The room was empty except for a table and two chairs. The Colonel sat on one and on the other the man who had...
Marcelo Rinesi
https://blog.rinesi.com/ · 50 posts · history since 2025 · active
8 Jun
29 May
The current state of the longevity industry is both worse and better than what the public narrative...
28 May
The ancient text file changed daily in the air gapped system where the only thing that ran was a primitive...
23 May
The last thing ever said on the Moon was a god's corpse mathematically perfect narration of the Thanatos...
17 May
You're an angel watching a sleeping child. Your vision into his brain is limited to a young...
10 May
There is a man who has the same nightmare every morning when he can no longer stay awake: he dreams of the color...
3 May
Professional expertise on the psychology of the gambling addict had not kept Adam safe from becoming one...
26 Apr
Most people say the City watches us all the time: on the streets, at work, in the shower, while we sleep. Most...
18 Apr
Everybody has heard of the Dreadnought Factories deep inside the country from where impossible devices...
13 Apr
Somebody gave you a knife and stood back smiling as you cut away parts of yourself. Those aren't the right...
2 Apr
Not every murder. Those who know something do not know enough to guess how many or what they have in common. It...
30 Mar
Part of the crisis in journalism is one of image and self-image. Mapping and clarifying what journalism ...
27 Mar
The first breakthrough from superhuman AI mathematics was the discovery in 2039 of a meta-statistical...
20 Mar
It took the best thief in the world five months to steal Emergent Artifact 12 from where a terrified...
16 Mar
An underestimated but fundamental fact in financial markets is the huge and mostly unmet demand for...
13 Mar
Jules' heart was such that he loved all ecosystems. All that was nature, he loved. But it is the nature of love...
7 Mar
Lloyd's wasn't in London: where Lloyd's was, so was the city. Rhizomatic and infertile, neither deigned to...
1 Mar
Alice was sure within the first hour of meeting Bob that their families had software-entangled them since...
26 Feb
Nobody knew how she had bought the thin forest of bell towers that pinned down the old city's neighborhoods;...
16 Feb
Her brother moved with a perfection that made her skin crawl. It was not the gracefulness of the dancer whose...
11 Feb
The debate about human obsolescence has gotten it all wrong: by focusing myopically into individual...
8 Feb
He used to understand guilt the way a farmer understands crops. Now he has to use drugs to sleep and drugs to...
31 Jan
The Fractal War did not spare the City. There were no bombs in the featureless black streets cruised by...
29 Jan
At their best, internal hackathons provide a necessary patch to systemic problems. But their usual...
24 Jan
She had been a soldier, she had been tortured, and she was in hiding: that was the full extent of what the...
Developer productivity is not a bad thing – but low developer productivity is not what's holding you back. ...
16 Jan
Where's the Smart City? Still everywhere as a concept, almost nowhere as transformative large-scale...
15 Jan
The Detective sat comfortably inside the transparent cage as if it were another well-appointed library...
14 Jan
For ten years I assaulted the white-and-red walls of their immune systems (we both had governments, spies,...
4 Jan
"Post-AI" doesn't mean "no-AI." It means ready to outcompete an AI-first world . A...
3 Jan
There's a human-shaped hole in the secret memory of the world. Somebody who walks without footprints and...
27 Dec 2025
"A black hole in his soul?" "A self-reinforcing memetic attractor, if you prefer. Plot it in...
20 Dec 2025
The church we finished building three months ago is screeching curses pleads and bribe offers to the drones...
15 Dec 2025
The best-known art forgers are driven by ego; the best, period, aren't known. She was possibly — who could...
10 Dec 2025
At night the darkness abandons him. There is neither blindness nor mercy in the nightmares of Jorge Luis...
7 Dec 2025
There's something about the future you're afraid to remember. It's about your body. (You can't feel your...
The end of the AI bubble won't mean the technology will go away. As the financial...
30 Nov 2025
"Every lie," she said, seeming to look far away from the phone camera, "is on itself a crime." I asked the bot...
27 Nov 2025
Most of what I wanted to say is in the title. An online platform is a company in...
23 Nov 2025
We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger...
13 Nov 2025
Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in...
7 Nov 2025
Roger had tried in vain to understand the record low turnover among the company's "associates." This was...
6 Nov 2025
A few of the ideas, topics, and commonplaces that have been gaining steam on <a...
1 Nov 2025
Cruise zeppelins don't have windows looking down. Theirs open at night to look with indifference to the...
25 Oct 2025
A few of the ideas, topics, and commonplaces that have been gaining steam on <a...
You love him but sometimes it's hard to look at him, the beauty that first attracted you a mirror of his...
18 Oct 2025
A few of the ideas, topics, and commonplaces that have been gaining steam on <a...
They often said it was death threats from evolutionary biologists that had first driven the two of them...
12 Oct 2025
A few of the ideas, topics, and commonplaces that have been gaining steam on <a...
11 Oct 2025
Liam knew he could not be hearing a baby crying across the mile and a half of unbroken Hospital facilities...