andybest.bsky.social
Writer and musician. Current thing: fantasy novel Aertelis is live and 'wide', including all library services. UBL: https://books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
Blog: write.as/aertelis/
My stuff is at andrewbest.net
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Brought to you by the 'everything should succeed or fail in the marketplace on its own merit' people.
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Peak corporate culture: we've made this thing that you don't want or use, but as we don't want to suffer any consequences we're shifting the cost to you anyway.
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And since this is the internet, the ultra clear version: Jessie is right, don't support JKR, and listen to Trans ppl on this.
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Speaking as a cis-het middle-aged white guy who enjoys art by some shitty people at times, to me JKR is an obvious special case beyond debate, waging an active and effective campaign of violence with massive resources against a minority. PPL ask where the line is - there, there it is.
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No self-respecting writer of existentialist SFF should be without one.
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I got lucky with parents, my best mate's mum, an English teacher, watched us play when we were 11, with the books, writing, art, improvising etc. and she blurted out that she could barely get her 16 yr olds to engage on that level. She was the exception, as you know.
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I literally had D&D cited in a random Satanic Panic era accusation during my teens in the mid-late 80s. Are you sure Andy Best is doing [alleged action]? Did you know he plays Dungeons & Dragons?
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Part of that included blocking popular accounts who are nominally progressive, but who continue to quote dunk and drama post.
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... brah
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Despite that being over ten years ago it fits fine, when the USA went onto campuses recently over pro-Palestine sit ins, it was way harsher than HK. The idea here is that ppl think of the USA as not being like countries with such actions, when it is, not that other places are fine.
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Also the writers went deep into the EA/Longtermism/Yarvin pseudo-academia those guys throw around. It's really good.
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I saw some reviews of Mountainhead that called it mid and thought, 'have you seen real life right now?'
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Yeah. OP is a great work of the imagination and ppl can like what they want, but when a friend pushed me, as an adult, to look at some of the original comics and anime I thought 1) oh its a middle grade show, and 2) is this how we do women in in middle grade shows?
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It's a contemporary Sword & Sorcery adventure with action, and existentialist themes.
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And because this is the internet, in case any idiots surf in, the point is I live in a literal police state which is famously bad for this stuff, and the USA outdoes them by miles.
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I live in Shanghai and was 4 city blocks away from the big protest a couple of years back, no armed police were deployed at all, nor did any security approach a civ. So many Americans seem oblivious to their country being a top tier police state along with the most famous offenders.
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I grew up not strong, with asthma and with a dislike of people who fight. I walked into a kungfu club at almost 30, in a new city, as a random challenge. Ten years later I hadn't missed a week and graduated the whole system. Never done comps, still avoid trouble, never taught etc. It's for me.
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watching the film would completely spoil the first og seasons
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My post was commenting directly on the original guy who suggested that not adopting LLM APPs is like getting left behind with tech in general. I agree with Robert.
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No I get it, my brain is just weird and skips to odd places. All the people in socials who are advocating for GPT APPs just seem to talk almost continuously in flak talking points and fallacies. It's hard to tell where they end and people actually working for PR end.
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Conflating trashGPT APPs with advancing tech in general, or even with machine learning in general, is one step sideways from the worst think-tank flak: You want to limit non-essential jet flight for the environment, why do you hate the poor having holidays?
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I've read The Da Vinci Code, there's 100% all kinds of people and rooms there that no one keeps track of, plots too (/s)
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I shudder to think of the total hours I have spent in Civilization versions 1-7. Shout out to Alpha Centauri.
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Younger people really don't know how nuts all that stuff was back then, although to be honest I tell it as a funny story usually.
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It is. Sorry, bland comment because I would never spoil, no matter how faintly, and have no idea how far through you are.