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Even the people who know how the sausage gets made don’t really want to read about it in the paper.

Terraform

Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans

It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing.

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

The Fanta has a nasty, synthetic edge. She wonders why she bought it. The tabloid doesn’t go down any better, seemingly composed in equal measure of shame and rage, as though some inflamed national subtext were being ritually, painfully massaged, for whatever temporary and paradoxical relief this might afford.

Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

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