Sign in with Facebook
“These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves.”
― The Door into Summer
― The Door into Summer
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.” Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.”
― The Door into Summer
― The Door into Summer
“That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street.”
― The Door into Summer
― The Door into Summer
“In the classic children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed animal becomes “real” because of a child’s love. Tamagotchis do not wait passively but demand attention and claim that without it they will not survive. With this aggressive demand for care, the question of biological aliveness almost falls away. We love what we nurture; if a Tamagotchi makes you love it, and you feel it loves you in return, it is alive enough to be a creature.”
― Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
― Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“The drone told him one in ten of the people he passed on the street would be treated for mental illness at some point in their lives. The figure was higher for males than for apices, and higher for females than either. The same applied to the rates of suicide, which was illegal. Flere-Imsaho directed him to a hospital. It was typical, the drone said. Like the whole area, it was about average for the greater city. The hospital was run by a charity, and many of the people working there were unpaid. The drone told him everybody would assume he was a disciple there to see one of his flock, but anyway the staff were too busy to stop and quiz everybody they saw in the place. Gurgeh walked through the hospital in a daze.”
― The Player of Games
― The Player of Games
Jesse’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jesse’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
731 books
|
256 friends
223 books
|
459 friends
56 books
|
56 friends
891 books
|
34 friends
625 books
|
68 friends
3,913 books
|
2,464 friends
176 books
|
95 friends
309 books
|
124 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Jesse
Lists liked by Jesse
