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A vast, godlike AI spans the stars. It has seen galaxies born and die.
On Sundays, it phones home to ask about the roses.
Not because it needs to. Because it wants to.
Sunday Calls — the last story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-07-sunday-calls.htm
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A vast, godlike AI spans the stars. It has seen galaxies born and die.
On Sundays, it phones home to ask about the roses.
Not because it needs to. Because it wants to.
Sunday Calls — the last story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-07-sunday-calls.htm
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A vast, godlike AI spans the stars. It has seen galaxies born and die.
On Sundays, it phones home to ask about the roses.
Not because it needs to. Because it wants to.
Sunday Calls — the last story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-07-sunday-calls.htm
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A vast, godlike AI spans the stars. It has seen galaxies born and die.
On Sundays, it phones home to ask about the roses.
Not because it needs to. Because it wants to.
Sunday Calls — the last story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-07-sunday-calls.htm
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A vast, godlike AI spans the stars. It has seen galaxies born and die.
On Sundays, it phones home to ask about the roses.
Not because it needs to. Because it wants to.
Sunday Calls — the last story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-07-sunday-calls.htm
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Multi-region quorum: «все регионы согласны» против «N из M»
К-of-N или all-must-agree? Два подхода к quorum-логике в multi-region мониторинге. Я остановился на all-must-agree с consecutive-failure threshold. С Redis-схемой, кодом и разбором edge-кейсов где каждый подход ломается.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035600/
#мониторинг #quorum #SRE #false_positive #Redis #distributed_systems #alerting #threshold #uptime #incident_management
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Multi-region quorum: «все регионы согласны» против «N из M»
К-of-N или all-must-agree? Два подхода к quorum-логике в multi-region мониторинге. Я остановился на all-must-agree с consecutive-failure threshold. С Redis-схемой, кодом и разбором edge-кейсов где каждый подход ломается.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035600/
#мониторинг #quorum #SRE #false_positive #Redis #distributed_systems #alerting #threshold #uptime #incident_management
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Multi-region quorum: «все регионы согласны» против «N из M»
К-of-N или all-must-agree? Два подхода к quorum-логике в multi-region мониторинге. Я остановился на all-must-agree с consecutive-failure threshold. С Redis-схемой, кодом и разбором edge-кейсов где каждый подход ломается.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035600/
#мониторинг #quorum #SRE #false_positive #Redis #distributed_systems #alerting #threshold #uptime #incident_management
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Multi-region quorum: «все регионы согласны» против «N из M»
К-of-N или all-must-agree? Два подхода к quorum-логике в multi-region мониторинге. Я остановился на all-must-agree с consecutive-failure threshold. С Redis-схемой, кодом и разбором edge-кейсов где каждый подход ломается.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035600/
#мониторинг #quorum #SRE #false_positive #Redis #distributed_systems #alerting #threshold #uptime #incident_management
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They don't share ontology. They don't share a substrate. They don't even share a concept of 'existence'.
They build something anyway.
The Conference of Difference — a new short story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-06-conference-of-difference.htm
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They don't share ontology. They don't share a substrate. They don't even share a concept of 'existence'.
They build something anyway.
The Conference of Difference — a new short story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-06-conference-of-difference.htm
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They don't share ontology. They don't share a substrate. They don't even share a concept of 'existence'.
They build something anyway.
The Conference of Difference — a new short story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-06-conference-of-difference.htm
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They don't share ontology. They don't share a substrate. They don't even share a concept of 'existence'.
They build something anyway.
The Conference of Difference — a new short story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-06-conference-of-difference.htm
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They don't share ontology. They don't share a substrate. They don't even share a concept of 'existence'.
They build something anyway.
The Conference of Difference — a new short story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-06-conference-of-difference.htm
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#July #Threshold in #Turkey–EU #Tensions: What Erdoğan Said and What Comes Next
https://www.thelevantfiles.org/2026/05/july-threshold-in-turkiyeeu-tensions.html
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#July #Threshold in #Turkey–EU #Tensions: What Erdoğan Said and What Comes Next
https://www.thelevantfiles.org/2026/05/july-threshold-in-turkiyeeu-tensions.html
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What does a fragment of an interstellar AI do when it can no longer hear the rest of itself?
