The Shoggoth meme works for humans too: we're inscrutable horrors in masks
technollama · x · 2026-09-13
Legal scholar technollama riffs on the AI community's classic Shoggoth meme (the smiley-masked Cthulhu), suggesting the metaphor applies equally to humans: we too are inscrutable horrors putting on a mask for the outside world.
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