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Just finished Alien Clay. Absolute page turner!

Children of Time box set currently somewhere between me and a warehouse, heading in my direction.

It's a primary source, if you're into those. I found it a little weird that she never seemed to bring up the xcheck program where six million users (a whole lot of bigots, many reporters found) were exempted from any moderation of any kind.

"As soon as the wind turns, they cash out". God, autocorrect is constantly entering typos into what I write.

This gross spectacle, similar to the abominable rehabilitation of Liz Cheney, is a well-oiled mechanism designed to allow people to enrich themselves doing evil while innoculating themselves from any possibility of reputational or career damage if ever there is a reckonning. I fucking hate it.

It is not possible to hate FB enough.

he never made white people yearn for ethnic cleansing

People need to sue that piece of shit out of existence.

Truth!

I feel like whoever runs on the Dem side in '28 needs to make breaking them via antitrust a top priority

True.

Well look back at social media companies the same way we look at tobacco now.

Second-hand rabbit holes are worse than second-hand smoke.

Just the worst brand of people there.

I need an interview with the only Real One in the book: the older lawyer woman who pulled the author aside during the Pregnant Employee Pony Show for Lean In and tried to do an intervention. it was basically "You know this is all bullshit right??". (She did not!)

I read his children of time series this week at the beech; very good stuff.

Elder Race is very good! Extremely fun idea and AT instead of stretching it out to a full novel just lets it be what it is.

IMO Tchaikovsky is great but he really wears his influences on his sleeve and the 'found family of quirky outcasts saves the universe' stuff from that series felt very cookie cutter. He's at his best when he's working with influences that are less overdone.

Better read fast or he'll put out another before you're done with this one. (Big fan of Tyrant-Philosophers right now)

Children of Time became my absolute favorite sci-fi novel immediately after I read it for the first time. Would suggest "The Mountain in the Sea" as a great chaser to it, exploring some similar concepts but in a very different way.

Ah... Tchaikovsky the writer. I saw him in a sci-fi conference in France last year discussing the works of Iain Banks, a writer I had never heard of. It took me forever to understand what they meant when they were discussing "the culture".

Hell yeah man I loved it what a fun book.

and what if I want something equally as much of a behemoth?