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"They are determined to create a fictional history for us that they like better than the one that really happened."

“Life-size is too Large

To the microscopy of thinking small
(To have room enough to think at all)
I said, ‘Cramped mirror, faithful constriction,
Break, be large as I.’

Then I heard little leaves in my ears rustling
And a little wind like a leaf blowing
My mind into a corner of my mind,
Where wind over empty ground went blowing
And a large dwarf picked and picked up nothing.”

–Laura (Riding) Jackson

Now that the Neanderthals. (this is metaphorical--i'm pro-N.thal)

"Digital entities perceive virus-ridden computers the way we perceive ruins: as strangely lovely things, as beautiful decay, as order vanishing under nature's cloak" --@ctrlcreep.bsky.social

Great autopen thread.