Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

I’D COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN THESE SELF-LOBOTOMIZING SPECIMENS UNTIL I STUMBLED ON THIS TODAY — AGAIN:  Thousands of Authors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions.

Most of them are people you never heard of. Most of them are succès d’estime at best and academic darlings at worst. But, I regret to say there are some well-selling science fiction authors in the lot. Including a few I thought had more sense. Ah well.

THE BBC DEFINITELY ISN’T CRICKET, CHAPS:  BBC-ed.

YES, I KNOW I HAVE NO SHAME WHEN IT COMES TO AI CLANKERS:  Betrayal! Lyrics Video.

I HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THIS IS BEING DRIVEN BY FOREIGN ACTORS WHO WANT US TO FALL:  Much of the politics and discourse of the so-called dissident right, or Postliberal right, whatever, is based on the assumption (hope) that America is going to collapse and it’ll be a Spanish Civil War situation. Some are more open about it than others. They’ll even go on podcasts and talk about “their roles” in the “new regime.”

And for the Xculpated.

I’d liek to point out they’d have a better chance of bringing this off if they could find reality with two hands and a seeing eye dog. But, of course, if they could do that, they wouldn’t want something this crazy. Or even be the type of people who’d want it.

WHAT HE SAID:  Most of the financing is equity based. Transformative technologies are always accompanied by malinvestment to a greater or lesser extent because investors are not psychic and cannot predict with certainty which businesses will win. This happened with railroads, with the telegraph, with automobiles, and with the internet. It’s healthy; if there wasn’t a considerable amount of malinvestment it would mean that people were too scared to put capital on a giant society-improving opportunity.

And for the X-cused.