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Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
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That you can plausibly say this, while he's the lead in the highest grossing film thus far in history, proves one or both of us right
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Worthington maybe? "He who cannot be remembered"
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I really dig it: locusmag.com/2024/12/on-t...
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it seems like an easy thing to resist, and yet
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They've been ominously quiet for a second but UIP's series is so, so good, though obviously they are (short) books not easily-approachable articles like this.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/find_b...
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[remembering the river north rainforest cafe] we used to be a proper country
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This is normal and omnipresent, and it's what make systems & society work. AI enthusiasts (and efficiency salivaters generally) want to go around knocking those supports out, and I get freaked out wondering what kind of collapses are being set up down the line.
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You also probably know that communication abilities (listening/talking, and reading/writing, so at least 4 diff skills) do not always correlate with specific task proficiency, so there's a lot of "inefficient" but essential coordinators who can decipher what people are asking and answering.
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looking at a restaurant online like "oh, Michelin only gave them one star? Maybe not I guess"
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The Onion is also at its best when it's directly opposite The Machine, especially when the The Machine thinks it's impermeable and has buy-in from cable news, op-ed pages, and other people who confuse bloodlust with objectivity.
Which is, unfortunately, now.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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oh that's exciting
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Ah, that's great to hear, hope it hits for you!
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I started head-canoning Corypheus's lines as Tom Waits lyrics and have never returned
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I started head-canoning Corypheus's lines as Tom Waits lyrics and have never returned
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I really dig that there's a kind of continuum or web of mind-types: us human readers can parse the hani, who can mostly talk with stsho, who can sort of talk with t'ca, who presumably talk with chi & supposedly with knnn
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Oh, and the Stranger in Wijeratne's Pilgrim Machines
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Cherryh's methane breathers, Watts's scramblers, Chiang's heptapods were the first that sprang to mind