Wendy M. Grossman

Wendy M. Grossman

  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    I visited both Glasgow and Edinburgh not long before the 2014 referendum, and at the time I thought it would likely fail because things weren't bad enough - eg, no tanks parks in St George's Square. Now, though, I think...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Paul, in #116: "the increasing number of people who get their news from social media" But getting your news "from social media" is usually following a link to "traditional" media. Or, even more commonly, reading the headline and posted summary,...
  • Commented on I can't even
    This week's mess is like Dobbs or the Brexit vote: get what you want too early, and you have nothing left to use for campaign/fundraising fodder. wg...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    It's possible Hoyle was right if you limit it to his milieu of politics and state. It's hard to imagine any future occasion on which heads of state assemble in such complete numbers. That may be a loss - didn't...
  • Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
    The monarchy never used to bother me, but the conversion of England (at least) into happy peasants throwing street parties for the 70th anniversary of a ridiculous act of pseudoscience - believing that a particular strand of DNA and a...
  • Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
    The other side of the Steve Jobs thing is that he might not have needed to have a jet on standby and register in all those states if he had followed his doctors' advice to begin with and just had...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
    Before the pandemic, I really thought we might be heading for a revolution because the gap between what UK/US leaders were delivering and what polls consistently showed populations wanted was getting so large. Now, I'm hoping we can peacefully institute...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    This seems to me to go back to the basics of SF: for a story to be legitimately SF it requires the speculative science content to be so essential to the story that the story couldn't happen without it. It...
  • Commented on Trapped in the wrong trouser-leg of time
    I saw it in Nashville. Awesome. My write-up of the experience is here: http://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2017/08/the_greatest_show_on_earth.html wg...
  • Commented on 2117 revisited
    I've bogged down in reading this lengthy discussion, but the argument above about the Nissan Leaf suggests a very real thing: the increasing split between rural and urban environments and facilities. For reasons of population, cities get a lot of...
  • Commented on Placeholder? Placeholder!
    Glad you got back safely. Re the Nobel Prize in airports. There's an even funnier story about carrying an Emmy, which has two prominent highly pointed wings. Rob Burnett, producer of Late Night with David Letterman, told it in The...
  • Commented on Eleven Tweets
    Mattias: such a thing already exists and is netting substantial sums for publishers in Germany, and is making inroads in the UK. It's called Blendle (www.blendle.com), and it works well and has a tolerable user interface. Basically, you put about...
  • Commented on Constitutional crisis ahoy!
    Speaking of Theresa May...the startling realization I had a couple of days ago is that while all sorts of things could happen in the next six months, one of them is that in six months' time three of the economically...
  • Commented on The unavoidable discussion
    Actually, London also has an election coming up on May 5: the mayoral election (in which my area's MP is the conservative candidate). I think it's bizarre and depressing that Britain is even having this discussion. An EU exit, IMO...
  • Commented on The present in deep history
    I'd suggest food processing more generally: first developing techniques to preserve fresh food, then creating new foods out of traditional ingredients, and finally (likely) 3D printing entirely new foodstuffs. Huge impact on human health, first positive, latterly negative, next...? Sanitation,...
  • Commented on How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
    15: Derek, Hollywood has indeed tried posting fakes to torrent sites, but the tactic didn't work because of the comments system. Fakes are quickly spotted and labeled as such, and rapidly disappear. Even if comments haven't appeared, as long as...
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