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Work in progress… Just a quick overview in where the Robot Fabulas project is going. OK, the whole British Empire/Industrial revolution section took a long time to get through. Lots of interconnected bits and I didn't even mention how Ada Lovelace connects to Franciscan monks. Phase Zero has a few…

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A blog reader pointed out this unusual result from Google:

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I'm excited for the Murderbot show but it will have to be intrinsically different from the books. The stories are so very much from inside Murderbot looking out at the world. A TV show will put the audience in the position of people who see a humanoid security machine

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RF:Ph00:Ch16:Erehwon In 1831 Mary Shelley published a revised edition of Frankenstein. This edition included an extensive introduction which helped cement the novel's own origin story, including a reference to Erasmus Darwin's work on the origins of life. The first proper commercial railway with…

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If you have a membership to WorldCon, they've opened the portal for Hugo nominations!! seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw... I know the Best Novel award is the loudest award on the ballot, but don't forget to nominate for things like Fan Artist, Semi-Pro Zine, and the 2 different editing awards. 🧵

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There will be a point in the future when it sinks in among the rabid right that the US deficit didn't shrink one iota & actually went up during Trump's second term. By that point though they'll have already rationalised Trump into somebody who betrayed the true cause just like they did with Bush

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Dragon Award AI Ban You will remember that last year the ever fallible Dragon Awards announced the finalist of the Best Illustrative Book Cover and then had second thoughts and pulled one of the finalists because the cover used generative AI Nominations opened for the 2025 awards last November…

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New plan. Sell the US aluminium but tell them it is uranium. They've sacked everybody in the government who could tell the difference.

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Review: The Gorge (Apple+) A sci-fi monster thriller with a dash of romance. It is big and deep and clouded in mystery — the geographic feature that is, the story isn't any of those things. So, there is a big mysterious gorge somewhere. Who can say where? Given the geopolitics it needs to be in a…

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It says a lot that bad & inadequate labour protections are enabling a coup in the USA

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Susan’s Salon 2025: February 16 & 17 Weekly open comment thread hosted by the triceratops from the future.

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Thinking about Xenomorphs I watched Alien: Romulus. I thought it was pretty good. It sort of split the difference between the first three movies. I'm not going to write a review though because there's too much I need to say about the robot character and that will have to wait. One criticism I saw…

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So will Trump manage to create both high unemployment and high inflation? Is it all a plot by Big Economics Text Book Publishing to create new things to write about?

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Review: Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix) It's a question that has come up a lot. Does pundit/grifter X actually believe all their own bullshit or do they know they are lying? With far-right personalities, the degree of self-deceit versus ideology is had to tell. I think the question is almost…

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Roses are bleen Violets are grue Sometimes induction Isn't quite true

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Look, if left wing people boycott Tesla cars then the right will just start buying them out of spite, negating the impact of the boycott... ...but then the right will be buying electric cars... We definitely should very publicly boycott Tesla.

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My Cat Watches 2001: A Space Odyssey Good evening one and all. It is I, Timothy the Talking Cat, your fearless voyager on the seas of popular culture, bravely navigating between the Scylla of trash and the Charybdis of pretentiousness, robustly resisting the siren call of corporate slop and…

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The new Cattimothy House "ATLAS OF THE MODERN WORLD" will have an amended name for the Gulf of Mexico. It will appear as "Gulp of Armenia" due to typographical errors and poor proofreading. We apologise in advance to all three nations involved.

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Oh! Hugo nominations! I'm personally eligible for "Best Fan Writer," and Astrolabe is eligible for "Best Fanzine." Here's a little rundown of my work from last year. 🧵

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I think Australia could solve Trump's trade concerns by promising not to export any more aluminum and only export aluminium

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Yes, it was so fun to collaborate on these diagrams! At first glance they may look like fairly ordinary "most history books have things like this" diagrams, but a lot of thoughtful & even subversive & progressive choices can go into such diagrams. The politics of diagramming, a thread: 1/?

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AWARDS time! Support your favorite authors, artists, publishers, and more...! SFWA members can vote in the Nebula Awards nebulas.sfwa.org/about-the-ne... Worldcon members can vote in the Hugo Awards seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw... Anyone can vote in the Locus Awards locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

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🚀 Nominations for the 2025 Hugo Awards are now open! 🚀 Members of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon & the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon can nominate for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award & the Astounding Awards Deadline: March 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PDT Learn more: https://buff.ly/3QcUTw6 #HugoAwards

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RF:Ph00:Ch15:The Analytical Engine Ned Ludd, Peterloo, Lovelace, and the loom that could read the mind of god

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I think of the Super Bowl as America going into a private session where the nation has ecstatic visions and then comes out of their cloistered room and tells everybody what they saw like it was a prophecy that the rest of us will only begin to understand in the weeks that follow.

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Susan’s Salon 2025: February 9 & 10❣ Weekly open comment thread hosted by the triceratops from the future.

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I vowed not to spend time dunking on Stancil but this is bollocks. You can spot the obvious flaw in the reasoning from the term "the left". Lots of views on "the left", I don't doubt you can find somebody who said something like that but it wasn't typical of left voices I was following.

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