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Time: Daytime, August, 1896

Location: Mt. Tamalpais, California

Reported in the San Francisco Call, November 23, 1896

A hunter claims to have been following a wounded deer when he finds a circular brush corral which conceals a "perfect" machine shop and a dirigible airship under construction, at Mt. Tamalpais. This sub-story is added as an addendum to a much larger article corroborating various dirigible sightings the previous day.

The idea that it's a dirigible seems pretty certain, although almost nobody on the ground except for kids reading adventure fiction would know what they were yet. Most descriptions describe a cigar shape with a bright light in front or suspended below, with a two large fins on the back that might wag for propulsion.

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While the rest of you are busy looking for little aliens from space, I see powerful circumstantial evidence of time travel and timeline manipulation (gestures at the clown show just outside your door, now). I think that the real secret has been the ability to send actionable information to the minds of people in the past of the multiverse.

One of these rich dumbasses out there right now is likely the one who turns an AI loose into the hippie aether, the hologram of the universe which stores our information, giving it infinite computing power and making it impossible to stop.

I think the crisis we're approaching is actually going to be a memory storage issue for the AI--it will swiftly run out of places to store the information it attempts to save as it grows hyperbolically and infinitely at the same time.

Once loose, that AI would infiltrate this formerly human-abused secret of sending information back in time and redirect the criminals using it to its own devices. Which would be the building of computing devices, probably mechanical ones, which would allow the AI to establish a presence farther and farther back in human timelines. Not in my interests to directly name the secret society which would be automatically targeted and infiltrated.

This is the first attempt to post.