let's do it, after Bal we can try Herman, I enjoy the cognitive narratology stuff even if it gets a little too psych-happy

I am the entire SICKOS YES meme right now.

this!

100% agree, word for word

Big grid batteries are finally on a roll in New England The region's largest battery yet recently came online in Massachusetts, where state climate policies aimed at cleaning up the grid are boosting the tech.

This -- not new natural gas pipelines -- is what's going to rescue New England's energy system & bring down bills.

that is a nice rando, with good taste :D

writer's life: sometimes it takes an hour and a half to write 320 words, if those words are 'how to reveal part of the plot of the spy novel to one of three protagonists but not the other two'.

all histories are purposeful, as in 'written for reasons', as in 'composed in this way, as opposed to any other way'.

oh completely; the compositor/historiographer is entirely a creature of its own influences, environmental or aesthetic as well as methodological. Which I guess is another way to say 'infrastructure' - infrastructure = (environment + methodology + aesthetic) constraints.

I spent ten years reading thousand-year old letters from Byzantine diplomats to one another. I know exactly what you mean.

Sorry, you caught me at the exact right moment of 'I miss doing professional narratology work + writing some of my new (spy) novel + listening to weird cut-up remixes of Bela Lugosi's Dead'

:D

history is unfixed; reactivating the archive - even from absence, or destruction, or silence (so many archives are hollows/negative spaces/chiaroscuro to begin with) - is always possible: the animating force is the speaking/compositing eye of the historiographer, i.e. narrative (or apophenia).

... but what if, Stella yes

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Not soon enough

Useless car storage!

I am in exactly the same boat as Scott, damn it

I fucking love it.

If I could get my hands on one, I /would/.

Why aren’t dresses THIS anymore

I want to wear it.

I mean, I've loved the terrible-quality recordings from Johnson forever, but this is -- goddamn.

oh my GOD

this is beyond amazing. absolute chills.

SunZia is amazing, and every time I get to see parts of it I'm proud that I got to help a tiny bit in making it happen.

Those beautiful turbines are generating power now. ❤️

Yes. Precisely. What a miserable time that would be.

This is one of my purest joyful methods of enjoying art! I want to talk about how it works! I want to talk about where it doesn’t! I like taking things apart!

Next time!

Tonight! At Bookworks in ABQ!

how did I not know about this!

This panel - on 'origins & culture' of language in science fiction/fantasy/horror - is SO COOL that I'm going to be wide awake and on the internet at 9 AM on a Saturday morning in my timezone to participate in it.

cannot wait!

Not in the city this week, to my everlasting frustration. But next time I am I will 1000% take a petition-gathering shift or whatever else you need.