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I think a lot of time when the Torment Nexus thing is brought up, people are getting the arrow of causality the wrong way around. It's not that necessarily that Bobby Techbro read "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" and was inspired to make one, even if that's what the marketing tries to sell it as.

No I think that's not giving scifi authors the proper respect as futurists. They looked at how things were going and thought "man, this might lead to a Torment Nexus" and then wrote a story about that.

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The #birdflue has been around for a while you know 😅

First it was H5N1 and now it’s H5N2 🤔

@deromme

Oh yes, I was rather more interested in how accurately the author captured the experience of a pandemic!

@sps @deromme did you see the one about the year without sunshine? I love that one.