Striking for me as a physicist who also does social science work is the way these physicists were suddenly totally ok with autoethnography as data because they personally enjoyed using GPT-5. A case study in how values orient our empirical practices if there ever was one lol

That's one reason why I want to see it again -- it's one of those magical performances that seems to be doing very little but by the end you realize just how much was going on.

MOON SONGS is available from all the usual places, online and in the so-called "real world". If you happen to be near Detroit, Nashville, or London, it's a good excuse to stop by the @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social store, where you can find pretty much everything you need for every holiday.

Carol Emshwiller's stories are fun to read around the holiday campfire. If you don't have a holiday campfire, it's fun during awkward moments of dinner to read out a paragraph or two. Or give everybody a copy of MOON SONGS and have them read aloud a random sentence. Call it divination.

(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.

I recently watched all the Craigs together over a week or so and had the same feelings you did — it really is most meaningful as a series. (And impressive that they managed this across, what, almost 20 years?) No Time to Die affected me far more than it did when it came out.

Honestly you're not a real Marxist and are just an unserious Puritan if you think that it's revolutionary to ask people to work for you for free in a system where that "for free" doesn't come with a UBI or free food, housing, and healthcare for the worker