All of them except In A Gadda De Leela, Attack of the Killer App, and Reincarnation

How’s that for a title

Everyone in Wagner was about to be conscripted into the regular Russian Army as the latest in an ongoing power struggle between Wagner’s boss and the Russian MoD. So to avoid losing his private army, the boss has stepped up the power struggle to an attempted coup, basically.

Never thought I’d see a civil special operation

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It’s how they were made too!

I am totally the opposite. I can work through complex algebra proofs, but ask me to work out 2 x 3 + 21? Good luck.

We have algorithm-destroying superpowers. Targeted ads? Hah, that was last month’s hyperfixation, too late suckers!!

But yeah it’s a bit more annoying with YouTube.

tldr: it flutters prettily hither and thither, and is now, alas, almost completely extinct

i mean its literally .ml so im not sure exactly what you were expecting?

Machine learning

Almost anything by Peter F. Hamilton but particular shout out to the Commonwealth books, Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained. Two massive changes in particular - gateway style interplanetary travel, and de-aging technology.

It’s a phenomenal story, with my favourite ever alien race, and probably my second favourite chapter ever written, but behind the story and inextricably integrated is a fascinating social exploration of how society could develop around those tech advances, from interplanetary politics to relationships.

Except their perspective of “when moderation tools have improved” is “when our users can use other instances but their users aren’t allowed here”

I still feel so weird about walks coming in on pitch clock violations

Not sure if A’s gonna A, or Rays gonna Ray

I don’t think you can buy many feathers for a pound, so probably the pound of pounds. I say probably because I’m not ruling out the possibility of buying a couple of feathers from like, an enormous bird.

So you chose violence today, huh

They’d be reacting like the other characters do!

My appointment is in just over a month. I’ve been on a waiting list for over a year.

Oxygen of publicity spreads toxicity. Defederation would take away a huge part of their potential to reach people, if they’re being toxic.

I feel like the recent history of the world proves this not to be true