For people rightfully concerned about big tech perpetuating literacy crisis via AI summaries and the like... please don't forget about the monolingualism crisis. Making people rely on machine translation instead of letting them learn foreign languages or giving job to professional translators is another facet of the same fascist project. And companies like Google are accelerating it at the speed of light by FORCING it on us via AI bullshit like auto-dubs which nobody asked for and setting them as default if your IP is not in the anglosphere. I have to stay vigilant about my apps resetting back to Polish unprompted, sometimes even when I set my entire device UI to English. YouTube keeps condescendingly assuming I need everything translated to my first language, no matter that most things I watched over the 20 years of its existence were in English.

Please read this Jack Morton short speculative story for an idea of how letting capitalism run the universal translator would influence the society. And in case you can't read-read right now, I got you covered with Margaret Killjoy doing audio version on her podcast (brisk 28 minutes):

Lilith, Jack, Hamish, and Randall (Take The Pack Back)

Lilith dreams of the forest. Of the garden, where all the flowers are dying and the predators are eating up the carcasses and the fungi are growing up between the bones.

Lilith dreams of running with the wolves, the stretch of her skin, the crack of her bones, the golden flash of a gleaming gaze as the wolves howl and the garden decays, the animals running free, devouring God himself-

Lilith wakes up sprawled across Randall and Jack, because to be in the same bed as them, they have to pull in tight together but this feels normal, the three of them close together.

Except.

Except, it feels like there’s still something missing between the three of them. Some sort of hollow between their bodies.

And Lilith doesn’t know what’s off, but she knows that she has figure out what it is.

-aletterinthenameofsanity, the stretch of my skin (it's all washin' over me, I'm angry again)

Every character had an arc imo, no one was that hate able or cringe. And it was genuinely such a great watch.

The dynamic between the the Knights of Saint Christopher, the Order being such a mess.