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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3h

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 4h

Think it’s more likely the opposite- an atavistic reaction *against* Enlightenment rationale. It feeds on Blood and Soil nationalism, religious fundamentalist stances, simplistic visions of maleness and gender roles. It’s the complaint that modernity has failed made flesh.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Well, the (mental) health arguments are looking increasingly solid. So you can draw a fair analogy with bans on smoking/vaping/alcohol, I think.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 2d

"We" doing a shitload of heavy lifting here, Pvt Bonespur......

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 2d

Vineland FTW.

It's the most painfully relevant of all his books. Devastating critique of Reaganite America, still piping hot and ready to go today.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

Heheh - watch this space........

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

Exhibit A - the various recent airhead statements on AI by our very own UK government....... 🤮🤮🤮

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

For the rest - this is a full page ad in the Atlantic magazine.

The idea that anyone - even in marketing - believes this pitched-at-a-9-year-old-male-mindset shit has general currency & will actually land with an educated adult public is fucking terrifying.

Not least because they might be right. 🤮

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking as a worker whose work has been stolen and ripped off multiple times by AI companies, I can certainly vouch for the real fucking impact.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

Ooooh - stellar!!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 4d

The Smiths

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

I'm now about 10% done, apparently. This is bloody brilliant stuff!

Well worth the wait.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 6d

Growing realisation……

Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 7d

IT"S HERE!!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 7d

Think she'll find they're called Power Stations.

And letting her anywhere near designing them would be nuts. You ever met a Range Rover Evoque driver who was happy with their ride?

Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social · 7d

Remind me not to watch.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 8d

He flew 100s of highly decorated & experienced fighting men & women 100s or 1,000s of miles to tell them they'd better not be pacifists.

Said serried ranks of in chorus: "You don't fucking say?"

Must have had to grip the arms of their chairs not to fall out with the force of their eye-rolls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 8d

In Space Opera, generally speaking, some tens or hundreds of thousands have to die.......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 8d

It me. All of the above.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 8d

Think his boss is simply insane......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 8d

Oh yeah, and any nation's military that isn't seriously modelling its tactics and strategy against climate change is essentially committing operational suicide.

Which is to say - the US military will have been all over it for at least a decade by now. They're not fools.

It's just this guy that is.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 8d

Once worked on a video game project with a trans woman who was an ex-US army ranger.

Tough, charismatic, smart, witty - any army unit would have been lucky to have them.

Hegseth, by contrast, has the aura of a smeg-reeking teenage boy who just got through watching Predator for the first time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 9d

World Cup winners. Unbroken run of 33 matches won. Only a single solitary match lost out of 64 played since 2019.

I mean, maybe give them a minute?

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12d

My pop culture references are older than people who are whole ass adults

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 10d

Tend to feel that if someone can't get a Blaxploitation-style actioner out of this called ICEBREAKER, then the counterculture just ain't fuckin' tryin'

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11d

“Fuck ICE” is such a resonant phrase—as my high school English teacher taught me it signifies as both sound and sense. We are going to have dozens of songs with that as title and every one will be a banger.

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