God I miss Spider Robinson's SF, but he has a really good post up at the top of his blog at the moment.
@NetMassimo Spider has a website which he updates glacially: The Brains of a Spider. http://www.spiderrobinson.com/blog.html
@NetMassimo Spider has a website which he updates glacially: The Brains of a Spider. http://www.spiderrobinson.com/blog.html
God I miss Spider Robinson's SF, but he has a really good post up at the top of his blog at the moment.
#20yrsago Dell won’t help customers remove #spyware https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/12/03/0257238/dell-to-techs-dont-help-customers-remove-spyware
#15yrsago #SpiderRobinson reads #JohnVarley’s “The Persistence of Vision” https://web.archive.org/web/20111215214809/http://hw.libsyn.com/p/b/f/e/bfea9a6569a591aa/SOTW057.mp3?sid=669e18ee3a02e91b0ddc3bc71878673a&l_sid=21159&l_eid=&l_mid=1970776&expiration=1323992876&hwt=f3158434ea94dcfa536ce7d3b1a49107
#15yrsago #Atheism Song — #AdamSandler’s #HannukahSong, but for nonbelievers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFqSNpK9vm8
#15yrsago Interview with Harvard law prof who’s challenging the constitutionality of the #RIAA suits https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2008/12/02/radio-berkman-the-pay-us-hotline-fines-and-the-riaa/
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Alien54 writes "Well, more exactly, be advised that if you are giving a Dell for Xmas, not only will it probably come preloaded with spyware, but their tech support lines will refuse to tell users how to remove it, and will not give people advice on where to find some good tools to remove it. As se...
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75 lat temu - 24 listopada 1948 roku w Nowym Jorku - przyszedł na świat Spider Robinson.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/75-urodziny-spidera-robinsona/
#Fahrenheit_zin #SpiderRobinson #Telempata #Telempath #Zabójcaumysłów #TimePressure #Lifehouse #Gwiezdnytaniec #Gwiedznytaniec #Starseed #Starmind #CallahansCrosstimeSaloon #TheDeathkiller
#15yrsago #Olympic logo cops enforce stupid rules with masking tape https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121885240984946511
#15yrsago #HowardZinn’s “A People’s History of American Empire” graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/18/howard-zinns-a-peoples-history-of-american-empire-graphic-novel/
#5yrsago #SpiderRobinson’s joke https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/18/spider-robinsons-joke/
#5yrsago #Antivirus maker #Sentinelone uses #copyright claims to censor video of security research that revealed defects in its products https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/18/sentinelone_bsides_copyright_takedown/
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My first exposure was my dad and his TV prefs. After that, it was voracious reading (was grounded from books and sent outside many times).
It's been a series of ascents and summits. Too many librarians to count got me onto an author. Those authors got me onto new authors, and so on... (Many thanks to anthology mags, @GreatDismal, #SpiderRobinson, Dick, Clarke and others).
Many friends like @matthew_fells expanded the range of my SciFi.
All that's it's accomplished is to make it harder to create without taking terms from a giant corporation, whose terms inevitably include forcing you to trade all your IP away to them. That's something that #SpiderRobinson prophesied in his Hugo-winning 1982 story, #MelancholyElephants:
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
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