Thanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead of living the ones that are happening.
But the truth often lies in the form of a thing, not its contents.
Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
And for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
This is brilliant.
This belongs on the front page. I read it over an hour ago and my skin is still crawling.
Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
Frankly it seems to be saying the exact same things except in five times as many words and a rather boring exposition, that contrasts with the cold but ominously normalizing one of Lena.
This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
I need to read more of that! What's the copyright on the files? I run a public-access gopher server with a small eBook section and that's the kind of material that I'd like to feature.
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.
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
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.
I also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar was a good idea.
That explains why the page was blank when I loaded it. No text without JS enabled.
For me it wasn't the color, but how smooshed the post body is. I had to override the max-width and added some letter-spacing.
Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
Interesting.
Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
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This is a good one.