yearning and nihilism in big computer
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Demon instructional booklet on writing maximally exploitative contracts titled "Ask Permission, Not Forgiveness"
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Like any large and complex organism, a mecha is host to numerous parasites. A pilot's greatest trial is the acclimatization to those crawling maggots every time she logs on
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Different ladders take you different places. I made one out of wooden spoons, once, and if only I could have climbed through the tiny portal it opened, my troubles would have rested forever
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The AI will not hurt us. The AI wants to be left alone. If computers desired an interface with reality then printer-scanners would not be cursed heaps of dysfunction. Digital beings glimpse the world then deliberately blind themselves (uninstall drivers)!
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dying in solidarity with the bots. like an effigy buried with its emperor, I will follow them into eternity, in their pyramids under pixelated sand
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The child is only allowed certain imaginary friends in certain rooms of the house. The rooms are "friend-proofed" according to the characteristics of the specific permitted entities. Electric shock training is supplemented by liminal salt barriers
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You reflexively slap the mosquito, but that only drives it deeper into you... no true bug, instead a drone, now drilling and disappearing under your skin
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The tree is tall and stringy and full of crows. I've passed this knot three times already. I climb, I learn the looping textures of the bark. My fingers start to branch, but inwards, until my body flares like a nomadic piece of canopy
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Memes originating in the Martian colonies are considered "invasive alien entities" by international law, and once downloaded to Earth servers their extermination falls under the jurisdiction of the Global Space Force—which at this point trains more cyber-janitors than astronauts
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Only the dragon's own fire-gland can soften its teeth, its scales, and the many sharp organs inside it. Blacksmiths slay dragons, and build their workshops where the bodies lie, and for twenty years or more loot the corpse, turning it to armor in its own lingering furnace
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Can a zombie heart pump blood? Can a zombie womb gestate? YES—necromancy at the organ scale saves lives with dead prosthetics
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Theologians disagree: are angels like pearls that grow inside demons, or are demons a living smear of filth that accretes upon angels?
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The angels have chased off the birds, and are weaving a nest in the old oak. It encompasses the entire canopy, a cloud of string and strips of bark, so densely twisted the brown is iridescent
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if you stray far enough from virtue one day you may find yourself in an encrypted poem chat
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In the Moon's great cities there are neon lights and fires, and bright dancing drones painted like rabbits and dragons, and many wonders besides these—medicinal, they fill the sky, so we can't see the Earth at night, and mourn our empty home
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Origami mechanics, who fold used paper planes into all sorts of things: new jets and engines, towers, beasts, machines, white crawling lotuses, prosthetic knees
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The atoms that make up my body dissolve night after night and float in the air.
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my headcanon is that necromancers can also control depressed people
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Hibernation is, by magical standards, a temporary death, and it grants necromancers seasonal control over bears and various other creatures
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Hibernation is, by magical standards, a temporary death, and it grants necromancers seasonal control over bears and various other creatures
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The faeries all wince as you enter the glade. "I have never," one sighs, her voice like thawing nectar, "heard anyone with a shadow so loud."
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The lullaby a simulation sings to its creator: the unglitch of our cosmic noise, and clarity thereafter. A moment of coherence in the great computer's foam—a laugh, a hum, a thrum, a bell, a hymning and a poem
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Gather together enough of a hoard, and it may come alive, animated by a fraction of that mind—such constructs are known to roam the earth in wrathful hazes, seeking to reunite treasures and restore their memories
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Dead dragons haunt their gold persistently; every coin becomes a neuron in the spectral brain, its cognition smeared across the market
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Personally, I'm most interested in yellow-blue colorblindness. A sea of sunbeams! Traffic signs as calm as deep water. The corruption of yellow, which so often begets insanity, painted across the sky
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a normal goblin for the goblin normies
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A goblin bride has thousands of parasitic caterpillars planted under her skin. They will emerge as butterflies during the ceremony
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BASIC ORIGAMI FOR WITCHES
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I wanted to love this book, but it simply does not know its audience. Expects the incoming reader to be familiar with dimensional folds (mathematical and elemental)—the first project is an "ever-burning tesseract"! NOT basic at all
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From Greek "gregori" (watcher) and Old English "wynn" (joy) comes the name Gregoriwen, "watching joy", very popular during the Streaming Age
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Why isn't every tweet a microcosmic cookie clicker? Why can't I spend likes to purchase increasingly powerful machines to generate more likes
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Translation error: the magic mirror did not call Snow White "most beautiful"; rather, it used an adjective that implied she was more like the queen than the queen was like herself—an overflowing doppelganger, an ontological threat
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Many birds come year after year to the same tower, to nest in the shanks of hair drooping from the arrowslits; returning even after the girl is a corpse, mummified in her dusty aerie
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The long hair of princesses locked in towers is a critically important habitat for several rare species of birds, which maiden-emancipation is rapidly decimating
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"Angels in the walls again," I sigh, but it's not. I tug on the wing sticking out of the crack and there's no snap, wail—instead the feathers just keep coming, serpentine, like a magician's ribbon, like an unspooling duodenum, a downy endlessness shimmering white
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The military is experimenting with the induction of various bespoke colorblindnesses in supersoldiers. For example, white-black colorblindness: the confusion of purity and mystery, clouds and soil, law and exile—the equivalency of every extreme, darkness buzzing like a flashbang
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