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@yetiinabox 👍 😂 ... writes a #Scifi: Parasites infiltrate an impotence remedy for AI sex and use it to keep humanity subservient. Ants harness homo sapiens as exo-brains, bringing themselves to the brink of extinction.
Suddenly, a small, unknown tribe of springtails forms an alliance with nematodes: they achieve world domination. What will happen to the last humans whose brains are no longer capable of marketing? What happens to the forgotten CEO in a leafcutter ants nest?

I'm not sure if I ever knew the story of Judith. Anyway, this retelling by @TheRaDR (h/t @evacide) is lovely, and also makes it impossible for any #Vorkosigan fan not to immediately think of Cordelia's Shopping trip. So much so that I now wonder if Bujold was making an intentional reference.

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Life is a Sacred Text · Beware of Confident Women with SwordsA Tale of Beheadings and Cheese

Sign up for an author's newsletter, get a free book. This promo includes my neuro/nano/bio/cyberpunk thriller Biodigital, about a Thiel/Musk-type Silicon Valley billionaire overlord and the cult of incel transhumanist techbros who venerate him as a god. I wrote it in 2014 but it's about today.

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Arctic geo-engineering straight out of "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson. I'm not sure who came up with the idea, or brought it to the attention of VC. Regardless, my dear friends, dystopian science fiction is not inspiration - it is a warning.

“Such interventions are morally dubious at best, and at worst, ethically irresponsible, ...”

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