Chatterbox_RE: Extenuating Circumstances_The Wrong Way_I'm Ready.
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Chatterbox
Most of the time, people keep their AI BFFs top secret, covering themselves with fuzzy blankets as a robot spits out information its user wants to hear. It’s kept as such a deep secret because those people don’t realize that big companies are preying on their loneliness and lack of social connections. Because, really, humans are easy to please, which makes them good business. All they need are friends and society to keep them running, even the most antisocial of them. That’s where I come in, Jaime Ford, founder of Coral INC and lead creator of the app Chatterbox. Our goal is to create the most...
RE: Extenuating Circumstances
The man who sat across the table possessed no admirable or unique qualities. His features meshed together to form a presence so benign that forming an opinion on him would take a concerted effort. He sat at a glass top table with two plain steel chairs. Sterile white walls surrounded on all sides, shining bright with light from an unknown source. In the second chair sat Jacob, staring at the banal figure given the lack of anything else even marginally stimulating to look at.Jacob sat still in his chair as he observed the man. The only detectable movement Jacob dared risk came from his own ches...
The Wrong Way
I remember the sunset in my office window on the final night of my career. I was thinking how thankful I was that a dirty blue-collar guy like myself had such a perfect view, that is, until the machine ended the day for me. It was attached to me. It tagged me like an animal. Back then if you wanted to drive your car, you had your phone’s GPS to tell you where to go, but if you wanted to drive a truck, the Electronic Logging Device told you where to go, where to eat, where to sleep, where to piss, and most importantly, how much money you were allowed to make. It was the beginning of my hatred t...
I'm Ready.
Hi everyone! I hope you all have had a great new year! I would like to dedicate this story to B.W., who helped me a lot with this story! Thank you so much! I hope you all enjoy!**ps i told u I'd write another story this month ;)~~~Log 1 "Is this mic working?" Crash. "Ok then- Um, Hi. God, I sound so awkward- Um, I'm Sarah Reed, and I'm on the run. I can't explain everything right now, but I'll try to tomorrow. If I survive long enough to see the light of day. Darn it, no one's going to listen to this anyway..."End log.~~~Let's take it from the top.My dad died two months ago. Since my mother di...