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  AND THIS JUST IN "...Microplastics have been found in everything from kale, to human breastmilk, to sea creatures at the bottom of the Mariana Trench..." https://newrepublic.com/article/173780/big-techs-waste-solutions-scam so... instead of a worldwide iridium layering there'll be microplastics crushed into the fossil...
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  Heteromeles 65: what of emu? heavy freight carrier? or luxury land yacht for those cockatoos too snobbish to fly under their own power and too lazy to walk? (and then when the emu try to form a labor union in...
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  Tim H. 58: the question becomes would we recognize a message spliced into DNA if we went looking for it? if you were going to use DNA as the bottle in context of "message in a bottle" if not cockroaches...
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  what we leave behind... might be what other sentient species could also Sagan deep time disc -- google Voyager; not the lame arse Star Trek but rather NASA; volcanic ashes -- not just Pompeii, here in North America we had...
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  Scott Sanford 380 & Charlie Stross 381: from a thaumaturgical perspective what's the distinction between mixing GRAVEDUST into neutronium-based CPUs versus use in vacuum tubes? Heteromeles 385: instead of random luck 'n hoping... so of a JohnyAppleSeed thing... there's a...
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  just promise me you wouldn't let Twitter be bought by Darth Elon...
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  those wrecked worlds -- unless stripped onto bare rock -- will have enough of a basic ecology for oxygen and thus basis for life-as-we-know-it (LAWKI)... so yeah each world could become a 'seed corn' colony but just first read land...
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  =+=+=+= Charlie Stross 349: quantify souls uhm... "21 grams" (I'll see myself out, no need to get up) =+=+=+= accidentalist 354: factories in need of massive power orbiting where matter 'n energy are switching back and forth... so... micro singularities...
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  Keith Halperin 323: oh, that time of year is it? [[ DELETED BECAUSE OFF-TOPIC -- mod ]]...
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  new! in stores for CHRISTMAS! Great Game of the Gods™: Home Edition [[ DELETED BECAUSE OFF-TOPIC -- mod ]]...
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  Charlie Stross 310 & 312: uhm... fanfic? lots of minor characters worthy of their own opportunity as centerpoint of a short story at least... for me if my skillz were sufficient I'd tell the life story of Spooky the Cat......
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  “The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” --John Gilmore, Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder so... how does censorship work in a realm where everyone can magic up a route between two points without touching the distance? secrecy is...
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  okay... right there in this snippet is how to wildly expand the Laundryverse in all directions: "...monsters might be working with the Laundry because they think it’s their best chance for survival..." how about telling tales from POV of one...
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  so... recycling? or some well intentioned fool who expects in midst of an overturned reality someone is seriously seeking out ways to recycle castoffs from spells? hi jinxes ensue as bodies pile up because the toxic byproducts of magic resist...
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  =+=+=+= Nojay 262: there's confirmed proof the big seven oil companies discovered environmental effects as early as 1975 from correlational of startling CO2 additions to atmosphere and rising temperature... just one example... Exxon (at the time Esso) had deployed weather/oceanographic...
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  proposed names for a tavern... bad answers only... I'll start The Farting Unicorn The Dragon's Hangover The CyberPunk's Regret The Crashlanding (down the road from Star Fleet Officers Academy)...
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  after simply browsing the headlines of WSJ, Economist, NYTimes, WashPost and The Guardian it is my carefully considered opinion we are quite thoroughly screwed and utterly misled by a bunch of yahoos who could could empty a boot full of...
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  after simply browsing the headlines of WSJ, Economist, NYTimes, WashPost and The Guardian it is my carefully considered opinion we are quite thoroughly screwed and utterly misled by a bunch of yahoos who could could empty a boot full of...
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  Q: what would the web look like in midst of magic? in a post-thaumaturgical world would there be open source spell casting tools? dare I say, a grammar verifier to avoid the magical eqv of out-of-memory or div-by-zero? in net...
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  Me, I'm wondering how the New Management would respond to the issues raised in this next rant... Yeah, the UK-PM in LaundryVerse is a beekeeper whose only reason for any approximation of mercy is ensuring humans produce honey or the...
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  there's quite a variety of amoral, soulless flesh gnawing monsters... not just lawyers (UK = barristers) but worst yet those specializing in tax-avoidance and complex divorce cases and development of demon-gated communities which fall under "unreal estate law"... gonna take...
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  it would be the utter height of nerdnishness if TLLF included this ultimate in graven images (on the same level of worship as the biblical Golden Calf back in 1970s)... given the power of prayer in context of LaundryVerse it...
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  JReynolds 205: thank you! I now have the title for a novel I've mucking around with... "No Path Leads To Any Happy Endings" I dunno how it is in anyone else's neighborhood, but here in New York City there's been...
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  Dale Allen 999: "Electric grids fed by renewables need a different kind of plumbing" (part of set of 6 articles) https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2023/04/05/electric-grids-fed-by-renewables-need-a-different-kind-of-plumbing (accessible via https://archive.ph/)...
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  TLLF = the last laundry file novel what OGH is brainstorming as we watch and kibittz with little mercy...
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  jargon comes 'n goes... what bits of language are brought back from oblivion? examples in our shared reality: "...Modern jargon has deep roots: “digit” and “digital” recall finger-counting systems; “calculi” were pebbles used by Romans on abacus-like counting boards; a...
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  Charlie Stross 82: having just stumbled across this... I decided you-all need more nightmare fuel.... "...cynical politicians have come to understand that they can exploit this sort of nationalism, by whipping up mistrust and hatred and harnessing them to benefit...
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  loose ends, you say? ...hmmm what is dead can never die -- nothing so massive a bureaucracy ever dies... so my guess "the Laundry" becomes something akin to a thaumaturgical version of those Japanese zombie banks... employees showing up despite...
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  =+=+=+= ultra-processed in various posts... a friend got me something to fuel my nightmares, only read a few pages so YMMV... "Chris van Tulleken -- Ultra-Processed People Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food" =+=+=+= Pigeon 682 for...
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  =+=+=+= Charlie Stross 654: I've been trying to locate the articles (plural) where I read about this... it was much better than I am at laying out the physics and showed enough detailing in the math to sound plausible in...