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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-01-10 03:01:18

#muddledMaunderings of a doddering fool. Caveat Lector. (1/5)

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 03:33:42

#muddledMaunderings of a doddering fool. Part n/x #CaveatEmptor
#ImaginaryNumbers were the downfall of any hopes I had for a career in science. Algebra was required for a major in a…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-12-03 03:51:21

#muddledMaunderings of a doddering fool. Part n of x. #CaveatEmptor. (1/9)

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-29 02:00:18
Content warning: Muddled maunderings of a doddering fool.

#muddledMaunderings caveat emptor.
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A book is a set of possibilities. I read this in a short story in the November/December 2023 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. The story was titled, The Four Last Things, by Cristopher Rowe. I don’t know why, but the phrase has attached itself in my mind. In the story, the phrase is almost a throwaway line, spoken by a character to an AI in answer to the question, what is a book? It’s like watching a meme invading my mind in real time. I can almost feel tendrils of connection spreading into, …