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  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    The gun(g)-ho religionists are unlikely to want or accept any scientific/rational explanation of human behavior. On the contrary, I move that gong-ho religionists would LOVE mind altering therapies, because they could be used to get them sincere adepts. The...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Surreal twist: he said his AI girlfriend encouraged him to do it. What are you saying, they're not blaming video games any more?...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Doctorow conceived the term in 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification It's not that he's wrong, but you can find his articles online (some are linked from that wikipedia page). Without chasing a printed comic identified only by a 2 letter acronym :)...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    Pretty shocked to hear "awards don't sell". Hugo and Nebula in particular, depressing oscar/golden globe etc bait is depressing bait. I'm pretty sure I've been checking Hugo and Nebula awards and nominees every time I was out of stuff to...
  • Commented on Summer webcomics
    in this age of LLM-poisoned search engines I'd just like to nitpick and point out that the search engine providers poisoned themselves before LLMs showed up....
  • Commented on Pass or Fail
    In the formulation that was posted here either the barber is a woman or he's a man who does shave himself. Tbh it's hard to do it properly in a language where "himself" is gendered....
  • Commented on Pass or Fail
    Just trying to add my 2 cents to the open space kitchen subthread: open kitchens are an abomination. They stink your entire living room if you do anything but heat up ready meals. And in modern times they're a cost...
  • Commented on Signed copies of "Season of Skulls" available for pre-order!
    Why thanks! That was an interesting experience. Fun to hear the author's voice but both me and the mrs find the accent hard to follow :) While we both read a lot in english and are perfectly* capable of carrying...
  • Commented on Signed copies of "Season of Skulls" available for pre-order!
    It seems to be old enough that I can only find a reference with broken links on Tor.com :) Apparently it used to be freely available on there. Just when I was going to try an "audiobook" (more like an...
  • Commented on Signed copies of "Season of Skulls" available for pre-order!
    Out of pure curiosity, is there any difference between the text in the UK and US editions? Lately I'm being given a choice to get one or both, and I'm wondering. (I'm stubbornly sticking to UK editions because that's what...
  • Commented on Minor updates
    I got the email that Mike seems to send to the regular signed Stross purchasers on May 3, so if anyone's worried, the wheels are turning....
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    An even bigger problem is the real time chat format doesn't lend itself well to reading 1000 previous posts. No more people replying to this post from a week ago, like I'm doing now. Or even no more americans waking...
  • Commented on Upcoming blog outage
    I was thinking of a fixed price bandwidth limited VPS not of something like AWS with usage based billing. Basically the same thing you have now but running into a VM instead of on a specific physical server. Something to...
  • Commented on Upcoming blog outage
    Silly question, but are you still hosting hardware that you own in someone else's data center? I can't imagine any other reason for a physical move. Wouldn't it be simpler to just rent a virtual server from the same company?...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Hmm. This reminds me of Richard Morgan's Market Forces. Not the actual story but the world in the background....
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    [quote]Yeah, I was joking about how the men in their fifties might use the same equipment they practiced with thirty years ago, and which was already becoming obsolete then.[/quote] Actually from what I read about the russian army said men...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    delurk... Fighting discrimination with discrimination isn't going to go anywhere good. lurk......
  • Commented on London Bridge
    I wouldn't say no to an iPhone 14 Pro Max if one fell on my head, but my 12 Pro Max No offense but my iPhone XS is still going strong. What are these shinies you speak of?...
  • Commented on Oh, 2022!
    Like a lot of other terms, grandfather clause has changed meaning. Please don't overdo "offensive" like a certain movement......
  • Commented on Brief commercial interlude
    I didn't even ask for estimates for this one. I just ordered and I'm sure it will eventually come....
  • Commented on Brief commercial interlude
    You can also email for details of international postage, but be warned, Brexit has messed everything up, and we have a pandemic and a print supply chain crunch on top. For the record, my signed copy of Invisible Sun...
  • Commented on PSA: Publishing supply chain shortages
    They settled for a list of principal characters instead. I actually loved the list of principal characters and the timeline. Brought back enough memories of the previous books that at no point i had to wonder who the f**...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
    a Crib Sheet for Dead Lies Dreaming is due in the next few months. I need to catch up on the publication schedule to see where we're at, but as it went paperback in the UK and probably isn't getting...
  • Commented on A Quick Infomercial
    I wonder if I can get Transreal to sort out a shipping method that doesn't involve the global postal service, thank you BRexit. I really don't want to queue for customs at the regular post office, especially during a pandemic....
  • Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
    Hey Zoom talks would be nice. Would have been nice even before this pandemic, for people who aren't close to your convention circuit anyway :)...
  • Commented on No comment necessary
    Why the URL shortener? I'd very much like to know the source of this without following all the redirects in a command line... Not to mention that if this weren't Charlie Stross's blog I simply wouldn't click on a hidden...
  • Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
    Well, I haven't done an impulse purchase in ages, guess it was time for one. Bought the book when i got to about comment 50. Guess having guest posts on Charlie's blog to promote them actually works....
  • Commented on Downtime coming up
    Have fun rebuilding the RAID. Hope there are backups? ;) And to spam something unrelated, because it's too good to pass in my opinion: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/20/petition-netflix-cancel-amazon-prime-good-omens-christian-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett Brilliant move!...
  • Commented on Dark State: how to get signed copies!
    Yay, a mention of Transreal directly on the front page. Just for the record, I've been getting signed copies of everything Stross from them for a while now - I must have 4 or 5 at least. Old school bookstore...
  • Commented on Laundry summer madness sale!
    For the record, in Romania I can buy ebooks off the Amazon US store but not off the UK store. So the "3rd party territories" don't quite overlap. Not that I buy any of your books as ebook lately, I...
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