[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 want to read the rest of that story
@pzriddle @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
I think it concludes with him realizing that the bright blue manda grass suggests inadequate nutrients in the soil, and him donning his space overalls and digging in a soil amendment.
@pzriddle @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
Not many people realize that Gardener's Monthly was taking SF submissions in those days.