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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Back to the Academy

The usual shifting of gears is afoot -- preoccupied with teaching Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus today at Berkeley. Blogging will likely be l'il to nil. The mini-furor over "Unbearable Stasis" is slowing, and dust will soon regather no doubt in my blog nooks and crannies from the usual benign neglect, though humanity-plus has reprinted it today (quite a feather in the cap of a humanity-minus mehum like me), so far yielding the rich harvest of comments that it is word salad (sooper-geniuses seem to have the hardest time reading above a fourth-grade level), that I am a luddite (natch), and also that I am a commie with the blood of the gulag to answer for (talk about retro-futurism). A briefly enjoyable exchange with Giulio Prisco has arrived at the usual I know you are but am I landing-strip at which point to continue would be as pleasurable as poking my eye with a sharpened pencil. Not a bad way to end a long weekend. You know what a good way to begin a long work-week would be? Recalling Wisconsin Governor Walker! Dunno if it's too much to hope for, but On Wisconsin!

2 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

You've got the Singulatarians up against the ropes in the online SF community. That flurry of traffic won't be the last and they'll have a harder time rearing their heads without being criticized. That IO9 post you mentioned a few days ago had a lot of criticism in the comments section for instance. That's a big change from just three years ago.

Barkeron said...

Speaking of IO9, now look what Mr. Dvorsky is up to. Not a week on the site and already eugenics.

http://io9.com/5916074/should-we-eliminate-psychopaths-from-the-gene-pool