Elizabeth Sandifer
@eruditorumpress.com
Hugo nominated writer of Last War in Albion, Neoreaction a Basilisk, and TARDIS Eruditorum. Anarcho-occultist. The girl your mother lacked the imagination to warn you about.
Got to tell Penn about my most arcane boast: the fact that I appear in the credits of an obscure puzzle game, where my name is slightly bigger than Stephen Sondheim’s.
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
At a Guns n Roses concert, bemused to discover Axl Rose’s voice has aged into a pretty solid Bowie impersonation.
“The NYT is evil and everybody is obliged to boycott it” has got to be the least sellable-to-normies position I’ve seen the community treat as orthodoxy in some time.
For boring technical reasons when I promoted this earlier the preview image wasn’t there, so here’s the latest chapter of Last War in Albion, now with alarmingly more chest hair.
Chapter 6: Invisible Space Daddies (Flex Mentallo)
Without wanting to sound unduly alarmist, the Patreon has taken a troubling dip, and Penn and I could really use to see it go in the other direction a bit so that it covers our rent without a couple h...
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Heads up that when I release Last War in Albion v2 towards the end of summer I'm also going to redo the pricing on all of my books. This'll be the first price increase since 2012, and I'm expecting it to be about $2 more per ebook, right in line with inflation since then.
Ever since I read @eruditorumpress.com's thoughts on Turing, AI, and machine intelligence, I had an itch to scratch, a desire to connect some thoughts on language and machines. So here it is: newmethos.medium.com/you-cant-get...
You Can’t Get There From Here
On the distance between language manipulation and consciousness
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please dont message me this on grindr dot com
Gare Davis@bishonentype.bsky.social · last yr.im getting my gun
Comforted to know that JK Rowling and the organizations she funds to try to take away my rights are not in fact anti-rights. Was really worried there for a moment.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d agoAmnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
Today on Eruditorum Press, a short chapter on Flex Mentallo, setting up the thrilling conclusion of Last War in Albion volume 4 in October. (Though don’t sleep on the end of August…)
Chapter 6: Invisible Space Daddies (Flex Mentallo) – Eruditorum Press
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Worldcon programming is out, which means I can finally share my schedule. Which I'm really hyped about—all of these panels sound like a blast. guide.lacon.org/people/b66de...
LACon V Program Guide
LACon V Programme Guide
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Shit, this is on me. The trans cabal emailed me to ask if I wanted to veto it, but it landed in my spam folder and I failed to reply. Please consider the permission rescinded, except for games which you can keep until you blow your current crossword streak.
Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d agoThis may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.
Agree. Chasing is specifically rooted in the taboo nature of the desire. It’s not taboo for trans people to desire trans bodies. That’s obviously not to say trans people can’t be shitty about their desire, but it unhelpfully dilutes the notion of chasing to apply the term here.
Janet Tzara@janet-tzara.neocities.org · 7d agoWhile I definitely have time for a conversation about expected sexual availability within the trans community, I still think that "chasing" is definitely an exclusively cis phenomenon.
So, over the last two weekends Penn and I saw both Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss—country artists of a similar era and style. But Welch, in a red state, had a way queerer/hippy audience than Krauss in a blue one. Why? What are the articulable differences in music/presentation that explain this?
We could build a world where making art gets you a vote, or where being kind and helping people does, or even the one we had built, where just showing up gets you a vote, but no, we’re building this one, because apparently money doesn’t get you enough other shit.
T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social · last wk.All the money you could ever possibly need, and the best name you can come up with for your fake micronation is "Liberland"? 🤡 www.bbc.com/news/article...
I don’t feel like there’s a too massive risk of people posting Alice in Chains albums here? Like, no disrespect, but you‘re really more worried about that than all the twats who are going to post Mellon Collie and the Quite Infinite Indeed Sadness?
Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
At an Allison Krauss concert, deciding to passive aggressively beam at the guy in a Trump hat every time I decide whether he’s getting ass or crotch as I enter.
Look, I’ve met people from Michigan. They do not generally sound like Joanna Newsom trying to do the Fargo accent. That’s just you.
Howard Mortman@howardmortman.bsky.social · 2w ago"Cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter. Some of 'em might be the coastal elites, making fun of how I talk. But let's be real. They're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us. Their jokes, their criticism, only make me fight harder." -- Haley Stevens
Wild that we’re culturally staring at upjumped autocomplete going “is this conscious” while orcas are out there demonstrating that they’re capable of culture and fads.
Faintly mystifying to be genocided by a woman who‘s plainly gotten extensive plastic surgery so as to look like a mediocre drag queen.
Dr Attercop@drattercop.bsky.social · 2w agoI am once again begging journlists to ask a linguist before they publish hot takes about language. #linguistics CW: JKR, so there is transphobia, OBVIOUSLY.
This may be the most precisely targeted to me rage bait Musk has ever dropped.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoAnother odd moment occurred when Musk insisted that work in the future would be "optional" because robots would do everything. Musk said people might still work in the future but compared it to people who grow their own backyard tomatoes. He said they could just go to the store for better tomatoes.
A Scrooge backstory, how novel. We’ve never traveled back to his past before.
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”
This is like a strange alternate universe view of what @ballardiangorse.bsky.social would have become if she’d gone with “massively repressed Nazi” instead of “transsexual menace.”
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w agoThe kids are “Nixonmaxxing”: More than half-a-century after Watergate, conservative youth are discovering the aesthetic, and adopting the attitude, of the late president. 🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/ric...
There’s something very funny about Rowling’s genocidal asshattery being a major engine in normalizing being judgey about adults who exclusively consume children’s literature.
mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 2w agohow is this supposed to make me feel | patreon.com/lubchansky
I am only about halfway through this piece, but it's very good at articulating many reasons why I think the chatbots can't and will probably never think, especially questions of volition, how much humans make meaning out of words, even if there's no intention behind it, and much more
Elizabeth Sandifer@eruditorumpress.com · 2w agoNo, because the universe does not reduce to math.