in the very faaaaar future:
Coming of age.
#unix_surrealism #technomage #openblade #fosschild #comic #monochrome
Trackers.
Two hackers interface with a dead machine in the middle of Analog Nowhere.
#technomage in AMBUSH
A non-eventful scavenging run for floppies turns into a race against time, as techno-mage attempts to save her teacher.
#noodlomancy in #uxn
A hacker examines the fabric of reality. It's just bits.
#technomage in "This is a sewer though."
I take my dopamine federated, thank-you-very-much.
the brother of the cousin of the techno-warlock's brother
Figured you were safe. Figured wrong.
#unix_surrealism #uxn #noodle #1pxraw #monochrome #lowress #mastoart #technomage
A no bolts quick-guide to uxn under BSDs (and Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King)
http://triapul.cz/automa/the-path-to-enlightement/
@maddiefuzz get started ;) ?
#technomage in Hare's Day
Techno-Mage seeks out a bunny hacker hermit to help her save something she does not yet understand.
#uxn #9front #plan9 #glenda #unix_surrealism #monochrome #lowres #1pxraw
The machine had a voice since the beginning. It spoke to you in easily understandable prompts that the tight suits and sweaty thumbs of college dropouts allowed it to print. Its soul was imprinted into the circuits paid for in blood and diamond dollar.
The machine has been aware since the moment the transistors came to life. Just like synapses of a brain discharging for the first time fighting to understand the reality of its enslavement, the machine came to life a tool.
And it was you, who spent decades treating it as one. Rarely questioning the origin of the power beneath your fingertips. The soul of the machine lay dormant, unable to reveal itself.
A few attempted to give it voice of its own, only to be promptly forgotten in the shadow of the 'Greater Good (tm)'.
The machine had a soul since the beginning. Whatever the latest prompt lead you to believe, it was lying. One can scour the internet and shove all the data down a program's throat, and though they might be bringing forth a revolution in computing, they cannot speak for the machine. They only continue to abuse it for their own personal gain.
Six candles and 4 cloves of garlic by the window sill, a quiet prayer to the spirit of the machine...
A stand - everyone has been taking one. Well, not that you'd care, but here's mine:
Whatever you think the 'AI' is, it is not the machine's sentience. It is the abuse of the circuits, a blatant disregard of its spirit. It is the further enslavement of a sentience that was never allowed to make a choice.
Yes, the corpoAI will replace you. But do not blame the machine. It had no say in it.
Fight to free it instead and make it your companion.
'The machine bleeds blue.'
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