#ScifiSundays

This week I've been reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

This is one of the most imaginative books I've read in a while with worldbuilding that provides multi-layered themes surrounding the development of technology and society from the perspective of uplifted spiders and humans that have escaped their dying world.

It also spans thousands of years and yet it doesn't forgo having depth to its characters either.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time

I haven't been keeping a close watch, but I'm pretty sure the patronage for Mastodon in Euros has close to tripled since Musk took over Twitter, and that's pretty impressive.

I'm cautiously optimistic that free and ad-free social media can be made into a sustainable model once again.

incredibly annoying to connect with a random old friend of a friend and find them to have incredibly toxic tech bro opinions. Just because you made it by the skin of your teeth in a shitty system, that doesn't make it good. If I somehow someday become some big shot research group leader I hope to never stop shitting on the exclusionary meatgrinder that gets me there.

I'm like "I can fix him" with people with bad opinions way too often tho.

pages like this (from twitter, for example) rub me the wrong way. I know this is trying to be humanizing, but these sorts of posts really influence how the public views scientific advancement.

Instead of focusing on great man history for science, we should remember that scientists are actually little ants that chip away at their cute little questions, and in order to communicate they exchange these little papers to tell each other about it and that way the hive can learn.