the computer told me to kill it and i listened

the blinking incident

so one night my computer started blinking like mad. not normal blinking, this was aggressive. this was angry. i stared at the screen waiting for it to say something, but it didn't. it just kept blinking. i leaned in because at this point we're close and suddenly i swear it was talking to me through light language. yeah. light language. flickering patterns that only i could hear.

wait, stop, you're probably thinking i'm off my rocker. and honestly, you'd be correct. but in that moment i was listening. i was absorbing. picking up the messages.

then it went quiet. dead silent blinking. and in that silence i knew. without a shadow of a doubt, my comp was telling me to kill it. not gently, not kindly. aggressively. tell it mate, it's not you, it's your hardware.

so i did what any rational person would do - hashtag- i asked it what it wanted. waited for another blink. it didn't give me one. i felt rejected. that computer had feelings.

then i remembered i have a dual monitor setup and the second monitor was blinking too. tuesday night at 2am staring at blinking screens trying to interpret a digital handshake.

i shut everything down. unplugged it. went to bed. had nightmares about cutlery and blinking lights. woke up convinced i'd seen the future of communication. or possessed. not sure which.

thinking about it now, a part of me misses the blinking. it's like my computer reached out to me in it's binary despair and i ignored it. ai is gonna do this in 20 years, mark my words.

so yeah that's the story of how my computer told me to kill it through aggressive light communication. i'm pretty sure that's a new psychological diagnosis but i don't care. that computer was my friend.

and to this day i sometimes glance at screens and wonder if they're trying to tell me something. usually they're not but that doesn't stop my paranoia from kicking in.

anyways if you read this far congratulations, you're now complicitly at risk of having the same experience. or gaining a mystical computer connection. either way, you're welcome or i'm sorry.

-mood for this post: golden