davidfides.bsky.social
Geeky lawyer, lefty dad, smarty pants.
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Reminds me of this excellent look at 90s nostalgia.
youtu.be/shSLPcp4C18?...
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My Pumpkins? Smashing.
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It gets bigger in scale and more exciting but the writing style and tone stays much the same, as does the level of depth a nuance. I enjoyed the trilogy, but if you're that bored, I would leave it.
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I think we hit the plateau a while ago. It will get cheaper to do and we might find new ways to use it, but it's not going to get much more accurate or reliable and it's never ever going to understand the words it produces.
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That's no moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars.
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Oh, OK, I love it too.
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I only really know about this as a thing because my kids love the song by Caspar Babypants (who I recently found out used to be lead singer for Presidents of the United States of America).
youtu.be/zlP-J5rssa0?...
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As reported by the non-news press.
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Our lights flickered
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"The exploitation of man by man will have become impossible because it will be impossible to cease the memes of production."
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I think "masculine energy" means abandoning your values to suck up to a bully, right?
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Yeah! Also, how come there are no Science Fiction books about how man using technology to play god could backfire?
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Wonder how many disappointed jazz heads have tuned into "Music for Cats"?
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The greatest poem ever written, by Nael, aged 6. Nael would be at least 14 today. He said that tigers made him happy.
#ThingsThatMakeMeHappy #JoinIn
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Come and get it!
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After Brexit, there was (briefly) talk here in the UK of bringing back imperial measures and ditching the metric system. Close enough for you?
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Do you think the opposite could be true? Could a work succeed and achieve something good and worthwhile that is incidental to, or even at odds with, what the creator was aiming for?
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Here you go - not quite what you were looking for but pretty good.
youtu.be/VRBuWWXSEuA?...
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We had a few of these in the trees outside my old flat for years. Lovely but loud!
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Sounds a bit like you're describing a fantasy equivalent to cyberpunk. Low life, high fantasy?