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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 05:06:19 JST jwz

   Apropos of nothing, more billionaires should live in fear of being pulled off their private jets and arrested.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 05:52:42 JST jwz

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     Still shaking my head at being scolded that I should stop "othering" billionaires.

     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦, Tek say resist, Bill and Joachim repeated this.
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 05:52:42 JST jwz

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     "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

     -- William Gibson, Count Zero - The favorite author of the exact people he was writing about.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 05:52:43 JST jwz

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     I seem to have constructed a glorious honeypot here. You're welcome / I'm sorry.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 06:42:31 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Oblomov

     @oblomov @jwz Same with Dilbert Stark naming his drone ships after Iain M. Banks' Culture universe starships. Iain *despised* Musk—and that was back before 2013, when Musk was still small fry(ish). He wrote a barely disguised caricature of Musk into "Surface Detail" as the villain Joliet Veppers, and got him pitch-perfect.

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     Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 06:42:40 JST Oblomov

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     @jwz the problem is that the way they read it is «of course, we're SUPERMEN»

     Bill repeated this.
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     Carlos Scheidegger (scheidegger@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 07:47:05 JST Carlos Scheidegger

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     @jwz have you read the peripheral? Like, I think you’re totally right about count zero but I feel like he finally realized what the fuck is going on with rich people and wrote that book to work through it

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 07:59:31 JST jwz

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     • Carlos Scheidegger

     @scheidegger I think The Peripheral is his best work.

     Also, we can thank Bezos for denying us the second season of the TV stub.

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     Carlos Scheidegger (scheidegger@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:39:20 JST Carlos Scheidegger

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     @jwz I was shocked that they let s1 happen. But then again, he funded a season of the Expanse too.

     Is it possible that the klept is just fucking stupid? Big if true

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     Stuart Langridge (sil@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 20:12:22 JST Stuart Langridge

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     @jwz The Mother Superior murmured: “Is he then an unhappy man?”
     Poirot said: “So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.”
     The nun said softly: “Ah, a rich man. . . .”
     Hercule Poirot said nothing—for he knew there was nothing to say.

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     Jonathan Hartley (tartley@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 01:58:17 JST Jonathan Hartley

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     @jwz they read that and think he means "...but in a good way!"