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a cave company, a magician company.
sharpest knife, cutest knife.
we will grow humans in pea-pods
shimmering sound-card emergence,
something there on the shore of .
turtle beach. the primordial soup of
the digital, waves in dithering of .
third-rate dac's, caressing the sand,
. bringing things up from the depths of .
, the circuit. and there, deposited: the .
first seed crystal of artificial
intelligence. .
, this changes everything, of course.
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the company is named for it's first
product, the orbital mirror, both a
passive sentinel and an active torch:
set to it's widest configuration it
. will light up a whole city at night,
and at its narrowest it becomes a laser
to cut through mountain and metal.
still unsold prototypes by the time
when that something was found on that .
beach, now the mirrors are all used to
beam energy at different mirr
. implements, as a rather static and
boring power source. (and subtle threat
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the ai is a coral. they grow it
(crystal oil, lead glass, gentle laser
curtains) only to carve it apart and
. section it. to become conditioned,
. refractured, grown again. deliciously
honed. mirr sinks further below the ,
surface.
whispers now, about featherbite... is
. she a real person? or is this the mirr
* ai, being unleashed upon the youth? and .
another conspiracy theory about there
not actually being any human employees ,
, left.
in the meantime, dubious creations.
cerberus bodies are born. .
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