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@jeannie To quote Brent Simmons:
Please let's stop using the word "consume."
I eat spaghetti, watch a TV show, use an app, read an article, sip a Scotch, drink a beer, down a shot.
Not "consume."
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@elaine1helen I could knock one together out in the shed for a couple of million. It wouldn’t work perfectly.
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@jsonbecker Though a quick duckduck reminds me that I'd forgotten entirely the term 'political hack', and that Wikipedia article even refers to 'hack gap'.
Not a term we use on this side of the pond.
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@jsonbecker I followed the link, and I understand the article. I just don't understand the use of the word 'hack'. He doesn't repeat it after the title and the opening paragraph, and he doesn't define it. So I don't understand which part of liberals being 'barely willing to wholeheartedly defend even the things where they legitimately have the better of the argument' is a 'hack'.
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@bsag In case you'd like a Micro.blog comment, to see how it works, here you are.
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@jabel SF very much doesn't have to be dystopian! I've been a fan all my life and I don't really care for dystopian stuff either.
I've read Becky Chambers's first book, and it's great.
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@jsonbecker Sorry to raise a terminology question, but what does 'hack' mean in this context? My best guess is the journalistic meaning, but I don't see how it applies. Certainly doesn't seem to be anything to do with cracking computer systems. So is it another meaning I'm not familiar with?
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@adoran2 Cool, sounds like a great idea.
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@jayeless I've been to a couple of sessions as a critiquer, and so far everyone has been very positive, with constructive suggestions for the writer being critiqued. So here's hoping!
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@adoran2 I don't really understand what that site is for. It shows us an album, and then… what?
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@jayeless Well done for working up the courage. I’m going to be having part of mine discussed at an in-person critique session on Wednesday. It’s quite daunting.
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@adoran2 It's interesting to read about this book when I'm currently listening to the podcast The History of Rock Music in 500 Songs. Sounds like works of similar scale.
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@jayeless That’s quite a sweet dream.
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@danielpunkass Well I think you’re right, and doing the decent thing.
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@JohnPhilpin My mistake. But what I was getting at is, your title implies, ‘I’m going to demonstrate a fribjillator.’
The reader thinks, ‘Interesting. I wonder what a fribjillator is? The post will explain.‘
And then they read the post, and it doesn’t mention fribjillators.
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@JohnPhilpin Thanks. I think I got all that from your original piece. It was just that your title referred to explaining a thing, and then that thing wasn’t mentioned in the actual piece. Unless I missed it.
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@petebrown I'm keen to hear what you've got to say about the others. I've always thought Aliens was the best, and I really didn't like Alien 3. But I haven't watched any of them in years.
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@JohnPhilpin I think I'm missing something. What's the "Pace Layer" of the title? And what (if anything) do the arrows mean in the diagram?
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@danielstucke Three years! My iPhone 7 lasted from 2017 to 2022 without any trouble, and still serves me as a webcam now.
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@pimoore Isn’t the company that makes it called “Literature & Latte”?
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@frank Nice idea. Last year I read a book about self-publishing which took a similar stance. But in indie publishing, at least via Kindle, you’re still under Amazon’s rules. Blogging is much freer.
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@karochan3 Wow, that's an amazing shot!
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@hotdogsladies If it were a DC movie with that title, they’d be talking to Marvel’s lawyers.
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@markslater As, indeed, I did. It’s not exactly surprising that holding Worldcon in China led to problems.