Charles Stross
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Charles Stross is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy, born in Leeds in 1964.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 18 October 1964, Leeds, England (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Pharmacy degree (1986); postgraduate computer science, University of Bradford (opens wiqqi.app)
- First novel: Singularity Sky (Ace Books, 2003) (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: cstross.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
“Liz Truss is so far out of her tree that the squirrels are sending out search parties (they want their giant nut back).”
- x.com: @cstross (opens x.com)
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Bluesky: cstross.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Propranolol is not an anxiolytic; people need better monitored access to benzodiazepines. (opens korrents.com)
“It is NOT an anxiolytic, people really need better monitored access to BZPs (the 1990s moral panic).”
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Harry Potter is jejune and clichéd, recycling tropes that were already tired by the 1950s. (opens korrents.com)
“It is my considered opinion that, all consideration of bigotry aside (both the texts and the authors), Harry Potter is jejune and clichéd, remixing and recycling tropes that were already tired by the 1950s.”
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LLMs turn people who outsource their thinking to them into p-zombies. (opens korrents.com)
“But p-Zombies are real, and LLMs are machines for turning people who outsource their cognitive functioning to "AI" into p-Zombies.”
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Propranolol is not an anxiolytic; people need better monitored access to benzodiazepines. (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Questionable Content (opens rcmnd.app)
“(arguably I should have ommitted QC and xkcd too, but they're favourites of mine)”
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (opens rcmnd.app)
“Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal which, despite the name, comes out almost every day, is the antithesis of QC: every daily strip is a standalone, and it has an alarming tendency to lob philosophical hand grenades at…”
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xkcd (opens rcmnd.app)
“xkcd is the third classic, by sometime NASA robot guy Randal Munroe; like SMBC it tends to focus on the sciences, with a distinctly whimsical take on things.”
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Questionable Content (opens rcmnd.app)