Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
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Read between August 22 - October 2, 2021
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He did raise his head and look when the front door of the office suite was punched open by a team of three firemen.
Mike
This is why you have procedures done in the hospital and not an out patient clinic. Resources are already on hand.
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Ben said, and took a swig of his flat white.
Mike
When did this guy get a beverage?
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want a copy of the data.” “Just a copy.”
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A copy of a consciousness they could experiment on and potentiality exploit
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But it was very obviously a mushroom cloud and you could see its interaction with various layers of the atmosphere as it rose above Moab, and in otherwise dark parts of the frame you could see how Moab-facing hillsides and mountains were lit up by
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What about the creepy other worldly colors reported in other nuclear blasts?
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Crows, or ravens (the distinction was unclear), were set apart by their extreme intelligence, memory, and resourcefulness; but no matter how well they embodied those fine traits, no one appreciated them.
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Fuck you. I think crows are awesome.
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“There’s a lot of interest in the topic of distributed organizations. Which means, a network of PURDAHs that operates by an agreed-on set of rules just like a normal company, but with no identifiable center.”
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Leaderless resistance in digital format
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Virtual Epiphanic Identity Lustre
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Further proof that people start with the acronymn and then plug in the words
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To the extent that simulating Dodge’s brain fulfilled the conditions in his will and his disposition of remains, it—simulating it, turning it on, letting it run—should fall under the most favored nation clause.
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But only billionaires can afford it which leads to equity questions given the amount of power and bandwidth required to keep one process going.
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That it could be done again, as many times as resources allowed.
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Which isn't very many given what was described.
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Fastness.
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Because Fotress of Solitude would be copyright infringement
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“This is not the way it was supposed to happen.”
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He's pissed he won't be the big dog in charge in the simulation
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this was obvious from the fact that he’d been staring at a blank spot on the
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Like when cops listen to their radio earpiece
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“That galley must have followed us,”
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Why doesn't Prim just make it or the crew disappear?