A combination of two factors led to my having forgotten, today, that Pattern Recognition mentions the Curta calculator having been designed in Buchenwald: (1) I haven’t fully reread PR since writing it, (2) septuagenarian CRS. (Can’t Remember Shit, alas.)

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This is so heartfelt and beautiful. I occasionally walk across Waterloo Bridge when I'm in London. This song always floats into my consciousness and blesses me.

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The online right already had, and still has, multiple monopolized spaces for free-range radicalization. X being yet another one *does* make that problem worse: but only for the leftish people who choose to hang out there and get radicalized into fascist culture.

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One of my friends put an episode of Real Sex on and it's hilarious to see what straight guys think bondage is.

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I assume Isaacson didn’t say, “Oh, eat a bag of dicks, you fucking psycho.”

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