Activity from doctornemo

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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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Oh, that's such a terrible set of losses. . [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

What a productive life, and what a loss to science fiction. I loved the galumphing huge space operas, but keep coming back to Rainbows End. [more]
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A nice way to rev up the article: Walter Isaacson is the perfect writer for the biographies of our times because he appears to be a born sycophant, and fate decreed that he would be in the right position, at the right moment, to spread as much… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Aaaand here's the clear break away from the Boomer experience: "“I never had problems affording university on my own. I never had a problem affording housing." [more]
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Genre humor... from sf, we'd be remiss to lack: -the very great Stanislaw Lem -Phil Dick -Robert Sheckley [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Nelson, that also brought to mind Shelley: "Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few." [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

This is grand, Wobbuffet. Thank you for the post. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Meanwhile, I'll keep writing my blog. And making my videos. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

there may be romance in this list There is! The Time Machine - Traveler/Wells and Weena Superman - Supes and Lois, of course The Terminator - romance is essential to the whole story Time After Time - Wells and bank clerk 12 Monkeys -… [more]
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Star Trek IV: entertainment value is only 6?! Bah. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

The Colorblind Campaign to Undo Civil Rights Progress
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MeFi post - 2 months ago

the smart folks at SpaceX seem to be doing a good job. They aren't though SpaceX is the world's most widely used orbital carrier. It might be the most widely used in history, at least at an annual basis. NASA relies on them for what… [more]
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Gift link. [more]
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"Undo Civil Rights Progress…?" is from the article's title. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

"Habsburg AI" is a great phrase. [more]
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what if population doesn't decline under degrowth? Fascinating thought. The collapse in birthrates is a clear effect of modernity/development (and especially improvements in womens' rights to education, work, and bodily autonomy). If we… [more]
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they're very famous but essentially local symbols (to the UK, and to England more specifically) Plenty of Americans have a persistent love for the British monarchs. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

but they're some green anarchism, no? Eh, in a sense, like some other 1990s ecological activists were, but more to the point is their belief that we shouldn't embrace human supremacy, and instead view humans as one more species among… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Saito sounds so bad on the historical Marx that I'd worry they are making a straw man out of Saito, but the Guardian article for the earlier FPP suggests probably not. I haven't read him yet, but it sounds like Saito is following the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Looking for a particular Orwell reflection on colonialism and economics
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Ask MeFi post - 2 months ago

Are we the product of some cosmic coincidence?
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MeFi post - 2 months ago

someone was asking in this thread about someone doing predictions of the future that were different from the ones featured in the main links. I'd welcome other viewpoints. too. As a futurist, I can see what I can find that fits the… [more]
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I can't not hear this post's title in William S. Burroughs' voice. [more]
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Well done post, Iris Gambol. [more]
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When I was a kid I had an Othello set but not the rules, so I wrote my own. I wish I still had them. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Zeihan's intentional empire retraction sounds like a fantasy. Agreed. I've read one of his books and listened to a bunch of his videos and can't find him explaining how this would actually happen. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

The Soviet War and Peace is so good overall, far better than the terrible US version. Agreed on how Bondarchuk practiced well there, then took things farther still with Waterloo. I appreciate how the linked article digs into some films from other… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

A better day after
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

Zeihan is predicting-- I mean currently predicting-- that the US will no longer protect commercial shipping Yes, and I can't understand this. In the book of his I read and the videos I've seen he just asserts this, but doesn't explain… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

MetaFilter: pretty much everything I read as a kid was problematic at best. [more]
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