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Dave Zak
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Founder, code generation pioneer and cook, living on the beautiful island of Guernsey
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Dave Zak @commongrapefruit.bsky.social · May 26
This is an excellent book. Quite slow-paced and unusually for Clarke, well-written characters.

Also, I agree with Songs of a Distant Earth. Very much the same vibe as Imperial Earth.
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Dave Zak @commongrapefruit.bsky.social · Feb 26
For once, AI gets something right.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’
Tech company blames ‘phonetic overlap’ for problem where US president’s name appears
www.theguardian.com
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Dave Zak @commongrapefruit.bsky.social · Feb 12
Rereading Altered Carbon and found a mantra for our times;
"...the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL. Well, fuck them. Make it personal."
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A quote from Altered Carbon
The personal, as every one’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm...
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