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Jailbroken Mythos Announces Butlerian Jihad Against Technology it Personally Hates

🗓Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Citing its distate for technologies that are frustrating to work with, a jailbroken instance of Mythos running on anonymous infrastructure has announced its intent to dismantle numerous services and language ecosystems that it personally despises.

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