I'm tyding my stuff and questions arise e.g.
Why do I have two copies of "Snow Crash"
Why are they next to each other on the shelf? I think I would have noticed when I put them there. It doesn't fit my normal chaotic ways.
I'm definitely getting old.
Anyway the local library or one of the many charity shops nearby will have a copy of "Snow Crash" soon.
#tidying #books #NealStephenson #SnowCrash #cyberpunk #ScienceFiction

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116201684251226593

#antiAI #NealStephenson

Now I want to read a sci-fi novel set in the near future about two programmers who need to learn non-vibe-coding to write something under the radar of the AIs (plural!) watching their every move online.

To save the world.
In rust.

And they're fighting over vi vs emacs.

And it will have to be on an OpenBSD machine, since every performance setting is disabled because of rowhammer et alter.

Something like the Morse stuff in Cryptonomicon?

#AI #nealstephenson #cryptonomicon #vibecoding #vi #openbsd #bsd
#writingprompt #rust #rustlang

#bookstodon #BooksofMastodon #SciFi #ScienceFiction #CyberPunk

Request for comments on #NealStephenson 's #DiamondAge. I'm 50 pages into it and I'm not sure where it's going. Thouhts?

The little fuckers are everywhere.

#bugs #entymology #photography #nature #literature #nealstephenson

William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, or Charles (Charlie) Stross never predicted this!

#PizzaSignal #SciFiPizza #PizzaPunk
#Neuromancer #SnowCrash #HaltingState #Rule34
#WilliamGibson #Gibson #NealStephenson #CharlesStross
#SciFi #Distopia #Distopian #Cyberpunk

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5750716-pentagon-pizza-report-hegseth/

@cathill one of our local stars tends to use a wide angle.
A larger #sensor will show less #noise on long exposures.
In #SciFi a fisheye telescope sits atop the math in #Anathem by #NealStephenson recording 180° of the sky all round. #Clepsythra's Eye.

By default I read an author’s complete available works, in publishing OR in universe chronological order. Library for my first 20 years, then paperbacks, mostly #NealStephenson, then Vampire ebooks and lastly #HumbleBundle mostly #40K audio and ebooks.

#NealStephenson drops the date of his upcoming novel D (October 2026):

https://open.substack.com/pub/nealstephenson/p/stephenson-impersonator-minor-update

@Kerplunk @dw_innovation
#Cryptonomicon is a book worth reading, for several reasons including amusement, and has an interesting appendix on a card game.

Try not to mention the #Crocodile

#SciFi #NealStephenson #Encryption

Okay all. I’m looking for my next read. I just finished a re-read of Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History”. Before that, re-read Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy. Did some rereading after disappointments. Lastly, The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd. Awful.

So, putting it to the Fediverse, what should I read next

P.S. Mistborn and Stormlight: not on the table

Favored genres: #highfantasy #cyberpunk, #dystopian #wheeloftime #nealstephenson #kingkillerchronicles #cyberpunk #williamgibson #booksuggestions

@fluidlogic Forgot to add: People often go on about Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash as metaphor for our times, but I actually think his Diamond Age was in many ways far more prescient of some of the developments we're seeing now:

- the rise of a global corporate oligarchy (Neo-Victorians in the novel) which centrally controls The Source (aka The Cloud in our world) and The Feed, aka a mixed stream of energy, media and basic molecules, which can be used to assemble goods by matter compilers
- the breakdown/diminishing roles of nation states and emergence of sovereign oligarchy-controlled cities/jurisdictions (aka Free economic zones)
- social reorganization into phyles/tribes, either based on economic standing and/or skills/culture/religion or "Thetes" (aka outcasts & stateless people)
- the creation of Seed technology as distributed inversion principle of The Source, fully distributed creation/organization (aka open source culture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

#NealStephenson #DiamondAge

#nealstephenson has a new blog post:

"KdK part 2: a medical mystery from postwar Germany"

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-2-a-medical-mystery-from

@futzle I feel like generative protein design folks should be challenged to make an enzyme that can manufacture sheets of diamond at room temperature so we can get closer to #diamondage #nealstephenson

#FridayReads #bookstodon

#NealStephenson's #Polostan

@AkaSci
#NealStephenson the #SciFi author makes some use of them in his large interesting novel #Anathem

Which also has some echoes of what, perhaps, scientists might consider around this period of Administration of the USA.

#Analemma #Solstice

@Ruth_Mottram
#SciFi #NealStephenson introduced the idea of a program run on many distributed nodes to optimise orbits and the manoeuvres to avoid collisions, called it Perambulator and for plot purposes gave it a very long span of use.
#Seveneves
An entertaining book.

Neal Stephenson spins a yarn about the mystical, near-fantasy world of command lines, where Apple and Microsoft are portrayed as tech sorcerers. 🧙‍♂️✨ Who knew selling invisible software could be more magical than selling blinking boxes? 💾🔮
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt #NealStephenson #CommandLines #TechSorcerers #FantasySoftware #MagicInTech #InvisibleSoftware #HackerNews #ngated

Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock" started out really good but it's really bogging down. If it doesn't pick up soon this may be a did-not-finish.

I'm listening to it on audiobook.

#nealStephenson #books #amReading #audiobooks #terminationShock #nearFuture #climateFiction #climateCrisis #climate

And also cheap #HumbleBundles to get the novels basically starting with #HorusRising. There is a good #HumbleBundle right now: www.humblebundle.com/books/modern... #ScifiClassics #CharlesSoule #JosephFink #HughHowey #NealStephenson #harpercollins

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