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2024/03/02

March 2, 2024
Two people are in a dark room, staring at a bank of glowing green screens on the wall. The person on the left is sitting, and only their back is visible to us. The person on the right is standing and seen in profile: a figure with a short crew-cut and a hard, expressionless face. The screens are showing video feeds from different cameras. One in the lower left shows lines of text; one on the lower right shows a grainy picture of the pipe that everybody's so interested in. But the biggest one, above the first two, is the most horrifying: a night-vision image of a monster with two horns or ears, no eyes, and a savage mouth rushing the camera, arms raised. Some people consider being filmed without their permission rude.

2024/02/29

February 29, 2024
A dark, cavernous war room. Hanging from the ceiling is a long, desolate fluorescent light. Projected onto a giant wall is a dim green aerial view of something, with indecipherable information overlaid onto the image. Below it is a bank of computer screens, showing blurry images of a tunnel pipe and a robot; yesterday's drawing. Three people are looking at the screens: a short person stands at the left, a taller person stands in the middle, and on the right, a third person sits in an office chair in front of two computer screens. This is a mostly black and dark-gray drawing, with the lighted areas rendered in dull, fluorescent green and white. One of the computer screens is blue.

2023/07/09

July 9, 2023
A smartphone rises up from a layer of dense fog. The base of the phone and the ground can't be seen; just an amorphous carpet of clouds. The screen of the phone is very blurry, as though obscured by a layer of vapor. The screen shows glowing colored squares, arranged haphazardly, not in the usual grid of app icons. Silhouettes are visible in the squares, like people looking out of windows. Above the phone, a blurry moon is in the sky. The moonlight reflects off the top of the phone.

2023/07/01

July 1, 2023
A rectangular shape that looks like a boxy human head without ears, similar to a mask. The face has tired eyes with bags under them, craggy features, and a prominent nose. Set into the person's forehead is a small, roundish cathode ray tube display, like something you would have seen on an early personal computer (to be specific, any Mac made between 1984 and 1986). Nothing is being displayed on the screen, however. The person's mouth is a disk drive: the kind designed for those 3.5-inch Sony diskettes, to be specific. The steam engine that powered these very early computing devices is not shown.

2023/06/20

June 20, 2023
A tall, narrow, houselike building made of brick and concrete. The roof has various antennas. The house has a large circular window, right under the roof, and a smaller, arched window to the lower right. There is an arched overhang directly under the house; sort of an open porch. A person paces on the porch, staring at a phone. On a platform in front of it—an extension that looks like a large front porch—stands a small rocket ship.

2023/04/30

April 30, 2023
A person whose face seems to have been replaced by a camera lens sits on the back of a large, two-legged creature which looks sort of like a cross between a horse and a two-legged giraffe. The creature's eye is also a camera lens, and its tail is an antenna.

2023/04/17

April 17, 2023
A large, black, furry creature with a giant head. Where the face would be is a large radar screen instead, depicting several glowing blobs. The figure is holding a walking stick; several complex antennas bristle from its head. Inside its belly sits a person looking at a phone.

2023/01/29

January 29, 2023
A small robot with a communications dish and a headlight drives across a mountain in the early evening.

2023/01/28

January 28, 2023
An eerie face peers from the blue display of a smartphone. Be careful who you click on.

2023/01/05

January 5, 2023
A tombstone in a cemetery that's also a phone displaying a chat app, with emoji of condolence on the app. A tree hangs over the tomb-phone

2022/12/27

December 27, 2022
A giant furnace-like espresso machine dominates a tiny room, a cup of coffee balanced on one of its edges

2022/12/22

December 22, 2022
A giant robot holds an umbrella over a scientist with a radio controller

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August 30, 2022

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July 27, 2022

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July 24, 2022

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July 9, 2022

2022/02/11

February 11, 2022
A person stands silhouetted against a ginat glowing phone screen
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