Post #4068662
2026-02-20 15:32 UTC
@atax1a@infosec.exchange @Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net it is probably very silly for me, a hack sci-fi writer who does it for no money, to get too high and mighty about another person's writing
but I will say that this excerpt of Unauthorized Bread, the thing I've seen quite a few people on here talk about as "brilliant", is quite... boring? indulgent? Idk, it's not my thing
idk I feel the same way about all this as I do whenever Taylor Swift's private jet use get's brought up. Why are so many emotions pegged to the sainthood of some random person? Hopefully you're right and people manage to maintain a bit more skepticism in the future
edit: forgot to attach the excerpt :cat_sadder: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/
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@atax1a@infosec.exchange 2026-02-20 16:00
@kalviter@hol.ogra.ph @Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net everything he writes is smug, superficial, and self-congratulatorily wanky. so of course the leftoid part of the tech industry, made up of people who haven't done any critical self-examination of the libertarian beliefs of the field, love it and take any criticism thereof extremely personally.