links.lmorchard.com - #stories

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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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."

Tags: #fiction #future #portland #scifi #stories

A Chronological Presentation of Fucks I Give., My sister asked if the events of “The Labyrinth"...

Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:41:48 +0000

Sarah is Hebrew name. So, it is common, and has been in use for thousands and thousands of years. It does not take long (for him) to find a dark haired girl named Sarah, who has a younger sibling, and who feels that she is treated unfairly by her step mother. In a fit of rage he kidnaps this other child and spirits it away to the fairy world. Perhaps this new Sarah dies in the quest to find the child, perhaps she wins her sibling back and flees.

Tags: #bowie #henson #imported:pinboard #labyrinth #stories #to:fb

Blank Disc : 365 tomorrows

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:11:27 +0000

Tags: #fiction #scifi #stories

An incredible short story told from the perspective of the alien in John Carpenter's The Thing [Afternoon Reading]

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:24:03 +0000

wow. what an amazing punchline

Tags: #scifi #stories #thething

upsideclown: extelligence

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:49:54 +0000

Tags: #cogsci #extelligence #extended #fiction #mind #philosophy #scifi #stories #upsideclown

Warren Ellis » Want/Get/Do

Tue, 18 May 2010 13:53:47 +0000

"Identify a character in your idea. 1) What does that character WANT? 2) What does that character need to do to GET what they want? 3) What are they prepared to DO to get what they want?"

Tags: #do #get #plot #stories #want #warrenellis #writing

l.m.orchard's profile on Ficly - A better, shorter story

Sun, 31 May 2009 06:43:52 +0000

"l.m.orchard Joined May 2009 and calls 0xDECAFBAD home."

Tags: #ficly #flashfiction #link:rel=me #stories #writing #yay

Strange Horizons Fiction: This Must Be the Place, by Elliott Bangs

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:54:08 +0000

Tags: #nifty #scifi #stories #timetravel

welcome to the ficlets memorial « the ficlets memorial

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:44:44 +0000

"ficlets is no more. AOL decided to kill the product, but thankfully, since all the content on the site was licensed under Creative Commons, I decided that there's no reason to let the content die. So, consider this the ficlets memorial. I will keep this site up as long as I'm able (it's extremely simple and not costing me anything)."

Tags: #archives #archiveteam #ficlets #stories #writing

found_objects: literally the greatest book i have ever read

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:18:47 +0000

"PLEASE KEEP IN MIND WHILE READING THIS WAS WRITTEN BY A FOURTH GRADER. THAT SIMPLE FACT WILL MAKE THE STORY ONLY A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER."

Tags: #bums #funny #maddog #prom #stories

Elizabeth Bear - Fiction - Tideline

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:35:04 +0000

"Chalcedony wasn't built for crying. She didn't have it in her, not unless her tears were cold tapered glass droplets annealed by the inferno heat that had crippled her."

Tags: #ai #machines #memorial #scifi #stories #war

Creepypasta - Encyclopedia Dramatica

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:44:02 +0000

"Creepypasta are short stories designed to unnerve, disturb or scare the readers of a Creepy Thread on /b/."

Tags: #creepypasta #horror #scary #stories

$5 Chocolate Bar (Ftrain.com)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:22:52 +0000

"Weeping is like a five-dollar chocolate bar. Someone else could enjoy it but I feel guilty opening the wrapper. I have a girlfriend and Halo."

Tags: #chocolate #crying #sigurros #stories #writing