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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 03:49:36 JST Charlie Stross

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   • Daniel Keys Moran

   @fatsam It's a helluva thing that the headmeat-liquidizing content of the Illuminatus! trilogy is now what passes for mundane daily news coverage on social media …

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     Daniel Keys Moran (fatsam@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 03:49:37 JST Daniel Keys Moran

     Old school crazy was more original than modern crazy. Pre internet unless you worked with crazy professionally, you wouldn't meet that much of it. When it came time you had to roll your own.

     Modern crazy is a little smoother. Less of a gap, crazy moment to crazy moment, it's all influenced by other easily accessible crazy. "I've seen *that* crazy before!"

     And you have. They borrowed it rather than workshopping it as far from humans as they could get: mass produced crazy, rather than artisanal.