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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 5d

for the NYT to give Doug Wilson any kind of platform is honestly shameful

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 5d

there are many things that TransLink could do to improve service in Vancouver, but living near the SkyTrain and two major bus routes means I rarely wait long for service & I'm rarely more than 15-30 minutes ride from anywhere - now I can't imagine living somewhere without that level of service

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 6d

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Brilliant, looking forward to watching it! There's SO much to discuss in Murnane.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 7d

This essay by Cary Wolfe might be useful, and provides lots of directions to pursue:

"What Was 'The Animal'?: Ontology and its Discontents" by Cary Wolfe (Keywords: Language; Lifeworld; Derrida)

"How did human beings ever find it remotely plausible that the world is neatly riven by an ontological divide?"

www.thephilosopher1923.org

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 9d

this is a basically undeniable take when reading robots in terms of their origin in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 10d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 10d

I need the mariners or the jays to make it

Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 13d

I'm a die-hard for the Ganji Kankiri carbonknifeco.com/en-ca/produc...

Japanese Can Opener Gangy Kankiri

Made in JAPAN. Please, hand wash and dry thoroughly when finished.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 13d

oh man I've been thinking about this a lot since seeing it last night - there's something there about a shift from PTA's early Altman relationship to what's happening now with the Pynchon streak in his work

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 16d

time to root for the mariners and the jays for the postseason

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 16d

or possibly Slaughterhouse-Five. in my late teens/early twenties I had a compulsion where I bought every copy of either that I found in thrift stores, eventually I had probably ten copies of each

Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 16d

What book have you bought the most copies of in your life?

a distressed maroon copy of J. D. Salinger's *The Catcher in the Rye*

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 18d

a classic "Torment Nexus" scenario

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 18d

Is it ethical to write dystopian fiction when it just gives the ruling class ideas?

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 18d

Me: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is about climate change.... Please....

Weird theorists: *points at any weird fiction nearby* cli-fi hyperobject

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 18d

a huge pet peeve, and one I had to do significant work avoiding in my own dissertation haha

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 19d

sick list, would have loved to see these heavy hitters on a syllabus when I was in undergrad

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 21d

I've noticed what usually seems like a 50-50 split between students who use plural possessives correctly and students who just add apostrophe-s to all possessives—can't really say why, tho, although I imagine it's just a bit of usage that's falling by the wayside in K12 language instruction

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 23d

it's kind of a perfect book imo

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 24d

One of the best!

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 25d

God, Joel Lane is great, huh?

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · Sep 10

I've got lots more of these, but I wanted to share a handful of my favorites since the discussion of how much more evocative sff and horror covers used to be is bubbling about. While there are definitely still good covers out there, I think these represent a good slice of what else is possible!

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is the cover of Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, which I love for the weird transposed profiles in the centre. I can't track down the artist, but isfdb suggests it might be Leo & Diane Dillon (which I kinda doubt).

Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia. The cover is bright yellow with stark black titling. The centre cover image is a multicolored painting of several overlapping human profiles within a transposed circle and square.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · Sep 10

These two are Ballantine Fantasy titles both with covers painted by Bob Pepper: A voyage to Arcturus and The Queen of Elfland's Daughter.

Bob Pepper's cover of Dunsany's The Queen of Elfland's Daughter, featuring a mulitcolored composition depicting wolves attacking a unicorn in a forest while a warrior watches,

Bob Pepper's cover of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, depicting two figures riding a multicolored, scaled dragon.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · Sep 10

Next, two covers from M. John Harrison's Viriconium series. The Pastel City features a painted cover by Bruce Pennington, while A Storm of Wings is painted by Michael Whelan!

on the right is a copy of M. John Harrison's The Pastel City, the cover of which depits a lone horseman on a cliff surveying a burning city. on the left is the cover of the same author's A Storm of Wings, featuring a knight in thorned, red armor who is cast in shadows and holding a glowing sword. The sigil on the knight's armor is a locust.

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