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More, British Steve wrote FF4, 'Starship Traveller', but it was American Steve who worked with Marc Miller (an American who was originally British), creator of Traveller -- an SF RPG -- to make GURPS Traveller.
Sir Ian Livingstone, an eminent figure in the gaming world, has worked with two different Steve Jacksons.
British Steve connected with early TSR (Gary Gygax, et al), and became the UK publisher for D&D, and with Livingstone co-developed the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series.
American Steve is famous for Car Wars, GURPS, and many other game products. He also wrote three of the FF books, only adding to the confusion.
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Don't get me wrong. Smart glasses are inevitable. But there's an enormous social and legal dimension that these companies seem to be ignoring, to their own major detriment. And that ignorance will prove costly and likely injurious. People will get hurt over this if these companies don't get a lot smarter themselves.
I think that conspicuity is likely the key. They must be obvious, and must afford permissions and denial for others, or else society will reject them. Possibly violently.
Companies working on 'smart' glasses should probably focus on making them either 1) hard to detect, or 2) hard to break. And anyone who needs to ask why should not be working on smart glasses.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/19/nx-s1-5863068/snap-specs-ar-glasses-2195-smartphones
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Such a word is UNIQUE, too often used as a cheap modifier to mean 'special, extra-ordinary, remarkable, unusual' etc. Prescriptivists defend this misuse, but it is lazy, careless, and may eventually lead to consequential misunderstanding.
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Some concepts which must be expressed in language require words which reliably and consistently express them. Thoughtful people who value consistently clear communication must respect that need, and discipline their use appropriately to that goal. If reliable expression is lost through careless misuse, then the coherence and utility of language erodes, leading to potentially consequential confusion.
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From an article: "unique repeated cycles of behavior"
This phrase may have made sense to the writer, but it's grammatically incoherent. Nothing 'repeated' can also be 'unique'.
While a repeated SINGLE cycle might be unique, the use of plural ('cycles') indicates that there's more than one. And again, nothing repeated can be also be unique.
UNIQUE comes from the Latin word for "one", and has many modern cognates and derivatives in many languages.
A usage note follows in the comment below.
Fascists gonna fash. And this piece of shit, more than most.
Why is DUMB spelled with a silent 'b' at the end?
It's been that way for a thousand years, as it was the same in Old English. The earlier word was Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, 'unspeaking, unthinking' of less certain PIE roots. (Poss. *dheubh-, 'confusion, dizziness', from *dheu-, 'dust, mist, smoke, vapor') The 'b' was pronounced up to sometime in the 13c.
FTA: 'Between 2020 and 2022, only 0.2% of “very liberal” respondents died of internal causes, compared with 1.34% of “very conservative” respondents.'
That's a ratio of 6.7 in just TWO YEARS.
Obviously, this specific example is memetic. (Or else the variance would be tracable back much farther.) And specific to the pandemic.
