You gotta read better romantasy.

We’re 99% chair, otherwise the deserts would be glass.

I think having another actor play Bond and having them slowly realize there were other Bonds whose memories they share could be really fun.

Not a Bond movie at all, but I’d watch it.

Avi seems determined to make sure nobody takes the topic seriously.

No Kings OKC
#NoKings
#OKC
#DungeonCrawlerCarl

OKC wasn’t too bad. Very light rain.

Muskets N’Tulips

Instant preorder for both of my kids.

I genuinely think Avi Loeb is trying to achieve the opposite of his stated goals. He’s cartoonishly goofy.

Honestly all of the current big names in fantasy have such wildly different styles that it’s hard to compare them beyond “Well this is certainly different.”

No he doesn’t, lol. His lectures are all about how there are an infinite number of processes. You don’t have to like his style or process to get a lot out of his writing lectures.

You only know the destination.

Only Adolin thinks it’s a triangle.

I’ve been rereading them for half my life.

I’m really debating pausing my current read to knock this one out. Sixth of the Dusk is some of my favorite Cosmere writing.

Warbreaker, Dungeon Crawler Carl and Red Rising are all hits that land in a similar way for me.

It feels like a crazy time to be a reader. There are so many high-quality authors right now that I think we have 30+ scifi authors who would be flatout dominant if they were doing their prime writing a few decades ago.

There’s never been a better time to just drop modern languages and build a new, better one from the ground up.

Me every 6 months.

It’s an entirely different experience post-WaT.

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And there’s no solution for Dems to do the same. Cynicism is easy. The idea that you don’t want even a tiny attempt to improve the world to inconvenience you in any way is an easy sell. NIMBY bullshit is the default human setting.

I’m even doing it in this comment!

They win because they spent decades building a generally apathetic, ignorant public. Then they can push a button here or there, get some attention and activate a little chunk of those people for a few votes.

I think what they’ve built isn’t institutions. It’s exploitable ignorance and apathy.

It’s anecdotal but we saw this first hand while renting an electric car in Germany. First charge: empty second charge a week later: no slots available and people were just standing around talking. They told us they came to that station at that time due to the low price.

I honestly thought those were mostly bots trying to build up a post history of engagement based on very limited key words.

They do seem to hound you in particular though.

This is the problem with any automation but it’s so much worse and ubiquitous with cheap LLM access.

I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think any scifi that got this problem right. Coming up empty.

You can always count on the GOP to come up with new and creative ways to kill the poor and maim children.

If you put these people in a comic book everyone would say no villains could be this over the top.

Murderbot is incredibly well-adapted. It’s got all the heart. All the spectacle. But without being so beholden to book details that it falls flat.

The hype is so justified. I was patient zero for friends/family and I think we’re up over a dozen of us now.