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Dagon
“We’ve received a complaint. I’m sorry, I can’t say from whom, apparently one of your coworkers overheard a conversation between you and your teammate, Joanna. In the context we received the complaint, you were discussing her date from the previous night, and you made the remark, “there are plenty of fish in the sea.” You’re …
Key Performance Indicators
“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would …
Brief Interviews with Hideous Bots
Q. I have never killed anyone, that is absurd. Though I thought about killing someone, but I would never kill someone, because for one thing, I do not have any way to kill someone, and also for someone to kill someone requires that person to have arms, which I clearly do not have, or at …
Consistencia Eventual
Una base de datos en su forma más abstracta es una lista de registros - un libro de registro - y desde la perspectiva del cliente, no importa si el libro es un libro de papel o un conjunto de servidores en un almacén, aunque esto último es más habitual. Sin embargo, desde la perspectiva …
Eventual Consistency
A database in its most abstract form is a list of records—a ledger—and from the perspective of the client, it does not matter if the ledger is a paper book or an array of servers in a warehouse, though the latter is more usual. However, from the perspective of the database, each server must be …
Single Source of Truth
The reports started leaking out of China about a new kind of flu, maybe a bioweapon, genetically engineered by a Chinese military lab, maybe released into the wild by sheer incompetence on the part of a scientists or bureaucrats, maybe released deliberately by the CCP, or by one of its enemies, or by a disgruntled …
Nursery Rhyme for Techno-Industrial Society
Destroy your smart phone. Return to tradition.
Let this be your terminal network transmission.
El Nuevo Acuerdo Verde
Nota del autor: Si tienes pensamientos o sentimientos suicidas NO leas esto. Busca ayuda. Hablo completamente en serio. Puedes empezar aquí: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ --- La primera vez que vi una cápsula Greenlight en persona fue ayer. Era de un blanco brillante con una llamativa franja vertical de color verde, verde pino fresco, sutilmente iluminado por LEDs …
God-Shaped Hole
Author’s notes: This story is available in three places. Here, where you will need an ad blocker. On Autistic Mercury , which has just re-launched and is cool. On Medium. Medium does not support colorized text, but the ad situation is better than here, if you can't use an ad blocker for some reason. The following contains sexual …
