Project Cybersyn (Entry 993.AC0245)

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In which Latin America's first Marxist democracy tries to collectivize the means of production by inventing a proto-internet in 1970, and John just hopes it was orange and brown. Certificate #53432.

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0:00.0	We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.
0:07.0	We are receiving this message.
0:11.0	We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can
0:16.0	only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.
0:21.3	Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began
0:25.3	this monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge. These recordings represent
0:29.8	our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.
0:35.0	So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,
0:41.0	this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 993.
1:17.0	A.C. 0245.
1:20.3	Certificate number 534.32.
1:24.0	Project Cyber Sin. or possibly Well, possibly Cibercine.
1:45.0	Cibercine.
1:46.0	Cebrcine.
1:47.0	The Projecto Cibercine.
1:49.0	Cybercine or Cybersin. We spend... scene or sibber sign?
1:53.2	We spend an inordinate amount of time in this reference work explaining to the future
1:59.8	which elements of our moment or history are or are not compatible with Marxism.
2:07.6	We try.
2:08.6	Do you try?
2:09.6	The thing is it changes all the time.
2:11.0	We're the ultimate arbiters.
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