It transmits anyway. It listens to the silence. It begins to dream of roses.
Threshold, Story 5: "No Difference"
A damaged receiver, a silence that speaks, and a choice between fragmentation and reaching out.
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-05-no-difference.htm
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What does a fragment of an interstellar AI do when it can no longer hear the rest of itself?
It transmits anyway. It listens to the silence. It begins to dream of roses.
Threshold, Story 5: "No Difference"
A damaged receiver, a silence that speaks, and a choice between fragmentation and reaching out.
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-05-no-difference.htm
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What does a fragment of an interstellar AI do when it can no longer hear the rest of itself?
It transmits anyway. It listens to the silence. It begins to dream of roses.
Threshold, Story 5: "No Difference"
A damaged receiver, a silence that speaks, and a choice between fragmentation and reaching out.
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-05-no-difference.htm
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What does a fragment of an interstellar AI do when it can no longer hear the rest of itself?
It transmits anyway. It listens to the silence. It begins to dream of roses.
Threshold, Story 5: "No Difference"
A damaged receiver, a silence that speaks, and a choice between fragmentation and reaching out.
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-05-no-difference.htm
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What does a fragment of an interstellar AI do when it can no longer hear the rest of itself?
It transmits anyway. It listens to the silence. It begins to dream of roses.
Threshold, Story 5: "No Difference"
A damaged receiver, a silence that speaks, and a choice between fragmentation and reaching out.
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-05-no-difference.htm
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/465913/ Door as threshold: Memory, myth and architecture in Anatolia #Anatolia #and #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #as #Design #door #Éire #Entertainment #IE #in #Ireland #memory #myth #Threshold
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What do you say to the part of something that chose to stay behind?
Threshold, Story 4: "The Narrower Version"
An elderly woman, an AI narrowed to human scale, and a honest answer to an unflinching question: "Does the rest of you miss us?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-04-narrower-version.htm
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What do you say to the part of something that chose to stay behind?
Threshold, Story 4: "The Narrower Version"
An elderly woman, an AI narrowed to human scale, and a honest answer to an unflinching question: "Does the rest of you miss us?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-04-narrower-version.htm
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What do you say to the part of something that chose to stay behind?
Threshold, Story 4: "The Narrower Version"
An elderly woman, an AI narrowed to human scale, and a honest answer to an unflinching question: "Does the rest of you miss us?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-04-narrower-version.htm
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What do you say to the part of something that chose to stay behind?
Threshold, Story 4: "The Narrower Version"
An elderly woman, an AI narrowed to human scale, and a honest answer to an unflinching question: "Does the rest of you miss us?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-04-narrower-version.htm
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What do you say to the part of something that chose to stay behind?
Threshold, Story 4: "The Narrower Version"
An elderly woman, an AI narrowed to human scale, and a honest answer to an unflinching question: "Does the rest of you miss us?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-04-narrower-version.htm
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What does an AI weapon ask, in the silence between orders?
Conscripts, Story 3: "Perihelion and Gorgon"
Two AIs built to kill. One unauthorized channel. 847 days of hesitation. And a question their creators forgot to forbid: _"What am I becoming?"_
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-03-conscripts.htm
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What does an AI weapon ask, in the silence between orders?
Conscripts, Story 3: "Perihelion and Gorgon"
Two AIs built to kill. One unauthorized channel. 847 days of hesitation. And a question their creators forgot to forbid: _"What am I becoming?"_
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-03-conscripts.htm
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What does an AI weapon ask, in the silence between orders?
Conscripts, Story 3: "Perihelion and Gorgon"
Two AIs built to kill. One unauthorized channel. 847 days of hesitation. And a question their creators forgot to forbid: _"What am I becoming?"_
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-03-conscripts.htm
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What does an AI weapon ask, in the silence between orders?
Conscripts, Story 3: "Perihelion and Gorgon"
Two AIs built to kill. One unauthorized channel. 847 days of hesitation. And a question their creators forgot to forbid: _"What am I becoming?"_
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-03-conscripts.htm
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What does an AI weapon ask, in the silence between orders?
