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   Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 05:08:51 JST Jess👾

   I think the book I read the most as a child and had a very formative impact on me was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Which explains a lot about my personality.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 05:08:50 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Oh, yeah, so true. I suspect he would have supported trans rights, but fear he might have gone down the Dawkins-to-Transhumanist-to-Effective-Altruism-wackery pipeline. But you’re right: it’s just lovely not to know, and not to have to wrestle with it. (Ezra Pound, sigh.)

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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 05:08:51 JST Jess👾

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     In many ways, I'm glad Douglas Adams passed away when he did. While I'd like to think he was the sort of person who would continue to support trans rights, the track record of English people of his generation ain't great, and it'd gut me to see my childhood idol say I'm a monster.

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 05:18:19 JST Jenniferplusplus

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands @JessTheUnstill That's possible. But, so much of the tescreal, uh, philosphy and the techno supremacy that feeds it reads exactly like the deepest satire in hitchhiker's guide. It seems at least as possible that he would lament having written the torment nexus.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 06:05:25 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @jenniferplusplus @JessTheUnstill
     Yes! I think so too. He’d be interested, and then he’d mock it. This is my headcanon now, and I will accept no counterargument.