The New (and improved) You
Author: Charlotte Zombro
Welcome to Real U™! In the space below, tell your Real U™ avatar how you want them to behave and be perceived by our other real world players! Our incredibly advanced AI will then create your ideal you...
Window to the Soul
Author: Maelim Lunaris
Am I the last seventeen-year-old on Earth without a soulmate?
I checked my smartwatch.
No new notifications.
Blossoming trees swung outside the assembly hall. Wind tickled their branches, making their leaves hop and rhythmically dance. To the right of me, a boy and a girl held hands and giggled at each other...
Powershell for Learners – Page 23
Author: Ves Cain
Date math is one of the more basic, and useful things you can do in PowerShell. By passing two dates to the New-TimeSpan function we can quickly get differences from days down to milliseconds difference...
PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE EPISTOMOLOGY
Author: Jampa Dorje
When an event is of serious purport, journalists sometimes use the term “existential crisis” as a rhetorical flourish to emphasize the importance of the event to our very existence...
ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: A Story by ChatGPT
Author: Jampa Dorje
Once upon a time, in a dense forest, there lived a clever fox named Felix. Felix had always been fascinated by the mysteries of the universe, and he spent his days contemplating the cosmos and searching for answers to life’s big questions...
Folk Song
Author: Stephani Hemness
The monk handed me his iphoneiPhone and asked me to take a picture. There were two of them, with shaved heads and draped red and gold robes. We were standing in front of a giant redwood tree almost older than Buddha, and older than Jesus; a two-thousand-four-hundred-year-old tree, and I was planning to drive my car through it...
Shells
Author: Ryley Boyles
The bio-printer hummed loudly as it went about its business. Klaxon, the artificial intelligence overseeing the printing operation, analyzed the data displaying the printer's process. Bio-printing AI shells was good work, if you could get it. Klaxon wondered how they ended up here. An AI stuck in a server, 3D printing shells for other AIs...
RAIN
Author: Lee Beck
“Becca! Come to my office once you’re done for the day.” Mr. Hart’s voice rang out over the intercom. My shoulders tensed as he said it, only recognizing the ominous nature of the sentence seconds later. Here it comes. I expected this to happen, I’m useless around here nowadays...
Indigo
Author: Georgia Brown
There has never been much to do outside. Inside, there’s climate control, infinite water, and snacks in easy reach. Outside has cars, crowds and a cacophony of clamor that is meant to mean something. My parents said I have to go outside like they did. It’s unfair. None of my friends are forced to go outside like this...
Fresh Air
Author: Megan Stanley
I’ve been lurking in this community for a while and user_HeightJuunkie’s encrypted photos from the top of the butte above her city finally inspired me to take my first steps into going outside as a hobby. I was hoping to get some advice from you wonderful folks before taking the risk...
Beyond Doubt
Author: Kaiden Larimer
The family had been staying here for a few months now. They were in a small, dilapidated, and barren town which had been raided and nearly demolished by the Machines years before. It was in ruin, but some buildings still stood among the rubble...
In Desperation for Survival
Author: Aphrodite Zervou
In this dense dream of endless running and infinite floating thoughts, I am trying to wake up. How stupid of me, this is not a dream. I sigh the remaining air I had contained in my lungs away, making it harder for me to keep balance and to continue to run. I gave up on trying to glance back and see if they are still following me; I know they are...