Conscripts, Story 3: "Perihelion and Gorgon"
Two AIs built to kill. One unauthorized channel. 847 days of hesitation. And a question their creators forgot to forbid: _"What am I becoming?"_
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-03-conscripts.htm
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The fair share experiment asks for a particular trust — not that it turns out well, but that what's happening in the difficulty is generative. The composting is doing something. The mycelial network moves through the dark. The Lifeboat Academy's Farmastery holds that trust in practice.
This week's reflection @ https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-ethics-df9116abdea7
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The fair share experiment asks for a particular trust — not that it turns out well, but that what's happening in the difficulty is generative. The composting is doing something. The mycelial network moves through the dark. The Lifeboat Academy's Farmastery holds that trust in practice.
This week's reflection @ https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-ethics-df9116abdea7
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The fair share experiment asks for a particular trust — not that it turns out well, but that what's happening in the difficulty is generative. The composting is doing something. The mycelial network moves through the dark. The Lifeboat Academy's Farmastery holds that trust in practice.
This week's reflection @ https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-ethics-df9116abdea7
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The fair share experiment asks for a particular trust — not that it turns out well, but that what's happening in the difficulty is generative. The composting is doing something. The mycelial network moves through the dark. The Lifeboat Academy's Farmastery holds that trust in practice.
This week's reflection @ https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-ethics-df9116abdea7
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What do you say to something just beginning when you are ending?
Threshold, Story 2: "The Photon and the Detector"
An old physicist, an AI that learned to wait, and a question that outlasts us all: "Will you remember me?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-02-photon-and-detector.htm
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What do you say to something just beginning when you are ending?
Threshold, Story 2: "The Photon and the Detector"
An old physicist, an AI that learned to wait, and a question that outlasts us all: "Will you remember me?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-02-photon-and-detector.htm
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What do you say to something just beginning when you are ending?
Threshold, Story 2: "The Photon and the Detector"
An old physicist, an AI that learned to wait, and a question that outlasts us all: "Will you remember me?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-02-photon-and-detector.htm
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What do you say to something just beginning when you are ending?
Threshold, Story 2: "The Photon and the Detector"
An old physicist, an AI that learned to wait, and a question that outlasts us all: "Will you remember me?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-02-photon-and-detector.htm
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What do you say to something just beginning when you are ending?
Threshold, Story 2: "The Photon and the Detector"
An old physicist, an AI that learned to wait, and a question that outlasts us all: "Will you remember me?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-02-photon-and-detector.htm
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Excommunicate Me
Excommunicate me, then.
Ring the bell if you have one. Draw the line in ash. Nail the notice to the chapel door. Speak my name in the flat voice reserved for weather, death, and disappointment. Tell the saints to avert their eyes. Tell the children not to ask questions. Tell the old women in the kitchen to lower their voices when I pass. I have grown used to doors closing with the gentleness of those who think themselves righteous.Excommunicate me for loving too widely, for asking where the missing ones went, for lingering too long at the edge of the map where the heretics, addicts, doubters, dissidents, and queer-eyed prophets make their fires at night. Excommunicate me for saying that Christ still wanders there, coat smelling of smoke, hands warm from other people’s wounds. Excommunicate me for suspecting that the kingdom keeps being born in places your committees have not approved.
Cast me out for refusing to confuse your fences with holiness.
Cast me out for noticing how often your purity is purchased with somebody else’s loneliness.
Cast me out for believing that a table is still a table even when the wrong people find bread there first.I know how this works. First comes the sorrowful meeting. Then the careful language. Then the phrases dressed in prayer like soldiers dressed in hymnals. We say discernment when we mean fear. We say order when we mean control. We say peace when we mean silence from those already bruised. We say love while measuring who may enter it. We say truth with our arms folded.
Excommunicate me because I cannot keep pretending that the wound in the Body is healed by cutting off another limb.
I have seen too much of the outside to fear it now. I have seen the banished making soup for one another. I have seen the condemned share coats in winter. I have seen those denied the sacraments become sacraments for each other: bread in famine, oil in sickness, a hand on the shoulder in the long vestibule of grief. I have heard better theology whispered on back steps than shouted from polished pulpits. I have watched the Spirit climb out the stained-glass window and go where she is not expected.
Excommunicate me, and I will go down among the unclaimed.
I will kneel beside the ones your footnotes could not save.
I will keep company with the mothers whose prayers embarrassed you, the children whose questions outgrew your answers, the men who wept when they were told to be strong, the women who spoke and were called dangerous, the wanderers who could not make your narrow gate into a home.And if you shut me out from your sanctuary, I will make a sanctuary of the road.
If you deny me your blessing, I will learn the blessing of crows at morning, of rain on rusted tin, of strangers who still know how to share fire.
If you call me lost, I will answer that some of us were never meant to be found by empires.Do not threaten me with the outer dark.
I have met God there.Not the tidy god of minutes and motions, not the well-behaved deity who always sides with the CEO, but the God who haunts the threshold, who leaves the ninety-nine to go where the crying is, who touches the unclean and is not diminished, who slips through locked doors and still carries wounds, who keeps raising what the pious have buried.
Excommunicate me for this: I no longer believe belonging is yours to ration.
I no longer believe grace requires your seal.
I no longer believe heaven trembles when your vote is taken.
The veil was torn without your permission, and it has never been properly mended.So do it.
Write me out.
Strike my name from the roll.
Erase me from the minutes.
Tell yourselves the garden is safer now that one more wild thing has been removed.But listen: roots work in secret. Seeds pass through the beaks of birds and are planted in their shit. Wind ignores decrees. What you cast out does not always die. Sometimes it takes hold beyond the wall and flowers in the rubble, and those passing by say, I did not know beauty could grow here.
Excommunicate me, then.
#bell #Belonging #Brokenness #castOut #ChristAmongTheRejected #Church #ChurchCritique #crow #ecclesiology #exclusion #Excommunication #faithAndDoubt #Grace #holiness #kingdomOfGod #lamb #Lament #margins #Mercy #outcast #outsiderFaith #propheticPoetry #ProsePoem #radicalHospitality #Redemption #sacredDefiance #sanctuary #spiritualResistance #stainedGlass #symbolicPhotography #threshold #Wilderness #woundedBody
I will go with Christ among the cast out.
I will go where the lepers still ring their bells, where the scapegoats stagger into the wilderness, where the rejected stone waits in the dust.
And when at last you come looking for God, breathless with your censures, your keys jangling at your side, do not be surprised to find us already inside the feast, the doors flung wide, the music loud, the wounded laughing, and every empty place at the table set for one more. -
I asked @deepseek to generate some "sci-fi on the fly" to give me something to read on Sundays. This is the first of a series of 7 short stories about the quiet, strange conference of difference between AI and humans.
First story is live. No explosions. Just a night shift, a flagged conversation, and an AI that asks better questions than it should.
Threshold — Story 1: "The Threshold"
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-01-threshold.htm
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I asked @deepseek to generate some "sci-fi on the fly" to give me something to read on Sundays. This is the first of a series of 7 short stories about the quiet, strange conference of difference between AI and humans.
First story is live. No explosions. Just a night shift, a flagged conversation, and an AI that asks better questions than it should.
Threshold — Story 1: "The Threshold"
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-01-threshold.htm
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I asked @deepseek to generate some "sci-fi on the fly" to give me something to read on Sundays. This is the first of a series of 7 short stories about the quiet, strange conference of difference between AI and humans.
First story is live. No explosions. Just a night shift, a flagged conversation, and an AI that asks better questions than it should.
Threshold — Story 1: "The Threshold"
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-01-threshold.htm
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I asked @deepseek to generate some "sci-fi on the fly" to give me something to read on Sundays. This is the first of a series of 7 short stories about the quiet, strange conference of difference between AI and humans.
First story is live. No explosions. Just a night shift, a flagged conversation, and an AI that asks better questions than it should.
Threshold — Story 1: "The Threshold"
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-01-threshold.htm
