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Daily Life on New Daffy A
few moments of
stream-of-consciousness as experienced by a fairly ordinary New Daffy
citizen,
including news net reports and advertisement inserts received by direct neural interface |
~ There was a brief
disturbance beginning at 08.08.50.5.12 today at the 51st
Repository of New Daffy when several customers applied excessive
kinetic force to scanning hardware, allegedly in an attempt to gain
physical access with unapproved technology (see appendix 2.A.4.g,
section III of the Gruunian Police Service records.) Local control of
the restraint angelnet was wrested via apparent subversion efforts from
subturing dedicated systems on the aggressors. The angelnet was re-targeted
against the defensive systems pods, disabling them at 08.08.50.5.14 as
they finished encapsulating two of the aggressors. Reclamation
attempts on the angelnet were beginning to be successful when the
aggressors' dedicated systems managed to bypass the core safety systems
in the local area, destroying about 15 kilos (3 rings) of angelnetting
via thermal overload. The suspects were stasis-wrapped by 08.08.50.5.21
as external angelnetting rolled into place.
It
is clear that the aggressors were subturing vecs working on pirated
game control code from Nanoclysm, nanofactured in a subverted
public facility. Research is ongoing to determine complicity/liability
in this event. Gruunian Police Service has issued a bounty for
information leading to the conviction of the persona or personas
involved in this event in the Local Collective Judicial Opt-In, bonded
via the 51st Repository of New Daffy.
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the nonallied ai GrimHumorVIV - has publicly announced their public
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brought by the BoB against itself, That at least one of the other
sophonts involved is a biological-cognitive
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"New
Archailect Threat Detected!" Mare Imbrium, Luna, 3448 af, LIVE:
<Reporter
Sandra DuMonte>
"Dr.
Xin Chulee Ho announced a newly detected threat to baseline Survival
today in a widely attended briefing. Dr. Xin Chulee discussed
the ongoing travel patterns allowed to baselines remaining on Terra and
the practical ramifications of such.
"It
appears, according to Dr Xin Chulee's research, that GAIA is attempting
to develop a human breeding program, aimed at some unspecified goal.
"Dr
Xin Chulee spoke forcefully of the ramifications of
this
'horrendous crime against humanity'
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<unidentified
female voice>
"This
transmission has been terminated by automated filters when it became
clear that it was being funded by the illegal, radical Human First!
organization. A report will be forthcoming within the next 50 hours.
This channel is hereby disabled until such time as the report is
available with its recommended resolution to this problem."
Rumors
continue to arrive that the non-sephirotic 'Dren' system (located just
2 wormholes from Ken Ferjik) is experimenting with some form of quantum
decryption on data passing thru the local wormhole links. It is clear
that links passing through that system have a decoherence rate some
three times higher than the average accepted rates of the top ten
transmitters. Investigations are ongoing, and 8 of the top 10
transmitters have rerouted to bypass any such linkages through the
system.
"Helmsman, can you spare a dime?" I asked as I stepped into
the low-sided boat. The figure in black with its hand outstretched at
the steering oar at the rear audibly blinked, then started laughing. I
passed the Helmsman the requisite coin and they pushed off, sculling
the little craft down the smooth, rapid flow.
"That, I gotta admit, was good," chuckled the Helmsman.
"First time someone's tried THAT line on me!"
"Well, it's gotta be boring, the same old 'Here's my coin.
Take me there' routine."
"True, true."
We lapsed into companionable silence as the various anchored madverts
slipped past, no more than one every couple boat lengths. Century gum,
ReShape, Traction Pads, OmniFroot - all the normal stuff you see
everywhere. I kept half an eye on the memeter, just the same -sometimes
the cumulative dose can get dangerously high, even with them spread out
like they were here.
A dull whine started to echo over the water. A quick scan spotted an
illegal buzzing our way rapidly. Of course, there was no cover - we
were out on the boat, fer cryin' out loud. Besides, nothing was
supposed to fly over that water - whole reason it was there, after all.
As it got to broadcast range, it stopped on a dime. Quite literally, as
the Helmsman hit it solidly with er steering oar,
driving it into the drink.
"Wow. Thanks!"
"Don't mention it. Not like I wanna see a funny guy like you
get some of that crud"
It's wonderful how small kindnesses come back to you.
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At
the end of this message, it will be 08.08.50.6 local New Daffy time.
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