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@GyrosGeier @cstross @MishaVanMollusq I’m utterly convinced that book references the A1(M) deliberately.
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@GyrosGeier @cstross @MishaVanMollusq I don't know if Hamilton has any connection to the localities connected by the (real) A1(M), but when "The Great North Road" came out he did a double-act signing tour with Stephen Baxter, who (probably coincidentally) does.

@MishaVanMollusq @cstross @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social

Manchile in WETWARE was inspired by Phil Dick's "The Golden Man." And I wanted him to do the opposite of humans putting their minds inro robots...he was a (meat-based) robot who put his mind into a human fetus by having extra DNA. As he put it, "Let's miscegenate, baby, I've got two-tail sperm!".

Possible pick-up line?

@rudytheelder @cstross @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social It was the news article about Elon Musk becoming a dealer for his own “perfect” sperm that made me think of Manchile, then the other item about him impregnating his female employees.
The only option for the 14-20 spawnlings is that he’s secretly an Post Abraham Era Jewish Patriarch.
Whoa…wouldn’t it derail his TechBroeh Nazi Schtick if he and his extended Racist Family were Jewish?

@MishaVanMollusq @rudytheelder @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Those creeps are not ideologically coherent. But if you view them through the lens of their apparent belief that status is reflected by how many women, cattle, and guns you own then it makes sense. (Ludicrous, abhorrent, late-neolithic warrior god-king values that have nevertheless persisted into an age that is fundmentally incompatible with such mores.)

@cstross @rudytheelder @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social

Elon Musk kinda acts like a virus . A Meat Virus. Or a Von Neumann Machine.

Burroughs has several similar super rich guys in his works…which is where i first encountered the concept.
They really can’t abide the existence of other people…which may be a root cause of Elon’s living in a sim delusion,
now fueled by Vitamin !K.

One true moment of compasion or empathy would crash his personality and he’d go enraged mandrill