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not tentacles, just arms with lots of joints - sometimes they break and heal crookedly but there’s enough freedom that it doesn’t matter

Despite the myth, he’s a gentle fellow, kind to adventurers and would-be rescuers. Yet, only those who abandon him ever see freedom again.

We grant you freedom↵No leaders↵No masters↵Earth is free to rule itself now↵Merely a speck of light from our escape capsule

Freedom fighters planting logic bombs for the surveillance AIs to gobble up, causing combinatorial explosions in their algorithms.