[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
I downloaded a set of Nero Wolfe radio dramas from the 1940s and was listening to them on a tablet I keep by the bedside for that purpose. I was pretty delighted at the end of the first one as they read out the credits, to hear that it was written by Alfred Bester. Later I listened to the last bit of each of them; that was the only one, unfortunately.
@pieist @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky neato.
Have you ever tuned in to Moon Over Morocco?
@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
That is genuinely new to me. It looks intriguing. Where do stream/download/incant by moonlight it from?
@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
If I trigger the quantum uncertainty neuron in my forebrain can I innately comprehend it in its entirety by a full universe-comprehension inference?
@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
Yeah I admit the vast smorgasbord of the unrestricted multiverse has made me spoiled and lazy
@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
Forgive my silliness. I'm interested in listening to it.
@pieist @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky I listed to this during a period when I was reading Burroughs’ letters to Ginsberg…while he was mostly in Tangier
@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky
Which parts of him weren't in Tangier?
I'm sorry I'm a miserable bastard
@pieist @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky you might be interested in this Rucker novel for elaboration
@MishaVanMollusq @pieist @vvandinsky Burroughs letters to Ginsberg kind of put me off both guys, though I've read a lot of WB in my time. Tales of renting little boys in Mexico and stuff.
@JohnShirley2023 @pieist @vvandinsky It has all the back Story on Kiki…who later ended up being a character on The Venture brothers involved with Colonel Gentlemen loosely based on Sean Connery.
Hot claws at the window for three thousand years flown in fresh from the Crab Nebula.
Oh…I just flashed on the Rent Boy scene that squicked you. Very Naked Lunch/Soft Machine scenario
@MishaVanMollusq @pieist @vvandinsky As a victim of child molestation I have little tolerance. We're talking about children, not adult "rent boys". If men want to rent themselves, fine. Children don't choose it. They get stuck doing it, or forced. And it's never good for them, to say the least.
@pieist @MishaVanMollusq @vvandinsky Yes but then your head literally explodes.
@JohnShirley2023 @pieist @vvandinsky for similar reasons as why one should not walk their whippets near @SutroTower
@pieist @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky I don’t know that it’s streamable. I have seen it for sale .
And I just found Episode 1 on YouTube