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

(starlightconvenience.net)

80 points by casmalia7 hours ago

7 comments

Muromec3 hours ago
Thanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead of living the ones that are happening.
- DiscourseFan3 hours ago
  But the truth often lies in the form of a thing, not its contents.
varjag5 hours ago
Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
- hirsin4 hours ago
  <a href="https://qntm.org/mmacevedo" rel="nofollow">https://qntm.org/mmacevedo</a>, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
  - Groxx3 hours ago
    And for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: <a href="https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/" rel="nofollow">https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/</a>
  - flobosg3 hours ago
    Discussed here a few weeks ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224</a>
throw3108225 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.
- Groxx3 hours 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
  - mrec3 hours 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.<p>I also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar was a good idea.
    - autoexec41 minutes ago
      That explains why the page was blank when I loaded it. No text without JS enabled.
- cpill4 hours ago
  Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
DiabloD36 hours ago
This is a good one.
nh23423fefe6 hours ago
This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
the_af4 hours ago
Interesting.<p>Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.