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May. 27th, 2025 07:37 pm
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I'm trying to write a scene where two co-workers are trouble-shooting a new custom security or encryption routine. Someone else (who isn't present) wrote the code and he will have been careful to ensure it works before sending it to them. So maybe something in the implementation of it?

The scene is dual purpose, showing their interaction growing closer while also hiding something else in plain sight. The tech part of it can be whatever is plausible and easy to convey without bogging it down in details. I am so out of touch with that sort of thing I don't know what's plausible any more.

What could go wrong with uploading the new code into their office network or onto their phones which would need a bit of trouble-shooting? The kind of thing one person might overlook and another catch. Preferably with them being literally close while they do this. And again - easy to convey without bogging it down in details. Jargon is fine.

Edit: Turns out jargon is not fine. Well it would be in the sense I meant, but that's not how it was taken. Am overwhelmed by how much I can't understand well enough to follow here, let alone distill into a few phrases. I know the readers for my lakorn-novel are non-existent but I can't swamp them with details.

Edit 2: Sorry to have bothered everyone. I'm just going to trash this. It was a stupid idea in the first place. Thank you for your time.

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May. 26th, 2025 09:21 am
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Chat GPT Is Very Useful for Everything /s
Jason Sanford: Genre Grapevine’s Deep Dive into the Use of ChatGPT by Seattle Worldcon.
Though, honestly, if the rest of the volunteers quit, and the ConCom wasn't responsive to the cries for help from the last two people, I might have done crime too. I'm still perplexed by the Hugos team quitting, as it seems like a disproportionate reaction from people not prone to melodrama, but we'll probably never know.

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: Philadephia Inquirer and Chicago Sun-Times Publish Summer Reading List of Nonexistent Books.
Good look at how that happened, followed by a long rant about the state of the media landscape, especially in regards to US Politics.

[youtube.com profile] SAVYWRITESBOOKS: The “BookTok Fyre Fest” | A Million Lives was a DISASTER (Video, 1 hour).
A lot of people have been covering this shitshow, which probably shouldn't fairly be in the LLM trashfire situation, but fells spiritually akin to it, so I'm putting it here. Savy also links to A Million Lives Recovery, which boosts all the authors, artists and vendors screwed over by this nonsense. It looks like mostly romantasy, but there's a variety in there.


Misogyny Slop Ecosystem: Cutting five links for discussion of violence against women and non-binary people )


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The Breach: Inside the campaign that upended CanLit’s ties to Scotiabank and Israeli arms.
Nice example of activism getting stuff done.

The Tyee: A Fresh Opportunity to Get Elections Right.
I really want this to happen.

[youtube.com profile] MattBernstein1: A Morning With Vivian Wilson (Video, 45 minutes).
I just like getting to see her being happy.

[youtube.com profile] QwithTomPower: What led Rick Astley to quitting pop music at 27 (Video, 40 minutes).
I got rickrolled the other day, and YouTube recced this charming interview.

[tumblr.com profile] centaurianthropology: Therapy for Thee but Not for Me: Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms in ‘Murderbot’ (Thoughts on Episodes 1-3).
Meta!

Reading Recap (March-April)

May. 23rd, 2025 09:21 am
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Rainbow heart sticker What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher, narrated by Avi Roque.
Hugo Awards homework for the novella category.

As with the first one in this series, I enjoyed the characters more than the horror plotline, and I don't think it's just because I'm not always that into horror. Read more... )


Rainbow heart sticker Woodworking by Emily St. James, narrated by Saoirse Ní Shúilleabháin, L. Morgan Lee & Emily St. James.
Dramady about being a trans woman in middle America during the run up to the 2016 federal election. Read more... )


The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong, narrated by Phyllis Ho.
I need to stop trying to read cosy fantasy, or possibly cosy anything (except maybe shifter romances). Read more... )


The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko, narrated by Adetinpo Thomas.
(Awards homework for the Lodestar.)

So I read this without reading any of the rest of the Raybearer series, and a) it stood alone just fine and I was able to follow everything that wasn't an Easter Egg, and b) if you're interested in the original duology (which I probably have on my e-reader somewhere), I would definitely read that first, as this spoils the majority of the plot for the earlier books. Read more... )

Music Saturday

May. 24th, 2025 04:06 pm
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IDK if I shared this before, but here it is again.
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scotty. star trek (aos).

