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lj-writes:

lj-writes:

lj-writes:

Just started on The Fifth Season and I’m pretty sure @nkjemisin already owes me payment of damages for the infliction of emotional distress

So the continent is most stable along the equator? I can see how that would be the most prized environmental advantage in a world of so much geological flux. Broken Earth stands in the best tradition of sci-fi in starting with a simple yet strong “What if?” and extrapolating the ramifications on the world and its people.

Bahaha I love how the narration lays out the description of the city’s architecture and politics, and we expect that to be the main show since fantasy is typically obsessed with the intricacies of the nobility’s lives and intrigues–and then it’s all like, none of this matters it’s just backdrop lol.

I also love these pithy expressions like “chain-linked along the equator like a continental girdle” and “delicately arching bridges woven of glass and audacity.” I try not to go overboard with highlighting but damn, some passages demand it. The writing is wryly witty yet immediately there, putting you in the moment and keeping you there.

Wait, that “continental girdle” bit wasn’t just a clever description, it was foreshadowing that came right back in the form of “the girth of the land’s equator.” Girdle and girth, of course, not only sound alike but are etymologically linked. DAMN, you clever woman. How deep of a trip are you taking me on?

lj-writes:

lj-writes:

Just started on The Fifth Season and I’m pretty sure @nkjemisin already owes me payment of damages for the infliction of emotional distress

So the continent is most stable along the equator? I can see how that would be the most prized environmental advantage in a world of so much geological flux. Broken Earth stands in the best tradition of sci-fi in starting with a simple yet strong “What if?” and extrapolating the ramifications on the world and its people.

Bahaha I love how the narration lays out the description of the city’s architecture and politics, and we expect that to be the main show since fantasy is typically obsessed with the intricacies of the nobility’s lives and intrigues–and then it’s all like, none of this matters it’s just backdrop lol.

I also love these pithy expressions like “chain-linked along the equator like a continental girdle” and “delicately arching bridges woven of glass and audacity.” I try not to go overboard with highlighting but damn, some passages demand it. The writing is wryly witty yet immediately there, putting you in the moment and keeping you there.

lj-writes:

Just started on The Fifth Season and I’m pretty sure @nkjemisin already owes me payment of damages for the infliction of emotional distress

So the continent is most stable along the equator? I can see how that would be the most prized environmental advantage in a world of so much geological flux. Broken Earth stands in the best tradition of sci-fi in starting with a simple yet strong “What if?” and extrapolating the ramifications on the world and its people.

The Automation Charade

Of course capitalists want working people to be precarious, pitted
against one another, and frightened about what the future may hold. Of
course they want us to think that if we dare to push back and demand
more than scraps the robots will replace us—that we can be automated
away at the push of a button. They may wish that were the case, and are
no doubt investing their fortunes toward making it seem so. But it, and
indeed anything like it, has not come close to being true. If the
automated day of judgment were actually nigh, they wouldn’t need to
invent all these apps to fake it.

The Automation Charade

fuck-ler:

diamond-hoo-ha-man:

fuck-ler:

The man who made an antisemitic attack on a synagogue had an account on a “free speech” website called Gab that just so happened to be full of Nazi organizing when investigated.

So here’s your reminder that censoring fascists is GOOD. Yes, straight up censoring them, taking away their right to speak to the public.

Censoring anyone is a bad thing because it means you’ve decided to control people and limit their freedom. “censoring fascists” is a fascist act. Fascists are all bastards. 

ergo you are a bastard. either delete your account and censor yourself or become a hypocrite as well.

Man shut the fuck up. I could care less about the freedom of people who preach genocide.

What good has letting them speak do ? Help them organize. Help radicalize them.

If you think censoring fascist makes you The Real Fascist remember the paradox of tolerance:

“The paradox states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant.”

And history proves that…

No-platforming isn’t censorship. Censorship refers to the suppression and prohibition of speech, especially by the government. So the real question is, why would a site give a platform to Nazis where they can organize and recruit? Why are they okay with providing amenities to Nazis? They’re free to do so under U.S. law, but what does it say about them that this is how they choose to exercise that freedom?