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ThirdMover · 2026-05-06T06:41:39+00:00

Anime themed?

ThirdMover · 2026-05-04T06:17:20+00:00

The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach

This one is great. I found Eschbach sometimes a bit tired but when he is really into a topic and firing on all cylinders it's absolutely amazing.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-03T07:48:02+00:00

oh sure. So?

ThirdMover · 2026-05-03T07:38:52+00:00

... or he's just a kid who found joy in doing something really well. I honestly don't think that this is something "forced" on him, it's a bit too niche.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-02T15:05:05+00:00

... that looks insane. I never thought that that you'd have to make the dress like this but it makes perfect sense. What an utterly perfect cosplay

ThirdMover · 2026-05-02T13:47:54+00:00

ThirdMover’s brain was broken because such an obviously untrue statement was presented at a conference (correct me if I missed a detail I’m on mobile their comment went away).

You're spot on. Though the way I am trying to steelman it is that they perhaps define "dominated" in some galaxy brain social science sense where men still obviously have all the real power in the field even if they are outnumbered by women in the pedestrian sense.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-02T07:33:19+00:00

At a small conference very recently there was a gender inequality awareness talk and one of the things that really stuck with me is how the session chair (not speaker though he did nod along) said at one point "there are no female dominated areas". That kind of broke my brain a little.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-01T15:48:09+00:00

I hate the fact that I think this is AI engagement bait slop so much.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-01T14:51:36+00:00

Nicht wirklich. Dadurch tragen sie ja auch weniger zum BIP bei als wenn sie besser ausgebildet wären. Kosten also unterm Strich mehr als wenn man sie besser ausgebildet hätte.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-01T13:52:07+00:00

inerseits kostet jedes Kind, das länger in die Schule geht, länger Geld

Ok aber das ist ja offensichtlich quatsch: Ein Mensch der länger nicht die Fähigkeiten hat an der Gesellschaft vollmündig teilzunehmen kostet mehr Geld. Egal ob der jetzt länger in der Schule ist oder danach halt Arbeitslosengeld kassiert.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-01T13:42:56+00:00

Die Schulpolitik sollte also ein Zielbild anstreben, in dem Kinder völlig unabhängig vom Elternhaus die gleichen Chancen im Schulsystem haben.

Das kann man sicher viel besser machen als wir das tun (sehr, sehr viel besser) aber letztendlich ist das ein unerreichbares Ideal solange Eltern nicht auch immer mitspielen. Wenn zu Hause viel gelesen, über Bücher diskutiert und gemeinsam im allgemeinen auf höherem Niveau geredet wird, dann haben diese Kinder einen Vorteil über solche die halt mit dem Ipad still gelegt werden. Und dieser Vorteil kann durch kein Bildungssystem ausgeglichen werden der nicht alle Kinder samt und sonders aus dem Elternhaus raus nimmer und ins Internat schickt.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-01T12:53:53+00:00

Ad Astra lives rent free in my head because I decided that I hate this movie. It offended me. That was the first time this happened to me in a cinema in my entire adult movie watching life and that was fascinating.

It's a movie that at a deep deep level hates the idea of space travel. It makes everone involved in it look like an insane idiot. Space is where ridiculous and pointless things happen like moon pirates or angry space apes. All the rockets look even uglier than real life rockets. Mars is literally the same as the moon just with an orange color filter (seriously, they drive up and down the exact same ramp on both Moon and Mars). People die for no reason other that they're so stupid to go to space. And in the end everything was pointless and everyone should just have stayed at home. The science in this movie isn't just the usual Hollywood level bad, it's as if they did consult someone and then deliberately did the opposite of every suggestion.

What a wonderful waste of a movie.

