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   Sean Coates (sean@scoat.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:38:45 JST Sean Coates

   • Cory Doctorow

   In the past 2 months, @pluralistic 's predictions (not endorsement)—née dystopian fiction—about three big events have come true:

   - the killing of a US healthcare CEO by someone who was burned by the system (in Radicalized)
   - huge fires in the LA area causing people to take cover and be wary of air quality (in The Lost Cause)
   - the projection of protest against a tech richguy on the Tesla dealership/building in Berlin (UK parliament and politicians in Pirate Cinema)

   Are there more?

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:38:50 JST Cory Doctorow

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     @sean Do be fair, most of this stuff had already happened before I wrote the books - that's why I renamed the "this day in history" section of my newsletter "Object permanence."

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     Jorge Stolfi (jorgestolfi@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:40:21 JST Jorge Stolfi

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @sean @pluralistic

     I modestly submit this one: https://mas.to/@JorgeStolfi/113812395001551674

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     Michael Schneider (sesenion@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:11:50 JST Michael Schneider

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @sean @pluralistic When I read The Lost Cause last year, I considered the political vision having 8 years of a female US president with a strong social/green agenda and MAGA being kind of a an old guy fringe group extremely opimistic.

     Unfortunately only the dystopian predictions seem to come true.

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     Angus McIntyre (angusm@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:12:14 JST Angus McIntyre

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @sean We may need to start vetting @pluralistic's output in case he unleashes any more catastrophes by “predicting" things. The last thing we want is to have him go all “Lathe of Heaven" on us and, frankly, the warning signs are there.

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     MBybee (mbybee@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:12:20 JST MBybee

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @pluralistic @sean I did particularly like the expansion of the Juciero type culture into subsidized apartments...

     I really hope that doesn't catch on.

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     GeoWend (geowend@kosmos.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 05:14:35 JST GeoWend

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Angus McIntyre

     @angusm @sean @pluralistic Write, LATHEr, Repeat?