"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)
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Thanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead of living the ones that are happening.
replyBut the truth often lies in the form of a thing, not its contents.
replyI usually don't leave this kind of comments, but I really can't read yellow text on dark red background for more than 20 seconds.
replyOddly, I don't get the reader-mode option in Firefox for the site... one of these days I should probably figure out why that sometimes happens
replyIt's an odd site design. Stories are loaded dynamically by script based on the URL fragment identifier; I'd imagine Reader Mode isn't geared toward that sort of thing.
replyI also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar was a good idea.
Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
replyGood read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
replyhttps://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
replyAnd for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
replyDiscussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
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replyInteresting.
replyLots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
replyThis is a good one.
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