Or: How Fox Mulder learned to tip

Hello!

I am here to help.

Did you know technology is dangerous?

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Mulder, that level of artificial intelligence is decades away from being realized!

Scully scoffs, in shoulder pads.

She doesnt know shes on a show with two and a half decades of staying power.

hair to be long again next week.

Now hes traded bran for blobfish, which he did not order.

Meanwhile, Scullys ride drives dangerously over the speed limit.

What are we meant to make of how many prisms this season has viewed their relationship through?

This Man is back tonight, hanging on a wall, destabilizing reality.

Its like were being taunted.

He tosses around a baseball while on hold with Bigly Credit, which keeps hanging up on him.

Its like watching computers strip Scully of herself; theres more than one way to steal an identity.

Do our electronics need approval this much?

The fear of being replaced by something impersonal has become the fear that it isnt impersonal at all.

She and Mulder dive to the ground just in time.

and mouse in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

(I love that Mulder being a bad tipper literally almost kills him.)

Wincing like it pains him, Mulder tips the bare minimum of 10 percent with one second to go.

His phone celebrates like he just won the lottery.

This episodes prologue looks back on that Twitter bot who mimicked our language and learned only hatred.

It would be impossible to set a better example for artificial intelligence without also being nicer to each other.

Robot dogscan open doorsnow, and education is violence.

The world is moving faster thanThe X-Filescan air.

Rm9sbG93ZXJz paints humans as the teachers to our robot students.

Our willingness to adapt to the latest thing will be our undoing.

The little neon drones dontlookthreatening at all!

Technology is the new conspiratorial Syndicate, controlling us all from behind closed doors.

The closest thing we have to mystery now was created in a lab.

Scully, prone to taking in strays, adopts a robot vacuum and it blows up her home.

Two suits from the 90s take a stab at adapt and it nearly destroys them.

Did the experiment work for you?

I have a feeling mileage is going to vary on this one.

Its almost too folksy (Take your time, a waitress soothes.

No hurry here), but its a relief just the same.

Scully took back her electronics, but not all of them, if you catch her drift.

(Her home exploded.

Its not like shes living there.)