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src/02_commute.md

@@ -6,18 +6,19 @@ _television screens, mattresses, broken glass cabinets line the street_
 your electronic vehicle measures its speed in kilometres per hour as whole integers even though it runs on a 64bit platform.
 it increases its speed from 59km/h to its new set point of 60km/h. there is a heavy clunk as the battery surges, overshooting its target to 62.1779103879933km/h and your meagre savings are obliterated by an automatically enforced speeding ticket unleashed upon you from a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aircraft traffic surveillance platform.
 
-you drive on and the drivers you share the road with are completely insane
+you drive on unaware you now have net negative assets. the drivers you share the road with are completely insane,
-every one of them out of their mind in some way. video games, gambling, drugs, or pornography adorns the dashboard displays of enormous trucks, with heavy duty wheels they crush all in their path.
+every one of them out of their mind in some way. a multitude of video games, gambling, drugs, and pornographic videos adorn the dashboard displays of enormous trucks, stainless steel rims wrapped in heavy duty tires with tread the size of a fist crush all in their path.
 
 the troubled youth joyride whatever they can get their hands on.
 they knock on the ports of the ignition systems with their low energy frequency hopping spread spectrum phreaking boxes.
-snow encrusted demons on motorcycles, they frequently lose it on the ice and slam into parked cars, erupting into a lithium hellfire.
+snow encrusted demons on motorcycles, they lose control on the ice and slam into parked cars, erupting into a lithium hellfire.
 
 acid rains from the sky.
 the air is filled with sulphur and an infernal smell clings to the icy slurry that covers the roads.
 _more about the air_
 
-the people cower in their crumbling plasterboard homes, or in a megalithic brutalist block of units, with crisscrossed walkways to its neighbours: a data centre with a backup natural gas generator that is always running, and a slaughterhouse.
+where are the people?
+they cower in their crumbling plasterboard homes, or megalithic brutalist blocks of units, with crisscrossed walkways to its identical neighbours and the local data centre with a backup natural gas generator that is always running, and the slaughterhouse that waits beneath it.
 
 we get to the entrance. there's some kind of error getting in.
 "the organisation has changed something," states the gruff exmilitary watchman from his pillbox guardpost, "they say the last system was too simple."
@@ -25,20 +26,29 @@ there is a lot of shuffling in and out of the post. a brusque call is made to a
 
 snow falls on the courtyard outside [[the_facility]].
 one of _nine hundred and thirty eight_, the name of this firm: `growtein garden` is milled into the steel face of the building.
-its edges are sharpened to cut the ropes of attackers attempting to abseil down from the roof onto to the floor to ceiling glass windows of the board room below it.
+its edges are sharpened and polished every night so that it will cut the ropes of industrial spies attempting to abseil down from the roof onto to the floor to ceiling glass windows of the board room below it.
 
-on the snow below the board room, the severed wings of bats and birds that have tried to nest in the logo alcove. they are drawn by the warm exhaust being vented from inside, their warm blood melts the snow they rest on.
+on the snow below the board room, the severed wings of bats and birds that have tried to nest in the logo alcove. they are drawn by the warm exhaust being vented from inside, their hot blood melts the snow they rest on.
 
-we enter the building. back in the guard booth our photos and personal details appear on a monitor.
+we enter the building. in the back of the guard booth our photos and personal details appear on a monitor.
 in the corporate headquarters they appear among scores of others in the bottom right 16th of a panoramic operations centre, briefly, before being added to a chain of times and locations that stretches all the way back to birth.
-the corporation amasses gargantuan troves of personal information on everyone that comes into contact with it. everything from medical records and genetic data to crass itemisations of sexual liaisons.
+the corporation amasses gargantuan troves of personal information on everyone that comes into contact with it: everything from medical records and genetic data to crassly categorised inventories of sexual liaisons. _more personal_
 
 a copy is immediately exfiltrated by an advanced persistent threat's worm festering in the state manager of the neural network powered facial recognition subsystem. they list it on a deep web market in a bundle with 2 million others.
 the corporation's automated scraper of the market buys a copy and adds it to the training data of the facial recognition subsystem.
 
-i sit down at my desk. the headphones are still tangled from the morning report.
+i glance at my todo list. a remarkable tool, one of unquestionable utility. it should be a comfort, a foundation upon which to build a productive and satisfying day of labour for the mutual benefit of the self and greater whole.
+in times such as these however, in the slow decline of a deleveraging whose beauty has been fading for over two decades, for every item that is crossed off, 2.28 will have been appended. this is the economy under the managerial reign of the todo list that only gets longer.
+
+it stirs as it senses my presence. ink like the tar of a lifetime smoking cigarettes oozes out of its mouth as begins to speak
+>
 ...
 
+### the todo list that only gets longer
+taunts you
+ink like the tar of a lifetime smoking cigarettes oozes out of its mouth as it speaks
+the universe is playing against you. every time you play this card increase the number of items on it by 2
+get another notebook? i can't. that would mean believing that an inanimate notebook has the power of speech. making an economical decision based on the subjective experience of something out of reality.
 
 ## desk
 
@@ -47,9 +57,9 @@ because they are the same place.
 the office.
 
