Activity from doctornemo

Wow. A very consistently anti-Ellison thread, this one. A lot of my memories of him are personal. As a college student a group of us got him to our campus for a talk, and it was a wild time. We had dinner with him, and he veered rapidly from… [more]
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I don't think we've got to crucify everybody for their sins. Have you met MetaFilter? [more]
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GenX here. So much of my musical taste came from my teen years: -classical, when I was playing the cello, and I can still vividly recall hearing some symphonies and concerti for the first time -pop->rock->punk->New Wave, starting from… [more]
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Rick Perlstein is such a fine writer and historian. Very nice person, too. [more]
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There's a quote attributed to Napoleon to the effect of: "If you want to understand a man, know the world he knew at 20 years old." [more]
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"DSCOVR is about a million miles from earth" - indeed, in the L1 point, I think. [more]
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Yes! And I want to celebrate the sheer glory of these lines: "Launched over 46 years ago, the twin Voyager spacecraft are the longest-running and most distant spacecraft in history. Before the start of their interstellar exploration, both… [more]
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That Dune essay is very strange. Dune Part Two looks good, but the images are incredibly static, people are reduced to flat images, with the exceptions of the sudden outbreaks of violent action, which are themselves short lived and poorly… [more]
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“At long last, we’re building the first high-speed rail project in our nation’s history" - at long last indeed. Oh, I hope they don't foul this up. [more]
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From TFA: If journalists, activists and democratic institutions stand to lose from Meta’s policy to limit political content, who stands to gain? “I think ultimately it benefits the fossil fuel industry, for one,” says climate justice… [more]
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Average enrollment in higher Ed has been steady trending down for years That's correct. American higher ed enrollment peaked around 2012 and then declined every year until fall 2023. This is something I research. Current book ms is… [more]
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This is a fiasco which might have some serious fallout. Right now it's a massive tide of stress for a lot of would-be and current students, their families, college and university staff and administrators, the federal workers we've mentioned, and… [more]
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Adam Harris has done some good reporting (ungated) on this, interviewing federal staff. Inside Higher Ed has followed this story closely. [more]
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I'm glad the article cited Alex Usher, a tremendous Canadian scholar of higher ed. His blog is very useful. [more]
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I was going to rant about how stupid and destructive the Satanic panic was, but wanted to share these horrific bits from TFA: Dr. Braun’s inpatient unit at Rush became a magnet for referrals and a warehouse for patients, some of whom he kept… [more]
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The movie is definitely about journalism - specifically, photojournalism in war. That's the film's primary focus. Secondarily, I agree that it's a picaresque. In particular, it's part of the venerable tradition of American road movies. Our main… [more]
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Glad to learn more about these guys, of whom I'd previously read only hints. Thank you for the post, chavenet. [more]
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For epistolary novels, the 18th century British ones are golden. But Dracula is also a fine one. (Ok, not entirely letters. Also recordings, clippings, receipts, but you get the idea) [more]
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Chickens, on the other hand, are fucking assholes... they are also, I've been told, stupider than most plants. We raised chickens for years and can confirm both counts. [more]
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Racial demographics in the Amherst public schools are also locally locally determined to an extent, shall we say: Just over twelve per cent of the city’s residents are Black or Hispanic; about seventy per cent are white, and roughly thirteen… [more]
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What a cool idea. LEGOs are amazing. ...and now I'm thinking of how William Blake used to make his own books... [more]
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part of the WSJ's plan to normalize fascist Republican speak Heh. Actually, if you want to do conspiracy writing properly, you need to capitalize Certain Words to indicate their esoteric Importance. More caps! [more]
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I love how worked-over the first page of Nineteen Eighty-Four is. I show it to anyone struggling with writing to show them that even the greatest had to revise a lot. [more]
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Bravo! And a nice little Space: 1999 ref at the end. [more]
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Great post, Rhaomi. So much good stuff. It's important to remember just how vast and terrifying was the specter of atomic war in the middle and late 20th century. [more]
