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Their words
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Arkady Martine
Pen name of AnnaLinden Weller, American science fiction author and Byzantinist; her Teixcalaan novels A Memory Called Empire (2019) and A Desolation Called Peace (2021) each won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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What they believe
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Confidential video calls should ban automatic transcripts and AI notetakers.
If you want to have a confidential conversation via a video conferencing call, you really, REALLY should ban all auto-transcripts and "AI" notetakers.
bsky.appSaid 2 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Citizens should go to boring local-government meetings, because that is how things improve in small steps.
go to meetings! cause problems on purpose! drag your local government (and the world) closer to a state of perfection in tiny steps!
bsky.appSaid 10 Jul 2026This on korrents
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Citizens should go to boring local-government meetings, because that is how things improve in small steps.Their words
go to meetings! cause problems on purpose! drag your local government (and the world) closer to a state of perfection in tiny steps!
20 May
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Local governments can question whether a data center is the best use of their community’s resources.Their words
You can ask the question of whether a data center is the highest and best use of your community's resources.
13 February
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In difficult policy fights you will often lose, but you can choose to lose well rather than badly.Their words
You will lose sometimes. Even often. But you can lose badly - shrink away from ambition, give concessions to the opposition for free, stop trying at all - or you can lose well.
11 February
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New Mexico is a resource-cursed petrostate whose politicians vote accordingly on climate.Their words
Might I remind everyone that New Mexico is a resource-cursed petrostate, and many of our elected Democratic officials vote accordingly?
3 February
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Their words
My favorite (derogatory) climate denier argument: emissions reduction in one state will not fix all of climate change, so we shouldn’t do anything. A perfect distillation of the sterile cult of individualism, right there.
14 November 2025
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Their words
‘Incent’ is not a verb. You cannot ‘incent’ anything.
13 October 2025
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Their words
It is not only possible, but desirable under the correct circumstances to write in first, third, or even second person omni.
29 September 2025
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we've got to ask people to do good things that they can do, and which help them, rather than asking them to volunteer for an emotionally devastating existential-threat experience without exits into action
28 June 2024
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Korrents What they believe 9 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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Confidential video calls should ban automatic transcripts and AI notetakers.
If you want to have a confidential conversation via a video conferencing call, you really, REALLY should ban all auto-transcripts and "AI" notetakers.
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 2 Oct 2026
Citizens should go to boring local-government meetings, because that is how things improve in small steps.
go to meetings! cause problems on purpose! drag your local government (and the world) closer to a state of perfection in tiny steps!
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 10 Jul 2026
Local governments can question whether a data center is the best use of their community’s resources.
You can ask the question of whether a data center is the highest and best use of your community's resources.
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 20 May 2026
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In difficult policy fights you will often lose, but you can choose to lose well rather than badly.
You will lose sometimes. Even often. But you can lose badly - shrink away from ambition, give concessions to the opposition for free, stop trying at all - or you can lose well.
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 13 Feb 2026
New Mexico is a resource-cursed petrostate whose politicians vote accordingly on climate.
Might I remind everyone that New Mexico is a resource-cursed petrostate, and many of our elected Democratic officials vote accordingly?
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 11 Feb 2026
Arguing that one state’s emissions cuts are pointless because they will not fix climate change alone is a cult of individualism.
My favorite (derogatory) climate denier argument: emissions reduction in one state will not fix all of climate change, so we shouldn’t do anything. A perfect distillation of the sterile cult of individualism, right there.
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 3 Feb 2026
“Incent” is not a word; business jargon should stay out of the language.
‘Incent’ is not a verb. You cannot ‘incent’ anything.
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 14 Nov 2025
Fiction can and sometimes should be written in second-person or omniscient narration.
It is not only possible, but desirable under the correct circumstances to write in first, third, or even second person omni.
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 13 Oct 2025
Climate advocates should ask people to take helpful actions rather than offer them existential dread without a way to act.
we've got to ask people to do good things that they can do, and which help them, rather than asking them to volunteer for an emotionally devastating existential-threat experience without exits into action
@byzantienne.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 29 Sept 2025
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