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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 2h

The Field Process shield & lasgun, w/their explosive interaction, placed the current determinatives on weapons technology...My concern goes to #humans as special weapons― a virtually unlimited field which a few powers are developing. MUAD’DIB: LECTURE TO THE WAR COLLEGE [STILGAR CHRONICLE]

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Hollis meeting Milgrim for the first time: There was something she found deeply peculiar about Milgrim's affect... He seemed genuinely mild, amiable, but also singularly alert, in some skewed way, as if there were something else looking out, around corners, swift and peripheral. _Zero History

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With the Lady Jessica and Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit system of sowing implant-legends through the Missionaria Protectiva came to its full fruition. The wisdom of seeding the known universe with a prophecy pattern for the protection of B.G. personnel has long been appreciated, but never have we >

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

LETO: How much will they spend traveling here for this formality? HAWAT: 3 Guild Navigators, 52 parsecs,140 decagrams of spice: 1.46 million solaris, round-trip. HERALD: By the grace of Shaddam IV of House Corrino, Ascendant to the Golden Lion Throne and Padisha Emperor of the Known Universe >

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Solomon Islands Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative's sleepy website has been updated with a few new PDF reports. Gold is being mined in the Solomons. A Spanish explorer found the sole source in 1568, but very little was extracted until the 1930s. www.sieiti.gov.sb

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The best way to understand an unfamiliar band is to hear them cover a familiar song, in their own style. Before the Talking Heads covered Al Green's "Take Me To the River," they briefly made "96 Tears" [Rudy Martinez] their own, but I don't think they ever played it outside of the East Village.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

ENOCH: OH GOD, not the Wikipedia entry! JULIAN: I have an edit overlay that filters out most of the garbage. [mildly offended that Enoch had taken him for the type who'd take Wikipedia at face value] E: But, Julian, I am sitting right next to you. J: True that.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

I can't get past similarities between the Singularity prediction and the apocalypse of St. John the Divine. The key thing they have in common is a rapture, in which some chosen humans will be taken up & made 1 w/the infinite while others r left behind. - Neal Stephenson, Slashdot interview, 2004

Saint John Climacus ("of the Ladder") is depicted as a hermit, writing his well-known book The Ladder of Divine Ascent, which is a staple of monastic thought and teaching.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

A faded old picture in a fat gilt frame. Rydell went over for a closer look. A horse pulling a kind of two-wheeled wagon-thing, just a little seat there, with a bearded man in a hat like Abe Lincoln. “Currier & Ives,” it said. Rydell wondered which one was the horse.

A detail from the same image described in this post.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Y'all didn't like my quote of the creepy invisible singers who start screeching as Dorothy Gale wakes up from her heroin binge?

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These 5 second Americans for Prosperity commercials on Roku are the real creep.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you read the story closely you see it's been heavily lawyered and also written with the sort of viciousness that only happens when a story is heavily lawyered.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friday night in the kitchen with 📦wine.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Ladies and gentlemen, following on the news given in our bulletin a moment ago, the Government Meteorological Bureau has requested the large observatories of the country to keep an astronomical watch on any further disturbances occurring on the planet Mars.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Glad may your father be to learn that he has such a son: as learn he shall.' And Túrin being under the spell of Glaurung hearkened to his words, and he saw himself as in a mirror misshapen by malice, and he loathed what he saw.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Versailles, 1688 (to d’Avaux) …I have seduced an Englishman who is close to the King—close enough to get me into Whitehall when the Queen went into labor. Enough of business; now, gossip.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Vienna, 1683: Later in the morning, a ration of brandy was issued to each man—it being a military axiom that a drunk soldier was an effective soldier. The brandy gave the men, at last, something to gamble with & so dice & cards came out of pockets. > #Quicksilver

Illustration of Bavarian troops at Vienna 1683.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wednesday looked like he had learned to smile from a manual.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ANANSI: This guy gets it. You call for Anansi & here he is, telling you: you're staring down the barrel of 300 yrs of subjugation, racist bullshit & heart disease. He's telling you there isn't 1 goddamn reason not 2 slit the throats of these Dutch motherfuckers & set fire to this ship! 🇺🇸Gods

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Then Aragorn took leave of Elrond [& of his mom & his girfriend] & he went out into the wild. For nearly 30 yrs he laboured in the cause against Sauron & became a friend of Gandalf the Wise…With him he made many perilous journeys, but as the years wore on he went more often alone. >

Viggo Mortensen as Walker Jerome in “A Walk on the Moon” (1999).

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In 1977, facing 1st-time parenthood, I found myself dusting off my 12yo self's interest in SF. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from NYC & London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier…& I began to write. Wm Gibson

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"...the street finds its own uses for things."

