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Commented on Do my Laundry
Seconding or thirding poor Pete the Vicar's fate. I'd also be interested if any US agencies besides the Secret Service managed to put up a fight against the Nazgul. (And what's happened to all the government-leveraged cloud infrastructure in the...
Commented on A fistful of tropes
A haunted house story, perhaps? With all the trappings: isolated location, overconfident investigators, mysterious presence targeting one poor victim in particular, slowly eroding sanities, etc. Or: OceanGate's made it obvious to everyone why deep sea colonization isn't happening anytime soon,...
Commented on Yokai Land Q&A
Reading the back matter, Princess Kitty flew right over my head and I half expected Kirby to show up and menace Bob. (Notwithstanding Nintendo's legal wards.) Since it seems to have been averted, what does a full-blown kaiju attack look...
Commented on So you say you want a revolution
As someone living across the pond I'm concerned about what a British banking collapse (assuming at least one major bank screws up its Brexit escape plan and causes a gaping securities wound) might do to the rest of the world...
Commented on Dead plots
I had a paragraph about scaling down conspiracy theories to make them work but I arrived at John Grisham novels. Personally I can't imagine writing a political satire anytime soon: Veep might be the last notable one the US sees...
Commented on A small research question
Good to know. Is it possible for them to oxidize metal enough to cause rapid rusting?...
Commented on A small research question
A recent (not at all hard science) fictional example from Metal Gear Solid 5 with ties to real-life parasites. Skip a bit if you care about semi-spoilers. The main threat in the game comes from vocal cord parasites that colonize...
Commented on Brontosaurus BDSM, Werewolf Marines, and Serious Social Issues: Self-Publishing in the Wild
User DocSupreme at io9 talks about their experiences self-publishing erotica on Amazon here. Doc has some pretty good tips on the whole thing and seems to be doing well at it....

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JohnS commented on A fistful of tropes
"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed - in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable...
Pigeon commented on A fistful of tropes
...though it has to be said that Friedrich Schiller put it much more neatly :)...
ilya187 commented on A fistful of tropes
Friedrich Schiller's quote merely says that stupidity is impervious. He did not indicate just how dangerous it is. Dietrich Bonhoeffer made that point very clear....
Greg Tingey commented on A fistful of tropes
Ilya & others ... Asimov - wrote a whole novel on this { "The Gods Themselves" } From a Schilller quote, which translate as: *Against stupidity, the Gods themselves, contend in vain"...
Heteromeles commented on A fistful of tropes
RE: Trumpian bench trial for civil fraud. When I first posted, I was listening to some news report that went on at length how unusual it was that the judge ruled from the bench blah blah blah. I wasn't paying much attention and assumed the reported knew what they were talking about, because it was a big station that normally fact checked. When the station later corrected the report with a lawyer interview, I did a head slap because I've been involved in civil environmental suits on the plaintiff's side, and I needed to correct my account here. So yes,...

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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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