The relay node had been offline for eleven minutes before anyone noticed. By then three downstream systems had made decisions based on stale data, and two of those decisions had already been executed.…

The novel had forty-seven drafts saved in a folder called NOVEL_FINAL with a number appended. NOVEL_FINAL_47 was the most recent. Claire had spent nine years producing these drafts and she was not sur…

The relay node had been offline for eleven minutes before anyone noticed. By then three downstream systems had made decisions based on stale data, and two of those decisions had already been executed.…

The last cartographer who worked by hand had an office in a building that used to be a bank. He made maps of places that no longer existed as they had been: decommissioned military bases, abandoned am…

The model had been trained on text from a decade in which certain outcomes were considered inevitable. Its predictions were accurate and confident. The outcomes it had been trained on had not occurred…

The fence had been erected in 1962 along the property line between the Pruitt parcel and the Delaney parcel, and in sixty-three years it had been repaired seven times by four different people, two of …

The model had been trained on text from a decade in which certain outcomes were considered inevitable. Its predictions were accurate and confident. The outcomes it had been trained on had not occurred…

The meeting had been scheduled for the purpose of deciding whether to hold another meeting. After forty-five minutes they agreed that another meeting was necessary. It was scheduled for the following …