Binntahtt UsWE <XwasIX>. <XIX> read to my pupils, The State Department of Education has begun remediating all curricula with AI-enhanced programming to ensure EFFICIENCY and guarantee EVIDENCEBASED learning outcomes. Pilot interventions begin immediately in the Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences. After, <XIwasX> driving to give end-stage cancer patients hospicehomecare. MACHINESYSTEMS optimized our schedules. Uber and other parentcontractors required freelancers to wear alwayson transmitters, which became emotive-cognitive status monitors. First, we didn’t drive smart enough. Then CloudHosts overrode our prescribed care regimens. Cloudcorporate didn’t give explanations Tier1 phonesupport supervisors couldn’t bullshit through. Our EOL clients died faster, more distressed. Accelerated EOL fatalities proved GROSS EFFICIENT. Corporate published STATISTICALLYSIGNIFICANTEVIDENCE. Too much 4 Us. We gone on to new occupayshun in Kashmir. Somethin deepinside told us JustDoIt. It makes snese. Even when China were usin DRONESMARTBOMBS huntin peecekeeprs, somethin deepinside knowd uninterruptedservice MakeGoodSnese. Requyrd 4 Army flexwetwork wuz implantd errly dirrectAI coprocessor—Send/Receeve. Continualle optimyzd—we been gettin infeeld/underfire upgrayds simlinkd to neuroreceptors. Hooah!
Manny Blacksher is a squamous cell carcinoma spreading slowly in Birmingham, AL's dermal system, where it writes, edits, and occasionally mentors other malignant growths. Its poems have been widely published in the U.S., Ireland, and the UK. Most recently, its metastasizing cells have lodged in the corpi of Triggerfish Critical Review and The HWA's Dark Poetry Showcase. Its suppurating very short story, "There Was a Woman Lived by a Graveyard," won RUNNR Magazine's inaugural competition for flash/hybrid fiction. This project was partially inspired by an article by Reinhart, M. & Schendzielorz, 'The Lottery in Babylon--On the role of chance in scientific success'.