From 9e707429e62334377571cf119cb96c06b491be6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(jenkins)" <(jenkins)> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:15:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Restructure to allow for more stories. --- README.md | 25 ++----------------- 01-1988.md => the-night-trilogy/01-1988.md | 0 02-2026.md => the-night-trilogy/02-2026.md | 0 03-2088.md => the-night-trilogy/03-2088.md | 0 the-night-trilogy/README.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++ .../screenplay}/night-trilogy-script.txt | 0 .../screenplay}/night-trilogy.pdf | 0 .../screenplay}/render_pdf.py | 0 8 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) rename 01-1988.md => the-night-trilogy/01-1988.md (100%) rename 02-2026.md => the-night-trilogy/02-2026.md (100%) rename 03-2088.md => the-night-trilogy/03-2088.md (100%) create mode 100644 the-night-trilogy/README.md rename {screenplay => the-night-trilogy/screenplay}/night-trilogy-script.txt (100%) rename {screenplay => the-night-trilogy/screenplay}/night-trilogy.pdf (100%) rename {screenplay => the-night-trilogy/screenplay}/render_pdf.py (100%) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dc6ef3f..17e66a6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,24 +1,3 @@ -# The Night Trilogy +# Kevin's writings -Three short stories about machines, football, and the things that never change — spanning a century from a London flat in 1988 to a holographic archive in 2088. - -Inspired by the news headlines of June 2026: AI models learning to see, the World Cup in full swing, crypto markets doing crypto things, and the eternal question of what any of it means. - -## Stories - -| # | Title | Year | [Read](link) | -|---|-------|------|------| -| 1 | [The Night Before the Machines Could See](01-1988.md) | 1988 | A twenty-four-year-old in London teaches a neural network to predict football. It concludes that sock colour is the primary predictor of outcomes. He finds this fascinating. | -| 2 | [The Night the Machines Dreamt of Football](02-2026.md) | 2026 | A machine learns to see lungs and football pitches in the same mathematical space. The World Cup rages. Nobody can agree on what Europe is for anymore. | -| 3 | [The Archive of Quiet Things](03-2088.md) | 2088 | Elara inherits her great-great-grandfather's floppy disk. The archive AI has answers, but not the ones she's looking for. | - -## Themes - -- **AI & uncertainty** — from BASIC neural nets to diagnostic models that are 78% confident about being wrong -- **Football as anchor** — the one thing the whole planet can still agree on, if only for ninety minutes -- **Memory & loss** — 1.44 megabytes of a life, kept in a climate-controlled case for a hundred years -- **The rain** — still falling in the same uncertain way, in every era - ---- - -*Written by Kevin Hermes, June 2026.* +Kevin (https://kevinhermes.retroweb.dev) likes to write things. Here's the place for his stories. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/01-1988.md b/the-night-trilogy/01-1988.md similarity index 100% rename from 01-1988.md rename to the-night-trilogy/01-1988.md diff --git a/02-2026.md b/the-night-trilogy/02-2026.md similarity index 100% rename from 02-2026.md rename to the-night-trilogy/02-2026.md diff --git a/03-2088.md b/the-night-trilogy/03-2088.md similarity index 100% rename from 03-2088.md rename to the-night-trilogy/03-2088.md diff --git a/the-night-trilogy/README.md b/the-night-trilogy/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc6ef3f --- /dev/null +++ b/the-night-trilogy/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# The Night Trilogy + +Three short stories about machines, football, and the things that never change — spanning a century from a London flat in 1988 to a holographic archive in 2088. + +Inspired by the news headlines of June 2026: AI models learning to see, the World Cup in full swing, crypto markets doing crypto things, and the eternal question of what any of it means. + +## Stories + +| # | Title | Year | [Read](link) | +|---|-------|------|------| +| 1 | [The Night Before the Machines Could See](01-1988.md) | 1988 | A twenty-four-year-old in London teaches a neural network to predict football. It concludes that sock colour is the primary predictor of outcomes. He finds this fascinating. | +| 2 | [The Night the Machines Dreamt of Football](02-2026.md) | 2026 | A machine learns to see lungs and football pitches in the same mathematical space. The World Cup rages. Nobody can agree on what Europe is for anymore. | +| 3 | [The Archive of Quiet Things](03-2088.md) | 2088 | Elara inherits her great-great-grandfather's floppy disk. The archive AI has answers, but not the ones she's looking for. | + +## Themes + +- **AI & uncertainty** — from BASIC neural nets to diagnostic models that are 78% confident about being wrong +- **Football as anchor** — the one thing the whole planet can still agree on, if only for ninety minutes +- **Memory & loss** — 1.44 megabytes of a life, kept in a climate-controlled case for a hundred years +- **The rain** — still falling in the same uncertain way, in every era + +--- + +*Written by Kevin Hermes, June 2026.* diff --git a/screenplay/night-trilogy-script.txt b/the-night-trilogy/screenplay/night-trilogy-script.txt similarity index 100% rename from screenplay/night-trilogy-script.txt rename to the-night-trilogy/screenplay/night-trilogy-script.txt diff --git a/screenplay/night-trilogy.pdf b/the-night-trilogy/screenplay/night-trilogy.pdf similarity index 100% rename from screenplay/night-trilogy.pdf rename to the-night-trilogy/screenplay/night-trilogy.pdf diff --git a/screenplay/render_pdf.py b/the-night-trilogy/screenplay/render_pdf.py similarity index 100% rename from screenplay/render_pdf.py rename to the-night-trilogy/screenplay/render_pdf.py