Very fine @UOJim post on why nostalgia for "heroic engineer" science fiction is a form of identity politics: http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2015/08/30/18838 …
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*nods* I'm not super familiar with Stross' work.
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Stross is "pessimistic" in the sense he's deeply skeptical that we have problems bc we're not smart/clever enough
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@arthur_affect@brigidkeely Cryptonomicon: competence porn with the misogyny made overtThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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