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Bad news, Iām afraid,Ā gentle readers. ā¦it looks like Iām going to have to start enforcing what I have been ignoring up to now, namely, treating asking questions as the one-per-$-per-month Patreon reward that I declared it to be, rather than as something freely offered when questions
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How would one, given the current situation on Terra, move humanity towards becoming something more Imperial, and in doing so, not cause massive amounts of death and destruction? ā¦if I had an answer to that one, Iād be Chairman of the Vanguard Party, not an āumble SF author. (Honestly,
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Todayās this-very-much-belongs-in-my-universe, courtesy of Borderlands 2 and a New-U station: āIf any idiot ever tells you that life would be meaningless without death, Hyperion recommends killing them.ā
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Just a quick note to mention to my readers that a few of us writy-types have put together a Google+ community for flash fiction and nanofiction, and Iāll be posting a few things over there from time to time, as will several other folks worth the reading. Why not
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Yāknow, I donāt believe Iāve mentioned this article on here before, and I really should have. Because ā as a simple matter of contract law ā marriage in the Empire and other Societies of Consent does, in fact, permit all the difficult concepts mentioned here and a few more
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With reference to Jade Nekotenshiās comment here, the graph to the above taken fromĀ this survey, methinks, reveals another key application of the so-important primitives-barbarians dichotomy. See, if you donāt have these technologies, that just classifies you as āprimitiveā. Thatās a term of art, not a value
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A new writing blog for a shiny new posthuman SF universe appearedĀ yesterday in my website logs, from a long-time reader here, and I just had to tell yāall to go check it out. The siteās brand new, but thereās already some juicy content there, and if
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So, what Iād like to do is for you to go and read the comment series starting here ā and note, this is an invitation for yāall to criticize me, not the commenter, so however much we may disagree, letās keep it civil, please ā and give me your
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Iāve been taking a moment or two today to futz with Ethereum, which is ā as the site puts it ā āa decentralized platform that runs smart contractsā. I mention this as something that might be of interest toĀ Eldraeverse readers, since if you squint very, very hard when you look
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And now, an uncomfortable word from the author: Hereās how it is. Not to go into undue detail, but weāve had kind of a difficult few months āround here, with various unanticipated incidents and expenses, including some medical-type expenses, which are unfortunately proving quite a painful strain on
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Sorry, no G on schedule today, due to great, squandrinā, orgulous, hours-long headache. Will do tomorrow at best speed.
blogging from a to z
Apologies to the folks who came here for the A-to-Z Challenge, looking for B ā See, Iām just starting some new drugs right now, one consequence of which last night seemed to be galloping insomnia; so after staying awake all night, I then was off to assist with our farmerā