Four delegations sat down on Mars this week to carve up gate routes nobody owned a decade ago. Three signed. The Jovian moons did not. A Ganymede attaché was heard to remark, on his way to the airlock, that you cannot divide a road that still kills the people who use it.
Mars is acting like the center of something. It can afford to. It has the lights, the relay, and most of the survivors who still have money. The rest of the system is invited to catch up, or to keep paying tolls.
The provisional council met under a roof that has been patched four times. The motion passed. There was no one to vote against it, which the chair noted, and then moved on.
One point five billion of us are still down here, under a sky that has not stopped falling in four years. The colonies call us a backwater. We call it home, mostly because the word for what it actually is has not been invented yet.
One week into circulation and the system's new currency has not collapsed, which in 2026 passes for a triumph. It settled near 100 to the old American dollar — roughly a cent apiece — and twitched there all week, because the thing is brand new and nobody's sure what it's worth from one hour to the next.
The syndicates noticed. They always notice. Use the converter while the number means something. By next week it may not.
Until this week, every vehicle on Mars arrived in a crate from somewhere else. On Tuesday a Tharsis assembly line — three years of borrowed tooling and stubbornness — rolled out its first homegrown mono-wheel, and Gina Motors became the first thing the frontier has built for itself instead of imported. It is ugly. It runs. Out here that is the whole review.
Pippu Cola bought the side panel before the paint dried. The drink is in every dome, every gate lounge, every relief crate; its founders understood early that on a planet with nothing, the company that sells you the small comfort wins. HexaChess, the puzzle outfit whose game has quietly eaten everyone's idle hours, says it'll license the dashboard next.
None of these names existed five years ago. That's the story of the section: in a system rebuilding from zero, the businesses being born now are the ones your grandchildren will think were always here.
The Ganymede gate is open again at half flow. Officials call it stable. Officials called the first one stable too, in 2022, and we are still sweeping up the moon.
Travelers are reminded that the bank scans at the gate are, for the third quarter running, "under review" following unexplained withdrawals from transit accounts. Carry cash. Carry less of it.
REWARD: ₩ 8,000,000
REWARD: ₩ 4,500,000
REWARD: ₩ 11,000,000
She works the night shift keeping the Mars relay's coolant lines from freezing — the same relay that lets you read this. Between rounds, on a terminal older than she is, Mara Okonkwo taught herself to write a HexaChess engine. This week it beat forty veterans and a syndicate-backed favorite to take the inaugural Open. Asked for her strategy she said she didn't have one, she just had a lot of quiet nights.
Elsewhere: Tomas Reyes walked forty kilometers of newly drained Ganymede shelf and came back with a hand-drawn map nobody asked for, which the floating cities are now using to plan their next ring. And Antonio, Carlos and Jobim — yes, them again — entered the Alba City domino league as a team, lost in the first round, and left insisting they had personally built the table. The table, for the record, predates all three. Probably.
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Bell Peppers and Beef
- Beef, sliced into strips
- Red and yellow bell peppers
- Green onions
- Sesame oil
- Soy sauce
- Vinegar
- Fresh ginger
- Chili garlic sauce
- Sesame seeds
- Put sesame oil in a nonstick skillet on medium-high heat.
- Add the beef strips and cook 2 minutes on one side.
- Add the bell peppers and keep stirring until the beef loses its pink color.
- Take out the beef and peppers and set aside.
- Add soy sauce, vinegar, fresh ginger and chili garlic sauce to the pan. Cook until slightly thickened.
- Put the beef and peppers back in, add green onions, and cook 1 to 2 minutes while constantly tossing.
- Serve and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Rice goes well with this. Trust me. — random dude on youtube
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ngl you gon see a lottaaa AI up in this page and that's on us bruh
I know this whole AI thing especially if taken out of proportion may cause massive disturbances to art itself, environmental stuffs etc...
And uh first of all quick apologies to those affected by some forms of artificial intelligence on behalf of the satellite ring and The Weekly Woolong devs.
We aim for this project to solely be a work of Watanabe universe kinda cowboy bebop vibes and if you watched the show you may kinda see why we chose to uniquely design this project this way so that it kinda becomes like this dynamic subliminal news site thing. Another purpose of the project is to illustrate how AI can do this stuff like fully automated and take care of a whole fictional news page using like a lore book from Watanabe's pieces lol.
Now I'm def not going to make this our excuse of AI usage so I made it that we're actually putting in some effort in handling actual creative freedom and environmental impact.
As you can see on our site page we actively ask genuine creators, (3d) artists or whatever to drop us some images that we can use routinely for this site. Images that look cool will get like a separate code so the Satellite ring recognizes your art and puts it where it is appropriate.
- ▸ We host as lean as possible. The site is a static page on efficient infrastructures etc, which means it doesn't need heavy servers running this thing
- ▸ We update once a week and as frugal as it can get lol. We aim to request our API (Company behind the API is focused on water preserving techniques for it's facilities) a weekly change of news that's only limited to text, thus contributing to the creative freedom of pictures we talked about earlier. That way we spare a couple of liters.
- ▸ We choose water-conscious providers. The cloud infrastructure provider the API works on is effectively working to conserve it's water through it's facilities and aims to get water POSITIVE by 2030 as well.
We also calculated the annual water usage of the site to be, even stretching our terms way less than 10 liters of water. Roughly sitting at around 3-5 liters a year and we'd like to keep it that low.
yo lowk just read my post on the anime news forum lol