His lofi hip hop tracks feature the words of Jordan Peterson and other intellectuals, and have become a new genre called JPBWAVE or MEANINGWAVE.
It was believed that Raven’s greatest trick of all was to give each male animal testicles, so that he might be entertained by the silly games and preoccupations they then constantly engaged in.
Lately I’ve read several works of science fiction (Version Control by Dexter Palmer and Gnomon by Nick Harkaway) that extrapolate technology trends that are in the news a lot these days – data mining, digitally enabled surveillance, self-driving cars – in this kind of casual way that doesn’t seem to arise from real thought about these technologies and where they might go. It’s more like the authors are reading the news, noticing the things it’s worried about, and lazily envisioning a future where all those worries come to pass exactly as anticipated, without a realistic quantity of unexpected failures, workarounds for those failures with their own consequences, etc.
I’ve found this really annoying, which is almost a new experience to me since I’m usually so hands-off about technical flaws in science fiction, at least if it’s not staking everything on the flawed piece of speculation (and both of these books are very good in various other ways). Is this what it’s like to get annoyed when fictional spaceships play fast and loose with the laws of orbital mechanics, or whatever?
In all the worlds and places that I know, in all the babble of connected post-humanity, there’s really only one person I feel is like me: the mad planet called Zagreus.
i am very cute and it is definitely me typing this
i am a very kind and considerate husband who does not get mad at my wife when she is freaking out about random brain crap
also i carry heavy things for her and bring her drinks and am always kind and great at kissing and activities lewder than kissing
definitely me writing this, nobody else
just gotta make sure you have all the facts here
“[B]ig databases /have/ regularities, but they are mostly ‘‘spurious’’, a notion that we will define using algorithmic randomness. Mathematically, we will show [using Ramsey theory] that spurious correlations largely prevail, that is, their measure tends to one with the size of the database.”—
The Deluge of Spurious Correlations in Big Data - Cristian S. Calude & Giuseppe Longo
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-016-9489-4, pdf here
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permutatrix asked: Are there any conditions under which you'd let a rando print "The Northern Caves" as a book?
What exactly do you have in mind?
Like, obviously I can’t (and don’t want to) stop people from just printing the thing out on paper, and that doesn’t stop being true if they also bind the pages together into a book. If someone were to create multiple such objects and pass them around to others, I suppose it’d be nice if they let me know about it, and of course I would not be pleased if they were to omit my name (well, pseudonym) from the printed copies, or if they were to sell them. But that all seems like it goes without saying, and if it doesn’t answer your question then I’d need to know more about what you are proposing to do.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.