May. 24th, 2025 05:13 am
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Recent reading: Thrawn trilogy

May. 22nd, 2025 07:19 pm
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Finally, 12 years after I read the first book, I finished Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, a Star Wars story covering the years following the death of the Imperator and Darth Vader.
Back then, I read the first book and liked it a lot. Only, with my tabletop RPG group we were playing Star Wars (Edge of the Empire, is the name of the rpg system): a campaign modeled on the Thrawn trilogy, in which we played a group of Imperials trying to hold the Empire together and build our own faction in it. We slotted into the story as an additional support/commando group for Thrawn, and I didn't want to know the plot of the original story. It was fun to play the bad guys for once, we certainly managed to make things more difficult for our original trilogy characters... Anyway, we played for a few years and I didn't want to read the trilogy immediately afterwards, so it slipped my mind for a few more years.

Maybe it's because I haven't read many multi-POV books in the last few years, so there's not much to compare it with. If anything, the Expanse books come close in that regard. But what struck me was how interestingly the narrative was woven from a logistics viewpoint, how the characters and ships end up in the place where something happens, almost at the same time. How it's partly the circumstances and partly their own decisions that bring them there, some of which are based on correct, and others on faulty assumptions. Things like the part in which Thrawn is on Honogr at the same time as Leia, but he's not looking for her there (much), he thinks she's somewhere else. Or how the feint Wedge does with Aves to make him believe they're on a wholly different planet ends up the thing that brings Karrde's group to the right place at the right time, which again is what gives the Republic the decisive edge over Thrawn's forces.
It's a really interesting exercise in plotting.

Also I like Thrawn as a villain - he's just actually good enough to make it believable to the readers and his subordinates that he can pull off the impossible, but that also masks his weak spots that end up becoming his demise.

I'm not convinced of the whole "art from the enemy's culture determines their actions" approach for real - it makes a fun literary device, it gives a face to his ability to predict his opponent's actions.
If taken at face value, it says that "culture" is the most determining factor of personality which is an ... interesting ... take because it needs strong regional cultures that then need to stay as they are. Art reaches back decades and centuries and of course you can see cultural trends if you look at all that, but it won't tell you the course of action another person is going to take. And the galaxy of Star Wars in that time does have some strong and isolated local cultures, but also, there's a recent Republic and Empire that spanned wide enough to have some degree of (let's call it) globalization, which may flatten these cultural identities. For example, I'm not convinced that a character like Bel Iblis would still be predominantly "Corellian" just because he once grew up there, when he hasn't lived surrounded by this culture for decades, and had lots of other influences. Sure, your cultural background says a lot about how you see the world, how you relate to it. But to actually predict the actions of an individual based on that seems a bit reductive. But seeing it as a plot device, I can suspend my disbelief well enough to enjoy Thrawn as a character a lot.

I don't know much about combat tactics, but the battle descriptions were interesting. It seems I have to read more space operas and military scifi - I just don't know how to find that in a way that isn't actually pro-military because I'm not sure I want to read that.

It was nice to see an idea of who Luke, Leia, Hand, Chewie & co could become in the future. Leia's Jedi training was especially interesting. She is a quite forceful personality and it was very engaging to see her engage with her inner fury, and redirect it. She is a very different Jedi to Luke, and it was nice to see that.

I liked seeing Lando being drawn into co-saving the fate of the galaxy once more, even though all he wants is to take care of his company/town/people.

The most interesting character was Mara Jade, especially in ... no, in all character constellations I saw her. With Talon Karrde, I like the growing loyalty between them, especially from Karrde towards Mara. With Luke, of course, the whole "getting to know your enemy and recognizing he's not actually your enemy" thing. With Leia, the careful allies they become over Luke. And of course her own journey of becoming her own person, free from the chains that kept her - ha, without even using passion, strength, power and victory to break them.

That was a very enjoyable read, and even though I had a lot of fun playing an Imperial secret agent turned Sith apprentice in an Empire lead first by Thrawn and then, after his death, by Imperator Mara Jade, back in the day, I do like the actual story of all the characters a lot more.

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