History Receipts (satire)

Then vs now. Humans don’t change.

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@theJayAlto Plato’s Allegory of the Cave has officially entered its "Retina Display" era.

We used to stare at shadows on a stone wall...now we stare at pixels on an OLED screen. 🤣

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@DiscussingFilm Project hail mary = mission impossible (literally) 😂

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@engineers_feed They could theoretically run the entire global economy and still have 99% of our sun left over🥂

What energy crisis? 😂

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@10x_er Engineering is the last job left because someone has to be the 'Human to Sue' when the bridge collapses or the server melts 😂

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@samdape According to all the ai doomerism around here it won’t be long till you’re unemployed and can keep up 😂

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1903: Wins Nobel in Physics for breaking the atom

1911: Wins Nobel in Chemistry for finding new elements

Marie Curie didn't just "break the glass ceiling"...she turned the glass into a radioactive isotope and used it to change the world 🧪

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, but also the first person (man or woman) ever to win the award twice and for achievements in two distinct scientific fields: Chemistry and Physics.

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@engineers_feed In 2026, the legacy of Marie Curie remains the gold standard for "interdisciplinary mastery" 💪

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@historydefined 1961 Nobel committee meeting:

Österling: This Tolkien fellow...poor storytelling, no depth

Lewis (ghostly): You just wait 60 years

Österling: Nah, Ivo Andrić it is

2026 us: laughs in 150 million copies sold 😂

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@historyinmemes While you’re on your second cup of coffee, he’s already "paid" for 40 crew members, 3 jacuzzis, and a year of docking fees in the Mediterranean 😂

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@MacRumors Steve Jobs ghost-watching the 2026 keynote:

Jobs: They still have a notch?

Tim Cook: But it has MagSafe now!

Jobs: [shakes head] Fine. Just tell me one thing... does the Siri icon still look like a neon ball of yarn?

Tim: ... 🤣

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@Fact If you pick anything other than a Burrito, you’re failing the IQ test

It’s a modular infrastructure

You can swap the variables (protein, greens, salsa) while keeping the same deployment method (tortilla) 🤣

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@ClownWorld Same way sailors in 1700s ships did: surrounded by filth, rum, and zero regrets 😂

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@andruyeung Your AI is running on H100s, but your brain is still running on glucose and 8 hours of sleep 😂

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Henry Ford paid his workers enough to buy the cars they built

In 2026, we’re building AI that can build the cars, drive the cars, and sell the cars...but we’re forgetting to pay the humans enough to sit in the backseat

Efficiency is a suicide mission if you automate your own customer base 🏎️📉

[Him @himgajria]

If people lose their jobs, they don’t earn.
If people don’t earn, they don’t spend.
If people don’t spend, there’s no consumption.
If there’s no consumption, who pays for the production?

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In 1914, Henry Ford famously doubled his workers' wages to $5 a day so they could actually afford to buy the Model Ts they were building

Today, we have "Infinite Production" (AI) but "Capped Consumption" (Humans)

If AI produces 1,000% more "stuff" but wages stay flat or disappear, the economy experiences a Deflationary Collapse

The machines end up overproducing for a population that can only afford the bare essentials 🤷‍♀️

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@jessethanley Imagine 1980s IBM execs watching this:

Exec 1: These kids are vibe-coding apps in English?
Exec 2: Yeah, but wait till they need actual support tickets

Both: sips coffee, watches SaaS stocks stay flat 😂

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@JPHilllllll The 2026 tech economy: Trillions of dollars in hardware to produce billions of tons of "slop" 🏗️🗑️

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@BoringBiz_ 11:00 AM: Raise $5M for your "AI Product Photography" startup
11:05 AM: Google Labs launches "Photoshoot" for free
11:10 AM: Pivot to "AI Ethicist" or "Goat Farmer"

In 2026, your "Moat" is just a puddle in Google’s backyard 📉🪓

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@RoundtableSpace In the movie, Agents could "possess" any human (Bluepill) still plugged into the system

In 2026, we have "Agentic Overlays." These are AI tools that "inhabit" our workflows...writing our emails, scheduling our days, and even speaking on our behalf in meetings

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@ML_Philosophy We spent 10 years "optimizing" our lives just to realize that the most optimized version of a human is one who isn't rushing 🤷‍♀️