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LJIdol 9.32.2 - Intersubjectivity
It's hard realizing you (which is to say "I") suck ( Read more... ) -
LJIdol 9.32.1 - Overwatch
"You wanted to be a hero," it said, voice a tinny, mechanical rumbling in his ear.
"Proctor, this isn't..." Jonathan rasped, struggling to push up from the ground on quavering arms, "I didn't..." he let himself slump to the ground, panting as darkness took him.
The youth, Jonathan, stood atop a tall building and looked down at the simulated city ( Read more... ) -
A prayer, of sorts, for 2015
A new year has a kind of spiritual-cultural significance, less a real thing in the sense of touching, but a feeling that surges through sections of the morphomemetic field (like the morphogenetic field, only not quite so broad) at different times in different cultures, depending on what part of the year seemed a good place to start it ( Read more... ) -
LJIdol 9.31 - “The future outwits all our certitudes”
Gabby was supposed to be her father ( Read more... ) -
LJIdol 9.30 - Critical Hit
There was a failure. A flaw. Something they'd missed.
Something they should have caught that they didn't.
Captain Andrea Washington couldn't put her finger on it, but it was there.
Her ship, the Ascension and the dozen souls onboard were in danger. They all of them knew it. There was something in the recycled air from the hydroponics bay ( Read more... ) -
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Mostly it's just that there's so much very specific shit to remember. I can get a general idea but remembering who wrote which of the studies is frustrating. -
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I swear to fuck, I'm so close to crying in impotent frustration anymore and I don't even know what to do except keep working. -
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A really part of my recent ADHD diagnosis is trying to study for a test, being aware that there's going to be just a WORLD of cognitive chaff really messing up the information's ability to stick with you and keeping at it anyway with the vain hope that somehow it'll just sink in and stay there ( Read more... ) -
LJIdol 9.29 - Gauntlet
The wet smack of fist against flesh and bone ( Read more... ) -
LJIdol - 9.28 - The Copernican Principle
We built them, the robots.
We built them strong and fast and smart. My God did we make them smart. We set them to work doing things we--with our slow, stupid meat--could never manage. Inside a century, they'd upgraded themselves to the point where their thoughts were moving faster than the speed of light, an innovation they could explain in ( Read more... )