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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      3/ or, you know, maybe tropes get mixed and remixed and THAT'S THE WAY FICTION WORKS

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted c i d

      4/ REKThttps://twitter.com/la_bug_epoque/status/1201984132529754112 …

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      c i d @cid34510900
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Can’t wait for Brin to cancel the furries over their infringement of his Uplift Universe
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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eric Richards

      5/ I actually quite liked The Postman ; read it at least three times. It was a solid book! ...but that doesn't mean that Brin invented even a single one of the tropes in it.https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1201984548692779008 …

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      Eric Richards @EricRichards22
      Replying to @MorlockP
      I'm honestly divided on whether the book or movie was better for The Postman. That's not saying a whole lot for either...
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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      6/ > To be clear, I am not a litigious kind of guy. In the past I shrugged off how Halo and many other games used concepts that are at least somewhat “mine.” Just one rather blatant example: uplifting dolphins to speak and fly in space.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      7/ So Brin is upset that Halo stole his concept that he mashed up and stole from The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) + Lord Seton's Voyage Among the Seven Planets" (1765). Yes. This is sane.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      8/ Also, I have a distinct memory of reading some hippy dippy article in Omni magazine c. 1980 or 1982 talking about space stations with pools so dolphins could share their wisdom with us

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      9/ The 1970s were chock full of nature-over-nurture we-can-teach-animals-to-talk craziness. It was fairly mainstream, in out-of-the-mainstream corners, to think that dolphins ALREADY HAD LANGUAGE. I mean, FLIPPER was on TV, for !@#'s sake.

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Snake

      10/ Startide Rising was a novel (1983). I know this, because I read it. I was talking about an ARTICLE in Omni MAGAZINE, a few years earlier. Which ... is the point I'm making here.https://twitter.com/tigerboy74u/status/1201987623662653441 …

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      Snake @tigerboy74u
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Lol that was Startide Rising; Brin actually wrote that iirc
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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted John Taloni

      11/ Zing.https://twitter.com/JohnTaloni/status/1201988760918872064 …

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      John Taloni @JohnTaloni
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Random factoid, Larry Niven had intelligent dolphins in World of Ptavvs, which came out in 1966 vs Sundiver in 1980. Also, Doctor Doolittle.
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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      12/ I'm reading more of the Brin rant, and he disclaims that his complaint is a legal one ... then spends the whole time framing his argument as a legal one. e.g. > To be clear, the law doesn’t care much about denials that an infringer ever “read the original,” Amusing story:

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

      13/ He responded "Yeah, apparently there's a lot in common. I never even heard of them before I published the books!" I...took him at his word. It seemed pretty obvious to me that the trope of "very long years affect human civilization" could be reinvented. I'm not David Brin

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        1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Dec 2019

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Paul Bates

          14/ more talking dolphins:https://twitter.com/PaulBates7/status/1201989357864808449 …

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          Paul Bates @PaulBates7
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Day of the Dolphin. 1973
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