ok! hello! Hi, stranger! what a delight to be found, by whatever means (although since I am obsessed with information flows, I'm interested for like...technical reasons, since I always assume I'm invisible? Anyway.)

Alex & Ada sounds beyond infuriating; does the writer not see the potential in robot alterations, or are they not interested in it? (Rhetorical, although you're welcome to answer/speculate).

Jacob's Ladder looks off the wall and exactly my speed of being wildly confused from page 1. Lovely. Elizabeth Bear has been in my circle for ages, but it's nice to have a starting place.1. [a fake footnote]

The Swirsky piece! I love! It hit, actually, at a more personal trope)?) for me about freedom and how the power to stay and the power to leave and the power to return are all, actually, the same freedom? I adore, adore, adore, the ending: that it is not about walking into the sunset, but about walking into and then, if it makes sense, back out of. I mean, I loved other things as well, especially coping with the consequences of letting people love you the way they want or need to. Many thanks! And also, intriguingly for me, while I really loved it and intellectually connected, it didn't viscerally get at my body feeling. I am surprised, and exceedingly pleased to have it as a datapoint for the above!


1. I originally read your MoE as a rec, not as "if this, then that" and...said some things I liked, so I am keeping it for reference purposes:
It's hard to parse, I think, because Lee's technology is so obscured that I can't even tell how to categorize it or understand, really, how his characters are conceptualizing their tech in world.