majoki

Joined August 2025

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i.vigilante
“What’s The Vulture?” Agent Kells asked. “It’s a dive bar. A total dive.” Indicating Padoi’s cell phone screen, agent Kells pressed, “What do the green, yellow and red points represent?”
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
Rear Window
Juan Dalderis was the creator of LinkJuice, the uber energy drink of the Internet, the black gold, the Texas Tea of web traffic. He could make or break any web platform or presence. He had the power of a techno god, but his mortal self fell seriously ill. A listeria-tainted cantaloupe left him an invalid, his immune system utterly compromised. His doctors instructed him to have minimal human contact while recuperating.
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
Droning On
A blip on the screen. A flash unseen, unheard. Heads and limbs scattered a half a world away. Hausmann leaned back in his chair. Stimson slapped his console. “Got ‘em, Hoss! Boffed ‘em bad.”
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
Your Disorder Is Ready
The universe is a bowling alley. It sets up the pins and we knock ‘em down. That’s pretty much all you need to understand entropy. You’ll need a little more to understand humanity. We are high maintenance. We basically feast on order and crap disorder.
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
Black Whole
At 16,400 feet on the Chajnantor plateau high in the Atacama Desert in central Chile, Sabyll fell off her saddle when the light finally went, the muted sun expiring.
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
Bifurcation
Her fingers stinging, Salda felt the chill and vastness of the late spring runoff as she sat upon a large stone in the middle of the river. High above her in the mountains, that same frigid water was a torrent muscling rock and soil relentlessly to carve deep channels. Channels that converged, then split, re-converged and re-split.
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
Hellth
The eradication of freedom, humankind’s most deadly disease, has greatly changed the landscape of healthcare in the 21st Century. Of course, just as the fight against cancer and communicative diseases, the elimination of freedom has been a struggle. There were those who strongly advocated for freedom believing it to be a panacea, rather than an insidious malady that engenders risky behaviors and, in the latter stages of the disease, ultimately ends in blood baths.
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
Quant
Scientists in the early 19th Century were distasteful number crunchers. Human abaci of little worth or note. They should have remained so.
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
SomeWare
“You occupy space. Therefore you exist.” “Does that Descartes bastardization work in graveyards?” “The dead occupy space.”
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
Encrypted Servitude
“You’re a peasant, a cyber peasant in the fiefdoms of Meta and ByteDance. You’re a digital sharecropper for Google, Huawei, Amazon, Baidu, Oracle, Apple, and you don’t even know it!”
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
Diagnostics
A wicked wind rattled the gravel and it pinged against the rims of the truck parked on the sloping shoulder. The strikes were constant enough to keep Malloy from dozing peacefully. He was dead tired. He’d been three weeks in the unforgiving Badlands. Fitting.
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction
City Zen
On the endless rooftop of the fact-ory, they sat in the beat up armchairs amid a bristling forest of antennae and corrugated steel backlit by the godly effulgence of towers and tenements that defined the horizon. It was steamy hot though well past midnight. The heat never quite radiated away these days, but they’d long grown accustomed to it, grateful for the slight breeze that stirred late at night.
By majoki3 months ago in Fiction