In the early hours of October 21st, I was in an online thread wherein we were discussing how to remove a curse that had been embedded on a digital file. This was honestly not something that I had ever considered before. Since a file is conceptually and physically an object, even if only a sequence of magnetic values in a storage array in some far-off data center, it is theoretically possible that someone could put a curse on it.
I wrote:
To hack the curse in my own Info model paradigm I’d consider the e-book as a construct in the information field of the universe. Construct a one-shot curse-killer virtual phage servitor with the scope of operations = to “consume and nullify baleful magic associated with a given title” or similar, then launch that servitor as I see fit. Altering a passive informational pattern like a static text, either at the object or instance level is a lot less complex than altering a living pattern, or a system of patterns.
And I immediately set about creating this servitor. I named it Curse Killer, and I envision it as a script to execute within the infosphere. The magical equivalent of sudo ./crsklr. This phrase was rendered into the following sigil:
Crskilr is a fire-and-forget agent. It identifies the baleful magical signature attached to any object (be that physical or conceptual) and removes it, sending it to ground. It then similarly dissipates to ground itself.