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@PavelASamsonov this tooth is a Sumerian curse.

> That first impression, back at the age of seventeen, was nothing more than that—the gut reaction of a post-adolescent Army brat who had been on his own for about three weeks. His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world—samurai movies and the Macintosh—and he understood them far, far too well. It was a worldview with no room for someone like Juanita.
—Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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For me, add Godzilla movies.
#snowcrash

If these whackjobs start communicating in Sumerian, we should probably give Neal Stephenson a medal or something.

Guns, God—and Blockchain: Christian nationalists build techno-theocracy in Appalachia: http://archive.today/2025.04.08-235221/https://www.rawstory.com/christian-nationalism-2671692937/ #Dominionism #dystopia #SnowCrash

[...] Way back 15 years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of #software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and #hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write a line of code themselves. -- #snowcrash Neal Stephenson

This strikes a chord!

#cyberpunk #book #quote

This line from #SnowCrash stuck out to me

> we’re working on refining our management techniques so that we can control that information no matter where it is - on our hard disks or even inside the programmers’ heads.

Seems like something big tech would stumble over themselves to get ahold of today 😬

@ingo Danke für den Lesetipp.
Mich erinnert’s an Neal Stephensons #SnowCrash. In Dystopien leben ist übrigens scheiße. Lasst uns weiter alles für den überfälligen #Linksruck tun! ✊

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

#snowcrash https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000260479/tech-milliardaere-werben-bei-trump-fuer-unregulierte-freedom-cities

The fragmented USA of #SnowCrash or world of #DiamondAge are not good

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:inz4fkbbp7ms3ixufw6xuvdi/post/3ljssctt3wc2h

Cartoon - panel 1: author saying novel is about moral implications of creating new technologies. Panel 2: CEO saying let’s build these technologies

You have to have some guts to call your protagonist Protagonist.
This sets the mood of Snow Crash perfectly.
Hat tip to Neal Stephenson.

#snowcrash #stephenson #scifi #books #literature

What about tech writers, Mr. Stephenson? "All technical devices require documentation […], but this stuff can only be written by the techies who are doing the actual product development, and they absolutely hate it, always put the dox question off to the very last minute. Then they type up some material […], run it off on the laser printer, send the departmental secretary out for a cheap binder, and that's that." Snow Crash, ch. 48

#technicalWriting #techWriterLife #writeTheDocs #snowCrash

It's sad the term 'Metaverse' somehow got coopted by web3 grifters and then Facebook #SnowCrash

@screwtape @me @sacha @cwebber
#snowcrash #gargoyle

This is a non sequitur that has been nibbling on the edges of Hiro's mind for the last ten minutes: Laser light has a particular kind of gritty intensity, a molecular purity reflecting its origins. Your eye notices this, somehow knows that it's unnatural. It stands out anywhere, but especially under a dirty overpass in the middle of the night. Hiro keeps getting flashes of it in his peripheral vision, keeps glancing over to track down it's source. It's obvious to him, but no one else seems to notice.

Someone in this overpass, somewhere, is bouncing a laser beam off Hiro's face.

It's annoying. Without being too obvious about it, he changes his course slightly, wanders over to a point downwind of a trash fire that's burning in a steel drum. Now he's standing in the middle of a plume of diluted smoke that he can smell but can't quite see.

But the next time the laser darts into his face, it scatters off a million tiny, ashy particulates and reveals itself as a pure geometric line in space, pointing straight back to its source.

It's a gargoyle, standing in the dimness next to a shanty. Just in case he's not already conspicuous enough, he's wearing a suit. Hiro starts walking toward him.

Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops,

they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.

#randomthoughts
- #gaming - trying to play #starcitizen is how you learn #patience and #understanding.
- #elitedangerous is an adequate substitute, but after 3k+ hours, its hard to be engrossed anymore.
- #sundayscaries obsoleted by last week's distraction-free work-shopping with my team as we build out our capability and maturity. #anxiety is now excitement. I actually did 5 hours of work today in preparation for the coming week, by choice. Its probably been 10+ years since I chose that end of the work/life balance scale on a Sunday.
- peppermint and chamomile #tea keeps the heart, stomach, and mind #calm
- #Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is more enjoyable than #SnowCrash, probably due to the history and non-apocalyptic relatability.

I started reading Snow Crash, and while the first few chapters were a little rocky, I'm beginning to enjoy the unfolding plot.

I know it's a very well respected piece of scifi/futurism/cyberpunk literature, and that it propelled Neal Stephenson into many "futurist" roles at prodigious companies, but I have to say some of the writing reads like a online forum fanfic where the author forgot to find-and-replace character's placeholder names... Or like some edgy lit degree freshman who wants their characters to be as meta as possible...

I mean, the main hero/protagonist is named (wait for it): "Hiro Protagonist". The plucky teenage courier goes by "Yours Truly". The (thus far) only Slavic character is named "Vitaly Chernobyl".

Like... what? It's practically immersion-breaking.

#snowcrash #books #cyberpunk #futurism #scifi

i'm reading #SnowCrash for the first time. it's obviously dated in some ways, but still reads as fresh and relevant. i am thoroughly enjoying it

Thinking on giving this book another chance. It didn't stick the first time. #SnowCrash #HolidayReadings

Re-reading #neuromancer after #snowcrash ... Reality escapes. Thinking of the ol' college thing that "reality is an illusion caused by the lack of drugs and alcohol."

Took a post from a while ago, edited it, upgraded it and made it into a new article.

What is the Metaverse anyway?

#VirtualWorlds #SnowCrash #Horizons #HorizonWorlds #SecondLife #VRChat #HighFidelity #Vircadia #Overte #RecRoom #ThirdRoom #Roblox #Minecraft #WorldOfWarcraft #Fortnite #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #OSgrid #Kitely #WolfTerritories #WolfTerritoriesGrid #WolfGrid #Metropolis #MetropolisMetaversum #AlternateMetaverse #DreamGrid #InfiniteMetaverseAlliance #TheMetaverse #Metaverse

MT VOID #2353: Film reviews of #TheAmericanSocietyOfMagicalNegroes #MagicalNegroes #42, #TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles #SherlockHolmes #Sherlock; letters of comment on #The AcidHouse #Irvine Welsh #italianarchitecture languages in #StarTrek; book comments on #SnowCrash #Neal Stephenson http://leepers.us/mtvoid/VOID1108.htm from @eleeper and #MarkRLeeper Tagged @scifi

#snowCrash

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