I got bogged down and never finished Fall, but what I liked was his prediction of de facto civil divorce ...and it wasn't without manners. Throwing a tarp over your machinegun when you go into town - that's just basic decency. https://twitter.com/maskoficarus/status/1311022671392575489 …
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3/ Seveneves was hilarious where he has a character in the year 7,000 AD reflect that the 20th century had this terrible thing called racism, where they believed that different groups were different ... embedded in the middle of a plot with 7, no 8, no 9 distinct human species.
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8/ "Behold, watch my left hand as it crumples the sheet of paper, lights it on fire, and makes it disappear ...while my right hand conjures 12 reams of the same paper into existence!"
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9/ NS packages deep red memes and feeds them to blue audiences ... and makes them pay him for the trouble. He's like Scott Alexander, but with better business sense.
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10/ twitter seems to have lost them shitpoasts in the rain time to workhttps://twitter.com/N8istootall/status/1311035126214586368 …
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Interesting. Neal Stephenson, for what I've read (not much, Reamde, Age of Diamond and Snow Crash), appeared to me like a mild common sense conservative guy in a liberal world. But probably I read things backward
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Deep grey?
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