“Tomorrow morning. The storm will be well and truly a Witch by then. This is the first time I’m relying on Gaia’s control of the environment. I’m amazed at how granular I can be. But you should go see Mayor Chow and warn her, in general terms.”

“Tell me about this ‘unfortunate accident’.”

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Since the Witch will make lake freighter traffic inconvenient for a few days, the sea cans will start rolling out via road delivery. The shipping season will close at the end of the year and re-open start of April. So we’ll ship what we can by sea freighter, then switch just to road for the winter, picking up sea freight again in spring.”

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I will provide full documentation to all concerned authorities. During the confusion I will make another announcement. Then we’ll wait for things to settle before we deploy the Ultors and my avatars.”

“What about blast and radiation damage?”

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“There’s a Witch of November brewing, which I am encouraging and focusing. When the freighter gets near the centre of the arc defined by Kincardine and Tobermory, verifiably on the Canadian side of the border, the ship will have an unfortunate accident. It will sink and at some point the pressure trigger will detonate the device. It’ll be a major international incident.

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We took the short walk to the mine head, then the elevator and golf cart downstairs to Mica’s home. We ignored the Ultors posted at various checkpoint locations, and they ignored us. They were all aspects of Mica after all. Once securely in Mica’s cab, I continued the conversation.

“Details?”

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Part II

CHAPTER 10

The Gale

“The storm has started,” Mica told me one morning over my breakfast. “I’m tracking an interesting freighter on the lake. It just cleared the Straits of Mackinac, originating in Chicago.”

“Cargo?” I asked.

“Something quite small and torpedo shaped, with a suspicious radiation signature.”

“A nuclear fusion bomb?”

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A quotation from Samuel Johnson

But when thoughts and words are collected and adjusted, and the whole composition at last concluded, it seldom gratifies the author, when he comes coolly and deliberately to review it, with the hopes which had been excited in the fury of the performance: novelty always captivates the mind; as our thoughts rise fresh upon us, we readily believe them just and original, which, when the pleasure of production is over, we find to be mean and common, or borrowed from the works of others, and supplied by memory rather than invention.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1754-03-02), The Adventurer, No. 138

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/81911…

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And at the end of November, the storm hit.

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The world seemed to have forgotten about MIke’s announcements. We never made the news any more, which suited us all fine. Even the usual fake news and comedy programs stopped making fun of MIke within a few days as new scandals were uncovered. We all knew it was the calm before the storm.

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Thousands of conventional computers were installed in racks in an adjacent gallery, with their own data lines to the Internet backbone. The first large Petisol of the 10 megawatt class was installed in an adjacent gallery for secure local power. Barbarobo got their 500 kilowatt unit to power their aeroplane.

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Mica’s private gallery was closed off and the blast doors installed. Apart from her connections to power and data lines, she was physically as secure as we could manage. Marc and Sandra installed and commissioned several dozen additional quantum computers in other parts of her gallery.

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Our galleries were filling up with thousands of Ultors and a few hundred avatars. We had thousands of spare Petisols, each good for 5kW steady electrical output, packed and ready for shipment. Larger variants were starting limited production. On the surface we were accumulating empty sea cans, ready to ship Ultors around the world.

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We started installing the Petisol reactors in the robots as each came off the line, with enough left over to retrofit the Ultors coming in from Barbarobo. Floyd and his crew even had sent us a few avatars, so MIke was able to have a physical body presence in all critical areas. The avatars were becoming a common sight around Goderich, acting as a very effective PR interface with the public.

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The Petisol manufacturing line took a bit longer because we had to order injection casting machines and have the custom moulds made. Once the manufacturing machines were working properly, the Petisol production line soon outpaced all the robot lines put together.

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Over the next month we got the Ultor and avatar lines in full production. Michel’s crew returned in the specified two weeks and commissioned the second GF power plant. MIke and Michel had a proof of concept of the Petisol working within a week, and a production model a week after that.

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Back at the aeroplane Veronika released the tie downs and did the preflight. After hugs all around, they climbed into their magic carpet and headed home.

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I hadn’t been in the barn building since we initially inspected the property, so was seeing it from a new perspective. We all agreed that with the tankage already in place, it would be adequate to our purposes.

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@linguacelta Take perception to be knowledge of reasons and sensory impressions following Margret Cavendish. Knowledge of consciousness, is not knowledge of self-conscious (Hegel’s ‘Science of System’ aka ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’); autonomous drones can be effective killing machines because they can process enough information to be conscious of what counts as a target. They have no EQ, but as a project, is their a case to deny their limits have an IQ and an AQ so can game the negative dialectics? #Consciousness #Perception #LLM #Ai #SelfConsciousness #DroneWars #GamingNegativeDialectics #AiDefined

“Yes in the large building next to the secondary elevator shaft. Stainless steel, empty and clean. They just held brine from the water jet cutters until it could go to the evaporation pond. I’ll have them flushed out, ready for the plastic liquids. If we’re done here for now, let’s go take a look,” Percy said.

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