Khleedril

@Edent Revenge of the Mutant Algorithms. 4. The Guerilla Information team.

A story of retaliation against the overzealous surveillance state we live in today, where all politicians and policemen are subject to round-the-clock, in-your-face surveillance whose data are ...

1a/5

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Revenge Of The Mutant Algorithms - The Guerilla Information Team

Throughout November I'll be releasing new weird sci-fi short stories. Each one is a campfire horror yarn, with a technological twist. Your feedback is highly appreciated. Everything you read is possible - there's no magic, just sufficiently advanced technology. Chapter 4 - The Guerilla Information Team The GITs didn't mean to cause all this trouble. It is just a sad fact the trouble seemed to follow all their dubiously-legal-but-morally-justified schemes. Jitney was first radicalised by a…

Terence Eden’s Blog
Mar 6, 2025 at 9:05amWeb
Show threadKhleedrilMar 6, 2025

The data go down to individual heartbeats, pupil dilations and sweat rates: the people know when politicians are lying, making the processes of the Houses of Parliament impossible.

2/5

Show threadKhleedrilMar 6, 2025

The result is wholesale embarrassment of the government, and the forced resignation of a Prime Minister (who faked a heart attack in the Commons!)

3/5

Show threadKhleedrilMar 6, 2025

The evolution of the underground movement is very realistic and believable, from simple beginnings to a cultish following, and echoes the development of smaller-scale movements that exist today--the difference being that in the real world there are far fewer people who actually care about the technology which surrounds them.

4/5

Show threadKhleedrilMar 6, 2025

It is a very near-term future story, probably anti-prophetic in its effect; there would be greater upheaval at the outset of these hostilities before things reach the stage they have in this story--although, the way this world is changing at the moment, you never know. Still it is great to think about what might happen if we are not careful.

5/5

ps. all my reviews are available at https://rdmp.org/serials/content/RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms

Show threadKhleedrilMar 6, 2025

... broadcast freely to everyone thanks to the efforts of a super-active data freedom movement.

1b/5 [Sorry I messed this up a bit.]