Another Day, Another Apocalypse

Stephen Weierman
6 min readApr 10, 2024

Reflections on the end of the world (as we know it).

AI is here! The sky is falling! Image generated with DALL-E 3.

It may be the end of the world as we know it, but I feel fine.

People have been predicting the end of the world since the beginning of time. Lately though, it seems like every 12 years (I’m thinking Y2K, the “Mayan Doomsday” in 2012, and yesterday’s apocalyptic total eclipse), there’s a certain kind of nonsense that points to this…

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Stephen Weierman

Stephen is a queer computer scientist, hacker, interreligious theologian, heretic, and spiritual nomad.