Dara Lind

Did I tell you we got to see the Coliseum for the 2002 20-year celebration, it was delightful

If you have any Oakland sports fans in your life you know how true this is.

Ooh this IS a fun question.

I feel like the answer has to be a book I HAVEN’T reread yet, because the second read is often the most rewarding for me. But one where I feel like I really missed stuff reading for plot. So, The Diamond Age?

I made myself finish Dune Messiah and I just couldn’t stomach the concept of pushing on…does it get better?

Amazingly Unsheltered is what I had in mind as a minor work. Which proves my point!!

Okay if you hate it or even if it leaves you cold please let me know — it’s just studded with sentences of beautiful insight about human relations which also feel true to the viewpoint characters in question, which I feel like is a Very Reader!Emily Thing

I am not a completist but in my experience even her minor works aren’t REALLY misses. Which, IDK that I can say that about any other novelist currently living??

And I bet money that you’ll enjoy Memory Called Empire and, if you enjoy it (given your proclivities), that you’ll be MOVED by Desolation Called Peace

GIRL (gn) FIX THAT

Terra Ignota is not space per se, and the first book is kind of chilly, but the ideas, and the way the prose works in allusions and language, and the most incredible sticking of a landing I’ve ever seen in a series, I SWEAR it is worth it

Added to queue!! also Emily have you read Bowlaway, I feel like you might really enjoy it if you have not

I assume you’ve read @byzantienne.bsky.social ‘s Teixcalaan duology and @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s Terra Ignota quartet then??

Thank you!

I also have read no Bolaño. I’m actually unexpectedly weak on contemp Latin American fiction!!

I’m so intrigued by this, would you mind threading your academic career 🥺

I reread The Poisonwood Bible for the first time as an adult and GOSH IT GOES SO HARD

Oooh I haven’t yet! ADDED TO QUEUE.

It’s a good evening to read a novel.

A postscript to this: I think that if, after the last 48 hours, you still see the AI industry as a monolith of boosterism, you are missing the plot. It’s not my world, and a lot of the boosterism from corporate folks in OTHER industries is BS, but it’s a community with very smart thoughtful people.

It was really nice to live in the 20th century for a while before it rolled over into the cyberpunk nineteenth.

Saturday Morning Chair Yoga

I have never actually spoken in Chicago!!

Travel costs tho

WHOMST ON THE GULF COAST WILL INVITE ME TO SPEAK AND MAKE THIS A REALITY

WE’RE GOING AT 8a ON SATURDAY THERE WILL BE NO ONE AROUND TO JUDGE

Though actually, now that I think about it, I’m not sure I’ve ever given in to this impulse at non-US based speaking gigs. Which is a shame because I would love to update my resume to say “PUBLIC SPEAKING: bisexual panel sitting on three continents.”

Truly the day I can no longer sit on the floor or cross my legs like a doofus in a chair is the day I finally become a fitness nut

You can invite me to do a talk but you cannot keep me from eventually sitting like a bisexual as I do it.

The problem with AI having had All The Capital for the last few years is that ~anyone who could cogently explain to the public what is actually going on is currently NDAed.

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