A number of people I know closely have noticed that something is fundamentally wrong with Time. Or in Time. The wrongness started long before the Pandemic, but the big P exacerbated it.

One guy I know really well speculated: “What if, in the future, humans succeeded at creating an AI, and it began sucking up time the way a black hole sucks up everything. And a couple of years ago, the first waves of repercussion began to strike us here, in the present, which is, for it, the past.”

It should be obvious that machines damage time. But it isn’t; at least not for many. Few people are equipped to think about time in a deep way. But for those of us who are, it’s blatantly obvious that machines are ripping it apart.

A while ago a nonhuman intelligence gave me some lessons about time, and one of the first things it taught me is that organisms make organic temporalities that form symbiotic hyperstructures over any subposition of linear time.

Machines rip those to shreds.