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Jake Manley taken by Alex Evans.
The fourth issue of the anarcho-sci-fi literary journal featuring 20 profound authors exploring humanity and beyond.
For people rightfully concerned about big tech perpetuating literacy crisis via AI summaries and the like... please don't forget about the monolingualism crisis. Making people rely on machine translation instead of letting them learn foreign languages or giving job to professional translators is another facet of the same fascist project. And companies like Google are accelerating it at the speed of light by FORCING it on us via AI bullshit like auto-dubs which nobody asked for and setting them as default if your IP is not in the anglosphere. I have to stay vigilant about my apps resetting back to Polish unprompted, sometimes even when I set my entire device UI to English. YouTube keeps condescendingly assuming I need everything translated to my first language, no matter that most things I watched over the 20 years of its existence were in English.
Please read this Jack Morton short speculative story for an idea of how letting capitalism run the universal translator would influence the society. And in case you can't read-read right now, I got you covered with Margaret Killjoy doing audio version on her podcast (brisk 28 minutes):
<p>Margaret reads you a story about AI, translation, and love across languages. </p><p>See <a...
And when you're done with that, and I know it's a fucking cliche, go read 1984. Orwell had a lot of things to say about how controlling the language serves a totalitarian project.
the order characters as random memes
Lilith, Jack, Hamish, and Randall (Take The Pack Back)
Lilith dreams of the forest. Of the garden, where all the flowers are dying and the predators are eating up the carcasses and the fungi are growing up between the bones.
Lilith dreams of running with the wolves, the stretch of her skin, the crack of her bones, the golden flash of a gleaming gaze as the wolves howl and the garden decays, the animals running free, devouring God himself-
Lilith wakes up sprawled across Randall and Jack, because to be in the same bed as them, they have to pull in tight together but this feels normal, the three of them close together.
Except.
Except, it feels like there’s still something missing between the three of them. Some sort of hollow between their bodies.
And Lilith doesn’t know what’s off, but she knows that she has figure out what it is.
-aletterinthenameofsanity, the stretch of my skin (it's all washin' over me, I'm angry again)
Written for Day 19 of @monthlywritingchallenges' Reset January: A simpler version.
“Long is the road and short is the life” is such a good motto from the Knights man I miss The Order so much, Hamish my love
The Order might be one of the most well written and directed series I’ve watched in a while.
Every character had an arc imo, no one was that hate able or cringe. And it was genuinely such a great watch.
The dynamic between the the Knights of Saint Christopher, the Order being such a mess.
Vera being such a girl boss, and so unintentionally funny was a cherry on top. 😋
31.03.2024
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Hi The Order fans!!
Here’s my take on what season 3 would have looked like in my eyes.
A continuation of season 3 if it was never cancelled.
So far there are 27 chapters with more coming out soon, set in the form of episodes.
Extra info: Randall and Gabrielle and Jack as main characters but others characters do have their time to shine. LOTS OF DRAMA, WAR, BLOOD SHED, FRIENDSHIPS, HEARTBREAKS AND RELATIONSHIPS.
PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!