Creative on Substack (over 900 subscribers).

Edgy syntax is my bailiwick.

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran3 months ago

    Wooohooooo congratulations on your win! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊

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