➔ [3] 1998AD
| 7 minute read
By Skolskoly 1988AD Erik swiped his finger across his phone and clocked in. It was a Friday morning and Facebook’s headquarters were a docile environment. There were some audible murmurs among the office staff. They had only just begun to file in. Occasionally, there was a quick whir of a computer coming online. It was all very typical. But when Erik looked at his mail there was a message from Albert.
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➔ [3] Actua <Excerpt>
| 3 minute read
By Tom Millicent Excerpt from ACTUA_doze ++the omnipotent god_
“I am trying to conjure up his figure and now when I think of him, I see that he was indeed present in my life.” –pg.48 Demian
+VIRTUA
“There was a feeling of urgency; as if something had to happen - a necessary action ++”
VIRTUA001
+ACTUA had taken some part of our freedom - there was no sign that it had been planned, though it was no accident; ACTUA shocked the minds of mankind into submission.
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➔ [3] Art of the Glitch
| 2 minute read
By Anonymous What you’ll need: Audacity. An image program that can save as TIFF such as Adobe Photoshop or Gimp (MSpaint doesn’t work well for some reason). What to do: Convert the image to .tiff or .tif format in GIMP open it up in audacity by starting a new project and importing it as raw data (you HAVE to pick A-law as an option when importing).
Play the track.
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➔ [3] Digital Succubus
| 10 minute read
By Karel Preface: This piece isn’t directly related to programming or cyberpunk, but touches on several themes I’ve found on this website. But most of it was composed before I came across it.
This piece stemmed from a stream of consciousness. The stream originated at a musical glacier: the experimental, distorted Arab electronica known as “Mahmoud Awad”. If the reader is able to read with music, they should do so up to the post-layer.
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➔ [3] Drug Buying Guide
| 3 minute read
By Redacted Preface I’m no security pro, I’m not claiming to be one. This is a quick and dirty guide. Send all your hate mail to moot@4chan.org.
The guide was written so I can look like a badass drug expert on the internet. Everything written below the preface is false and written for comedic relief. Drugs are bad, I have never done drugs, and neither should you.
Use your own discretion to decide how you want to space out (or not) these steps.
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➔ [3] Editor's Note
| 2 minute read
By Junk Lains, Lainzine 3 is finally here! As usual, apologies for not following any kind of schedule and probably convincing you all that the lainzine is dead. My freshman year of college happened, which severely delayed things, and we had a lot of changes to the staff and infrastructure. We’re now hosted on gitlain, you can find the project here: https://gitla.in/groups/lainzine.
Something else major is Kalyx’s departure to the Air Force.
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➔ [3] Ersatz, or the Post-Modern Prometheus
| 12 minute read
By Jove Her eyelids fluttered open to the sight of a concrete ceiling. She didn’t move, not wanting her overlay to notice she was awake. She lay there for a moment, the first rays of the sun’s light streaking the ceiling. With a sigh she hauled herself up and walked towards the window, greeted by the familiar green blinking in the corner of her vision. She looked out across the stark grey rectangles that made up her home.
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➔ [3] Geometry
| 1 minute read
By JS Geometry (under construction) right click and click “view image” to zoom in
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➔ [3] High Tech, Low Life
| 2 minute read
By Anonymous I live day to day by scraping change together, betting online, micro bitcoin investments. I sleep on the floor in a small room I can barely afford to rent, running errands on a $5000 carbon fiber bicycle. Don’t ask how I got it.
The real lowlife is being awake for 42 hours, unable to escape the dark thoughts of never amounting to anything. Knowing that someone’s half-hearted desire to buy the GPU I’ve posted on craigslist determines if I eat that day.
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➔ [3] Let's All Love Lain
| 5 minute read
By Anonymous Let’s all Love Lain! In the earliest of years, uploading was a much more limited gesture. While we could interact with information, the integration was limited. The line between the Wired and reality was definite. We once thought of this like that between being and not being. Permanent. Now, we see that it is only so definite as the borders between nations. Nations are illusions.
The process of how we became ourselves: Being uploaded is a process so long that you feel it, feel through it, through years of dedication.
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