April of 1812.

A mill owner named William Horsfall was riding home on his beautiful white stallion back from the Cloth Hall market in Huddersfield, UK. He had spent weeks boasting that he would ride up to his saddle in Luddite blood (a precious substance that served as fuel for the mills).

A few yards later, at Crosland Moor, a man named George Mellor—twenty-two years old—shot him. It hit Horsfall in the groin, who, nominative-deterministically, fell from his horse. People gathered, reproaching him for having been the oppressor of the poor. Naturally, loyal to his principles in death as he was in life, he couldn’t hear them. He died one day later in an inn. Mellor was hanged.

April of 2026.

A datacenter owner named Samuel Altman was driving home on his beautiful white Koenigsegg Regera back from Market Street in San Francisco, US. He had spent weeks boasting that he would scrap and steal our blog posts (a precious substance that serves as fuel for the datacenters).

A few hours later, at Russian Hill, a man named Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama—twenty years old—allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at his house. He hit an exterior gate. Altman and his family were asleep, but they’re fine. Moreno-Gama is in custody.

This kind of violence must be condemned. This is not the way. It’s horrible that it is happening at all.