[what precedent might this be? A further blurring of identity, loss of distinction between oneself and The Corporation.]
Google Takes a Page Out of Twitter's Book: Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee
Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace."
https://gizmodo.com/google-invites-employees-to-sleep-on-campus-for-a-fee-1850709102
thanks to @vvandinsky
@vvandinsky And here's the flash-fiction (really short) science-fiction story I wrote about Google...
https://medium.com/@johnshirley/to-live-and-die-in-googletown-cfcc2ea4d9d4
Speaking of short SF about Google, in Raymond Chandler's correspondence he writes the most extraordinary passage. This was in 1953:
@pieist @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky I didn’t know Chandler was an Alfred Bester fan
@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
Ha! I got more of an Eric Frank Russell feel from it.
@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
I'll be damned, I had never thought to wonder where the band Haircut One Hundred got the name for their one and only album, "Pelican West". I just assumed they liked the sound of it.
I've just now learned that Eric Frank Russell's first published story was called "The Saga of Pelican West". Never republished. As far as I can tell nobody on the internet has made this connection before. Anyway, here's the story on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/sim_astounding-science-fiction_1937-02_18_6/page/12/mode/2up?view=theater