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That is ... really something. Like, not even arguably Ptolemaic.

Do you really need AI to tell you to try unplugging it and plugging it back in?

Seems as though there's another reading, to the effect that investors are starting to believe that AI won't be as profitable for tech as tech has been promising. I think both these things can be true, I'm certainly not arguing, here.

Still not a headline, though. :LOL:

No, I grew up learning the rules for headline titles. There are enough edge-cases (or different interpretations) that I'm sincerely happier just capping the first letter of the first word. And I've always seen that as "OBJECTS IN MIRROR MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR." (I've never seen it as a...

I dunno, there are two kinds of title capitalization: headline (Expert Reaction to Study Looking at Physical Fitness of Transgender and Cisgender Women) and sentence (Expert reaction to study looking at physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women) and the latter is--or was, last I read a...

And I just requested this at the local public library of my choice. Maybe it'll get to their closest branch before I swing in to pick up The Far Edges of the Known World by Owen Rees (recommended on acoup.com). There seems to be some thematic stuff in common, and that's at least part of where my...

Yeah, I wasn't thinking "more popular." While that's a thing, I think it's plausibly easier for a movie to be more popular than a novel--or at least have more impact at a moment. Books just take longer for most people to absorb, among other things. Also, I try to avoid conflating "popular" and...

I don't think it's wildly unusual for (say) a movie adapted from a novel to be a better movie than the novel was a novel. I mean, both Jaws and The Silence of the Lambs are, IMO. My wife really enjoyed this book, and I'll probably be reading it at some point. I'll gesture at the main point of...

I don't mind reading a big novel, if it's any good. I just spent my weekend nights reading a big novel that isn't, and I'm not super-happy about it (it has a reputation, so I didn't tap out--though I did skim a lot of it once I realized it was garbage).

Anthologies and collections have their advantages. They're easier to put down in the middle, and if you don't like a given story at least it'll end soon.

The former will get you killed in a crosswalk.

I prefer trade paperbacks as a physical form factor, but there is (or at least was) a use-case for mass-market paper; I suppose for much of that use-case the replacement is e-books. Oh, well.

As someone who enjoys, and has at times preferred, shorter fiction, I am always saddened when I think how the market for it has contracted (collapsed? imploded?) even just in my lifetime.

Curing salt, yes? (Maybe a specific one, it's not a category I know.) While I didn't know corned beef was cured, I probably should have--and I'm not surprised to learn it. None of those named ingredients surprise me, but I haven't done any meat-curing (and I do not doubt there could be some...

I understand your concern. Are there logistical or other concerns that'd make you reluctant to run a test batch (or maybe two) for in-house consumption? Is there a source that is, or at least claims to be, a conversion of a more-commercial recipe for home use? (These are just outside thoughts...

I can see those, and I'm not going to argue all that hard, but both of them have deep roots as contagion analogues. (Yes, both mental illness and queerness have been perceived as contagious at points.) I think werewolves as the evil inside us and vampires as the evil outside us work at least as...

I'm a long-time horror fan, but I prefer it mostly as words on the page. That said, there's a difference between gore as a consequence and gore as the point--I'm not a fan of slashers or torture porn (they don't work as horror for me) but something like Sinners, where the gore is present because...

Franchises, collectibles, unfinished stories (I'll read that planned trilogy once it's all published) and indefinite series fiction.

Because they're both plague analogs.