I pay for Kagi Search, it’s awesome. It’s got a ton of useful features you’d never see in advertising-based search engines, like the ability to up and down rank sites.

I have no advice but I’ve been thinking the same way. I like LLMs, I use LLMs, but the “shove an LLM into every product and call it more valuable” approach is not sustainable and it will fail. Hopefully not as a full on bubble collapsing economy thing, but it’s only a matter of time (I’d guess a year tops) until companies have to start admitting to losses and investors start retreating.

Hopefully someone with some decent economic knowledge will drop some advice, but frankly I doubt anyone can do much better than guess (or parrot old advice) what will be least impacted. Intuitively tech stocks are the ones that will be hurt, maybe it’s manufacturing stuff that will stay more stable, but it’s all such a complicated web of interdependency who knows.

At that point the pebbles just become rocks for you throw back at them.

Definitely not getting many pebbles I’d wager.

Yeah, you’re spot on. It’s not heavy handed, but the eye color caste/class stuff is not supposed to be seen as a positive for sure.

If you like fantasy, he is writing some of the best out there right now. The Stormlight series is planned as 10 books, 5 so far, so if you want to “try it out” you might want to start elsewhere. His Mistborn trilogy is outstanding, and the first book can actually stand alone so you don’t feel like committing. It’s also got some good social commentary in the world building about class systems etc.

If you don’t like fantasy, then probably not worth your time.

If it were a glorification of that concept, then sure, but it’s not. Most of the time spent on that particular bit of world building it to point out what a stupid system it is.

I had to check if I was in the Lemmy equivalent to /r/cremposting… There is one but it’s dead, oh well.

For context, in the Stormlight Archive fantasy series, eye color determines social standing. Blue or green eyes are “light eyes”, and are like nobility. Whereas “dark eyes” are commoners, laborers, etc. There are quite a few few linguistic things related to that, so your thought could fit right in.

Let’s go girls

Was this the story that he was using some sort of inserted sex toy to get info? I don’t follow chess but that’s obviously a very memorable headline. What was the follow up story, that it was just blatantly untrue?

This makes a lot of the plot in Avowed take on a very different tone.

Whatever happened to this comic? His website, Reddit, Instagram, all just end a few years ago.

“Look sir, all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.”