As companies destroy the world in pursuit of profits that will never come, I welcome our Butlerian Jihad
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March 19, 2026
submitted by cannedtuna to whitepeopletwitter
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For those unfamiliar the Dune series, the Butlerian Jihad was a crusade against “thinking machines”. Ultimately computers, and intelligent or thinking machines, even down to calculators are destroyed and banned. Humans who are trained in complex mental maths become known as Mentats, a sort of human computer. Just, uhh, leave all that shit on IX, with their Axalotl Tanks out of it.
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