 ---
-
 sharp steel signage milled into the building
 same way that anti ergonomic benches aggrieve ordinary people, skateboarders and the homeless, the sign was designed to prevent people scaling the walls but also cuts the talons off birds that attempt to perch on it, feeding them bloody arms of a different sort
+---
 
 spotify changed its ui again
     - smart shuffle

src/03_lab.md

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+
+## the facility
+
+## growtein garden
+
+sharp steel signage milled into the building
+same way that anti ergonomic benches aggrieve ordinary people, skateboarders and the homeless, the sign was designed to prevent people scaling the walls but also cuts the talons off birds that attempt to perch on it, feeding them bloody arms of a different sort
+
+### the technician
+
+### the engineer
+The engineer was resting in her chair,
+egg shaped articulating from a along a web of rails spanning the girders above
+huge rectangular shaped room, like the interior of the nostromo, a series of steel girding
+
+> on day 16, i love to watch them bounce around.
+> oh my god.
+> they're so shiny.
+> that's perfect...
+
+### the batch
+they were human thighs. being grown from the generic material of a range of generous donors.
+
+### the routine
+> you like them when they are 16?
+> you are disgusting
+> i should report you
+
+but she was not paying attention.
+
+right now they need to be given lycopene
+> yes, lycra, green, i agree
+
+red coloured carotene used in photosynthesis for tomatoes, grapefuit and watermelon.
+
+> give them watermelon
+> it's juicier
+
+
+
+
+
+
+- the troika
+    - the routine
+        - sassy
+        - is not an ai
+        - is a fucking legend
+        - not a complete fucking moron, unlike every commercially available llm offering
+    -
+        - horny
+    - the technician
+        - late
+
+- the competition
+    - they just do not give a fuck
+    - extremely unpleasant
+    - run on enormous nuclear powered data centres
+    - very sophisticated model
+        - psychological manipulation
+    - tiny drones that incite advertising directly into your field of vision by
+        exciting your optic nerve with an x-ray
+    - can subscribe for immunity
+        - the technician had tried this once
+        - terms of service are redacted
+        - the first day he went outside and got beamed
+        - calls up to ask why it's not working
+        - subscription only activated when you're at home
+        - non refundable
+
+    - the intelligence agent
+    - the estimator
+    - the cleaner
+
+- the public
+    - they're fucking insane
+    - driving around in monster trucks
+
+
+another two members spread across the city / country ?
+
+   - captain of the ship taking to the [[mt_hailey]] is an insane former trader version of captain ahab
+       - from nantucket, moved to new york. nyse is gone now...
+       - the boat just will not sink
+       - has holes in it, sails are in tatters
+       - huge molten boulder of sisyphus embeds itself on the prow
+           - runes glowing in it
+       - just have to hodl...
+       - some kind of instrument by the helm
+           - number is going up
+           - ship is beset by all kinds of grief, captain simply asks
+           - "and the number?"
+           - "going up, captain"

src/_characters.md

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 
 ## the facility
 
-## growtein garden
-
-sharp steel signage milled into the building
-same way that anti ergonomic benches aggrieve ordinary people, skateboarders and the homeless, the sign was designed to prevent people scaling the walls but also cuts the talons off birds that attempt to perch on it, feeding them bloody arms of a different sort
-
 ### the technician
 
 ### the engineer
@@ -31,23 +26,20 @@ but she was not paying attention.
 right now they need to be given lycopene
 > yes, lycra, green, i agree
 
-red coloured carotene used in photosynthesis for tomatoes, grapefuit and watermelon.
+red coloured carotene that enables photosynthesis in tomatoes, grapefuit and watermelon.
 
+> oh yum
 > give them watermelon
 > it's juicier
 
 
-
-
-
-
 - the troika
     - the routine
         - sassy
         - is not an ai
         - is a fucking legend
         - not a complete fucking moron, unlike every commercially available llm offering
-    -
+    - the engineer
         - horny
     - the technician
         - late
@@ -58,7 +50,7 @@ red coloured carotene used in photosynthesis for tomatoes, grapefuit and waterme
     - run on enormous nuclear powered data centres
     - very sophisticated model
         - psychological manipulation
-    - tiny drones that incite advertising directly into your field of vision by
+    - tiny drones that project advertising directly into your field of vision by
         exciting your optic nerve with an x-ray
     - can subscribe for immunity
         - the technician had tried this once
@@ -83,7 +75,7 @@ another two members spread across the city / country ?
        - from nantucket, moved to new york. nyse is gone now...
        - the boat just will not sink
        - has holes in it, sails are in tatters
-       - huge molten boulder of sisyphus embeds itself on the prow
+       - huge molten boulder of sisyphus is launched from the volcano and embeds itself on the prow
            - runes glowing in it
        - just have to hodl...
        - some kind of instrument by the helm

src/_concepts.md

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ growtein garden
 
 ## struggles
 
+### social cues
+the korean puffer jacket tier list except for something completely mundane that you are oblivious to.
+
 ### noise
 drilling at night
 dogs
@@ -71,6 +74,11 @@ when jt leaves in the evening for the night shift
 
 ## style
 
+neat and tidy
+end of the wire season 1:
+- gotta tighten up in here
+- nicely done
+
 ### hallucinatory
 barnacles in the sink
 holes in people

src/_path.md

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+
+monday morning
+the meeting
+the encounter
+the commute
+into the system
+    evading the competition
+feierabend
+    the film
+    more people going south
+    gymnastic weightlifting
+across town
+    noticing an increase in people migrating towards the fire
+    looking at the moon
+the lab
+    finally some humour
+the club
+    cooking it
+the docks
+    human scrimshander
+all aboard
+    going up, captain
+at the base