Charlie Stross

@cstross

USA Today bestselling SF author. I drink the blood of my imaginary friends ...

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    Mar 9

    Private Eye there, saying what we're all thinking.

    5:26 AM - 9 Mar 2016 · Details
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    4 hours ago

    Wow OPM hack gets worse, possible link to SCATTERED CASTLES security int db. Feels like novel.

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  3. 15 hours ago

    This is why I should not be allowed to patch my own Linux kernel:

    Oh dear. actually got it to *work* this time.
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  4. 15 hours ago

    Amazon crackdown on scammers misses target, hits authors in the pocket instead:

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  5. 20 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    In the sense of "know yourself".

    Well, say what you will about him, the man knows shit.
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    20 hours ago

    Oh Jesus, Donald Trump's kid retweeted Vox Day about Portia Boulger being a plant. What a carnival of stupidity this is.

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  7. 20 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    Hmm. Just realized Le Morte d'Arthur doesn't map onto the monomyth. Or rather, it overruns then the wheels fall off and the boiler explodes.

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  8. 20 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    This beer glass is malfunctioning—it seems to have spring a leak. Refil time, I think.

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    20 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    . Is a diagnostic toilet that snitches on your cocaine habit to the police a stool pigeon?

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    23 hours ago

    My best guess is a lot of my colleagues are about to get rich. When America resembles Caligulaland, people are going to turn to escapism...

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    23 hours ago

    Hotel's Android-based lightswitches are predictably, horribly insecure

    5:53 AM - 12 Mar 2016 · Details
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  12. 21 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    Random insane thought: if legalism belief in Law) is a religious structure, what is the lawyer's version of the monomyth?

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  13. 21 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    The core of the hero/heroine's journey is about puberty, maturation, migration, new family formation. The gendered trappings came later.

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  14. 21 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    Monomyth is a coming-of-age narrative, so requires certain soc bio prerequisites. Childhood, play/training, adolescence, mating migration.

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  15. 21 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    Monomyth probably doesn't fit non-mammalian life forms, though.

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  16. 21 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    Hero's journey, heroine's journey, hermaphrodite alien's journey ...

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  17. 21 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland

    It is curry o'clock. Also plot noodling about posthuman variants of the Campbellian monomyth o'clock.

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    Mar 12

    . This is also why current banking/regulatory attempts to replace cash with NFC e-payments are doomed to fail.

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    Mar 12

    The piece includes this truly astonishing quote that I've highlighted:

    2:31 AM - 12 Mar 2016 · Details
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    Mar 12

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