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A Solitary Cabin - Deprecation Notice

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:27:15 +0000

"Not exactly," Chet interrupts. His smile has that practiced startup-founder quality, the one they teach you at Y Combinator, the smile that says I'm about to violate the social contract but in a disruptive way. "We're actually transitioning to a fully autonomous development pipeline. Claude Code Enterprise will be taking over the majority of engineering tasks."

Tags: #ai #claude #codegen #fiction #llms #tech

The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:14:31 +0000

"No," I say. "It chose 'stone' because statistically, in the petabytes of training data scraped without consent from the internet, the word 'stone' appears in proximity to 'lump in throat' with a probability of 0.04 percent, which is higher than 'wet creature.' It isn't a choice. It's a math problem. It is a predictive text algorithm on steroids. It doesn't know what a throat is. It doesn't know what fear feels like. It is predicting the next token based on mediocrity."

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Flash Fiction Online – Bold. Brief. Beautiful. Fiction in Fewer Words.

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:43:53 +0000

Bold. Brief. Beautiful. Fiction in Fewer Words.

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The Last Backup - 365tomorrows

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:38:49 +0000

The notification appeared at 3:47 AM: FINAL CONSCIOUSNESS BACKUP COMPLETE. Amara stared at her phone, hands trembling. Tomorrow—today, technically—she will undergo the procedure. Her biological brain, riddled with an inoperable tumor, would be replaced with a neural substrate. The doctors promised it would be seamless. She’d wake up still being Amara, just in a different medium. But which Amara?

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Main :: Causality Story Sequencer :: Hollywood Camera Work

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:34:42 +0000

Causality is a new kind of writing app where you develop your story visually, giving you an incredible overview of even very complex stories.

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The Whispering Earring (Scott Alexander) - Croissanthology

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:40:06 +0000

It is not a taskmaster, telling you what to do in order to achieve some foreign goal. It always tells you what will make you happiest. If it would make you happiest to succeed at your work, it will tell you how best to complete it. If it would make you happiest to do a half-assed job at your work and then go home and spend the rest of the day in bed having vague sexual fantasies, the earring will tell you to do that. The earring is never wrong.

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They Let Me Live

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:03:52 +0000

"The friend-guild shows up for all kinds of people in need. We're visiting nurses. We're aid advocates. We're often first responders. My grandma lost her legs to a mine in the Horrors, and there wasn't enough medicine to keep it from getting a lot worse. I volunteered when I was sixteen so I could be the one appointed to feed her and bathe her, because she found it more dignified when it was family. She spent her last years in pain, but the guy who laid the mine? Who knows if they'll ever think about it? What would it change, if they did? The mine was laid. We can disarm the mines, we can demolish the munitions factories, we can even abolish war itself, but there was no restoring her. We have to live with the damage. We have to live in reality."

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Home - GigaNotoSaurus

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 01:36:07 +0000

GigaNotoSaurus (the webzine, edited by LaShawn Wanak) publishes one longish fantasy or science fiction story monthly. Longish meaning longer than a short story, and shorter than a novel.

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Tarot-Based Situation Generator ~ Clarity Flowers

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 03:35:09 +0000

A tool for generating some characters and a situation using tarot cards.

Tags: #fiction #gamedev #imported:pinboard #tarot #writing

Ficdown

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:28:57 +0000

Ficdown is a set of standards using the Markdown formatting syntax that can be used to create choice-based interactive fiction.

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Ficdown

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:28:57 +0000

Ficdown is a set of standards using the Markdown formatting syntax that can be used to create choice-based interactive fiction.

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The Dark Wheel

Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:48:02 +0000

The Dark Wheel is a 48 page short novel (novella) which was included with the original Elite versions.

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SCP-524 - The SCP Foundation

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:23:59 +0000

SCP-524 is a common white rabbit, of the species Sylvilagus bachmani. It can be identified by its white fur with symmetrical black markings on its body. SCP-524 has shown the ability to be able to consume any material, regardless of edibility.

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Thalience — KarlSchroeder.com

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:04:57 +0000

Now maybe you can see how science could have a successor: thalience would use objective truth as an artistic medium and merge subjectivity and objectivity in a creative activity whose purpose is the re-sanctification of the natural world. To believe in an uplifting and satisfying vision of your place in the universe, and to know that this vision is true (or as true as anything can be) would be sublime. Thalience would be an activity worthy of post-scientific humanity, or our own biological or post-biological successors.

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PayPal Strong-Arms Indie Ebook Publishers Over Erotic Content | ZDNet

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:26:49 +0000

Under the new PayPal policy, Mark Corker of Smashwords told all the Smashwords authors they would also have to remove paranormal romance that included shape-shifters - if the shape-shifters were to have sex in their non-human forms.

Tags: #erotica #fiction #imported:pinboard #paypal #twilight #weird #writing