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Day 5: 'The City & the City' by China Miéville

A mind-bending crime tale that transcends geography as we know it.
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Day 4: 'The Cyberiad' by Stanisław Lem (trans. by Michael Kandel)

A collection of hilarious science fiction short stories about two robotic geniuses and the inventions they devise for the problems they're to solve.
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Damn, new copypasta dropped.

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Day 3: 'README.txt' by Chelsea Manning

A memoir that recounts Manning's struggles with sexuality and gender identity from as far back as her childhood, and her time in the military, imprisonment and eventual release.
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Day 2: 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner

An Odyssean Southern Gothic tale about a family going through hell and high water to fulfill their mother's dying wish.
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Day 1: 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (trans. by John Rutherford)

Arguably the first modern novel, 'Don Quixote' is a legendarily chaotic adventure for the ages that's funny, smart, and approachable.
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No, don't make it a 'total opt-out'. Make it an opt-in.

Give the user the choice to enable it at the start with the default setting being off. I shouldn't have to turn off new, unwanted functionality just to have the experience I was getting before.

...even if it comes at the cost of software I've been using ever since I was a teenager.

Your call, Mozilla.

Choose responsibly.

(13/13)

...I will stop using both Firefox and Thunderbird and will actively recommend against them. I've already gone some distance towards excising the likelihood of encountering AI in my life, and I will continue to do so if I have to...

(12/13)

If there is no about-turn on this or almost prostrated assurances that you would have to directly opt in (not out, but in, specifically; as in, I would have to turn everything on myself to even see a single bit of it) to this otherwise seemingly enforced "modern AI browser" experience...

(11/13)

Therefore, I urge Mozilla and its leadership to read the goddamn room and recognise that we don't want this, stop forcing it upon us, and focus on being a browser that is nice to use without having to rely on the Infinite Plagiarism Machine to do it.

(10/13)

This same userbase is very strongly and vocally against this, and it is within our power — even if we don't necessarily want to have to do so — to move elsewhere.

(9/13)

...and I even make use of Thunderbird for my email needs. Now, all of this is being swept aside because of corporate greed and an outright rejection of its userbase.

(8/13)

I didn't anticipate that this would be the thing that forces me to make an account for the support forum of all things, because my experience of Firefox up to this point (an experience spanning almost as long as Firefox has existed) has been a largely positive experience...

(7/13)

...and now here we are; it's going to be shoved down our throats, whether we wanted it or not (which, of course, many of us didn't).

(6/13)

I have already gone out of my way to turn off as much of the AI nonsense in Firefox as I can — even downloading a plugin to remove the Google Gemini summaries, because they're all less than useless and absolutely defeat the point of using Google in the first place...

(5/13)