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Reed, Loki and Lilith and a room full of techies. The bar is right next door. It’s an offsite in a room that looks suspiciously like a classroom. A broken smoke detector is the punchline.
Story

Demo Day: Sprint Goal TBD ⭐

A meeting in Silicon Venue. A single person is holding the load of the socio-technical system in their body. The information overload is erupting into a firey flurry of questions, meetings, a
Essay

Invisible Pain: Burn the Glue Engineer ❤️‍🔥

A meeting in Silicon Venue. A single person is holding the load of the socio-technical system in their body. The information overload is erupting into a firey flurry of questions, meetings, a
Essay

The Shape of the Question 👁️‍🗨️

Two Cyberneticists in casual wear in a Silicon Valley board room. The Roomba is doing the perimeter. Fiction is leaking into reality.
Story

Bad Habits: Institutional Reality Erasure 🤷

Silicon Venue on a Friday night. Disco ball up. Kettle on. A frog on the toaster wearing something like a crown. An engineer at the third stool wondering what the heck is going on.
Weird

WAT Machine: Disco Ball's Up 🐸👑

Mara and Alex at a table in Silicon Venue. A topology rendering behind them. The question is the specification. Mirror. Offer. Wait.
Essay

Requirements: The Question Is the Specification❓

A noir Sin City scene: A first-order laminated cafeteria handout about the water cycle turns into second-order embodied rain and third-order self-observation. The observer is in the system.
Essay

The Third Order: Non-Local Truth 💦

Silicon Venue after dawn. Loki behind the bar. Alex in the fourth chair. The visitor in the wine-red suit has sat down at the bar. The bar does not bother dealing with their crap.
Weird

Kunstfreiheit: Anstrengend-as-a-Service 🍷

Silicon Venue after another pour. An engineer just left the bar through the alley door. The Roomba roombas. Fiction and reality. Both things. Same thing. Prost. 🍷
Story

Monkey See, Monkey Do 🍷

Silicon Venue at night. A kinky bell. A private lineage room. A room that holds the shape of consensual play without crossing into coercion. A systems under load in a single image.
Essay

Socio-Technical Systems Under Load (And Play) 🤫

Scarlet reads Turing's papers to Silicon Venue. Mara, Loki, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and Karen Spärck Jones listen. The geometry of computation rearranges.
Essay

Ciao: Lovelace, Turing and Jones Walk Into a Bar 😎

Scarlet reads Turing's papers to Silicon Venue. Mara, Loki, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and Karen Spärck Jones listen. The geometry of computation rearranges.
Essay

The Halting Problem: The Fictional Abstract Machine 🎩

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