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- I know that’s a wolf under that sheep’s clothing. But we’re having a lovely conversation.This one’s a real post. Apologies in case anybody has been getting spammed with shitposts. I’m automating crossposting and there’s more debugging (and testing, hence the posts) than anybody ever expects, even though I should damn well know better from script kiddie days back in high school. So that will continue for the near future.… Read more: I know that’s a wolf under that sheep’s clothing. But we’re having a lovely conversation.
- Memory coupI justify to myself being spendy at the gift shops of museums, national parks, other nonprofits, etc, as providing ‘support’. Either way both of us benefit and from a utilitarian perspective that is a good thing, questions about ‘true altruism’ or other abstractions aside. So I don’t sweat it too much. I picked up American… Read more: Memory coup
- An utopia defined by free real estate(I’m not posting the Tim and Eric meme.) Once a church stood here. But I’ve deconstructed it, scavenged it for my own use, pick the island clean of resources, and even used it as a dump for my volcanic ash and beach sand seriously I can only make so much glass waste, and not a… Read more: An utopia defined by free real estate
- Could be published todayNOTE: This was originally my preamble to my review of The Algebraist, but it went off the rails enough to be in blog territory. My patience for reading things that start a bit of a slog but pay off ‘in the end’ is high. I admire any artist or writer who in this day of… Read more: Could be published today
Historia
- x test 6
- I know that’s a wolf under that sheep’s clothing. But we’re having a lovely conversation.
- Memory coup
- An utopia defined by free real estate
- Could be published today
- Habits of tyranny
- Scholarly pursuits
- Auditory Madeleines: part whatever
- Time isn’t after us.
- Possesses power
- When the “AI assistant” would probably use the exact same phrasing I do I agonize over it overmuch.
- Nothing actually happens
- Retro tech
- Through a lens familiarly
- The shedding of old ways of thinking
- Le Guin was right about everything part 58 of
- “The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel.”
- Nobody wants to be in the after-school program.
- Queen Bitch
- I pet the electric sheep and felt a surge of well-being when it nuzzled me.
- The unbearable stillness of not-knowing
- bildungsroman