It’s to stand aboveground and pontificate about the marvels of this bright new magic, to be dazzled by all its flickering, glittering glory, its smooth mirages and six-fingered messiahs, its apparent obsequiousness in response to all your commands, right up until the point when a sinkhole opens up and swallows you whole.
“Toolmen”, Mandy Brown on her blog A Working Library
This was the time when the mythic achievements of the conquest were blown like glass from the glory hole of the Queen’s will.
"Oh Time Thy Pyramids," Ann LeBlanc, Clarkesworld 224
Submitted by Bill with the comment “This remarkable story does foreground the more chaste definition of glory hole in the metaphor within which this read pausing sentence appears. I think the other definition is getting some work done, too, though.”
Black and white, and beautifully grainy, these videos now teleport us back to this world — but one we can only experience in the hermetic and contextless environment of the present internet, like astronauts feeling the surface of the moon through thick, oxygen-filled gloves.
“Circles of Circuitry in the Lower East Side”, Blair Johnson for the CultureHub blog
The driver of AI’s insane energy addiction is no more amenable to argument than a Labrador in possession of an entire roast chicken.
“AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking”, Rupert Goodwins for The Register
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But this is to anticipate the story, for when the moon was born there was no ocean.
The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
who needs to worry about genocide when you can rotate a perfect golden sphere of cumming shrimp in your mind palace forever
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The cheapest electron is the one never used.
“NJ electric bills are about to jump 20% — who's to blame and what can you do?”, Catalina Gonella and Louis C. Hochman for Gothamist
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