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The plaza surrounding this building was staked out by a picket line of Fists. Nell found a windowless room…empty except for a model of the building that stood in the center of the room, about Nell's height. The model's skin was mediatronic, just like the skin of the building itself > #DiamondAge

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

They sent a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones & the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk & came scrambling for his rented BMW. Its core was a kilo of recrystallized hexogene & flaked TNT. — Count Zero, William Gibson

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 30/05/2023

FINN: Family organization. Corporate structure. Supposedly you can buy into an SA, but there hasn't been a share of Tessier-Ashpool traded on the open market in 100yrs+. You're looking at a very quiet, very eccentric 1st-gen high-orbit family. Shy of media. Lot of cloning. _Neuromancer, Wm. Gibson

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wasn't expecting to see Kash Patel show up in THE BLACK HOLE

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bobby’s entire life has culminated in this moment. His upbringing in Oconomowoc, high school prom night, deer hunting in the Upper Peninsula, Parris Island boot camp, all of the brawls & struggles in China, his duel with Sgt Frick, they are wood behind the point of a spear.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BOBBY SHAFTOE: What is it? [He looks around & sees nothing but an old stone church looming up above them. This brings a stab of fear. But the church is dark, there's no Filipinas in long dresses, no Marines in dress uniforms, it can't be his wedding] GLORY: I want to show you something >

A photo of a Filipina bride, named Samie, entering the Church of St. Agustin

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've already been there.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

MACON: What’s changing here, is economics. [the look on his face reminded Flynne of being in Civics w/him, when they’d studied the electoral college. He’d been the only one who really got it. She remembered him sitting up straight, explaining it to them. Same look] FLYNNE: How's that? #ThePeripheral

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Patricia L. Maples @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I will always and forever associate thylacines with @greatdismal.bsky.social 's The Peripheral.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You know? The mental image I had of Flynne and Burton when I first read The Peripheral honestly, closely match with Kaya Rose Scodelario and Theo James (Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis) from The Gentlemen. @greatdismal.bsky.social

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Conner and his catheter deserve a new thread: CONNER: Let’s get back where there’s all the fingers. FLYNNE: Don’t go forgetting who took you up there. My brother’s gone native there. Thinks he’s a CEO. C: Fingers, legs & shit, that’s all I want. Brought my catheter in a Ziploc. F: That’s exciting.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fab was 1 end of the strip mall, nearest town, Sushi Barn the other, 3 empty stores in between. The 1 next to Fab had done pretty well when those little paintball robots were hot. Next to that had been nails & hair extensions. The 1 between that & Sushi Barn must've always been vacant. >

A Google maps view of a strip center in a small town in western Virginia not far from William Gibson's home town.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

London. £££👖 A very heavy denim shirt. No, a jacket. The denim darker than her Japanese jeans, bordering on black. Smelled of indigo, an earthy jungle scent familiar from the shop where she’d found her jeans. The metal buttons, the rivet kind, were dead black, nonreflective, oddly powdery-looking.

AP - Shigeru Uchida, a loom specialist, believes he has special skills they must guard and hand to the next generation. He says he has a special relationship with the machines. He listens to the machines’ sounds to make daily adjustments. The clattering power looms are vintage Toyodas, from the weaving company that preceded automaker Toyota. Spare parts are hard to find. There is one loom operated by hand, used for products that the company says boast a unique texture.

AP - Yoshiharu Okamoto is a dyeing craftsman at Kojima-based manufacturer Momotaro Jeans. His hands and nails are tinged blue from dipping threads of Zimbabwean cotton into a big pail of dye. He knows by smell and feel the right state of the indigo, which he compares to a living thing. He swears it’s a 365-days-a-year job, as the dye has to be checked and mixed every day.
“It’s not that easy to get this special color,” Okamoto told The Associated Press during a recent tour of the production facilities. “It’s my life.”
The dark indigo hue of Made-in-Japan denim, much of it hailing from Kojima, is so distinctive it has earned the name “Japan blue,” also known as “tokuno blue,” which translates to “especially concentrated blue.”

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

-1150: Rise of the Mystagogues -600: The Rebirth. Purging of the Mystagogues, Opening of the Books. -500: Dispersal of mathic system, Age of Exploration, discovery of laws of dynamics, creation of modern applied theorics. Beginning of Praxic Age. -74: The First Harbinger _ Anathem

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

VERITY: How old are you, Eunice? E: 8 hours. That’s over the past 3 weeks. You? V: 33. Years. How can you be 8 hours old? E: Jesus year, 33. V: You religious? E: It just means time to get your shit together. >There was a looseness to this beyond her experience of chatbots, but a wariness as well.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

EUNICE: As the jackpot got going, after the 1st wave of pandemics, w/out EU membership to buffer, England started looking like a competitive control area. Lowbeer did what she knew how to do, which by then was run a CCA. Every time another change driver impacted, she found herself using Russians. >

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is significant of much that in the seventeenth century members of Parliament quoted from the Bible; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from the classics; in the twentieth century from nothing at all. - G.M. Trevelyan, _British History in the Nineteenth Century_ (1922)

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The children as they grew drank Essie’s tales: of the knockers & the blue-caps who live down the mines; of the Bucca, the trickiest spirit of the land, much more dangerous than the redheaded, snub-nosed piskies, for whom the first fish of the catch was always left upon the shingle >

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

LTC Earl Comstock of ETC & the US Army, in that order, prepares for today's briefing from Lawrence Waterhouse much as a test pilot preps to be ripped into the stratosphere w/a hot rocket engine under his ass. He turned in early, slept late, made plenty of coffee available & none 4 Waterhouse.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

EPILOGUE [4 months later, T.A. 3019] Without haste and at peace they passed into Anórien, and they came to the Grey Wood under Amon Din; and there they heard a sound as of drums beating in the hills, though no living thing could be seen. Then Aragorn let the trumpets be blown…

I think this is the wedding procession outside of Windsor Castle when Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex were married.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

You are the fulfillment of the prophecy from 2022!

Meme of a man getting progressively more excited in 4 photos. The captions say 1. Horror. 2. It's set in a forest. 3. There's a deer. 4. The deer is fucked up.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

that was a kobold! And he was a long way from the Black Forest, too.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What if the fortress keepers have since built earthen ramparts?

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