Le Guin deserves credit for responding to her earlier work without denigrating it.
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Was probably too much to hope for that he'd make any sort of break with current neoliberal-pilled Labour.
The Earthsea novels are not to be missed either. Maybe pass on the fifth.
If the queer experience on the 90s island of Harris intrigues you, we're halfway through Douglas Stuart's John of John and really enjoy it. Narrator has a Scots accent though, if you find that hard to deal with.
presented without comment: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/my-falling-out-with-the-rationalist (via https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/my-falling-out-with-the-rationalist)
even his AI-generated profile pic is punchable
If you want to re-litigate the New Deal, rehabilitating Hoover is a good first step.
The American far-right has the New Deal as its foundational Dolchstosslegende.
adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths
LWer: politics is really hard to be Rational about, so how about we just forget all about it?
Bad: arguing about prison abolition
Good: arguing about how to fastest get to the closest Muni station
being "banned by Amazon" is probably good for PR
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Now I'm no anarcho-libertarian, but I'd have thought basing my weird school/cult in a semi-authoritarian state like Malaysia would be a bit dumb.