What COVID-19 has taught us about the Zombie Pandemic:
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) August 22, 2020
1) There will be Zombie Parties so you can catch the virus and acquire herd immunity faster.
What 2020 has taught us is that a realistic zombie movie would show most people carrying on as normal, ignoring the shamblers in their offices and homes, while a large minority accuse the zombies of being crisis actors and a leftwing conspiracy to polute their bodily fluids.
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) July 8, 2020
How to make a fairy tale worse with a one-letter change:
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) March 6, 2020
1. Baba Yoga.
A public who can imagine a better future, or understand the present in the context of history, is bad for the kleptocrats. Which is one motive for the current drive to promote STEM subjects in higher ed, and the shutdown of humanities faculties (except as a luxury for the rich.) https://t.co/6XCHEkiwxQ
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) March 4, 2020
Plurals explored:
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) January 13, 2020
1. The regular first person plural: “we”
2. The monarch’s first person singular: “we”
3. The Borg’s first person plural-is-singular: “we”
4. The football fan’s third person plural possessive (their team): “we”
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I really don’t understand this language.
By implication: by killing off RSS aggregation, Google are responsible for Trump, Brexit, and the rise of neo-nazi revanchism on a global scale (not to mention sundry other derangements caused by poisoning the well of discourse on the net). https://t.co/UQnMy0aNsC
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 12, 2019
Too Many Tyrannosaurs, Not Enough Fragmentation Grenades
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) July 20, 2018
Why did I not invent this acronym first? ‘Collaborative Technology Hardened for Underwater and Littoral Hazardous Environment’, a robot under development at Sellafield for cleaning up the Magnox radwaste pond: https://t.co/ubC2QGb9me
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 14, 2018
Random philosophical thought experiment: would running a real-world Searle’s Chinese Room experiment make one guilty of crimes against humanity, viz. torture? After all, there’s a human in solitary confinement inside it, who is forbidden from communicating their own thoughts …
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 6, 2018
Need a hashtag for philosophical thought experiments that would leave one open to criminal charges if one actually ran them for real (imagine deliberately testing the Trolley Problem, for example).
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 6, 2018