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@GreatDismal

Author of Neuromancer, The Peripheral, Agency. Meticulous detailer, in quarantine, of a convection stovetop etc.

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Joined April 2009
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    Sep 1

    This can't be liked and retweeted enough.

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    22 hours ago

    Million mile ‘Near miss’ is nearly reassuring

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    A very big asteroid, imaged by radar 2 weeks ago. We've spotted over a thousand of them. I'm glad has a Planetary Defense Coordination Office. More detail:
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    22 hours ago

    One thing that’s great to do is block anyone who pisses on your joy

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    Sep 4

    Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills: UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal- 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Chile - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643,000

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    Sep 4

    . Bird of the Year contender??

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    Jul 8

    When the pandemic began there was 1 person worth $100 billion Now there are 9 When the pandemic began the 10 richest people had $695 billion Now they have $1.36 trillion And they paid a lower tax rate than service workers who risked their lives for $7.25/hour in a pandemic

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    Sep 3

    RT

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    Sep 3

    Brexit is now a daily, snowballing list of costs, disadvantages, limitations, idiocies, humiliations, inconveniences and lies. So far, there has not been *one* practical, everyday, noticeable benefit. As projects go, it simply can’t get much more dishonest… or batshit insane.

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  9. 21 hours ago

    Sure is.

    oh well this is rather astonishing
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    Sep 4

    Very disappointed that Covid-19 is caving to cancel culture by refusing to be cured by horse goo.

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    Sep 4

    Two of the four long-term tenants of a century-old housing complex in a desirable beachside neighbourhood in Vancouver have been told they can stay in their homes after the tenants alleged they were being 'renovicted' by real estate firm Avala Equities.

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    Sep 4

    THIS 👇🏻

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    Sep 4
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    This bit from 's 2012 review of 's 'Distrust That Particular Flavor' is hinting at the same thing (2020 was 8 years in future when was written). As a design educator I've found this so useful to bring home "not evenly distributed"

    "Cars lumbered past like ponderous elephants of rusty steel, not so different from the cars of 30 years ago, and seemed not to belong in the same world as the tattooed kid punching code into his laptop nearby. Under the spell of this book, I suddenly understood my surroundings not as a discrete contemporary tableau but as a hodgepodge of 1910, 1980, 2011 and 2020." Pagan Kennedy, 2012
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    23 hours ago
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    Anyone who has engaged in synaptic level connectomics and has done some honest math, knows the singularity is bullshit.

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    Sep 4

    Honestly the is such a hot flaming mess.

    That paper is broken. Fire everyone.
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    Sep 4

    This is an abandoned McDonald’s on a barge in Vancouver, Canada.

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    Sep 4

    No—these are not haunted houses in need of an exorcism. Rather, 'ghost houses', or akiya, are abandoned homes that towns cannot get rid of through demolition or resale.

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    Sep 4

    Ok ok, Mary’s dress sways. Made it. Final show. 👊

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    Sep 3

    Hilary Mantel: I am ashamed to live in nation that elected this government

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    24 hours ago

    One thing that always felt true/right to me about the future in 's Neuromancer was the idea that the richest people would be impossibly old, their lives extended by technology. That they wouldn't be 100% human, or tethered by human morality also seems right.

    SCOOP: An insanely well-funded company called Altos Labs is going after "rejuvenation" technology. Yamanaka factors. Epigenetic clocks. CRISPR. Offering academics $1 million salaries and more. Investor rumor mill: Milner, Bezos, ARCH. Musk?
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