i’m 100% not joking when i say that my gut reaction to this image is “this is a being of incredible power”. i know that totally sounds like a joke i would make but i’m legitimately scared and impressed by and in awe at this thing
i have just been informed that this creature’s name is ZHDUN, which sounds like the name of an ancient and long-forgotten deity and sounds exactly like what this thing’s name would be
Zhdun loosely translates to “to wait”.
He waits.
it’s supposed to be a cute sculpture based on the idea of someone waiting for news at a hospital but i much prefer to think of it as a manifestation of the unfathomably powerful will of some kind of slumbering chthonic entity
a lot of people seem to be reblogging this post with zero commentary other than tagging it as #zhdun. i just want to inform everyone that every time you repeat his name like that you bring us one step closer to the moment when he gets out of that chair and begins to systematically inhale the entire physical universe
I’m just saying, “We created a computer to make decisions for us, but it assimilated all of the bias that was implicit in the dataset and now makes incredibly racist decisions that we don’t question because computers are logical and don’t make mistakes” literally sounds like a planet-of-the-week morality play on the original Star Trek.
