BEZORP

I think we have very different ways of enjoying art. I don’t really understand how it’s possible for at to have nothing with the artist’s views, unless it were totally random. Actually, even that would be saying something.

But I get the feeling that we look at art pretty differently.

Why I would separate the artist from what they made? I’m interested in what they have to say about the world. That’s the point of art.

It’s not just content to make me happy until the next hit. Like, it has meaning.

It’s funny because it’s so obvious that no one would ever need to say it, but these two are whispering like it’s office gossip

The Best of World SF is undeniably an excellent sampler of voices from around the world, both of authors and of translators.

The editor comes off as maybe a bit self-centred? But I can’t deny they have excellent taste and connections.

They’re neat (I’ve only tried Uni’s), though imho I prefer the manual control of a regular mech/pencil when writing in cursive, because then I can choose when to rotate the lead (ie by rotating the entire pencils).

If you’re used to writing with pencils you don’t even think about it anymore. It’s as natural as dotting an i.

I think this and the stuff happening at Twitter are a nice kickstart to get lemmy and other ferdiverse stuff going.

Long live the ferdervers!

But seriously, I’m with you in sentiment. I’m never going back to the centralised/for-profit soc med services.

All their value comes from the free interactions between people chatting, and they think they deserve to get rich for renting the hall. Fuck that, we can just rent the infrastructure ourselves if that’s what it takes to talk in peace.

Welcome!

Thanks, added it to my to-be-read list. My preference is fiction these days, but I’m not above mixing in an academic book every now and then

That sounds nice. Similarly I’ve been in a book club for about two years now that was started on Reddit.

Although we haven’t read a book in months, we still meet virtually every week, so I guess we’re just friends now.

The ultimate test of these kinds of groups seems to be whether they can survive transplantation from one social medium to another. I wonder how my little book club would fare if there was a schism over using discord…

Maybe there is a board here that would help you set up something like that? It can’t hurt to look around and put out some feelers.

Third Culture Kid

Wow just knowing that it’s so common an experience that there’s a name for it is comforting.

Thank you so much for sharing that.

I’d guess like 0.2 a year for me, since it’s been a few years, and I don’t see myself ever eating another unless it’s offered to me.

I do like cookies though