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Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
You'll get vastly better fiction about non-normative sexuality when those of us with non-normative sexuality aren't hiding for our lives, and since I'm one of the people rising authoritarian movements would generally like to suppress, I also think it would...
Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
OK fair enough the specific use is new. As of 2009 :P Point remains: we DO have one. It's rather famous at this point what with the M-W "word of the year" thing, and not to mention the many thinkpieces...
Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
I'm sorry, but that "pet point" is, in fact, some people's pronoun. Some of them are people I know, who are manifestly human beings and not science fiction novel characters or political point-scoring about the English language. In point of...
Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
Ooooh i used to follow Kill Six Billion Demons, thank you for the reminder!...
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That's interesting! To me it does not feel feminine at all, it feels quite completely outside of male/female to me actually....
Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
Here, try this other actual dictionary on for size: https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/ Or don't. Regardless, singular they exists, has been in use and increasing popularity for years now, and people who built a language translation engine should probably know about these sorts...
Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
Oh that's lovely! Neopronouns like ze/zir have been around a LOT longer than a lot of people think. I also quite liked it about Ann Leckie's books that everyone is "she" regardless of gender or genitalia....
Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
English already DOES have a gender-neutral third-person singular: "they" https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they...

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We Did It commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
No, it's a simple code to show who we're not talking about. Pass-Over, gettit? A percentage of Z-H commentators are notoriously, well: American, and very very anti-Semitic. Old skool stuff. A tiny fraction are fairly well tooled up. Which means the MENA reference is more Cube-Black, see? ~ We'd suggest going looking up a few popular Labor members who've been targeted for Libel suites recently [0] etc, Private Eye or even old Galloway or some Scottish Ice-cream van owners. We're getting targeted by some mid level posh toffs who are Affronted[1] while trying to juggle some things like [redacted] who...
Moz commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
The Guardian paints it more as Putin making sure he doesn't end up on someone's kill list: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/18/putin-criminal-incompetent-president-enemy-of-his-own-people-russia...
We Did It commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
OH, and if you want bonus round, it's slaved thralls[1} who you're trying not to hurt being thrown into the pile while they're screaming through Ambien-esque nightmares. Or it's all just fantasy. That happens to be true ~ Oh, and the planet is absolutely still burning to the fucking ground right now. Sorry if our souls aren't doing Ode to Joy. The irony is, of course: absolutely no human at all will ever face consequences for the above, which 100% happened apart from corrupt behind the scenes stuff that never allegedly happened because reasons. Like getting strung up in a...
We Did It commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
Guardian is lying. It's been a good 20 years since anyone who wasn't on a nuclear submarine made that list....
We Did It commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
Oh, and want to know why the USA is 100% fucked? As a disinformation researcher, I should know better than to be surprised at the deluge of account with <25 followers attacking me for trying tamp down conspiracy theories around #2019nCoV. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1223853022368784390 Check the date. Check his salary. Check this thread. Guess what he's not actually doing: any real research / prevention of disinformation. But he is selling a book with a raven on it, which is cute....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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