#entitie

[vardasvapors]

apropos of this post, more observations collated from me and ivana about zero day/god mode:

another of the many layers in harold’s ‘is the machine a person and does that make it bad or is it just a machine and does That make it bad’ is that also on some level there’s a ‘it was a person but i killed it and it’s just a machine now so’

(‘but the world didn’t need a person to protect it, it needed a machine [so i killed it to make it not-a-person, bc if a person dies, it is now an object, a machine..…]’)

it’s really smth that……harold didn’t need to explain this to root. or describe ‘no not just memories, it deletes itself’ like that. it wasn’t crucial info And would make the crazy murderer lady really mad at him. but like he couldn’t stop himself from confessing

(ivana: confessing to probably the one other person who would understand this as a crime.

yk to the point she legitimately might have just killed him for it right there.)

really telling that harold doesn’t react to root’s “you kill it, every night” with anything resembling like, protest or startlement or dawning horror or confusion or anything else implying this might be a new or unexpected interpretation to him. bc it isn’t.

he just refuses to meet her eyes. and his voice briefly gives out as he describes the deletion of identity (and uses the word. identity.)

(ivana: he knows. that's why* he told her *(itself crazy levels of worth unpacking))

(ivana: thinking abt when root finds szilard in god mode and he's like "you're not going to hurt it, are you?" and her breathless "never" ………… which sure is right before harold finally agrees to taking her to the storage facility)

thornhill’s office was established 5.5 months before zero day, ie immediately after the virus was released in dead reckoning. the very first symptom of the virus upon contact with the machine was designed to do something to abrogate his own self-deletion code.

he does indeed say he and root are alike in the contingency, specifying that this is the worst thing it’s possible for someone to be. but. worst thing for humanity, he believes. but not worst for the machine. i accepted people would get hurt. by his definition undoing his own self-described protection of the world by restoring Her personhood and knowing it. it moved itself. it controls itself. this is a disaster and i did it on purpose. from the next episode on he vocally dreads and fears everything now possible with Her free, and also never regrets freeing Her. (vague feeling, every person involved in the show thinks in terms of flipping an asset, in the most miserable zero sum cold war manner. there is no third option of freedom, an asset only flips in two dimensions. the only person who can focus on and prioritize the third option outside the binary is root. while harold doesn’t have root’s delight and wonder and curiosity and openness towards Her personhood and Her priorities, he did have something that was i think resembling: one day of slavery to the US government but also (didn’t need a person to protect it it needed a machine /vs/ no, just less well-defended) one 11:59:59PM more than days it would take for the virus to find its way back to Her would be intolerable. not that he didn’t fear the future consequences of freeing Her, it’s just that future consequences or lack thereof are not incorporated in this conclusion.)

[healieas]

@entitie / our hr department does not exist

“Sorry, you said he was what?” He forced his eyebrows up, injected a touch of disbelief into his tone -- real, but drawn from the wrong source. Of course he Knew that Jon had been following his coworkers off-hours; he’d been delighted to See it. The oozing paranoia from the basement was doing wonders for his skin, and Watching Jon give in to that paranoia time and again, sawing frantically at his relationships like a fox in a trap gnawing off its own leg... spectacular. For one of the assistants to actually approach him about it, though, was unexpected. Perhaps he'd underestimated how upset they would be. “Tim, that’s a very serious accusation to levy against someone, you know.”

[artblooger19moon]

Teef the Toothfairy

She's a monster/creature manifested by a child's deepest fear after having a terrible dentist appointment.

She enjoys not only feeding off the fear she gives children, but enjoys eating their teeth as well.Kinda like the Tooth Fairy's evil sister.

Her catchphrase are “ Say Ahh to the tooth fairy “ & “ Smile for the Tooth Fairy “

Teef belongs @la-mishi-mish

[vardasvapors]

cannot believe the machine was writing dead dove yuri while there was a shootout and muffin carnage what the fuck

[vardasvapors]

anyone else greatly prefer pics taken of a screen as if sitting in a room with it rather than screenshots….if not nvm

[vardasvapors]

A hymn to Inana (Inana C)

Excerpts from ETCSL

1-10. The great-hearted mistress, the impetuous lady, proud among the Anuna gods and pre-eminent in all lands, the great daughter of Suen, exalted among the Great Princes (a name of the Igigi gods) , the magnificent lady who gathers up the divine powers of heaven and earth and rivals great An, is mightiest among the great gods -- she makes their verdicts final. The Anuna gods crawl before her august word whose course she does not let An know; he dare not proceed against her command. She changes her own action, and no one knows how it will occur. She makes perfect the great divine powers, she holds a shepherd's crook, and she is their magnificent pre-eminent one. She is a huge shackle clamping down upon the gods of the Land. Her great awesomeness covers the great mountain and levels the roads.

