Piloting an exosuit, looking down at your own body, wondering which of these heads is itching

Unable to survive outside the matrix, we send machines operated via VR telepresence. Making sense of reality levels becomes somewhat harder

Wait isn’t that what culture is?↵(☰) .oO(it’s worse than we thought) That’s exactly the wrong answer. Get out

We ran a virus scan on your culture and I’m afraid that you’ll have to get rid of all those memes before we let you into the council

As the world ends, the last instant is replayed over and over before god finally takes the needle off the record

These are demon protection glasses. Notice the silver grid inlay? That’s a cage. They can’t hurt you through the bars, just never ever peek.

autonomic nervous system: the involuntary parts↵autognomic nervous system: the voluntary, conscious parts

Biospheres only work when they’re absurdly large, to get a stable biological system down to spaceship size you need at least a biotorus

The ancient practiced sky burials, left their dead in cymylbachs: Cloud graves. When a tree catches one, we dare each other to climb into it

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wikipedia: list of things millennials are killing

The other inflation hypothesis: Reverse engineering the universe’s compression algorithm from skybox glitches [pdf, ps, other]

Unexplained artifacts in observation data from the Even Larger Telescope: The “compressed skybox” hypothesis [pdf]

World’s gone crazy? News don’t make sense? Looks like the dream’s lost its lucidity again. Hey! Solipsist! Hey, you, fix this shit, ｗａｋｅ

Sure, the universe is full of consciousnesses, but most of them lack a will to change the world in any way. (“stay epi”, they call it)

note: I know about https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140103085248.htm, it’s kind of the inspiration

There should be a school subject that is simply about tasting+smelling things properly, plus decent vocabulary for describing those smells

Surely everyone has one of these folders! You know, just in case the unlikely happens and your laptop is still with you and works https://twitter.com/i/web/status/903788821589975040

In the night, you watch the ground from a branch. The stars still shine, the night sky is below you, interrupted by roots and night animals

The leaves do not turn brown this time. Instead, the holes in the canopy turn a pale violet and float down, leaving an unbroken green

p-zombie (short for “politics zombie”),

The wizard catches a different kind of fire, crystal needles erupt from his skin to break off later, collect around his disintegrating body

“Please, you haven’t been on the net for a year, if you dive in now it’ll be a week until you recover from all the new meme strains

More practical than the Book of Sand, the Book of Glass consists only of two mirrors, yet contains infinite pages - when closed.

taking the rain to work, sitting in a nutshell drifting down first small streams, then the storm sewers, to be fished out at the destination

Magic was given only to players, but nobody’s logged in in a few hundred years of game time. We run on hardware the admins have forgotten

Djinni can be found in any dormant light source. Tiny ones in luciferin molecules up to the most powerful, imprisoned in neutron stars

“is this your only reason for proposing this”↵pssh humbug [mutters under breath]

As a bonus, if you did this, it would be a literal skeuomorph: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skeuomorph#English

Why not model your AI boxes after skulls: Put a physical unclonable function into a tamperproof container & let it provide the core identity

In a pinch, when out of blood or moon ink, you can also fold a summoning pattern into the paper and get a haunted paper crane

You will choose not only the color of your self-driving car, but also its moral framework: Kantian, Aligned™, but also Nihilist (if you pay

Companies rent trawlers in search for the actual deep web: The knowledge of the Deep Ones, hidden in ocean basins, protected by black ice

We begin to get used to flood-caused Internet outages, but those bits of merfolknet that end up in search engine caches each time puzzle us

You’ve long been lost in these woods. You feel no hunger. The trees remind you of animals. Every morning, it is harder to unroot yourself

Conversely, ghosts of castles are often found within the minds of architects. Long destroyed but not forgotten, incorporated into dreams

Ghosts are attracted to castles, so if you make a few miniatures and just put them outside over night, you’re bound to catch some

molting tip: don’t leave your past self lie around just like that, its reproachful stare is bad vibes

Our immortal descendants give themselves cancer to truly understand suffering, really connect with our art, at least for a day or two

a truly eye-opening experience, yes, but we can open even more body parts if you like, belly-opening experiences are all the rage right now

mobile: moving thing↵automobile: self-moving thing↵autoautomobile: self-directed self-moving thing↵autoautoautomobile: self-making self-dire

1. build self-driving cars that use humans for fuel↵2. make them mimic uber/lyft/etc cars↵3. release↵4. sit back, enjoy the media panic

be this person to the other and transcend the universe together, live in mutually assured simulation

get you somebody who understands you so well that you can’t tell whether you’re real or their simulation of you

Flustered, his avatar begins to lag, then freezes out completely

An arm forms out of the smoke, steals your cigarette. Somethings pulls on it and the fumes slowly fill the grey outline of a face and body

elevator pitch: it’s like the internet, but not a warzone

tablature but for holding talks, with eye movement and gesture instructions

an AR overlay that indicates where it’s socially acceptable for your eyes to be

magnetic shelves where you can put things on both on top and the underside