so basically, software forks are like blockchain forks but you get to doublespend 0days instead

they had to fetch one reveler by boat, he’d wandered onto the lake while tripping and they were fearing he’d realize where he was and sink

Among these columns of fog, the wind is curiously muffled, storms no larger than buses weave through the air and grumble at each other

In the now exposed rock, clouds take root and form a forest supported by huge lazy gyres, while smaller whirls wander around drawing water

The mountains in the distance detach from the ground and tumble slowly through the sky, float among the clouds, thundering when they collide

A popular AI countermeasure is basilisks that humans are too dumb to comprehend, but make any advanced thinker turn itself off in horror

Illegal archives are gateways to lower levels, full of treasures but also pod trolls: ex-spelunkers now ridden by mindvirii, out to preach

Every time they drown the net in weaponized memes, it’s quarantined and rebuilt, over time creating something akin to layered catacombs

radio graffiti, wherein you paint letters into the spectrogram near the frequencies of popular numbers stations

You could anchor here, but usually whatever touches the spacetime floor will eventually crumble to dust, riddled by atom-sized bitemarks

How to detect when you’re in a vacuum shoal: Light is slower, the stars brighter than usual and in weird locations, the autopilot crashes

That one memory you haven’t thought of in months - they’re huddled around it, taking in its warmth

Neglected tulpas squat disused parts of your memory palace, wrap themselves in memories of near-forgotten friends to keep oblivion at bay

but the same drug, taken in a dream, induces total clarity instead of hallucinations, shows the universe naked (luckily, forgotten quickly)

She hides it well: It’s only her third eye that’s crying, trailing soap polyhedra and klein drops visible only to initiates

toddlers: “so what are you in for?” “•🝆🜃, 🜋🜺” “shit man” “mmh” “the universe here makes you human, it’s pernicious” [they share a rattle]

when you run a spam campaign with zip bomb attachments, is that dynamite phishing?

not tentacles, just arms with lots of joints - sometimes they break and heal crookedly but there’s enough freedom that it doesn’t matter

The correct mass noun for a swarm of pixies is ‘jpeg’, often occurring near windows since they’re naturally drawn to them

Supercooled snowflakes fall, the ripples they cause in the pond instantly frozen, then floating away as small ice ships with crystal masts

Every morning on the commute, you spend five minutes looking at (fake, harmless) ads to inoculate yourself against today’s strains

Your brain implant projects carefully timed fake smiles onto your face, to throw off the targeting and poison their training sets

Ad targeting so effective, anybody unprotected is rendered a consumer zombie within days, their every microexpression fed to the algorithms

It’s easy to talk to other timelines: Write a letter, then read in it everything you didn’t write

A beacon anchored in spacetime floats here, rocking back and forth in the gravity surf, the system it’s marking long gone

frankly I can’t hear you over the sound of memes copulating in my head

Wizards are often extremely jacked in order to have more blood and thereby mana; Vampires cheat but can hit 20 liters after a good meal

Blood has the highest magic capacity of all materials, making it one of the best choices for magic batteries as well as a great coolant

Wishing wells are an old metaphor for black holes: The wish is a program, the coins are input bits, only the response has to wait a while

Immobile, transfixed, impaled on a neuron spike

She hesitates - the telltale stutter of downloading a personality addon to deal with an unexpected situation

In the long run, each of your actions either results in nothing, or contributes to human extinction or a stable intergalactic civilization.

noise cancelling headphones that monitor the auditory nerve to squeeze out a few extra dB

when creating a pocket universe, make sure to leave open a portal at least a few atoms wide, or the reference loop detection will eat you

Their other bombs leave tree clouds (studded with brilliant blossoms), kelp clouds (endless ribbons), anemone clouds (betentacled, swaying),

A stone on his wrist tells the time - every time it has worn away, one of his days has passed

A Turing test in which the bot turns the tables and just rudely interrupts your every attempt at talking with “stop pretending sentience

Hell is famously litigative about pictures of their premises, they had to rebuild half of it after Bosch leaked internal concept art

if you’re working on a text processor feature that predicts sentences as they’re written, it’d be really neat if you called it precursor↵thx

Dividing atom diameter by Planck length, we can estimate that there’s probably been two or more paperclip events depending on paperclip size

Every now and then, a paperclip maximizer escapes and causes a paperclip event. The last one, for example, turned the universe into atoms

The most common werecreature is the werehuman, transformed by the sun. Only those who flee the solar system revert to a more natural form

Without our knowing, we pass a test. Every day, new stars appear in our sky as neighboring civilizations open their dark matter cloaks to us

“Really, they’re misunderstood and gentle creatures,” [tries to pet shoggoth, is reduced to carbon dust and beautifully carved bone dice]

When not out to devour you, shoggoths can be really pretty, like sentient dust clouds or miniature murmurations that leave behind trinkets

now has a brand name: Eigenleder™

Extinct memelects: The most useless yet most nostalgic knowledge, inside jokes of dead communities where even the archives have been lost

Cameras do indeed steal souls, as do radio telescopes - there’s been no contact yet because what we’re doing is unspeakably rude

Blind from birth, when asked to imagine colors, she makes it sound like she’s found something better than us and we don’t dare fix her eyes

It’s not that we didn’t try uplifting other animals - it’s just that each and every one rejected consciousness, often screaming or catatonic