Pressed
LightNews LightNews
banner
booksbooks.bsky.social
Pressed
@booksbooks.bsky.social
57 followers 90 following 270 posts
You get a million people, everything is automatically tied up. Traffic can’t move or nothing. Now I’m telling you what we can do for this nation. And it’s too many for them to put you in jail. Yes sir.
Posts Replies Media Videos
booksbooks.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
Alpha at 1.25x speed explains a lot.
CORY DOCTOROW: Yeah, indeed. Musk replied, , "Well, I've read his classic Culture novel series, and there are no trade unions there." And I said, "Yes, but it takes place in a far future where you have giant spaceships with a trillion people on them traveling at a thousand times the speed of light, controlled by artificial intelligences with many millions of times the capacity of human beings." And he said, "Well, I have very advanced factories to make my Teslas." And I said, "There is an enormous difference between the world imagined by lain Banks and the process of eking out very tiny gains in the efficiency of making electric vehicles." And he called me an "enemy of humanity" and blocked me. So, that was my only experience with him. But, you know, like innumerable tech bros, he has mistaken cyberpunk for a suggestion rather than a warning. As someone who is in the business of writing a lot of warnings, I find this baffling and, indeed, very demoralizing.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
booksbooks.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
An absurd number of Ls
September 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
booksbooks.bsky.social
Illiteracy all the way down.
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
Only for want of capital.
April 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
Consider Phlebas / Culture series.

Not sure if it counts, considering the illiteracy of Musk, but 'missed by a mile' doesn't cover it.

The full conversation here:
www.democracynow.org/2025/2/26/co...
CORY DOCTOROW: Yeah, indeed. Musk replied, “Well, I’ve read his classic Culture novel series, and there are no trade unions there.” And I said, “Yes, but it takes place in a far future where you have giant spaceships with a trillion people on them traveling at a thousand times the speed of light, controlled by artificial intelligences with many millions of times the capacity of human beings.” And he said, “Well, I have very advanced factories to make my Teslas.” And I said, “There is an enormous difference between the world imagined by Iain Banks and the process of eking out very tiny gains in the efficiency of making electric vehicles.” And he called me an “enemy of humanity” and blocked me. So, that was my only experience with him. But, you know, like innumerable tech bros, he has mistaken cyberpunk for a suggestion rather than a warning. As someone who is in the business of writing a lot of warnings, I find this baffling and, indeed, very demoralizing.
March 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
booksbooks.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
2024 Lichess
December 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
The blunder heard around the world—An unbelievable mistake. Gukesh now the youngest world champion.
December 12, 2024 at 1:12 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
Panettone season: Chocolate and Lievito Madre 🍽️
November 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
In a letter, the Texas Land Commissioner references a woman as the previous land owner of the 1,402 acres on offer for 'deportation facilities". It'd be an interesting story to hear the previous owner's side of the story.
November 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 1:47 PM
booksbooks.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 4:05 PM