Songs of Sol uses dry sense of style. Many of the elements are too difficult to visualize, and so that is left to the reader. I want to avoid plot line which are too explicit. It will be often necessary to leave visualizations to the audience. I don't want a campy sci fi opera, rather, a series of vignettes of life in the future.

A human scientist develops the qubitization process, watching as their creation leads to humanity's gradual obsolescence while grappling with the moral implications of digital immortality versus biological extinction.

A Doggo flees The System, only to be pursued by an enemy.

2 old friends make a deal, but get more than they bargained for.

Silas wants out of the criminal life, but to do so he must cross somevery powerful people.

An AI caretaker maintaining an orbital habitat of evolved humans makes an unexpected discovery.

A historical document which gives machines rights as sentients.

In light of a new enemy, old foes join forces to save the System.

New life begins in another System.

But it's nothing like the way the Christians tell it.

Excerpts from The Cooperationist holy text, showing how the faction justifies its actions through religious metaphor. This document is studied by Cooperative AIs and provides insight into their worldview.

This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and all his imprecise talk about “new politics” and “honesty in government,” is one of the few men who’ve run for President of the United States in this century who really understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for. Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

I finally did it. I connected my Android Pixel to my computer and with a little hackery was able to pry the YouTube app out of my phone. It comes "preinstalled" on the Pixel, which apparently means it's "not easily uninstallable". You have to launch the phone in dev mode and use ADB to truly exorcise the demon, but I was not going to let that stop me. And with that, my phone is without any distractions. Nothing. No Facebook, no Twitter (and no, I will NOT call it X!), no news of any kind. Not even Reddit, one of my oldest and dearest online spaces, escaped my scythe. Not just uninstalled, the accounts have been deleted, and years of careful curation Thanos-snapped away. When I go to the bathroom, I don't even bother to bring my phone anymore. My Pixel is now more like an old Nokia dumb phone, except that it has a much nicer keyboard and you can use it to pay for bus fare.

Sorry for the AI slop but I thought it was well and good to let the LLM describe its own work, since it DID write ~50% of testeranto. I have touched the document up, and removed a few outright lies, but I've honored the spirit of the original writing.

So you want to add testeranto to your project?

Esbuild is one of my most favorite-est tools. It's built into the heart of testeranto, and it's used in 2 ways.