It’s excellent, and the vision of how we could begin to express the best we could be instead of the worst is both inspiring and terrifying—terrifying because I am on tenterhooks with worry about the harm a backlash might cause the protagonist and his allies.
I love it, but it’s also a scary, scary book to read, because its hopefulness makes clear what we have to lose (now as well as in the near future of the book).
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Love the photo! My wife is a fiber artist and she’s created boro-inspired work (along with many other styles). I can’t wait to show her your photo.
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@pluralistic In regards to "The dancing robot on stage at the splashy event is literally a guy in a robot-suit" I can only say WTF? Boston Dynamics had created human like (and dog like) robots, and they work.
@pluralistic When I was a schoolkid, Honeywell had a stand at the local show/fair with a female appearing robot (actually a woman in a shiny bodysuit). The imposture was revealed after the show was over. Plus ca change
@pluralistic The cup was too thin, the lid didn’t fit, and she was scalded terribly and it took more than 3 surgeries to repair the resulting wounds. McD’s had cups so thin that when they handed them to you, they pinched and their lids fell off. I remember those.
TOMORROW (May 10): 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)
TOMORROW (May 10): A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
University of Tartu Delta Centre (Narva 18, room 1037)
If the W3C is compromised, what do we resort to for internet standards? The only option left is to boycott bad decisions, tricky with large “technology is the alternative to politics” whales in control of the medium.