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#excession

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Nonilex

And round & round we go

must face ’ lawsuit over alleged

A proposed class-action lawsuit against and his family office can proceed in federal court, a judge ruled Friday, after the centi-billionaire sought to have the case dismissed.

The case is Rasella v. Musk (Case No. 1:22-cv-03026-ALC-GWG) in the SDNY.

courtlistener.com/docket/63230


cnbc.com/2025/03/28/elon-musk-

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Different Drummer

When the late #Scottish author #IainMBanks created The Affront in the science fiction novel #Excession, he was quite pointedly describing us.

Iain divested from Israel - refused to let his books be sold or published there - around the time of the millennial Intifada. He didn't have to wait 'til it was trendy.

He died in 2013, before the Worldcon he was to be the Guest of Honour at, in London.

I'm glad he didn't live to see what's happening now. He'd have hated to be THIS right.

I believe this is from a Wiki:- Affront society is described as being "a never-ending, self-perpetuating holocaust of pain and misery", where the strong prey upon weaker species and individuals. Among the Affront's technological accomplishments is an aptitude for genetic engineering, which they developed long before spaceflight. They use this skill almost exclusively on 'prey species', which tend to be changed so as to provide greater sport (and opportunity for sadism) during the communal hunts forming a major part of the Affront culture. Some examples of these changes include altering game animals to experience heightened levels of fear when recognizing the silhouette of an Affronter, or altering beasts of burden to panic when their masters are excited and thus induce them to pull vehicles faster. One of the few changes to their own species was the redesign of their females to make sex painful for them, a choice exemplary of the reasons they are considered abhorrent by the Culture. "Progress through Pain" is a common Affront slogan.
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Paul Jacobson

I'm re-reading Iain M Banks' books again. I'm currently reading #Excession. The man was a complete genius. His Culture books are my favourite (with Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Children series being a pretty close follow-up).

At some stage Banks published a note declaring the Culture series to be a work of complete fiction. I'm not convinced. 🤔

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