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Just because the whole thing is crazy doesn’t mean it won’t make it on Broadway!

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) dir. Frank Oz
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/650036899…
Just because the whole thing is crazy doesn’t mean it won’t make it on Broadway!

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) dir. Frank Oz
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/650036899…
Just because the whole thing is crazy doesn’t mean it won’t make it on Broadway!

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) dir. Frank Oz
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/650036899…
Just because the whole thing is crazy doesn’t mean it won’t make it on Broadway!

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) dir. Frank Oz
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/650036899…
Just because the whole thing is crazy doesn’t mean it won’t make it on Broadway!

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) dir. Frank Oz
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/650036899…
Just because the whole thing is crazy doesn’t mean it won’t make it on Broadway!

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) dir. Frank Oz
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/650036899…

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Apple is a true business innovator: For more than a decade, they have been steadily perfecting an obscure anticompetitive tactic, turning a petty grift invented by console games companies into a global, cross-industry mechanism for extracting rents and centralizing control.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: XKCD's scientific microfiction meme; Attack Surface is a Locus Awards finalist; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/02/mic…

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On May 7, the @GburgBookFest is featuring me in an interview conducted by John @Scalzi; we pre-recorded the event but I'll be in the live chat for the premiere.



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XKCD's scientific microfiction meme: "Types of scientific paper."



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@About_Medicine Think of a loan. You ask me for a $10,000 loan to buy a car, and you offer the car as collateral. You pay some upfront processing fees, a downpayment, and a monthly fee. If you default, I can repo the car. That's a normal loan.
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The annual Locus Awards finalists have been announced and I am thrilled to pieces to see my novel ATTACK SURFACE, a standalone book in the Little Brother universe for adults, in the final ten for Best SF Novel!

locusmag.com/2021/05/2021-l…

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Even more exciting than making the top ten is the company it puts me in: the other finalists are:

* Machine by @matociquala
* Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
* Agency by @GreatDismal
* The Relentless Moon by @MaryRobinette
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* The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
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* Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe

(also excited to see @torbooks, my publisher, next to so many of those names!)

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In 2008, I traveled to the world's largest scientific data-centers for a @Nature story. No matter whether the labs were devoted to internet archiving, the human genome, or the Higgs boson, they had two things in common: vast server farms, and @xkcd.

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xkcd.com/2456/

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