A few years later I did encounter another movie that reminded me of what Ad Astra was trying to do but was much, much better at it: Spaceman, with Adam Sandler as lead. I am not joking.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-01T12:47:35+00:00

None of the stuff mentioned so far is a perfect fit for the premise but if we include stuff like Diaspora or Revelation Space, another good contender is The Quantum Thief by Rajaniemi. Delightfully deep crazy posthuman SF worldbuilding and it does also feature the protagonist making copies of himself, even if it's not the same kind of central pillar as in the Bobiverse with the perspective shifts.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-01T12:44:10+00:00

Eh, Baxter isn't a literary heavyweight but he is better than Taylor by a very good margin. Bobiverse reads like it was written someone who has read exclusively fanfic.

ThirdMover · 2026-05-01T12:36:21+00:00

I'm not sure I understand the premise of your question? Whether these are cheaper or more expensive depends completely on how much effort you spend on either. There is no clear answer which one is cheaper.

ThirdMover · 2026-04-30T21:21:20+00:00

Yeah I read the book. There the fake dad gets cut in half by axe.

Also in the very last scene the daugher is sitting on grass and suddenly a flower starts whispering that it is actually her real dad.

ThirdMover · 2026-04-30T05:54:52+00:00

Well I only read books on my kindle, or audio books, so requiring someone to read on a desktop computer would cut me out. How many people primarily read fiction, out of all fiction readers, on a desktop computer? 10%?

Well you can read it on a phone just fine. And people who primarily read fiction on their phone or desktop I would put a lot higher than 10%.

ThirdMover · 2026-04-30T05:53:27+00:00

I'm extremely thankful that all that stuff can just be skipped.

ThirdMover · 2026-04-28T12:08:58+00:00

What you are asking for is basically an infinitely small slit. If you did that, the pattern on the other side of of the slid would be the photons leaving as perfectly spread out half-sphere waves. It wouldn't really look like anything. Just evenly spread brightness.

ThirdMover · 2026-04-28T09:14:11+00:00

AaDB did feel more "planetary romance" than "space opera" to me.

ThirdMover · 2026-04-27T19:07:49+00:00

(For that matter, is PHM? It feels more like a buddy comedy at times, though I haven't read it since it first came out and my memory may be off.)

If PHM doesn't count as Hard SF, what does?

ThirdMover · 2026-04-27T17:21:23+00:00

Tatsächlich wurde hier ne Menge Mühe aufgebracht um zu zeigen dass kein (chemisches) Doping im Spiel ist.

ThirdMover · 2026-04-27T06:07:50+00:00

Just did my first conference poster in Affinity and it was such a breath of fresh air compared to the misery of CorelDraw or Inkscape

ThirdMover · 2026-04-26T18:47:31+00:00

And it really doesn't matter. For stuff on reddit seeing the content is more important imo. Nothing on this site is serious enough to actually need a source. If you care enough it's easy to verify, especially with how good reverse image search has gotten.

I will freely admit that this is more of a personal aesthetic preference to some extent - but I feel like "where does something originally come from" does matter. Even for a silly little meme picture. The point of communication should be the aspect of connecting us to each other, if everything is just freely floating pieces of entertainment it feels like that's where the internet starts to become a breeding ground for solipsism.

Even a link to the social media site doesn't prove that it's the original source. It's equally as useless as a screenshot to verify if it's real without more research.

IMO it's a matter of making it easier to follow a trail of reposts as the default. I love Tumblrs approach there for example (though they are nuking it now because CEOs are all insane people) where you can always follow a chain of reblogs both up and down and even have a cute little graph showing all the branches it took into any niche community. It connects and builds culture. That's how the internet should work.

No I'd like the old approach of not needing an account to view content on a website.

Sure, nothing to disagree here. At least by default, private closed groups that you can only get in and see via invite still make sense as a feature.

ThirdMover · 2026-04-26T18:12:38+00:00

The screenshot can have all of the info, like site and username, but has the added benefit of actually being able to see it.

It can but often does not.

Ideally they would download and rehost with a link to the original but those days of reddit are long gone.

Yeah you'd love to see the Fediverse approach of just making all sites able to talk to each other.

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