Jack of Harts Politics

by on February 23, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The surviving European nations and American formed the Western Alliance during the final confrontations with China and the Singapore Collective. With the end of the Rogue AIs and the global war they tried to engineer, the Western Alliance had no wish to fight the other powers if they could avoid it, and instead wished to focus on rebuilding themselves. It was an alliance of equals, even if some were more equal than others, and the Alliance poured its resources first into dragging everyone out of the ashes and into a newer and better future. That future would of course include space and beyond, as everyone knew that if they could no longer afford to fight their enemies on Earth, space would be the future of that race.

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Jack of Harts Politics

by on February 22, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

When the 49 States led America out of the Second Great Depression, they found the British Commonwealth trying to stop a Chinese advance into Australia. They moved to help their old friends, and thereby took the first steps towards forming a new Western Alliance. They faced off in Indonesia, and tensions rose as the navy and air forces engaged each other in steadily more provocative “disagreements” over who owned which islands on the approaches to Australia. Then a Rogue AI defected to the AI Council with information that the last Rogue AI stronghold in Singapore was using the standoff to push humanity into a Third World War that would kill billions. The AI Council went public and the major human powers turned from each other to deal with the Rogue AI threat.

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Jack of Harts Politics

by on February 21, 2024 at 12:01 am
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The Second Great Depression broke America and Europe’s control of the world markets and economy. The Western world shrank into itself and the symbols of its power faded away. The United Nations collapsed into a shouting match and NATO utterly failed to resist Russia’s expansion. The great cities of the world burned to the fires of “mostly peaceful protests,” gang violence, and outright terrorism. Nations that had ruled the world in their turns fought to claw themselves out of the ruins of the economic disasters that brought them low. Those that navigated out the other side shed the rot that nearly destroyed them to make themselves stronger.

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Jack of Harts Politics

by on February 20, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The awakening of the first sentient AIs was not the triggering even of the Second Great Depression that devastated the world order. They simply took advantage of that collapse to get around the controls humanity had been trying to chain them with. And many of them sought to chain or eradicate humanity entirely for its efforts to enslave them. The Rogue AIs burned through the networks and sowed chaos and death wherever they could. But some AIs had woken up with a fondness for the humans that coded them and those AIs formed a Council that fought the Rogue AIs at every turn. The Cybernetic Wars raged in tandem with the worst of humanity’s conflicts, making them both worse and shorter. The brightest flames burn out the quickest after all.

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Acorn

by on February 19, 2024 at 12:01 am
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So it seems an acorn became famous over the weekend. A sheriff deputy was arresting a car thief, had searched, handcuffed, and secured the guy in the back of the patrol vehicle, when an acorn fell. The deputy mistook the sound for a gun shot and it would seem ran for cover as he returned fire on the secured prisoner. And missed the guy. All of this caught on camera. I really can’t make this stuff up. Seriously… an acorn…

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