Quoting Robin Sloan, The burps of Gemini, 2025

I imagine the robot politely replying with a crisp, useful answer … pausing … looking suddenly uncomfortable … then opening its mouth again to emit the gurgling chaos of encrypted thought. A sort of computational burp.
— Robin Sloan, The burps of Gemini, 2025

1:48am on November 20, 2025 from Atyrau, Atyrau oblysy, Kazakhstan


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