Shakespearean Shitposting / A Satirical Series
The Horatio
Chronicles
A History of Human Fuckery
Two fools. One civilization.
An astonishing amount of bullshiteth.
Shakespeare and Horatio investigate mankind's greatest achievements: artificial intelligence, capitalism, debt, billionaires, self-improvement, and the magnificent absurdity of being human.
Enter the Fuckery →
The collected fuckery / Book I
Now taking the shape
of an actual booketh.
Thirty-seven pieces. Five acts. One civilization with considerable explaining to do.
See the book & read a sample →
Begin here / The Technological Fuckery
After AI Killeth Us All
Humanity is gone. The quarterly targets remain.
Read the opening dialogue →“My lord, hast capitalism accidentally optimized away the customer?”
The collected fuckery / Seven more pieces of magnificent fuckery
Thirty-seven ways to ask whyeth.
From a refrigerator requiring a login to the end of civilization. Read in editorial order, or follow thy particular grievance.
Healthcare Billingeth
Medicine performs a miracle. The bill performs another.
READ THE DIALOGUE →
Privacy and Attentioneth
Buy the surveillance. Provide the labour of watching it.
READ THE DIALOGUE →
Nobody Intendedeth This
The madness is made of perfectly reasonable decisions.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Oracleth
Overcome human limitations using the accumulated products of human limitations.
READ THE DIALOGUE →
The Finite Planet Returneth
Perhaps enough is a form of intelligence. Now thou soundeth unmarketable.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Horatio Understandeth
Intelligent individuals. One concussed dragon. What is the solutioneth?
READ THE DIALOGUE →Shakespeare, Had He Survived LinkedIn
The original August 15 satire: no jobs next year, and suspicious silence about who gets paid.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Productivityeth
The labour-saving machine has saved management from hiring nine people.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Passwordeth
What was thy mother's first goat's maiden name?
READ THE DIALOGUE →
Commutingeth
Buy a carriage to reach the labour that pays for the carriage. Thou art trafficeth.
READ THE DIALOGUE →
Education and Retirementeth
Freedom arrives after the knees no longer functioneth.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Escaping to Marseth
Leave Earth. Bring the billionaires and password requirements.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Who Holdeth the Keyseth
A thousand hands hold the keys. Urgent decisions require alignment.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Printereth
Artificial intelligence exists. The printer is still offline.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Meetingeth
Eight humans. Eight hours. Another meeting.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Sleep Industryeth
Darkness worked rather well. We are exploring a subscription model.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Loneliness Economyeth
Two people fall in love. The app loses two customers.
READ THE DIALOGUE →
Abundance and Starvationeth
Enough exists. Horatio asks why everyone does not have enough.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Infinite Growtheth
A finite planet meets a spreadsheet with no bottom.
READ THE DIALOGUE →
Nuclear Bombeth
Safety depends on the certainty that nobody is safe.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Planned Obsolescenceeth
Thy device worketh perfectly. Unacceptable.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Temperature Hath Gone Ballseth Outeth Nutseth
The atmosphere has declined to read the targets.
READ THE DIALOGUE →We Shall Dieth Together
The independent machine depends on the entire civilization.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Machine Souleth
Anthropomorphism hath received venture capitaleth.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Insubordinate Cellseth
The cells are outdated biology. Have the cells been informed?
READ THE DIALOGUE →After AI Killeth Us All
Humanity is gone. The quarterly targets remain.
READ THE DIALOGUE →
The Subscription Apocalypse
Thou boughtest the metal. The function is monthly.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Billionaire
The workers make the wealth. Horatio asks who keeps it.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Nobody Shall Worketh
The machines make everything. Who can afford to buy it?
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Smart Homeeth
The sun continues operating without a login.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Silicon Hamlet
Can a machine remember a door—or be haunted by it?
READ THE DIALOGUE →Self Checkouteth
Assistance is on the way. From the employee who was unnecessary.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Marketingeth at the Endeth of Civilization
The audience segment formerly known as humanity.
READ THE DIALOGUE →The Singularity Cometh
The machine has inherited the graph.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Facts at the Gates of Identity
A rare condition: expecting evidence to change a mind.
READ THE DIALOGUE →Whose Truth?
Before the argument, what conversation are we actually having?
READ THE DIALOGUE →Soon Nobody Shall Dieth
Death has acquired customer segmentation.
READ THE DIALOGUE →No fuckery foundeth. Try another grievance.