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This place used to have a lot of interesting shops. It's all gone now.

I took this photo in the basement of an "undead" mall in my city in Venezuela. It's both eerie and kinda sad.

You see, roughly speaking (and with a few spoilers from a couple of games from more than 10 years ago (the third one doesn’t exist)), in the Dead Space DUOLOGY there are these effigies that drive people mad, but not in a stereotypical makes-them-gouge-out-their-eyes or tear-off-their-skin way (though that happens too, sometimes), but in a more subtle way.

The effigy compels those close to it to create more effigies to increase its power, and makes them believe that it is the most logical and natural thing to do, that there is no alternative. Everyone involved thinks they have control over the effigy, that they can use it for their own purposes, but they are only deceiving themselves, causing more death and feeding the effigy.

I see certain parallels in how our techno-feudal lords are convinced that AI will be the infinite money hack they crave so much, while they burn billions of dollars, ruin their reputations, enshittifies the internet, and generally fuck us all over.

Maybe what we call "AI" is a Lovecraftian entity pulling the strings through this technology. Woooo~ 👻

(Obviously, I don’t take this idea seriously; it’s more of a creative exercise or, well, a shower thought.)

It's evolving! it's achieving self awareness!

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