We. Are. Doomed.

[mshdk@mastodon.social]

@cstross Carl Sagan’s demon haunted world sounds more and more like a prophecy

[holliek72@mastodonapp.uk]

@cstross

He's slightly exaggerating the amount of Whys this "book" answers.

[grimmware@chaos.social]

@cstross @lcamtuf

[ariels@hachyderm.io]

@cstross Also appearing in the samples is this brilliant diagram of the phases of the moon. Ignore how the broken scale, which would make the diagram incomprehensible even if correct. There is what looks like a separate display for what is seen from the Earth and from... somewhere else I guess? Anyway apparently the sun lights up the far side of the "waning crescent moon (7)" moon.
The diagram is so confusing I don't even understand what it was meant to be, or how to fix it.

[internetsdairy@mastodon.art]

@ariels @cstross why it simply bounces its light off the earth

[cmdrsprocket@mathstodon.xyz]

@ariels @cstross moreover waning and waxing is mixed up.

[misjavanlaatum@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cstross I feel dirty, but I lowkey want this book. Something like this is most likely transient: it will only be around for a short while.

[petealexharris@mastodon.scot]

@cstross
This offends me to the point where I view it as a malicious attack on childhood.

[yojimbo@masto.hackers.town]

@cmdrSprocket @ariels @cstross That probably explains why my legs are still hairy, dammit

[cmdrsprocket@mathstodon.xyz]

@yojimbo @ariels @cstross Werewolf vibes?

[yojimbo@masto.hackers.town]

@cmdrSprocket @ariels @cstross Only when it's that time of the month ...

[yojimbo@masto.hackers.town]

@cmdrSprocket @ariels @cstross Could be spiderman of course ...

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@cstross Tripod kitty is a thing of nightmares!!

[kaito02@mastodon.social]

@cstross Any book nerds still willing to defend reading?

[fossfor@mastodon.art]

@cstross 🫣

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@kaito02 You know what I do for a living, right?

[5cifigirl@starbase80.wtf]

@cstross

Wtf

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@catsalad @cstross

"Your Mad Scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

[arne_mertz@mastodon.social]

@cstross if you make the categories small enough, everything is #1
"#1 best selling encyclopedia for kids generated by a slop bot on virtual meth"

[kookie@toot.cat]

@cstross Absolute nightmare fuel. I can only hope those reviews are bot-ed too