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a cave company, a magician company.
sharpest knife, cutest knife.
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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,
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the circuit. and there, deposited: the %
first seed crystal of artificial
intelligence.
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¨ 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,
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to cut through mountain and metal.
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when that something was found on that
beach, now the mirrors are all used to
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boring power source. (and subtle threat
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¨ 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
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