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Title: Fourth Industrial Revolution Slut

Author: Karina Bush

Plot: The author in [non] avenging-object form cruises from Silvio Berlusconi to the King of Thailand to Klaus Schwab’s AI, abortion-gifting, bionic dick, all in the hope of getting a vaccine passport with more than a little irony behind it.

Subplot: Dudu the dog struggles to survive the grip of an unleashed sociopath.

Sub-subplot: The King of Thailand wonders, is today the day I finally get to stare into the face of God i.e. a manicured pussy?

Publisher: Deep Snakes

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“I am Sir David Attenborough and, almost a century into life, I do not deem it necessary to introduce myself further.”

This is how FIRS opens, on Rumble, with the following video suggestions in the sidebar to the right:

‘Is this the most shocking moment in awards history? [looping GIF of Miley Cyrus grinding next to a guy I’ve forgotten the name of]’

‘Power Slap: Road to the Title – Season 2: Episode 8’

‘LIVE! Playing a new SCARY game – Alex Zedra’

‘SNEAKO reacts to the Epstein Files’

Glenn Fucking Greenwald!

Not a battle for my attention exactly, but that Miley Cyrus GIF kept looping and, honestly, about forty minutes in, I just decided to cover it with a tissue. Then the tissue fell off and I switched the video to full screen instead. For some reason, I forgot I could do that. Maybe cos the video screen was quite big to begin with.

Somehow, it feels right for FIRS to be on a site like Rumble. Surrounded by grifters and weird alt-right nonsense, it works as an infiltrator, a stalker.

Or maybe an adherent, maximised, better than them?

Disclaimer: the Black Candles piece Karina wrote for film dada is one of my favourites in that series and, having just gone through part 1 of Fourth Industrial Revolution Slut, she is pretty close to being my favourite non-Romanian, non-dead writer.

The madness and energy and commitment and fixed contradictions – and other contradictions I may have missed due to not knowing that much about Klaus Schwab and Silvio Berlusconi and the King of Thailand – in this text/video thing are…[insert positive adjective/slang].