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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-13 06:16:23

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-11 23:15:54

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/f6edb22a-0b19-4

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-10 17:09:33

if i had to pick a favorite thing by yoko ono its prolly this

SNOW PIECE

Think that snow is falling.
Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time.
When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and the person.
Stop conversing when you think the person is covered in snow.

yoko ono
1963 summer
@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2025-10-12 16:29:56

These days you can simulate anything you want
Driving a train or truck, flying a plane, surgeon, hotel assistant, motel operator, influencer, OF model, goat simulator, power wash simulator, football team manager, breakup simulator
When I was a kid, we barely had sim city, sim ant, flight stimulator, crazy taxi, and katamari
Now you can simulate being a tree or a rock, or a corporate slave tearing apart spaceships

One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied.
Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.”
In another Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the Urban Village Church says
“Due to ICE activit…

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2025-11-11 11:29:43

„Aber China!”
China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds - Slashdot news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-13 10:01:11
Content warning:

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"The Egyptians say that Demeter [Isis] and Dionysos [Osiris] are the rulers of the lower world. The Egyptians were the first who maintained the following doctrine, too, that the human soul is immortal, and at the death of the body enters into some other living thing then coming to birth"
Herodotus, Histories 2.12…

This is an Attic red-figured calyx-krater with a representation of Dionysos and Nike. A Satyr and himation-wearing youths (not shown), wish a happy life and defeat of death.
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 09:34:50

SN 2021lwz: Another Exotic Luminous and Fast Evolving Optical Type Ic Broad-Lined Supernova ?
F. Poidevin, S. L. West, C. M. B. Omand, R. K\"onyves-T\'oth, S. Schulze, L. Yan, T. Kangas, I. P\'erez-Fournon, S. Geier, J. Sollerman, P. J. Pessi, C. M. Guti\'errez, T. -W. Chen, K-Ryan Hinds, R. Marques-Chaves, R. Shirley, C. Jimenez Angel, R. Lunnan, D. A. Perley, N. Sarin, Y. Yao, R. Dekany, J. Purdum, A. Wold, R. R. Laher, M. J. Graham, M. M. Kasliwal, T. Jegou Du Laz

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-11-12 07:19:26

Aurora as seen from Florida

Image of a planet sized rainbow shooting off from the southern hemisphere of Earth showing a grey cat wearing beauty pageant sash and a tiara riding on top of a flying saucer to the end of said rainbow, which leads to a wormhole in space. A street sign in the middle of the rainbow says it's International Drive and Rainbow Drive, while rainbow & heart shaped bubbles float in space nearby. Oh, there's also fireworks the size of North America exploding above Earth while the Tardis and USS Enterpri…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-12 06:01:27

A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/aliciap…