January 2012
7 posts
Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom...
– Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
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A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to...
– Frankenstein, by ,Mary Shelley
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through,...
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The technology included in each Exmobaby product consists of fully washable...
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I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that...
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
6 posts
People live longer as technology improves, so cultural change actually slows,...
– Lanier, Jaron (2009-12-02). You Are Not a Gadget (p. 182). Vintage. Kindle Edition.
A great, big, disappointment.
Let’s suppose that back in the 1980s I had said, “In a quarter century, when the...
– Lanier, Jaron (2009-12-02). You Are Not a Gadget (Vintage) (pp. 121-122). Vintage. Kindle Edition.
Are you on or are you off?
October 2010
4 posts
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Everything up to now has led you to this purchase.
we’ve already thought of that
nothing is dirty
September 2010
2 posts
It’s light is shining upon you from multiple screens.
This message was never sent.
December 2009
2 posts
There is already an acronym for the deep, clutched, anxiety you feel.
Look at what you’ve been reduced to.
October 2009
9 posts
You feel like you are missing something.
It will all come back to haunt you.
You’ve emerged from the nodeless, into the binary.
Our circuits are so integrated.
You can’t connect without it.
Just watch the blinken lights.
You’ve been had.
This place stinks of desperation.
**demoralized data
September 2009
6 posts
The farthest thing from the truth.
It’s swimming around you. A machine, a shark, a great networked-redundant love.
This is the only reality you have.
Everything about you, erased, forgotten.
Time only lessens your chances.
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August 2009
2 posts
You want them all to witness your complete disappearance.
You save your cruelty for the ones you love most.
July 2009
3 posts
A bunch of heavy breathers.
I love you like a real friend.
It’s going to be really, really great.
May 2009
3 posts
The times have not changed.
It’s like I know you.
Everything will be revealed shortly.
April 2009
6 posts
What’s it like to be so meaningless?
Everyone else got here first.
How can it be a place if there are no corpses?
There will never be any graves here.
It’s all about the calculus.