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Benedict Bridgerton's Blind Spots
Your Honour, my Client, Mr Benedict Bridgerton, is a good man, but his upbringing has left him rather an idiot. This is not to suggest that Mr Bridgerton is a bad person, but merely that the extreme privilege of his lifestyle has left him with some exceedingly large blind spots.
By Natasja Rose2 days ago in BookClub
There Is Only One True Unreliable Narrator...
The unreliable narrator: A new trend in the literary fiction world, usually also falling under the category of unlikeable narrator and plotless fiction. I think, in many ways, the tiktok-afication of this term has pulled it away from what it actually means and is often used as a synonym for an unlikeable narrator.
By The Austen Shelf10 days ago in BookClub
The Other Woman in My Marriage Wasn’t a Stranger
When I first picked up "MY HUSBAND'S WIFE" book to read, I expected a dramatic story about betrayal and rivalry. The title suggests something bold and emotional, but what I found instead was a much more reflective and human narrative. This is not just a story about two women connected by one man. It is a story about how people understand themselves through love, memory, and comparison.
By Rosalina Jane16 days ago in BookClub
From Babel to Code
Abstract This article argues that the central intellectual provocation in Neal Stephenson’s *Snow Crash* is neither the Metaverse as a virtual geography nor the novel’s satirical political economy, but the idea of language as a virus: a transmissible code capable of poisoning cognition, reshaping bodily behaviour, and reorganising social order. Stephenson links this viral model to the Tower of Babel as a myth of linguistic fracture and control, then projects it into a modern world where computer languages become the operational substrate of intelligent machines. The contemporary paradox is that large language models, built on formal code and computational syntax, increasingly mediate everyday human expression. Rather than machines corrupting a pure natural language, the argument developed here proposes the reverse: natural human language is itself unstable, illogical, and socially dangerous, and humans increasingly require technological filters to write, speak, and reason coherently. In an emergent environment where utterances are recorded, searchable, and algorithmically judged, language becomes less disposable and more accountable. The article concludes by interpreting this ‘global library’ condition as a new stage of linguistic civilisation, in which the risk of viral speech persists, yet the possibility of responsible language use expands through machine-assisted memory, verification, and form.
By Peter Ayolov16 days ago in BookClub
The Planned Obsolescence of the Jedi Order
“Bound by temples and codes, the Force grows thin, for flow it must, not sit in stone. When orders cling to their names, blind they become to the living light. Only when the old walls fall does the Force remember how to breathe.”
By Peter Ayolov16 days ago in BookClub
Verizon Outage Disrupts Millions Across the United States
Verizon Outage Disrupts Millions Across the United States A major Verizon outage recently disrupted wireless voice, text messaging, and mobile data services for millions of users across the United States. The disruption affected users in many major cities, leaving phones unable to connect to the network and forcing devices into emergency-only mode. The outage highlighted how dependent individuals, businesses, and emergency services have become on reliable mobile networks and raised concerns about the potential consequences of such disruptions. Verizon confirmed the problem and stated that engineers were actively working to restore services as quickly as possible.
By America today 19 days ago in BookClub
