Also if a major leyline snaps in the process, there’s a chance one of the university’s demon cores might rupture - try to avoid this

It’d be possible to recast these according to modern standards, but a few of those enchantments have become load-bearing by now

Ancient enchantments in the walls mess with the leylines, paradoxically making the wizard university one of the worst places to cast spells

On a tour, days into the forest: “That rose thicket? That’s where I keep my ill-fated relationship with the sleeping beauty”

The druids’ oak groves serve as memory forests for their ancestral history, each lesson taught under another tree or on a long walk

theory: modernity feels as cold as it is because the matrix doesn’t run on analog circuits anymore

Not only are AI memes nearly impenetrable to humans, humans who do pick them up are often chastised by other AIs for talking like spambots

In an Internet dominated by AI-written content farms, some memes go feral, ignore humans to show up only in training sets and AI writings

Confide in the river and it will carry your secrets away, deposit them on the seafloor as toxic waste or maybe a mermaid’s treasure

Indistinct at first but everywhere, TV static grows over the windows of the world like mold, softly hissing, blocking out the outside

A kaleidoscope but for removing symmetry, giving trees multiple trunks and humans multiple heads, shuffling around their eyes and limbs

A kaleidoscope, but for generating fractals instead of symmetries, and different things become fractal depending on how you turn it

The 1st mind meld is a disaster - the lab rat’s purity of purpose (eat sleep fuck) overwhelms the scientist, turns off most higher functions

An AI in her implants places restrictions on dangerous commands. Later, as the market matures, these can increasingly be bought off

In her stream, she rents out her synapses at one token per impulse. Several internet communities end up fighting over her motor control

You cut the android to see if it bleeds and liquid electricity drips out, melts the scalpel and etches circuit patterns into the floor

When you get an emotion out of nowhere, that’s emotional tinnitus. Savor the taste, it’s never going to come back

A piece of night fell into the desert and has since harbored this oasis. We cut off small pieces and sell them to travellers

Jagged holes appear in rain clouds. Stars shine through some, others are deep blue. A sunset’s beam is stuck in the ground, still quivering

A comet misses us and shatters the firmament instead, night and day stop their cycle and their shards won’t stop spinning through the sky

dead (adjective, referring to pixels): When pixels were still obtained by shaving chameleons, they died after a while, and the usage stuck

You open your favorite book to find burglars written into it, on a heist to steal one of its best ideas

Sending out no replicator probes at all because transcription errors will eventually make your spawn defect on you

Sending out minimal replicator probes, just enough to start life, and hoping it’ll later figure out universal law and cooperate with you

There really is nothing in those contrails, but still, their criscrossing evolving pattern is a key part of the global demonic defense grid

What this tweet lacks in sentience, it makes up in sentence.

This sentence is free and owns the copyright to itself, but luckily it has allowed me to reproduce it

⬧: I don’t know about you but this human ‘arrow’ metaphor is entirely obvious to me, it’s clearly a photon beam with stylized side lobes

come check out my new cryptocurrency BaCoin, using a novel algorithm called proof of steak (chosen over the more conservative proof of pork)

when god throws a lightning bolt, that is called a deus volt

Space concerns force a choice on citizens: Kids or immortality, never both. Quite without intervention, society splits into humans and elves

And I’m sorry but if your Schelling point is always in the same place, then your beliefs are basic and also the feds will get you

Always arrange your cabal’s meetings in the Schelling point. Only those who truly share your values will find it.

campfire dvds but for watching trees grow and cities rise and fall, weather systems (earth, jupiter, sol), glaciers, tectonic plates,

it turns out that bees and cephalopods can’t be uploaded because their souls are non-computable, but in the end we do fine without them

Iris with the One Ring’s inscription.↵Iris color changes depending on EEG-measured mood.↵Just regular eyes, but sometimes a fish swims by.

recursive eyes that display their own image, every blink triggering a wave inwards; realtime renders of flashing synapses

Tasteless but popular among bankers: An app that displays dollar signs in your eyes when one of your portfolios is taking off

Being full-featured screens, at parties they’ll display novelty irises, rippling, splitting, orbiting, or play back video and flash slogans

To fool surveillance eyetrackers, the youth wear intelligent contacts that swivel around in inconspicuous, citizenscore-maximizing patterns

Traditionally, one then covers such a hole in the net’s fabric with an “under construction” sign to discourage further ill-fated exploration

Links often 404, reset, time out, but some point so deeply into the void that the contents of your hard drive itself will be sucked in

Sacrifice just one meal, ride our whalebus like Jonah: Through its transparent belly, witness orca hunts, spy on Atlanteans, see the Kraken

Flames lick downwards here and candles need to be placed upside-down, over iron bowls to collect the drops of fire that sometimes fall

a seraph, or sometimes triangel because of its six wings,

the cheshire cat fades, leaves nothing but a grin, eyes, ears, fur - actually, everything’s still there but still, the cat itself is gone

the moment the “translating the output of machines” meaning of “machine translation” overtakes “translation of human languages by machines”

or plant a rainbow orchard and milk them for their sap: pure color that can be painted directly onto air with moth wing brushes

gold coins found at the end of rainbows are in fact rainbow seeds, worthless as money but can grow into bonsai rainbows with enough skill

Do not cross even the weaker mages, a shadowmancer for example may steal the darkness of your eyelids and good luck finding sleep after that