neponeko·19 วันที่ผ่านมา·discussRich people are panicking because they’ve seen a capital-poor country win a war with cheap drones and want to lock down as many technologies as they can, lest the ruled realize they can actually do something about their rulers.
neponeko·20 วันที่ผ่านมา·discussRight, and half the time they can’t tell what could sell because their thinking is so provincial and rigid.
neponeko·20 วันที่ผ่านมา·discussPublishing houses will screen fiction for well-written and interesting fiction.Why would they start now?
neponeko·20 วันที่ผ่านมา·discussAt every step, a human had the opportunity to say "no, this is bad". And the fact that they didn't is a vote of quality and reputation.Romantic image. Doesn’t hold. Traditional publishing has pushed out lots of poorly edited slop for decades; it didn’t start in 2022.