"The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster 1909 Amazing short story about a civilization that forgot to build what keeps it alive. In full readable here:

The eternal moment, and other stories

Just realized: when chatting on your LLM subscription and it gives you a stupid answer, you can't quickly run the conversation by a different model with different "guard rails". @payperq and @routstr clearly win on that.

Today we had what I guess is "rolling thunder". It wasn't raining yet and it was relatively bright but I heard a thunder sustained for several minutes on end. The lack of variance felt eerie.