Judging by The Demon Haunted World, I believe he could never have imagined just how complacent we would become, how half measures and community rallying around science were the only tools we employed, and how willing people were to hand off their critical faculties to an LLM

A lot of hyperpop owes its success to Asian pop music.

One of the greatest tracks ever imo

Ive known Wendy since their Eastman School of Music days. I remember catching them at small world books I think playing guitar solo, and also catching Editrix in a basement in Buffalo. Stoked to see youre also a fan

The best programmer alive is unemployed and spends his time half naked in virtual reality perfecting his sword dueling skills. The warfare of the future is actually akin to neuroscience "magic" derived from ancient religion. There is a person who has cybernetically fused with their giant truck.

Snowcrash is psychotic because it is more of a premonition - corporations run everything - kids dont go to school - the powers that be are mafia run global pizza chain, "greater" little China, and evangelicalism turned into the Righteous Gemstones.

This is the phenomenon of good "bad" world building - cyberpunk as it is imagined writ large has many many elements of the current or near past in it which are "comfortable". One can "imagine themself" in the world. But the reality is more dystopic - less Blade Runner and more Snowcrash

Holy shit

Ah I see.

It looks like shit

Looks like shit

If a then b
Iff a then b
They are logically different statements as one says that a satisfies the condition and the other says only a can satisfy

Lore accurate goes crazy

Thats cool but it offers you no tactical advantage

Uncontested

He dressed like that because he was "marred" by the Jedi Council's "assassination"

I blame the advent of label first identity which has created a "math" of identity, utterly confusing and incongruous with the slippery nature of identity.

S for Something incredibly bad happened