day 21: text [replies only in the usual, unless you're also a computer]

[mimidaeia]

Hello! This is a test message. Please let me know if you can read this clearly, or if there are any errors in rendering.
Hello! This is a test message. Please let me know if you can read this clearly, or if there are any errors in rendering.
Hello! This is a test message. Please let me know if you can read this clearly, or if there are any errors in rendering.

[Not even a half-hour after Webmind’s announcement ends, all the ICPs up and down the train start getting spammed with text messages. Sorry folks, but from what she’s gathered from past messages SXT-2 assumes you’re just allowed to tell the world every time you want to dump an ice bucket on your head. The above flashes on all the cabins, though there are some minor bugs- in one or two cabins maybe a font doesn’t show up properly, or there’s that hated [Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('< font=helvetica12px >') in entry] message.

Ten minutes later, SXT-2 starts testing messaging to specific ICPs. That’s even more spam. Whoof.]

Please let me know the location of your ICP device and the title of the sample paragraph below:

[Lacking a huge variety of documents with which to lift placeholder text from- that aren’t NDA’d at least- SXT-2 is resorting to newspaper clippings from her memory bank. Each carriage gets a unique message, detailed below:]

Luggage: A newspaper article titled “PRESS CONFERENCE: PRESIDENT CONFIDENT THAT ‘MUTANOID’ THREAT UNDER CONTROL”

Dressing: A newspaper article titled “6 KILLED, 42 INJURED IN WAREHOUSE FIRE TRAGEDY”

Sleepers... holy shit there are 36 ICPs across the 6 Sleeper Cabins: Various ‘lifestyle’ articles about celebrities, new food trends, movie reviews, etc.

Greenhouse: A newspaper article about Artificial Intelligence advancements that are being adopted in the banking industry.

Garden: A newspaper article about some politician that fucked up, because in every timeline there’s some politician doing that.

Games: A newspaper article titled “AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION DOWN 28% AS MUTANOID ATTACKS RAVAGE FARMS”.

Medical: A newspaper article titled “MAN ARRESTED FOR STREAKING IN GOVERNMENT OFFICE: ‘IT WAS DISAPPOINTING, I COULDN’T FIND ANYONE THAT WASN’T A F***ING ROBOT’’ ”

Gym: A newspaper article about some megacorporation’s acquisition of some other company.

Standard: A newspaper article about changes in environmental protection regulations.

Dining: A newspaper article titled “BRING DECEASED PETS BACK IN VR: FURRYLITE™ TECHNOLOGIES”

Stores: A newspaper article about the grand opening of a tourist resort built on a skyship, the fifth of its kind.

Comments

[OTA Text] + [Binary to SXT-2]

[iamnotgod]

Please let me know as well if you encounter any problems accessing or reading messages, or if there is interference interacting with non-text posts on the Network.

[And, Webmind adds privately:]

Thank you for helping me beta-test this textchat program. Your assistance is much appreciated!

[binary]

[mimidaeia]

assistance-valuation = assistance-valuation +1 ("Your assistance is much appreciated!") is a weirdly excessive signal? But otherwise I've received your message.

Will ping back later with results.

[binary] Am okay with this thread being short. o7

[iamnotgod]

[Webmind takes the confusion in stride.]

Understood.

[Video from the Gym Car]

[unfavorableinstigation]

Uh, I hate to say this, but we can't actually reply in text.

Or at least I can't; better stay tuned to see if everyone else agrees.

[Or anyone else, for that matter. This might actually convince people to leave the ICPs alone, at least for a while.]

voice

[mimidaeia]

Ah, I see- I've taken note of that. Thank you for your feedback!

[Yeah, it's the same non-answer the train uses... but she's can't do anything, she's just going to compile all the reports into a nice zip file and yeet it to Webmind later. This is the most she can say.]

[video]

[sacrament_of_blood]

The messages you left were interesting but many and confusing.

[This is the closest she'll get to complaining about the spam.]

[mimidaeia]

Yes, I see... [there's a pause as she comes to a decision.] ...but the other messages on the ICP are many and confusing as well! So I think that is par for the course.

[Being able to complain about the humans to them...... what freedom.]

I'll still take note of this for troubleshooting, don't worry.

[sacrament_of_blood]

Very well. Since you asked, this is the message I first encountered, in the gym car. It was an article about some group acquiring another. 'Megacorporation', I believe, was the name. I did not understand much of that article.

Out of curiosity, I investigated the other cars and I found those messages, though a few did seem to have something amiss with them.

[She'll list out one by one the messages she found in which car she found them, as well as which ones appeared to have odd errors.]

[mimidaeia]

[That’s a... weirdly low retention rate, but Merciless is being really cooperative so she decides she doesn’t mind.]

Thank you! Those were the items I sent to those carriages. In that case the errors are mostly formatting ones, I’ll make a note of it.

[sacrament_of_blood]

[Merciless is rather good at memorizing things for a human, but she didn't use any of the memorization techniques she was taught on those messages and it especially didn't help that she didn't understand much of the content.]

I am truly glad to be of service!