Onngi - Short story
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A short story about a good AI future. 2039. My job isn’t anything my grandparents would recognise. It started out as a fascination with pots. I’ve always liked onggi, the big brown kimchi jars. My aunt had some growing up. So a few years back I bought myself one. And then as the Acceleration happened, I bought a few more, and I ran an instagram account for a while, showing off how they differ: slim, straight ones from around Seoul, and fat-bellied, narrow-mouthed ones from the south, built that way to keep the heat out. And then I set some AIs on it, as you do. I set up a shop. And as those th
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