Adversarial Metanoia
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A man and a woman sat in a hotel room in a city haunted by death. The only noise coming through the window was the sarcastic ---or so it sounded--- ins…
Marcelo Rinesi
Feb 22
Whatever the Ministry finds in his weekly blood samples they will never share, but we've shared a room for the few years my little brother has been ali…
Marcelo Rinesi
Feb 16
"It's an autopsy report on our country," I told my husband when he asked, but I didn't show him my files. I can't, because the military classified the …
Marcelo Rinesi
Feb 12
Huge and luxurious — for a hole deep in the Moon's ground — armies of autonomous robots kept building lunar habitats of increasing size and sophisticat…
Marcelo Rinesi
Feb 1
Anybody could've done it, given enough time. Only bits and papers are capacious enough to hold real wealth. They sit on one end of document trails and …
Marcelo Rinesi
Jan 26
I learned about him when the police arrested me for the murder of his mistress. We look very much alike, and police facial recognition doesn't work ver…
Marcelo Rinesi
Jan 20
When the Qatar 2022 World Cup final match was interrupted by the stadium becoming an overheated deathtrap, a terrorist cyber-attack was the obvious sus…
Marcelo Rinesi
Jan 14
Blue and white. Some browns. Some green. Ever since humans could, seeing Earth from above was a source of awe. Perhaps what cathedrals had been scale m…
Marcelo Rinesi
Jan 6
There's a trick to watching ad-supported videos in phones, TVs, or laptops: during the ads look just above the camera, so it thinks you're paying atten…
Marcelo Rinesi
Dec 29, 2019
Viral genocides, fundamentalist STDs, famines in a test tube. As effective genetic engineering moved from tricky legality to illegal ubiquity, military…
Marcelo Rinesi
Dec 17, 2019
I no longer have nightmares about the awful images we train AIs to create in the weaponized deepfakes lab. Everybody vulnerable to depression or psycho…
Marcelo Rinesi
Dec 14, 2019
You woke up to the news that the company running your gut microbiota had been acquired by a private equity consortium with plans to close the company a…
Marcelo Rinesi
Dec 1, 2019
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