"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction) (starlightconvenience.net)
84 points by casmalia 10 hours ago
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/
Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
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 ;-)
This is a good one.
Interesting.
Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.