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The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital …
I agree with most of the author's points, but struggled with what is usually anecdotal argument and haphazard reasoning.
I agree with most of the author's points, but struggled with what is usually anecdotal argument and haphazard reasoning.
The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital …
chapter 6 explains that we have to allow for oral tradition to be considered good evidence.
chapter 7 explains that people's memories are extremely fallible and biased, and so we shouldn't trust what people say without solid backing evidence.
both can be valuable perspectives, but goddamn if you're going to espouse both you better have a cogent idea of how to reconcile them. (Millar doesn't, so far.)
chapter 6 explains that we have to allow for oral tradition to be considered good evidence.
chapter 7 explains that people's memories are extremely fallible and biased, and so we shouldn't trust what people say without solid backing evidence.
both can be valuable perspectives, but goddamn if you're going to espouse both you better have a cogent idea of how to reconcile them. (Millar doesn't, so far.)
The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital …
so far, the author has given definitions of terms like fact, data, information, and evidence. and then gone on to write how evidence and truth are social constructs. which is true, but if this is to be a worthwhile polemic, it will need to advocate for particular social constructions over others. otherwise this is just throwing out words and metaphorically shrugging.
The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital …
Chapter 1 is pure polemic. ironically, it has no real evidence of the value of evidence. though perhaps this will be a properly outlined book that makes subsequent chapter detail the evidence for evidence.
The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital technologies have opened the door …
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
May be a bit before I get to the review, as I am at a big conference for work this week.
The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital technologies have opened the door …
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
The apartment was smaller than Asuka expected: a genkan leading to a small living room with a synthetic tatami floor, and narrow kitchen, a bathroom with an ofuro, and two small bedrooms.
— The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei (Page 558)
New words: genkan, tatami, ofuro
Genkan: the entryway in a Japanese house
Tatami: a rush-covered straw mat forming a traditional Japanese floor covering.
Ofuro: Furo (風呂), or the more common and polite form ofuro (お風呂), is a Japanese bath and/or bathroom. Specifically it is a type of bath which originated as a short, steep-sided wooden bathtub
Content warning Vaguely spoilery
Ok. It finally got interesting about 20 pages later. I guess I'm in for the long haul.
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
Content warning Vaguely spoilery
So Asuka is investigating, just poorly and haphazardly. The fact that multiple anomalies are ignored to highlight them as Chekhovs guns speaks to the ham handed writing and incompetent skills of the characters.
The desire to DNF this grows, but I'm also invested. I need to make up my mind soon.
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
I may DNF this book. The premise is that Asuka is a crew member on a ship traveling to establish a colony on another world. But while on a spacewalk, an explosion rips a hole in the side of the ship, knocks Asuka out, and kills her friend Kat.
We're now a day after the sabotage, and there's no indication of a proper investigation. Just a lot of people moping and navel-gazing about their situations.
I'm all for feelings, but how does a space ship have people who can't work and have feelings at the same time??
I may DNF this book. The premise is that Asuka is a crew member on a ship traveling to establish a colony on another world. But while on a spacewalk, an explosion rips a hole in the side of the ship, knocks Asuka out, and kills her friend Kat.
We're now a day after the sabotage, and there's no indication of a proper investigation. Just a lot of people moping and navel-gazing about their situations.
I'm all for feelings, but how does a space ship have people who can't work and have feelings at the same time??
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
She drifted toward one of the hydroponic stacks and fingered the mizuna tendrils growing there.
— The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei (Page 252)
New word: mizuna
a Japanese mustard (Brassica rapa nipposinica synonym B. rapa japonica) having mild tasting deeply dissected leaves used especially in salads
(This is the first word where my Kobo provided an unhelpful definition. The posted definition comes from Merriam-Webster.)
Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. …
Standard Jack Reacher. Teacher blows into town. Gets hassled and rather than move on, decides to mess with the people who hassled him
The preposterous part is the entire town of Despair Colorado is complicit. Even more preposterous is that no one talks. They just run Reacher right out of town for mysterious reasons. But if you can suspend disbelief on that, the rest falls into place.
Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. …
DU dust was believed to be strongly hygroscopic.
— Nothing to Lose by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #12) (Page 938 - 939)
New word: hygroscopic
(Of a substance) tending to absorb moisture from the air.
Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. …
The shoulders were straight and the camber was good.
— Nothing to Lose by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #12) (Page 475)
New word: camber
The slightly convex or arched shape of a road or other horizontal surface
