Different Kinds of Darkness
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of-darknessA somewhat hopeful continuation to BLIT. Fun and probably partial inspiration for a Black Mirror episode.
BLIT
www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htmA remarkably grounded form of the same core idea as SCP memetics, and among the earliest forms of the concept in scifi.
the hairshirt doldrums
www.late-review.com/p/the-hairshirt-doldrumson having a brain injury
How much could one concussion cost, Michael, $3000?
A detailed point-of-view of the experience of a brain injury, both on a subjective level and in navigating the medical system.
The Curse of Xanadu
www.wired.com/1995/06/xanaduThe article I subscribed to WIRED for.
"It wouldn't take millions of dollars. I estimate something like a three- to six-man, monthlong effort." I instinctively factored this prediction in my head, because I recognized the code in which the Xanadu programmers speak of the future: six months.
My thoughts (posted elsewhere):
i am of course fundamentally opposed to a lot of the core of xanadu because I am very anti-copyright and anti-capitalism. also we have a damn good citation system on the web and bullshit citation chains still manage to spread. i think the idea that people en masse would comply with a system that tries to enforce perfect citation is hopelessly naive. like any Great Libertarian Project, the idea doesn't seem to be aware of its own weight or ramifications, but instead simply standing before itself in somnambulant awe
Free Software is an Abject Failure
www.paritybit.ca/blog/free-software-is-an-abject-failureFound browsing the XXIIVV Webring.