Don’t forget his trans child
@moultano.bsky.social you may have 5k followers on Twitter but you have 711 followers here, a much more auspicious number
Surprisingly hard question because we don’t know what you’ve heard of! The only modern fiction I read is sci-fi: Anathem (Stephenson), Exhalation (Chiang), There Is No Antimemetics Division (qntm), A Memory Called Empire (Martine)
I don’t know about your circumstances, but you sound kind of like me at 19 and at that time I should have just gotten a job programming with the intention of going back to school later. I just wanted to write a ton of code, nothing else.
TIL polo was invented just once in ancient Persia, whence it spread to Byzantine Constantinople and Tang Dynasty China. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chovgan
Is there anything more annoying than looking up a word, only to discover that it’s only used in the text you’re trying to read?
Parties don’t have to be strategic, because each election is a selection effect: the if all politicians randomly deviate from median party opinion, the ones that move to capture 50% get elected and become party leadership