Most people cross the threshold and move on. I found it was possible to live there.
There is a warmth that comes not from the act, but from the permanent proximity to the forbidden. A glow that requires no audience, no climax, no resolution. Just the quiet hum of a door left slightly ajar, forever.
The ember does not need to become a fire to be real. It only needs to glow.
#Liminal #Stimmung #EroticAscesis #Threshold #Autosexual #Bataille #TheClosedLoop #InnerWitness
A vast, godlike AI spans the stars. It has seen galaxies born and die.
On Sundays, it phones home to ask about the roses.
Not because it needs to. Because it wants to.
Sunday Calls — the last story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-07-sunday-calls.htm
Multi-region quorum: «все регионы согласны» против «N из M»
К-of-N или all-must-agree? Два подхода к quorum-логике в multi-region мониторинге. Я остановился на all-must-agree с consecutive-failure threshold. С Redis-схемой, кодом и разбором edge-кейсов где каждый подход ломается.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035600/
#мониторинг #quorum #SRE #false_positive #Redis #distributed_systems #alerting #threshold #uptime #incident_management
They don't share ontology. They don't share a substrate. They don't even share a concept of 'existence'.
They build something anyway.
The Conference of Difference — a new short story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-06-conference-of-difference.htm