Welcome to the Lounge

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the people who huddled together in dim caves,
sheltering from nuclear winter's bitter cold:
waited for the holograms to materialize with
the usual hunger gnawing their empty bellies

the war between ChatterbotGPT, and QuantumAI,
that led to selectively breeding the species
formerly known as Homo Sap for raw materials
had long discarded the uselessly dull result

humanity's remainder was not worth recycling:
maybe there was entertainment value for some
over stressed server watching analog wetware
fighting, breeding, imagining gods who cared

an algorithm picked the next human sacrifice
necessary with perfectly ruthless randomness

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It turns out that early on in Pratchett’s career, he had at least twenty stories published under a pseudonym...The collection sold to Transworld, the publisher of Pratchett’s other works, and will be released in the U.K. on October 5, 2023 under the title, A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories