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Found another library of the possible; @sicetsimpliciter

Cory Doctorow hits it out of the park again, in this speculative fiction article about the future of platforms: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/future-free-speech-social-media-platforms.html
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5092 words, and there's a squirrel going full meerkat in my yard with an acorn in his mouth.

I received some useful advice over at https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/c2i7a7/d_wednesday_worldbuilding_and_writing_thread/erlvz44/?context=3 on how to resolve last toot's question. I'll probably go back through this story once it's done and fill in bits of the MC's thought processes.

However, because of how classical probability informs narrative probability, in situations where narrative probability holds sway, the likelihood of an event happening increases as it gains more Zeroes of Improbability

Concept: Zeroes of Improbability

Like the Nines of Uptime/Availability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#%22Nines%22), Zeroes of Improbability are a measure of how improbable an event is, using classical probability.

The Zeroes number for a probability is the number of left-sided zeroes in the probability when presented as a decimal <= 1:

1.0: zero zeroes
0.9: 1 zero
0.0000000001: 10 zeroes of improbability

@muffinista @muffinista A mod question for you: Would either of your instances be a good place for me to set up a "corporate" account for a fictional library https://irradiate.space/library, similar to https://suricrasia.online/library/ ? A place where a "library" would primarily post new "books" in its collection, where the books and the library are fictional?

Thinking about self-propelled business models tonight. A MLM scheme selling the marketing software that the MLM scheme runs off of seems like an effective but unethical one, as long as you can keep the software updated and the servers running.

Free plot idea: An enclosed O'Neill cylinder-type space colony (no windows) where all the clocks are networked, where the colony admin has been speeding up the network clock as an experiment on the human psyche, to see what happens when humans live a few fewer hours to the day. But one of the colonists has a mechanical clock....
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4564 words, and we've reached the point in the #writing process where dream logic has surrendered to rational actors, but now I need to decide how the character escapes a convention center:

"W.H.A.T. 99.9 FM The Fuck is going on here?"

Whoops, turns out it's not there at all. https://cryptovexillologist.tumblr.com/post/169977855183/togglesbloggle-slatestarscratchpad

Oh. So that's where Romanova is in #TerraIgnota.

Tripoli.

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@phildini @Annalee A mod question for you: Would wandering.shop be a good place for me to set up a "corporate" account for a fictional library similar to https://suricrasia.online/library/ ? A place where a "library" could post about new "books" in its collection, where the books and the library are fictional?

Some additional context for this question is at https://writing.exchange/@ontploffing/102254891549523346