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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I maintain that our militia ought to be called the Cassandra Division
Even just The Cassandras would work well (that way all the weird fucks who are shitty about gender would hate the name even more)
Ken McLeod’s The Cassini Division tells the fate of all uploaded superhumans - blasted to plasma by bombardment of comet nuclei
Scotland sure has a wealth of based speculative fiction authors, don't they?
I enjoy the work for the 3 Macs from the British Isles:
In general I prefer UK English SF, because it's a bit less infected by the pernicious frontier mentality of US mainstream SF. Note that there are very good American authors too who kinda push back on that, but my impression was formed when Christopher Priest and Jerry Pournelle were active and could be contrasted.