I’m going entirely to SubStack. It’s a pain in the butt to maintain two blogs at once, and SubStack is the wave of the future, so I’ll stop updating this blog after this week. I’m keeping it up indefinitely as an archive, since a bunch of links point to posts here (even from posts that [...] The post Complete Pivot to SubStack first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
My favorite book club meeting of every year is the one were we read the Hugo nominated short stories and novelettes. Here’s my reviews of this year’s crop. Note that the reviews are all FULL SPOILERS. If you don’t want to read them all, but want to read the (IMO) best ones without being spoiled, [...] The post SF/F Review – 2022 Hugo Nominated Shorts first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki Synopsis: Alien refugees sell donuts in the Bay area, one falls in love with a woman who sells souls to hell, as that woman begins grooming a runaway trans girl with world-class violin skills to be her next soul sacrifice. Book Review: FYI, despite how I had to phrase the [...] The post SF/F Review – Light From Uncommon Stars first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
The School For Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan Synopsis: Women who aren’t “good enough” mothers — as determined by a completely arbitrary and ultimately random process — are sent to a re-education camp to be psychologically tortured. Book Review: Boy, this is such a mixed bag. Let’s go over some highlights/lowlights and see where it [...] The post SF/F Review – The School For Good Mothers first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
Why are so many intelligent, driven young people abandoning the personal-liberty-maximizing bohemian lifestyles and adopting Traditional Values as they enter their thirties? I think it’s a way of solving a coordination problem. Lets consider two key roles of a modern startup: Founder and Venture Capitalist. The Founder is the person who does the work of [...] The post TradFam as Startup first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
I was asked what went into my decision to get a vasectomy, especially considering I’m hoping to live at least thousands of years and people change. When I project out my future over the next 10 years, I can’t see wanting kids at any point in that time period. Plus there’s not much of a [...] The post Vasectomy for Transhumanists first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark Synopsis: A paranormal murder mystery set in steampunk Egypt, 1912, after Djinn and other magical creatures have been reintroduced into the world a few decades back. Book Review: This is a great romp, and really fun! The plot keeps moving at a good clip, there’s a lot [...] The post SF/F Review – A Master of Djinn first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
Multiple people have been tripped up by my claims in a recent post that “demanding that people call you by incorrect pronouns counts as bullying and harassment.” This is in answer to that. I went through a lot of titles for this one before settling on “How They/Them Hurts.” The all started with “How They/Them [...] The post How They/Them Hurts first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
Multiple people have been tripped up by my claims in the previous post that “they/them pronouns are never correct pronouns for a person whose sex isn’t ambiguous” and “demanding that people call you by incorrect pronouns counts as bullying and harassment.” This post addresses the first of these two. First, I posit that there are [...] The post There Are Infinite Genders. There Are Only Four Sexes. first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
Is my defensive reaction to wokeism mind-killing me? Well yes, obviously to some extent. How bad of a mental massacre is it, though? Let’s do a post-mortem on a recent failure (or semi-failure?) to find out. First and foremost, I wish to thank Walter & James, of Rationality: From AI to Zombies podcast fame, for [...] The post An Examination of My Failures of Rationality first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
My favorite book club meeting of every year is the one were we read the Hugo nominated short stories and novelettes. Here’s my reviews of this year’s crop. Note that the reviews are all FULL SPOILERS. If you don’t want to read them all, but want to read the (IMO) best ones without being spoiled, go read:| Death Is Bad -
Robert Heinlein said you never truly own any more than you can carry in two hands at a dead run. In my book club we just read two books in succession about people being controlled by an outside force via threats to what they love. Growing up, I learned that caring about things is dangerous.| Death Is Bad