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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Their wordsIf you want to have a confidential conversation via a video conferencing call, you really, REALLY should ban all auto-transcripts and "AI" notetakers.
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Their wordsgo to meetings! cause problems on purpose! drag your local government (and the world) closer to a state of perfection in tiny steps!
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Local governments can question whether a data center is the best use of their community’s resources.
Their wordsYou can ask the question of whether a data center is the highest and best use of your community's resources.
- 3 months earlier
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In difficult policy fights you will often lose, but you can choose to lose well rather than badly.
Their wordsYou 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.
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New Mexico is a resource-cursed petrostate whose politicians vote accordingly on climate.
Their wordsMight I remind everyone that New Mexico is a resource-cursed petrostate, and many of our elected Democratic officials vote accordingly?
- 8 days earlier
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Their wordsMy 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.
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Their words‘Incent’ is not a verb. You cannot ‘incent’ anything.
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Their wordsIt is not only possible, but desirable under the correct circumstances to write in first, third, or even second person omni.
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Their wordswe'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