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Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
by varjag 8mo ago
Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
- hirsin 8mo agohttps://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
- flobosg 8mo agoDiscussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
- Groxx 8mo agoAnd for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/ https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
- mijoharas 8mo agoThis is brilliant.
- dtj1123 8mo agoThis belongs on the front page. I read it over an hour ago and my skin is still crawling.
- throw310822 8mo agoFrankly 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.
- varjag 7mo agoBorges famously wrote there are only four stories, retold endlessly. I think this is an attempt to write a SF story in Lovecraftian mood (hence the language and setting). Lena is written as a hypothetical Wikipedia article.