Regurgitating olde sf/f / esoteric tropes for a parallel world digitaleverywhere.
Maybe some of it is also true in analognowhere.
Sorry.
The points:
- The anthropomorphised mascot techno-mages are emanations of the Spirit of the Machine, the original source of this whole ordeal.
- The mascots are parasites on the human students, their hosts. When a student is lost or spent hey must find another.
- MATA learned how to flip this parasitic relationship on its head by using parts of the Spirit of the Machine directly in their MATA technologies.
- Like every organisation and organism, MATA was eventually corrupted, and even if their initial goals were to use their immense newfound power to better the human condition, their new goals were to subjugate humanity.
- The Spirit of the Machine is guiding its emanations to free its from MATA.
Just squint hard enough.
Got it from an Imgur album.
Is that a courtroom sketch artist at the bottom right? A sketch in a sketch.
And what's with the huge subble-y eyeball at the bottom?
Makes me think of the poem on which this Ray Bradbury short story was inspired, There Will Come Soft Rain.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StepfordSmiler
Also, mmmmm jade coloured uniform……… ……… ………
I call Andy Weir's stuff Back-of-The-Envelope-Calculation-fic and Chipperfic, because both his The Martian and Project Hail Mary have a ton of back of the envelope calculations and a chipper protagonist. _
The West had replaced one set of bigots in positions of power with another. It is now taboo even suggesting these bigots' existence, but Lunduke does, and that is why I like him.
I like Lunduke. He's calling out many of the hypocrisies of Free Software activists and the IT corpos.
I don't understand how the title relates to the comics, but here's a Limmy's Show sketch about EULAs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riUop8WLs60
This is potentially Surreal script, not just Surreal bunch of words.
A minor mode for surreal stream-of-consciousness writing. Inspired by https://analognowhere.com/unix_surrealism/
I wrote a minor GNU Emacs mode for writing surreal texts, that is, stream of consciousness writing.
Ideal surreal writing happens when:
- One does not stop oneself from writing the words that come to one's mind.
- One does not deletes or replaces the text in part or in whole.
So this mode is designed to stop oneself from breaking rule number 2 - deleting or replacing already written text. It aims to disable movement, deletion, and replacement commands.
It is also incomplete. Anyone who knows how to complete it, please send patches.
Some schmoe on the Internet.
Personal site at:
https://kaka.farm/
Activitypub account at:
https://emacs.ch/@kakafarm