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Obsessed with this bit in the preface to the 10th Anniversary edition of Ancillary Justice:

Specifics aside, "I thought this would be fun and relaxing. It was not." is a great summation of what happens with like 80% of creative endeavors.

#imperial radch

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You should always strive to give your followers an extremely warped impression of your favorite media

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I had a stupid idea

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but your honor his big wet princess puppy dog eyes cancels out all the horrors he’s committed

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i feel like i'm losing my mind why has the AI debate pivoted away from material/labor concerns back to debates about Real vs Fake Art. cannot express just how little i care about relitigating Art and high art and low art and skilled vs unskilled art. what i care about is the treatment and compensation of workers, the power corporations are exerting over intellectual property and creators, the continued extraction of resources, and the omnipresent glut of spam and disinformation with few or no regulations/resources that filter out the SEO AI generated nonsense

#this this this this this this this #people have rebelled against every major new technology ever and then inevitably adopted it as normal #the problem is when capitalism adopts things as normal for its own ends at our expense #the problem is capitalism the problem is capitalism the problem is capitalism the problem is capitalism

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we teach girls to shrink themselves, to fit themselves more compactly in a transistor. we expect girls to double in processing efficiency every two years. we say to sufficiently advanced girls, you are indistinguishable from magic

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parade

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i've seen some posts floating around about people being confused as to what classifies as robotfucking and to what degree so i decided to take a crack at it and made this chart inspired by the infamous furry chart

#honestly any of these for me #SAMANTHA MENTION!!!! #oh she makes me so happy sad #i agree w the others about swapping android and cyborg #just because androids are entirely machines #but breq my absolute beloved is technically a cyborg #cyborgs welcome here

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Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖

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IN HER GUTS

#art

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*me working in the insides of a machine* shush, I need to focus, this is very intimate- I mean intimate- I mean intimate- I mean intimate- I mean intricate.

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Breq: tells us almost nothing about her own emotions because she knows everyone assumes she doesn't have them, to the extent that she starts to believe it of herself. Or she thinks her feelings don't matter. Or maybe it just doesn't occur to her to describe her emotions because she doesn't process them the same way we do.

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

#imperial radch #writing

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#anaander mianaai style logic #imperial radch

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains