Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

From "Meditations On A Telephone Girlhood" by Emmeryn Cariglino (mutabletuple), New Session, issue 2, Winter 2021:

In our own moment, we have become accustomed to a level of immediacy in our communications - almost saturated by means of immediate contact - in ways that our Illinois Bell salesman could hardly imagine. One can pick up a glass rectangle and see someone else's face, hear their voice, or, if one desires, engage in a kind of light-speed hypertext telegraphy unbound from the plodding delay of the courier or the constraint of the Baudot character set.

["Somehow, you say more with that goddamn heart emoji than I do with a whole monograph of affections," I write, to my lover, much more capable of brevity than I, which is one hell of a thing to admit in a manuscript. From the moment they read it in an early draft of this, they haven't stopped using it, and it hasn't stopped meaning.]

New Session is a retro-tech magazine meant to be read via telnet to http://issue2.anewsession.com, but there is, helpfully, also a web interface (an in-browser telnet client for issue 2, that plus also a set of web pages for issue 1. (HTML version of issue 2 probably in January.)

Happy first day of Christmas, to everyone who celebrates it today! (I.e. folks in Western and New Calendar Orthodox churches and most of the folks who celebrate the holy day in a non-religious way.) Gaudete! Christos est natus! May the Christmas season bring you joy!

And a happy Newtonmas to folks who celebrate the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton, instead of or alongside the first day of Christmas!