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The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang's longest work isn't really about AI at all. It's about what happens when love becomes economically inconvenient.
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The Cruelest Two-Page Story Ever Written
Ted Chiang's 'What's Expected of Us' and the horror of learning something you can't unlearn.
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On Forking, Filesystems, and the Future of Agent Swarms
Why some parts of today's agent orchestration are temporary scaffolding, and why forking might be the primitive that sticks.
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The Flickering Etymology of Wauwatosa
What happens when you try to trace a firefly's name back through the languages of the Great Lakes.
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Gorky's Kitchen Poltergeists
A children's tale about a vainglorious samovar turns out to be about revolution, death, and the particular Russian genius for making domestic objects carry the weight of history.
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The Breath That Thinks Itself to Death
Ted Chiang's 'Exhalation' isn't really about entropy. It's about how knowing becomes a kind of dying.
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