#its also thematically such an interesting thing......i like what it lets me say aout art

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i would like to hear about decade!!! i dont have any specific questions i just think it is such a fun concept.

decade my friend decade!!!! some fun facts about decade:

the computer's machinery is all engraved on glass. i dont know or care enough about the specifics of computer workings to give specifics on this (the urge to do research on it will strike me eventually and ill figure it out) but its very different from the early, early forms of computers out of primary (massive logic switch systems using physical switches that can do simple math atm) or lariat (literally just jacquard machines because i LOVEEEE jacquard machines and lariat's a textile town anyways) but its difficult to even realize that glass fragments with engravings too fine to even be seen are part of a COMPUTER when you barely even know what a computer is and thats not how the computers that Do exist work even a LITTLE bit. the few bits ive written that are first person accounts of visiting decade the computer while it was functional are very fun becuase you walk thorugh these massive hanging chains of glass reflecting light. its fun!!

information about decade most often comes from numbers system esque radio stations on unused frequencies, which samira has painstakingly decoded via a cryptography method that i will eventually figure out. its on a radio frequencey thats a lower frequencey than most west faraday radio (decade uses something like slf, i think)

samira's favorite bugbear about decade is that they've found evidence of the ruins of the city itself but theres very little evidence of the rest of the footprint that a city would leave. quarries, dams, forests that had been clearcut and are newer growth, soil that is nutrient depleted from farming....etc etc. given the EXTENT of the growth of the city and the fact that its not built out of any particularly novel materials, its wood and stone so Where Did They Get The Wood And Stone. heres what samira has to say on the matter !

writing decade is remarkably fun. computer that is solely focused on an impossible project in a society that is crumbling around it and it knows it will eventually be drawing plans that no one will see...my strange animal