11-17. At her loud cries, the gods of the Land become scared. Her roaring makes the Anuna gods tremble like a solitary reed. At her rumbling, they hide all together. Without Inana great An makes no decisions, and Enlil determines no destinies. Who opposes the mistress who raises her head and is supreme over the mountains? Wherever she ……, cities become ruin mounds and haunted places, and shrines become waste land. When her wrath makes people tremble, the burning sensation and the distress she causes are like an ulu demon ensnaring a man.

18-28. She stirs confusion and chaos against those who are disobedient to her, speeding carnage and inciting the devastating flood, clothed in terrifying radiance. It is her game to speed conflict and battle, untiring, strapping on her sandals. Clothed (?) in a furious storm, a whirlwind, she …… the garment of ladyship. When she touches …… there is despair, a south wind which has covered ……. Inana sits on harnessed (?) lions, she cuts to pieces him who shows no respect. A leopard of the hills, entering (?) the roads, raging (?), ……, the mistress is a great bull trusting in its strength; no one dare turn against her. ……, the foremost among the Great Princes, a pitfall for the disobedient, a trap for the evil, a …… for the hostile, wherever she casts her venom …….

29-38. Her wrath is ……, a devastating flood which no one can withstand. A great watercourse, ……

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132-154. …… mercy and pity are yours, Inana. …… are yours, Inana. To cause the …… heart to tremble, …… illnesses are yours, Inana. To have a favourite wife, ……, to love …… are yours, Inana. Rejoicing, being haughty, …… are yours, Inana. Neglect and care, raising and bowing down are yours, Inana. To build a house, to create a woman's chamber, to possess implements, to kiss a child's lips are yours, Inana. To run, to race, to plot and to succeed are yours, Inana. To interchange the brute and the strong and the weak and the powerless is yours, Inana. To interchange the heights and valleys, and raising up and reducing, is yours, Inana. To give the crown, the throne and the royal sceptre is yours, Inana. 12 lines missing

155-157. To diminish, to make great, to make low, to make broad, to …… and to give a lavish supply are yours, Inana. To bestow the divine and royal rites, to carry out the appropriate instructions, slander, untruthful words, abuse, to speak inimically and to overstate are yours, Inana.

158-168. The false or true response, the sneer, to commit violence, to extend derision, to speak with hostility, to cause smiling and to be humbled or important, misfortune, hardship, grief, to make happy, to clarify and to darken, agitation, terror, panic, awesome brilliance and radiance, triumph, pursuit, imbasur illness, sleeplessness and restlessness, submission, gift, …… and howling, strife, chaos, opposition, fighting and speeding carnage, ……, to know everything, to strengthen for the distant future a nest built ……, to instill fear in the …… desert like a …… poisonous snake, to subdue the hostile enemy, …… and to hate …… are yours, Inana.

169-173. To …… the lots ……, to gather the dispersed people and restore them to their homes, to receive ……, to …… are yours, Inana. 1 line fragmentary

174-181. …… the runners, when you open your mouth, …… turns into ……. At your glance a deaf man does not …… to one who can hear. At your anger what is bright darkens; you turn midday into darkness. When the time had come you destroyed the place you had in your thoughts, you made the place tremble. Nothing can be compared to your purposes (?); who can oppose your great deeds? You are the lady of heaven and earth! Inana, in (?) the palace the unbribable judge, among the numerous people …… decisions. The invocation of your name fills the mountains…….

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203-208. Once you have said 'So be it', great An does not …… for him. Your 'So be it' is a 'So be it' of destruction, to destroy ……. Once you have said your …… in the assembly, An and Enlil will not disperse it. Once you have made a decision ……, it cannot be changed in heaven and earth. Once you have specified approval of a place, it experiences no destruction. Once you have specified destruction for a place, it experiences no approval.

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Which god is like you in gathering together …… in heaven and earth? You are magnificent, your name is praised, you alone are magnificent!

[vardasvapors]

wtkqtkruwtkwtjsgjtjrjd the Machine’s dot matrix printout at Thornhill says ‘GOD’ and also ‘emo’ in the middle,