"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)

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• Muromec 44 minutes ago
  Thanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead of living the ones that are happening.
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  • DiscourseFan 18 minutes ago
    But the truth often lies in the form of a thing, not its contents.
• throw310822 3 hours ago
  I 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.
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  • Groxx 1 hour ago
    Oddly, 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
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    • mrec 43 minutes ago
      It'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.

      I also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar was a good idea.
  • cpill 2 hours ago
    Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
• varjag 2 hours ago
  Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
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  • hirsin 2 hours ago
    https://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
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    • Groxx 1 hour ago
      And for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
    • flobosg 1 hour ago
      Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
• the_af 2 hours ago
  Interesting.

  Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
• nh23423fefe 3 hours ago
  This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
• DiabloD3 3 hours ago
  This is a good one.