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@forestfjord

This is lovely.

Proverbs 30:24-28 talks about four small creatures of the earth that are exceedingly wise.

Ants, rock gophers, locusts and spiders.

Or is it Ants, hyraxes, locusts and *lizards*?

I am confident that the ants *are* ants. But who could confuse a lizard and a spider? Must be some confusing word that means both.

@akareilly @Virginicus

"duck to the face" is a phrase that William Gibson gets hung up on in one of his books.

Something visceral about the sequence of words.

A quote from Pattern Recognition

William Gibson — ‘He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.’

(www.goodreads.com)

@BoysenberryCider

You have confused me. Are you proposing one of those campaigns to poison training data in some way... to build a new connection between "antifa" and inconvenient and wrong aspects of neoliberalisms?

You kind of outpaced me a little here. I so I need to check that I understand what you are saying.

@u0421793 @Virginicus

You know, I think you maybe correct.

@Virginicus

On the origins of the word "antagonist":

Anyone who gives agony to ants is bad, obviously. Therefore the "ant agonist" is the one in the story who makes the ants miserable. The bad guy.

(I know this isn't the real etymology but it is the true *entomology* of my heart)

@c0dec0dec0de

I love this and will steal it for the OTHER ant story I've been working on where the ants have their own planet and it's like Victorian England for some reason.

(It's a much more fun and playful world and this belongs in it.)

@lukyan

It's very similar to that.

Arrest this John Mastodon NOW.

@itgrrl

The "liminal spaces" online communities have had a huge influence on me. Some very important and moving art seeps out of those communities.

Important as in relevant to this particular historical and social moment.

@shapr

murmuration of birds?

myrmerations

@davep

Very suspicious I think we have found the leader!

In a way the problem he's trying to solve in the story is a kind of antagonist. His research into maritime warfare and armaments is itself a character in the story. And because it *is* a character someone will write a fan fiction about the man in some kind of romance with his research. Can you imagine?

It's not cannon, this ship of thesis.

They are already trying to use this tech to "find the ring leaders of antifa"

Because this type of person is very invested in the idea that even his enemies (who hate hierarchies) must still have them.

There must be a man somewhere at the center of it all. There must be an organization with badges and secret titles.

It can't just be an emergent set of aligning values (widely loved by living things of all kinds) that keeps ruining their shining city on the hill. That keeps saying "no."

@cocoadog

psammophory is silicone armor.
something something... computers... the power of the network.

@burnitdown

But going on this:

Exuberant Ant-Themed Science Fiction Propaganda Book?

(This would be a title for a comedy. It's SF drama. )

@toolbear @cstross

This seems like good advice to keep in mind.

@Hellybootwader

This has legs.

Six of them, I think.

@sahqon

I would also enjoy that.

@apophis @emilymbender

There are many gullible rich people who think they can use AI to control public opinion, to gird the loins of their already massive power.

I tend to think this will fail spectacularly and hilariously. But... IDK talk me out of that if you can.

@burnitdown

Too goofy.

I need a title that's a little more pretentious feeling.