Venn diagram of a cat and an inkjet printer. The circles overlap with: Moody; Unreliable; Spends a lot of time self cleaning; Demands feeding when container is full; Ignores requests
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#justforlaughs #funny #meme #cats #IT
Nothing attracts #cats like an open window. The smells!
The book by JD Walker that I helped edit "BASE 37" got a big endorsement from an unexpected source. shereads.com/the-monthly-...
Patience grasshoppers. Patience.
@tkingfisher.com, I finished Nine Goblins. This was as much as I have enjoyed fantasy since Terry Pratchett died. Delightful!
I really enjoyed this one, and shared it with others.
I was sweating for the same reason till they came out of the blackout, then I started sweating again until the chutes came out. As an old skydiver, I get nervous when there is no reserve chute for backup. I do not think space travel can be routine while this is the method for landing.
#Locus time! Rare signed books, other swag available. (I got the tee shirt!) gmail.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...
But will it put herbal 2 back on track?
I was alive then and endorse this rule. No one without a future has any business messing with other’s future.
I don’t want to spur competition, but 1968 (up until Apollo 8) was hands down worse than any year since. It was bad to live through and history showed it was worse than we knew.
Only if you think in straight lines! By the way, I inadvertently got your book a permanent plug… hugospodcast.com/podcast/zoom...
I always do, my son refuses to, believing the traps are set up so he believes their position is a clue
And my question: do you shuffle before playing?
My scattered family plays this every morning, two people fell for this. I assume the display has to do with their position on the grid which controls how they slot into the row. It’s our favorite game. We all chase the reverse rainbow.
I remember watching Apollo 8 leave earth orbit. I had been following the space program closely. Apollo 8 was a shock though, as it had not been in the original sequence that way till the CIA messed up Russian intel. It was a real Hail Mary.
I have always view history as just retro SF, the tech, the culture, the world (re)building. The description of literary fiction was the most useful definition of literary speculative fiction I have heard and is one I will keep handy.
It’s like he’s looking askance at the camera.
Just a helpful reminder to everyone: Wednesday is April 1st. If you see a news story or something that looks like a news story that makes you think "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!??" ...the answer is probably yes, yes they are, that's it exactly.
People who believe #AI can write #ScienceFiction need to remember Sturgeon’s law: “95% of science fiction is crap,” which means 95% of what AI is trained on is stuff no one wants to read any more.
It is also possible (indeed probable) that most texts from the period are rubbish (we read a highly curated remainder of what was written) so it would not surprise me that the LLM’s prose would be bad.
That's two Andy Weir books I never thought could be made into movies that are hits. Does hard science fiction make better movies?
Going to file this one. A scientist nails the timing, even if it was because they procrastinated longer than they should have.
“If you look at the 1868 Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, which invested in emerging markets, all of them are still emerging markets, except America, which is the only one they didn’t invest in.” -Russell Napier
Three cats lie on a bed, and a fourth on a chair
All four #cats relax away from the visiting granddog
New Wave (le guin and Zelazny) and othe soft science fiction came into view in the late 60’s, so then, and yes, that’s when I became a teenager, but this is pure coincidence. Someone had to be born at the right time….
An interesting post from an editor who almost published an AI story. I don't often get a peek at the state of AI #writing, as editors don't like to talk about their detection methods. It's getting closer... dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/no-story-t...
It’s like when Scalzi writes a book with no gender pronouns for the main character. A male author describing a naked woman without describing… well, let’s give home credit for a technical feat. The art is in the reader’s reaction.
Your boob talk segment made me laugh dangerously hard. It really sounds like he was making a statement, like he knew, decades later feminists were going examine the text for mammary gland references.
