

And the enshittification process begins anew.
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And the enshittification process begins anew.
It’s easy to find fans. It’s impossible to find volunteers. This is the only alternative to what’s been termed “enshittification”, which is just corporatization of general audience media. Only three outcomes exist for media: either it stays extremely small and never gains an audience so that it never exceeds the initial infrastructure, it shuts down because there are never volunteers or enough money in donations to employ anyone, or it becomes corporate and profit seeking in order to employ people and stay live.
Only the third of those can be defined as being successful, and it is immediately related to the term coined by Doctorow.
Good question! Typically they get listed as fantasy because the magic isn’t manmade. Most definitions of science fiction require a human to have created the unrealistic element - or an extraterrestrial lifeform who is roughly analogous to a person. It’s not just that magic is present, but that it was derived from supernatural sources and not by human actions.
Fair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.
Then I suggest you accept the common interpretation that “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”, is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.
Ah, you’ve read Heinlein and Lovecraft.
Okay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?
Uh-huh. The error was that they were caught doing it.
It will end up harmful though. Their beliefs about the “place” of women are harmful. That, and their general social isolation, are reasons why I tell people to get away from that cult and deprogram anyone they can.
Weird but also romantic. At least it was her deceased husband’s heart, and not her living husband’s?
That’s a perspective on Mary Shelley that I hadn’t considered. But she was reasonably well-adjusted and popular. And yes I do consider Frankenstein to be the first English science fiction.
They are an Evangelical cult, and unless he is going to leave the group, get your daughter away from him. Otherwise he will try to convert her and manipulate her
I’m okay, thank you for asking. Work was a little frustrating, but it will pass. My GF’s life turned a corner, which makes me happy. And I saw Sonic. I’m not great, but today was a ‘nice’ day.
Hence why it has to be a huge, concerted effort. Quantity has a quality all its own.
Unfortunately, the only way to “take back” the spaces you’re talking about is to go back to them and start flooding the channels. You’d have to bring enough people to overwhelm the current tones. Across MeWe, Facebook, Xwitter, you name it, you would have to go back and bring your voice to overwhelm what you perceive as other tones.
Brand? Bic.
Not the Boo Box!
Sorry, old terminology strikes again. I call any thin portable computer without an ODD or FDD a netbook; because all the damn things are good for is getting on the Internet. My actual laptop, I’ve had to do physical modding to the case to give it an ODD (and it still uses a USB port because of laziness).
Very much the opposite. The only broken USB port I’ve ever had was a USB-C port for a netbook charger.
I meant specifically for ActivityPub & the Fediverse. Now there’s money in it.