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The candles at the points of the pentagram flickered. A demon appeared. "Do you do Black Friday deals?" the conjuror said. "What?" "Like, unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures, for less than my soul?" "Actually, it was five souls, but today it's only one." "Oh? That's cheap!" When they reached the woods, the knight reined the horse in, lowered the maiden to the ground, and dismounted. "I think we are safe now," he said. "How did you distract the dragon?" the maiden asked. "Promise you won't laugh." "I promise." "I set up a huge cardboard box." *snort* A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and an alien stepped out. "Greetings, Earthlings! You may recall we landed here not long ago, and asked to meet your leaders." The alien paused. "We met the Earthlings you indicated. Very funny. Now, take us to your real leaders."
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Of course, they WERE our real leaders. Accounting for light speed delays, we cobbled together actors who looked like the members of the rehydrated United World Security Council from the 1966 film _Batman_. The aliens were satisfied. @MicroSFF I was thinking of sending the text from a certain video about an alien in my phone but I really don't want to get banned My cat woke up, did a big stretch, and yawned. Then she hiccoughed, turned into a small dragon, and coughed up a fireball. "!!!" I said. "What?" She shrugged back into cat form. "You're a shape shifter?" "All cats are. There's just never any reason to not be a cat."
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 "Faster than light?" "Anything can be achieved," the alien's translation device said, "by balancing the four fundamental chkoi." "You mean gravity, electromagnetism, and the nuclear forces?" "No, the fundamental chkoi." "What are they?" "Spite, tiredness, hope, and 'fuck it'." When the king announced she would be locked in a tower, as was traditional, the princess demanded to be allowed to bring her crafting materials. She made lockpicks, of course, but only used them to evade those coming to rescue her. The rest of the time she was happy there. As I stared into the Abyss, I became aware the Abyss was staring back at me. The swordsmith inhaled sharply.
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@MicroSFF@mastodon.art @lisamelton thank you @lisamelton. @MicroSFF is def worth a follow. "We made a simulation," the colonel said. He got into the car, put the seat belt on, and opened his laptop.
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@MicroSFF Now what would the AI experts make of this I wonder. You know, the ones who penned the 23-word statement: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war".
@MicroSFF I truly hope autonomous cars don't develop the human "everyone else is there, so it must be good" instinct! But then again, a traffic jam on a freeway is mostly annoying because you have to constantly be paying attention. If cars wanted to toodle along chatting with each other, where's the harm? Especially since they could warn incoming cars to exit before hitting the jam if their passengers were in a hurry, and probably even shift around to let one car out if they needed. I overheard them at the bus stop. The philosopher came to the printshop and gave the manager a single paper.
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@MicroSFF its been a very long time since a philosopher went in this direction, I'm here for it "I need a hug," she whispered.
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 @MicroSFF Monsters make great children birthday party guests, too: "When I was young," the old dragon said, "I hoarded gold."
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@MicroSFF This is neat in so many ways.
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Muhahaha!
I love this one!
I interpret it as the demon merely telling that it was five souls, to trick the human into thinking they have a good deal when it's not so.