A Queerer Bujold

Jun 2021
Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell – Orbit, 2021
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I do not engage with social media very much. I appreciate the opportunities it offers for communicating with others, but the fact that everything on which you express an opinion by clicking, commenting or liking is ruthlessly categorised (appropriately or not) and fed to the Panoptic Algorithm makes it something of a devil's bargain. Yes, the cost of providing such a service needs to be covered somehow, but a small, honest subscription, similar to the one typically paid for TV streaming services or mobile phone access, would be better than the duplicitous "agreement" buried in a mass of legalese to which you indicate consent when you sign up. Thanks to my avoidance behaviour, the Algorithm's recommended books for me are generally pretty terrible - it still hasn't figured out that I like variety in the genres and authors I read rather than more of the same - but just occasionally it serves up something good. Like this.
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