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1. Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:18:00 JST Charlie Stross

   New blog entry: We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus! (Text of a keynote talk from Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day, Stuttgart):

   https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

   • John Appel (jappel@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:17:42 JST John Appel

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     @cstross I have said for years that a quick way to determine if someone is a person likely to believe in this stuff, ask them how they feel about The Notebooks of Lazarus Long. The deeper their admiration for it, and the more they feel it's a manual for living, the brighter the red flag.

   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:18:19 JST Charlie Stross

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     • John Appel

     @jappel I totally agree! (I can't help thinking that they were patched together out of random brain-fade ramblings during Heinlein's near-death due to peritonitis, TIAs, and an blocked carotid artery in the 1960s/70s. They're just plain disjointed and "Time Enough For Love" isn't a novel—it's a bunch of novellas flying in very loose formation.)