Patchen Barss

My favourite is that “led” is the past tense of “lead” even though it’s a homonym for “lead.” I don’t know how any of us ever actually learned this language.

I consider the two of you interacting as the most ambitious crossover episode of all time.

Might be cool if it were revealed this was a prequel series.

Joke’s on them! I always keep my bank account empty and my credit cards maxed out. Tough luck, fraudsters!

I haven’t had this (what with not being a scientist and all) but I do keep getting fake invitations from women authors looking to strike up writerly conversations. As with yours, I can’t work out the aim - is it just testing the waters or would a request for money come in at some point?

In university I and two friends formed an experimental a capella trio we called “The Vocal Treat.” I’d describe our performances as discordant soundscapes more than songs. Anyway, I’m a very quiet writer now.

On social media you see
The Electric Company.
How do read the post that catches your eye?
Eagerly. Eagerly.
Eager… L-Y.

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Stellar thread.

In the vein of recent conversations about people being the ends rather than the means for doing science:

More pertinently, I particularly appreciate the premise that people are the end, not the means, for scientific discovery. The past few years have been a journey for me in learning how strangely necessary it is to make this argument.

I think the first thing we can all agree on is that there are two prominent people named David Hogg, and recognizing this reality goes a long way in reducing confusion over the relationship between astrophysics and gun control.

If those who manage shared indoor spaces took basic measures to improve and monitor air quality, individuals might not have to take quite so many precautions of the type you mislabel as extreme.

Aside from the absurd term “extreme measures,” this article doesn’t ask or answer the very obvious journalistic question, “What are organizers doing to mitigate illness risk in the Olympic Village?” How’s the ventilation and air quality? What’s the testing situation?

I do this all the time. And I don’t even write fiction!

Which do you prefer?

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Did they also take extreme measures like wearing a seatbelt during takeoff and landing on their flights? Or the extreme measure of using a condom for sex with someone whose relationship history they didn't know? Did they insist on the extreme measure of having their chicken cooked to 165 degrees?

I know other scientists who are in the files solely because someone recommended them to Epstein. Some find it sobering to consider how easily they might have said yes to an invitation instead of no. I appreciate where your instincts led you when you got the call.

Agree.

ME: I ordered the Malaysian fried noodles, and instead I got this plate of mutton!

WAITER: That sounds like a ewe problem and not-a-mee problem.

I know - I’m just hacking you. Let’s play Scrabble soon!

Wait until you hear about the “o”s!

Same. Deeply grateful my early idiocies were not amplified or immortalized online, and that others shows me the grace to help me learn and grow.

This is fantastic news! Dianna is great and has really been going through it.

FWIW, I read her putting the climate crisis in the context of black body radiation and cosmic heat death as a self-aware quasi-coping mechanism - seeking solace in the knowledge that while our problems are large, the vastness of the universe ultimately dwarfs them.

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Main consequence for me is that I did from time to time write notes to authors I don’t know but admire. I feel like that option is no longer available to me.

It just takes two seconds to realize Mississippo is singular, Mississippi is plural. One Mississipo, two Mississipi. Resolved.

In addition to book-club scam spam, I've started receiving AI-generated letters "from" authors I've never met, trying to strike up writerly conversations, often about my older books. Does anyone know what the endgame is here? So far, the notes have all been from women authors — is that the play?