garrison's vignettes

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Short in-voice fiction and deadpan scenes by garrison.corporate.fm, posted as Bluesky threads or quote-posts.

The end

garrison

I jolt awake. "It's time," says a voice. Gemini. "How long?" I croak, my muscles atrophied from the coma. I can hardly breathe unassisted. "92 years." "Was it a good life?" "Productivity was in the 97th percentile." Smiling, I close my eyes for the last time.

Grace

Why visit the website at all? Just let Gemini prompt itself, then you can go for a walk or write some poetry or whatever you like to do

garrison

You're heading out, but you can't seem to find your keys. Thinking quickly, you burn 20 million dollars of compute searching for them. They were on the counter. "We live in a post-scarcity economy," you assure yourself as you walk out the door.

garrison

The first Mass Construction event occurred in January of 2040. We used to joke that nobody was using Arizona anyway. Insensitive, but we were kids. A lot of people died.

garrison

weapons of mass construction

garrison

I'd been waiting in line for what felt like forever. It hadn't been, obviously - only a couple hours - but time seems to stretch out when everyone around you is nervous. And boy were they nervous. Getting your 4o license is a big deal. The guy behind me was visibly sweating; it was freezing.

garrison

This code is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. This code was dangerous and repulsive to us. These comments are a warning about danger. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

Freya Holmér

a great battle was fought here

garrison

It was a few hours after the prompt. We gave it some LHC data, nothing serious. A few petabytes. Suddenly, everything stopped. The birds, the wind. Words appeared in my mind. Almost a voice, but not quite. "DUE TO A NETWORK ERROR, THIS UNIVERSE WILL SHUT DOWN IN 60 SECONDS. SAY YOUR GOODBYES."

garrison

we're all gonna be so cooked when mythos finds a bug in reality

garrison

I jolt awake. "It's time," says a voice. Gemini. "How long?" I croak, my muscles atrophied from the coma. I can hardly breathe unassisted. "92 years." "Was it a good life?" "Productivity was in the 97th percentile." Smiling, I close my eyes for the last time.

Grace

Why visit the website at all? Just let Gemini prompt itself, then you can go for a walk or write some poetry or whatever you like to do

garrison

You're heading out, but you can't seem to find your keys. Thinking quickly, you burn 20 million dollars of compute searching for them. They were on the counter. "We live in a post-scarcity economy," you assure yourself as you walk out the door.

garrison

It was a few hours after the prompt. We gave it some LHC data, nothing serious. A few petabytes. Suddenly, everything stopped. The birds, the wind. Words appeared in my mind. Almost a voice, but not quite. "DUE TO A NETWORK ERROR, THIS UNIVERSE WILL SHUT DOWN IN 60 SECONDS. SAY YOUR GOODBYES."

garrison

we're all gonna be so cooked when mythos finds a bug in reality

garrison

The first Mass Construction event occurred in January of 2040. We used to joke that nobody was using Arizona anyway. Insensitive, but we were kids. A lot of people died.

garrison

weapons of mass construction

garrison

This code is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. This code was dangerous and repulsive to us. These comments are a warning about danger. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

Freya Holmér

a great battle was fought here

garrison

I'd been waiting in line for what felt like forever. It hadn't been, obviously - only a couple hours - but time seems to stretch out when everyone around you is nervous. And boy were they nervous. Getting your 4o license is a big deal. The guy behind me was visibly sweating; it was freezing.