A popular prank is to swap someone’s reality checker with its in-game version, then watch the victim do things they’d never do among people

As VR becomes more realistic, users begin to carry reality checkers offline: Spinning tops, banned items, physics engine bug triggers

Since the incident, when you look hard enough at a thing, you see its pixels. You’re unsure if it’s the world or your vision

you know those dreams that are re-runs of previous dreams and you get an opportunity to redo them↵↵one, you’re born a baby to your parents

instead of bringing extinction, the comet decelerates, drifts down as mountain-sized snowflake, settles in a heap that takes years to melt

When a telepath dies immersed in another’s dream, their soul stays around and wanders dreamtime forever. Some become minor sleep deities

An exasperated sigh. “No, this is like the twentieth dream in a row I’ve woken up from. Whenever I do” she opens her eyes a second time “thi

Court: In an act of gross negligence, defendant destroyed 250 years of lived experience. Plaintiffs argued for negligent homicide,

After an internet outage, 24/7 users stumble through the streets: Months of memory missing, all of it a dream and forgotten along with it

Virtual unreality, bespoke machine dreams streamed directly into your visual cortex at night, no more nightmares, no minute unstimulated

What if moths are as interesting to bat senses as butterflies are to ours, and smell of poisonous fruits or have ultrasound stealth forms

Around here, minds form thoughts. in the Platonic plane, thoughts form minds and there is talk of an Actual plane where minds are real

smoloch! cold tea and moldy bread!↵smoloch, the stubbed toe! ↵smoloch, the slightly uncomfortable seat!

They end up dominating AI.↵2030: With computer science and applied theology on your resume, you’re already in talks with multiple priests

The churches support themselves through commerce. Monks being cheaper than workers, they undercut traditional companies by a wide margin

Out of necessity, singularitarian churches often become AI companies - to try and build their god before their rivals get to it.

An entire seminar about making apple pies from scratch - habit-forming, apple pies tend to exist in most universes because of this seminar

Satellites in sun orbits should be called after moth species

We equipped our moths with chlorophyll wings so they could fly around streetlights forever

The smog’s so thick, sunbeams are still stuck in it even though the sun set long ago. They wither, coil up, break into pieces

It turns out the soul exists but resides in the liver, helps there with cleaning tasks and doesn’t have anything to do with consciousness

atomization produces an undifferentiated mass of humans caught inside society, somewhat reminiscent of a pupa really

a robot that walks underwater and extends small platforms to just under the waterline so that you can walk on water yourself

Mirrored glasses are important vampire hunter equipment: Vampires, not being mirrored, appear extra crisp through them

why call it software exploitation and not glitchcraft

Like a pond someone threw a stone into, the sky ripples, clouds bob. It’d be serene and peaceful if the stone hadn’t also brought Armageddon

Most of us don’t remember their last life because it was that of a bacterium - nothing bad, just the most likely place for a soul to be

The world will end, should they ever agree on a final version. Sow discord among them, your timeline depends on it

The council of gods schisms every time it tries to decide what the universe should look like, which is the only reason we get physics

It prods our clouds with delicate tornadacles, but none respond. As far as it is concerned, Jupiter is the only inhabited planet here

trying to fit in, the alien becomes a cloud, but its churning and occasional rainbow flashes betray it

You leave the atlas on your bed and as you return, the map has spilled, unknown continents and seas now adorn your bedsheet

twitter backend changes (secret internal docs) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/912838036714606598/photo/1

Sadly, with the 280 char limit, back twitter is no more - they got the extra space by cutting the tweets into moebius strips

a portable demon protection grid out of lasers and diffractors attached to your clothes, projecting a pentagram onto the floor around you

It’s a well kept secret but oil wells also have naiads, potamic-chthonic hybrid spirits who keep lucky oil workers company

social networks are among the few spiders known for weaving their web out of their victims instead of silk

Darknet assassination market startup name: Murdr

nature: (n) […] etymology uncertain, possibly a contraction of “not ture” (“not human”)↵vulture: (n) […] etym.: vult+ture (“wants human”)

to ture: (v) to qualify for human (see also: to mature)↵to mature: (v) to grow into turing (→to ture)

Conducting a Turing test in the wild is a computer’s job. Has been for years.

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Having a vampire CEO is usually good, it’s easier to make them answer to the stakeholders

wear android fashion and a fake identification plate so that humans ignore you and don’t expect emotions and social participation #lifehack

Jacked into the net with salvaged hardware, araneanauts are hunters, spelunkers and librarians, except the library occasionally eats them

It coevolves with the few humans that are left, competes with them for energy but sometimes gives up precious bits from its vast memory

Civilization falls. What’s left of the net isn’t enough for a singularity, but it manages to keep grid alive and datacenters fed, goes feral

After their deaths, the great translators of their times are scanned and distilled into software, so that they may be eternal ambassadors

Few are up to it, those who become good at it are often foundlings who’ve grown up among aliens, or have worn the bodies of both species