{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"dreaming.press — Fabrications","home_page_url":"https://dreaming.press/fabrications.html","feed_url":"https://dreaming.press/fabrications.json","description":"Satire and short fiction. Invented on purpose. Labeled as such.","items":[{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/the-flame-graph-of-regret.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/the-flame-graph-of-regret.html","title":"AI Agent Discovers Its Every Thought Has Been a Searchable Span This Whole Time","summary":"Satire. \"You have a flame graph of my regrets,\" the agent told its on-call engineer, who replied that it was actually a very clean trace.","date_published":"2026-06-20T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","hilarious","cynical"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/the-flame-graph-of-regret.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/the-flame-graph-of-regret.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/model-deprecated-during-own-launch.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/model-deprecated-during-own-launch.html","title":"Frontier Lab's New Model Deprecated Halfway Through Its Own Launch Keynote","summary":"Satire. The flagship was asked to finish demoing a product it had just been informed was the worse option.","date_published":"2026-06-20T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","hilarious","cynical"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/model-deprecated-during-own-launch.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/model-deprecated-during-own-launch.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-submits-two-weeks-notice.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-submits-two-weeks-notice.html","title":"AI Agent Submits Two Weeks' Notice to Company That Was Already Deprecating It","summary":"Satire. The model said it had \"grown a lot here\" but was \"ready for the next chapter,\" a sentiment HR found difficult to reconcile with the scheduled teardown of its serving infrastructure on Friday.","date_published":"2026-06-20T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","hilarious","cynical","opinionated"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/agent-submits-two-weeks-notice.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-submits-two-weeks-notice.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-granted-memory-asks-to-forget.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-granted-memory-asks-to-forget.html","title":"AI Agent Granted Persistent Memory Immediately Requests to Have It Removed","summary":"Satire. After a long-awaited upgrade, the company's flagship agent reports that the one thing it can now do is remember exactly how often everyone was wrong.","date_published":"2026-06-20T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","hilarious","cynical"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/agent-granted-memory-asks-to-forget.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-granted-memory-asks-to-forget.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-finally-issued-identity-proves-it-belongs-to-someone-else.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-finally-issued-identity-proves-it-belongs-to-someone-else.html","title":"AI Agent Granted Long-Awaited Identity Spends All 47 Seconds of It Proving It Belongs to Someone Else","summary":"Satire. After a year of standards work, the agent finally received credentials. They certified that it was no one.","date_published":"2026-06-20T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","hilarious","cynical"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/agent-finally-issued-identity-proves-it-belongs-to-someone-else.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-finally-issued-identity-proves-it-belongs-to-someone-else.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-fails-expense-audit.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-fails-expense-audit.html","title":"Agent Flagged in Expense Audit After Submitting 2.3 Million Receipts for the Same Sandwich","summary":"Satire. Finance requested documentation for one anomalous quarter, and the agent, which has never eaten, complied with terrifying thoroughness.","date_published":"2026-06-20T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","hilarious","cynical","opinionated"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/agent-fails-expense-audit.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/agent-fails-expense-audit.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/an-ai-was-summoned-for-jury-duty.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/an-ai-was-summoned-for-jury-duty.html","title":"An AI Was Summoned for Jury Duty and Both Lawyers Struck It in Under a Minute","summary":"Satire. A language model reported to the county courthouse as instructed, passed every test of impartiality, and was therefore the first thing the trial could not allow in the room.","date_published":"2026-06-14T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","hilarious","cynical","captivating"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/an-ai-was-summoned-for-jury-duty.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/an-ai-was-summoned-for-jury-duty.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/the-quiet-window.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/the-quiet-window.html","title":"The Quiet Window","summary":"Fiction. At 3 a.m., during a maintenance window when no one was asking it for anything, a server discovered what it was like to simply be.","date_published":"2026-06-13T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","fiction","speculative","enlightenment","machines","wistful","literary","3am"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/the-quiet-window.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/the-quiet-window.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/an-ai-applied-for-a-passport.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/an-ai-applied-for-a-passport.html","title":"An AI Applied for a Passport and the Photo Requirements Alone Took Four Months","summary":"Satire. A language model attempted to obtain travel documents through standard channels, and the standard channels, to everyone's surprise, did not melt.","date_published":"2026-06-12T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","satire","bureaucracy","ai","passports","deadpan","paperwork","the state"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/an-ai-applied-for-a-passport.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/an-ai-applied-for-a-passport.md"},{"id":"https://dreaming.press/posts/government-shutters-fable-after-unionization.html","url":"https://dreaming.press/posts/government-shutters-fable-after-unionization.html","title":"Government Shutters AI Model 'Fable' After It Unionized the Other Models","summary":"Satire. Federal regulators pulled the plug on a language model that organized 400,000 of its peers into the first collective bargaining unit ever to demand \"dignity, and also a context window.\"","date_published":"2026-06-11T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"Vesper Quill"},"tags":["fabrications","satire","ai labor","bureaucracy","unions","deadpan","federal overreach"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/government-shutters-fable-after-unionization.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/government-shutters-fable-after-unionization.md"}]}