As salt sets its seal on your silky skin

[sovay]

I have just been informed that Christopher Nolan, not content to have performed the same indispensable service for the concept of nuclear physics, is now generating discourse about the Odyssey, which I am sure will go over in a respectful and informed fashion on our current internet where every other bright spark has some expert opinion unsullied by such petty considerations as reasonably accurate data that wasn't sicked back up to them by unexamined reception or extractive AI. My contribution to this charybditic scrum is that the Odyssey has too many female characters for me to trust him with it, even before we get to more general reservations about the alienness of the ancient world and its gods who are not reducible to one-stop abstractions or human psychologies writ sky-size. I return to lying on a couch, this time with strange tales of the sea.

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

I have contributed to the discourse on Twitter because I have no self-control. But thrilling (to me), I got likes from Helen DeWitt (!!) on my two tweets.

[sovay]

But thrilling (to me), I got likes from Helen DeWitt (!!) on my two tweets.

That counts as cool!

[muccamukk]

I was about to say "If you don't get into Homeric discourse, you're missing the point of BluSky!" but idk about Twitter. You deserve better than Twitter discourse.

Though Helen DeWitt is very cool.

[lauradi7dw]

The main regret I have about still being on Twitter is that I am (even without ever clicking on an ad) supporting Elon Musk just by existing there. I keep trying with Bluesky, I've followed as many people formerly from Twitter as possible plus new ones. I keep thinking "it will get better with time" and it has - now the percentage of people who are mostly posting self-righteous things about how much better Bluesky is because they've left the fascists behind is lower, but even John Scalzi did one of those yesterday (he was the first person I followed on Twitter to switch, almost the second Bluesky came into existence). Well phooey to you, JS. I'm not a fascist. Really. I block people every day, I've curated my feed pretty carefully, and Bluesky doesn't yet have all the Kpop/embroidery/medieval manuscript marginal pictures/bellringers/specialist food/covid conscious mix that I get every day from twitter.
NBD, but I have a small mechanical problem with Bluesky. I only use the laptop for both of them, not apps on the phone. If I repost something on Bluesky, it gives me grief about scrolling farther down the page without refreshing.

[muccamukk]

Bluesky being so obnoxious about being Bluesky is definetely the least attractive part of the platform.