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Ken Liu: The gods will not be chained (2025, Big Think)

The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that …

When the ghost in the machine turns out to be more than just a ghost.

The story starts out with a girl being bullied on-line. Then, she gets help from an unknown person who only uses emojis to communicate. As the story progresses, a link develops between the person, her father, and a project her father was involved in at his company that involved copying his skill at seeing patterns.