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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social

Today in 1997 at 2:14 AM EDT, the Skynet artificial intelligence system became self aware and—after we panicked and tried to shut it off—launched our nuclear weapons at their preset targets in Russia, which in turn retaliated against us, attacks that killed 3,000,000,000 people. Happy Judgment Day!

aug 29, 2025, 2:14 pm • 81 22

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penboyasgod.bsky.social @penboyasgod.bsky.social

This was, *War Games, PART II*?

aug 29, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social

This is coming soon enough. Humanity is stupid enough to need nuclear weapons to keep a peace but too stupid to actually keep the peace with nuclear weapons.

aug 29, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social

Note that this is the date for Judgment Day given in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” Because of the events in that film, specifically the death of scientist Dr. Miles Dyson and the destruction of Cyberdyne Systems, in “Terminator 3: Rise of Machines,” Judgment Day shifts to July 25, 2004, at 6:18 PM.

aug 29, 2025, 2:14 pm • 19 1 • view
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João @euroconcern.bsky.social

Even in T3, Greece still wins the Euro cup...

aug 29, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Singer @davidsinger.bsky.social

Thank you for clarifying

aug 29, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social

A stacked screenshot of two clips from “Terminator 2,” showing the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) telling Sarah Connor as he drives a car through a desert landscape that “Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time, August 29.”
aug 29, 2025, 11:03 pm • 18 2 • view
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int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social

but skynet was not a busy beaver.

aug 30, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
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Jax Romana, the Pumpkin Saint🏳️‍🌈🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social

and anyway the nuclear scene in 2 was better

aug 29, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Objoekenobi @objoekenobi.bsky.social

See more reason that movie is bunk. No way are developers going to make a major release before a three day weekend.

aug 29, 2025, 11:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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The right honourable Prime Minister @rthonpm.bsky.social

Everyone knows real developers test in Production.

aug 30, 2025, 1:54 am • 3 0 • view
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God Of ABF (and FBB) 🇺🇦 @god-of-abf.bsky.social

Funny, I must have been asleep that day, because I seem to have missed the whole thing.

aug 29, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Fibre-Artist @fibre-artist.bsky.social

Yeah, I even missed the movie, #2 & sequel #3.

aug 29, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view