Damn. End of an era. Bruce Sterling ending his Wired blog. Some interesting reflections on tradeoffs between fame, money, and pursuing research interests that eerily mirror my own. Some good evil twinning here. wired.com/beyond-the-bey
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He's a mystery to me - how someone so smart can have such weird opinions to put it politely. But I shouldn't judge a blogger by his books perhaps- Editors were involved in one..
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I stopped paying attention to him decades ago in order to preserve my fond memories of reading Schismatrix.. but he seemed to believe that there is a vast right wing conspiracy of fascists after everyone's personal freedom.
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Schismatrix is great. I never got that impression. His reboot talk on dark euphoria and annual WELL rants I thought were great.
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Possibly was a mistaken impression. Looking up some stuff he said and it seems less bad than I remember, more skeptical.
That's a bit of a problem with Americans, communism is in vogue and people are unconsciously driven to say things that'll make them popular..