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"hey, did you know some people still use Netflix for the DVDs?" Hi, I was one of them (raises hand) Me as well. For years I've been scheming to build up a DVD movie collection. I always check Criterion sales - well,… [more]
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We could have drawn strength from each other, perhaps shared our personal experiences of this horrible disease, and surviving tragedies But that's the thing. Monarchy and aristocracy are precisely about *not* having shared personal… [more]
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Oh, this sounds like fun. [more]
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MetaFilter: mythic and subversive, joyful and maddening, enchanting and sobering, and utterly chilling [more]
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Very nice piece. I'm fond of Melville's bizarre list of quotes which prefaces Moby-Dick. [more]
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Fascinating article with its focus on regional and family radical politics as contexts for Dune, plus Soul Catcher. Now I'm wondering how this background influenced the rest of Herbert's extensive bibliography. [more]
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Oh, that's such a terrible set of losses. . [more]
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that second book was like hitting the proverbial brick wall. I just couldn’t get a handle on it, no matter how much I tried. Different translator and I've heard complaints about the results from people who know Chinese and English (I only… [more]
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GenX here, born 1967, but this sounds like me: They're Boomers but without the perks: Many born in 1964 are trying to stay afloat in overpriced real estate markets that made their predecessors rich, while caring for aging parents and trying to… [more]
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everyone seems to hate them It might be this thread, or just MetaFilter's customary acidity. But the books sold well - which is a remarkable thing in the US, which doesn't like to read stuff from other countries, generally. The first… [more]
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Fun part about Cypher: after he begs Agent Smith to let him back into the simulation, Smith purrs back, calling him "Mr. Reagan." I remember showing the movie to my students that summer, and all but one were too young to get the joke… [more]
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“But there are times you pull something out of the water for which there's no accounting, the only remnant of a story whose contours are a mystery.” ― John Langan, The Fisherman [more]
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I am so sorry, Rev. Irreverent Revenant. This is horrendous. [more]
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I'm always glad to get more Armando Iannucci. I'll just mention In The Thick of It and The Death of Stalin. [more]
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Charles had "gone public about his prostate treatment, with the aim of encouraging more men to get prostate checks;" in the 24 hours after his disclosure, the NHS webpage for benign prostate enlargement saw a 1061% increase in traffic… [more]
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Does the Chinese series have less gore, animal harm, and disturbing imagery? I haven't started the Netflix series yet, umber vowel, so I can't compare, but the Chinese version was very PG except for the climactic Panama scene (ep 29, I… [more]
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Superb. [more]
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I find it hard to accept 'you're not alone" messages from someone who has been given everything we need when we can't access it ourselves. Same here. Not buying the illusion that wealthy celebrities - or, worse yet, aristocrats and… [more]
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It's also basically the darkest, most pessimistic vision of the universe imaginable. I don't know why people like this series so much. Have you looked at popular fiction for the past decade+? I've been to school libraries where they make… [more]
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What a good question. Here are my leaders: space (28) wwi (28) NASA (27) Mars (23) SpaceX (21) ESA (20) moon (19) Earth (17) ISS (17) AI (15) Which surprised me a bit, since I spend most of my time in academia and futures.... spaces. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 2 months ago

I wonder if someone should fire up a MeTa thread about how we talk about royals. This thread shows us to be deeply, at times bitterly divided. We also had a mod tell us not to criticize the monarchy in this thread, but folks are doing it anyway… [more]
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Same here, ocschwar. The Chinese adaptation is *30 episodes long* and very faithful to the novel. Hoping to start the Netflix version tonight. Already unhappy that it decenters China. [more]
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Manned space flight is a stupid wasteful project and humans are not going to live permanently off of the Earth anytime soon. This is not a topic on which well-informed, non-delusional people can have good-faith differences of opinion… [more]
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re Kim Stanley Robinson's maglev on compacted regolith in Red Mars. Good one, unearthed. Fwiw, Robinson did a followup novel with lunar settlements, called Red Moon. (For me, it wasn't his best) [more]
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Ah, book club editions. As a teenager the Science Fiction Book Club was my gateway to a lot of sf: low cost (crucial for me then) and introducing me to things I didn't see at the library. Later in my life I worked at a used bookshop and book club… [more]
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