Tobias S. Buckell

In addition to the unholy travesty of calling your food "product" what also cracks me up is that the first burger I learned how to make when I worked at McD's when I first arrived in the US in the mid 90s was also a 'Big Arch' with special arch sauce which flopped mightily.

But also: mmmmm product.

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Always been the issue, hasn't it? Takes brains to build up something, and nothing to destroy it.

My reading has slowed down tremendously due to juggling professor full time, grad school part time, writing part time, family man... and long covid. Last four years have been so different for me.

That being said, 'no time to read' for me is still 2-4 novels a month, just so we're clear.

Powers's weaving of real world events and then telling a fictional story to bind them all together into an explanation, I wonder if there's a word for that subgenre? Because for me it isn't urban fantasy, or historical fiction... something like "speculative explanatory historical fantasy fiction?"

The only nice thing about getting leveled by ye ole covid was that I actually picked up a couple books over the weekend and read them. One was a Tim Powers I hadn't read yet, and the other was re-reading Player of Games (Banks is comfort reading for me) for the... I think sixth time?

No longer showing a line on a covid test, that's a relief.

Still bone-deep tired, but getting a little bit more back to normal each day. I should be back to my normal long covid levels of activity by this weekend if the slope of recovery persists.

Sigh. That was a kick in the groin.

That's an amazing project. Wow.

Come on, who doesn't want to eat 'product?'

Can't wait to have a bite of some product soon.

Yummy, yummy... product.

Making this phone call will materially help protect trans people in the US, and it'll take you less time than it would take to:

- watch 6 IG reels
- unload the dishwasher
- trim your nails
- make a cup of tea and then forget the cup of tea and then remember the cup of tea and reheat it again

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Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

woah, judging by the number of missed words in there I am more laid out than I realized lol.

Yeah, fuzzy brain and super exhausted.

But not in an ER way, just hammered out by it and recovering.

Whelp, after 4 years doing my best impression of Neo dodging bulllets, I caught my 2nd case of Covid.

The first kept knocked down and hiding in room for 3 weeks, the first week being genuinely terrified I might not make it.

This one is better. Am slowly recovering. Looks like a lost week, still.

That looks awesome, man

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Yeah :) And the race:

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There's this story I read about an ocean race where one was a guy who invested millions in designing and planning for every eventually and was rescued at sea. The other guy was a crazy old salt who just loaded a lot of spares and repaired shit as he went.

He went around a second time for fun.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Whatever the Zojirushi you can afford is, get that one. :)

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😂

Surrender peasants. Do what you're told. I'm a reporter representing money, I won't even investigate the alternative, because big money would be upset about that b/c it won't make number go up.

We have no idea what AI is, or its impact, but it's inevitable, Hayes's masters said so. Quit whining.

Interesting that they *never* even have the mental capacity to just game out 'what if AI critics are right?' because that reporting would make the big money pull funding.

Reporters like this are just parrots for PR flacks. Regardless of what AI is, they can't even bring themselves to poke at it.

Remember the old days when blogs would 'fisk' mainstream articles by block quoting the original and then responding?

This is a damn thorough fisking lol:

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It was experiences like that led to me signing Scalzi's harassment pledge, saying I wouldn't go to events that don't have them.

I hope things have improved, but I'm aware that now as a mildly public figure I'm not tapped into the whisper networks.

But until then I hadn't understood why there were so many women who told me they'd never go back to a convention or sort of alluded to bad experiences because I realized there was so much of this going on and being tolerated.

Because I was all of 21 and lifting heavy, I made a point of repeating the story within earshot of X and repeating what I'd said to the person who warned me: "It'll be hard for them to write their next book with a concussion and 10 broken fingers."

I repeat, I was 21.

But I meant it.

In 2000 I first started attending SF/F events. I'm an egg, new to it all, and at my first event the wife of a writer pulls me aside "I heard you have a girlfriend here, you'll want to make sure she stays out of reach of X and Y, they're pinchers. They're harmless, but you'll need to warn her."

We're still stuck at 1 percent of Hailey's goal.

Can we get it to 10 percent today? 🏳️‍⚧️💖

This is so sad, because what they should do instead of AI people is pool their resources to create some open source publishing tools with basic databases, and also create sites to sell direct.

Like version control is a solved software issue, and we're still emailing word files and PDFs around