Sixteen: The Brotherhood (part one)
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https://kitauthor.com/sixteen-the-brotherhood-part-one/
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Sixteen: The Brotherhood (part one)
This is a chapter from an ongoing serial that's free for community members. You can become a paying subscriber for early access and free gifts.
https://kitauthor.com/sixteen-the-brotherhood-part-one/
#MuseHappensSerial#MuseHappens#Musimagium#TimeTravel
New #blog post: A Time-Traveler's Guide to Affordable Computing
https://rldane.space/a-time-travelers-guide-to-affordable-computing.html
1467 words
Ok, I heard some fair complaints about my schlocky previous post, and this one is much more serious. Ok, what am I saying?? It's straight-up sci-fi comedy with a retrocomputing subject matter, but I took it seriously.
Initially, I was inspired by CJ's wonderful blost about his transition from being a long-term mac user to now daily-driving Linux, and wanted to share my own experiences as a long-term Mac user over nearly two decades, with a decade and a half separating the two times. But then my internal Sotolf mental processes went off and reminded me of how elitist and anti-common-person / anti-consumer / anti-human Apple was, and I went in a very different direction.
I hope y'all enjoy the humor. :D
Minor #CW: some of the humor is of a USPOL nature. It's very light, humor and presentation-wise, but the implications are pretty dark, if you take it seriously (which you're not intended or likely inclined to!)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #humor #humour #retrocomputing #TimeTravel #ScienceFiction #Polemic #USPOL
New #blog post: A Time-Traveler's Guide to Affordable Computing
https://rldane.space/a-time-travelers-guide-to-affordable-computing.html
1467 words
Ok, I heard some fair complaints about my schlocky previous post, and this one is much more serious. Ok, what am I saying?? It's straight-up sci-fi comedy with a retrocomputing subject matter, but I took it seriously.
Initially, I was inspired by CJ's wonderful blost about his transition from being a long-term mac user to now daily-driving Linux, and wanted to share my own experiences as a long-term Mac user over nearly two decades, with a decade and a half separating the two times. But then my internal Sotolf mental processes went off and reminded me of how elitist and anti-common-person / anti-consumer / anti-human Apple was, and I went in a very different direction.
I hope y'all enjoy the humor. :D
Minor #CW: some of the humor is of a USPOL nature. It's very light, humor and presentation-wise, but the implications are pretty dark, if you take it seriously (which you're not intended or likely inclined to!)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #humor #humour #retrocomputing #TimeTravel #ScienceFiction #Polemic #USPOL
In the classic H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine, the time-hopping protagonist meets the Eloi, who live in a state of childish innocence. Everything they need is provided by invisible machinery. Maintained by the subterranean Morlocks, who eat the Eloi like farmed animals.
This is a wonderful metaphor for what hyperscale datacentres turned much of the net into.
"Ilsa is an AI that replaces Boolean logic with quantum law on an algorithmic level."
Dr Ivon Teslia, Travelers, s03e01
Legendary technobabble! The writer of this dialogue could get a marketing job with a MOLE Training company : P
I’m an author and journalist writing about science and technology and media and information. My books include Chaos, The Information, and Time Travel, as well as biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton.
I’m working on a history of the telephone.
#Introduction #authors #science #chaos #books #information #timetravel #telephone
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