@lisamelton I apologize for the confusion. I am still figuring out Mastodon again. The remaining post is the one to boost – and thank you. I got confused because there is an option to edit and another to delete and rewrite I should have edited but instead I picked the other 

@ffmike In business 60 years. I’d say he knew something about branding. And yes the extra E makes it all fancy and stuff.

@ffmike “Hotel Smeede?” Clearly the era before branding consultants.

@jsonbecker For now at least OpenAI seems to have stumbled into riches and had no idea what to do with it. Technologically brilliant but lacking in business sense. Comparisons to Twitter are apt, but Twitter, for all its flaws, was still better run than OpenAI.

@tezoatlipoca He’s a nincompoop and always has been.

@scalzi.com And Zelazny had magical mainframe computers in both Jack of Shadows and the second Amber Chronicles.

@scalzi.com One of the premises of Charles Stross’s Laundry Series books is that magic is a form of mathematics, calling Lovecraftian gods, so of course computers are magical engines. In one of the later volumes of the series, a race of elves have bred dragons into supersonic fighter jets.

@scalzi.com And I love that kind of thing when done well.

@scalzi.com I prefer science fiction to fantasy but I don’t make a Thing about it, like Some People do (or did — I think perhaps this controversy died in the 90s, and good riddance to it). I literally have friends who are fantasy writers.

@scalzi.com Science fiction assumes the universe is impersonal and knowable. Fantasy assumes the universe is governed by gods and other supernatural entities and is fundamentally unknowable by humans.