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I have grave doubts that the brilliant author Robert Heinlein would have remained silent over X’s appropriation of his neologism ‘Grok’ for their system that mimics intelligence…

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“Long ago, it was not possible to have ‘separate’ kinds of behavior or activity. Work was ceremony. Theater was … ritual, politics, sex, therapy, medicine, and a thing we have no world for. Long ago, these ‘separate things’ were not...

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“Our world, my dear friend, is not the world we are familiar with. And it never will be, again. Everything we ‘depended’ upon, is gone. The face of the future, especially our reliance on ‘luxuries’… medicine, the food supply…...

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“The jungle is their bomb shelter, except… the ‘bomb’ is what we call ‘civilization’.” — infraheard

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It should be, but isn’t, obvious that the »representation of ‘democracy’, that is, the bizarre and ineffective »formalization of what should be common and constant discussion, debate and re-visioneering of ‘the between of us’ in communal...