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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 14:06:33 UTC Thomas 🔭✨

Apropos of nothing, there's a X-Files episode called "Kill Switch" about a rogue AI co-written by William Gibson (not sure if he's on Mastodon). You should watch it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)
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1. Kill Switch (The X-Files)
  
  "Kill Switch" is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered in the United States on the Fox network on February 15, 1998. It was written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Kill Switch" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.1, being watched by 18.04 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews from television critics, with several complimenting Fox Mulder's virtual experience. The episode's name has also been said to inspire the name for the American metalcore band Killswitch Engage. The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Mulder and Scully become targets of a rogue AI capable of the worst kind of torture while investigating the strange circumstances of the death of a reclusive...
- Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 14:06:32 UTC Robert McNees
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  @thomasfuchs I think he’s here as @GreatDismal
  
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- Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 14:07:15 UTC Robert McNees
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  @thomasfuchs But maybe not that active
  
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- heavyboots (heavyboots@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 16:17:33 UTC heavyboots
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  @mcnees @thomasfuchs He was definitely briefly active and then went… elsewhere?
  
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