William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things":
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116245164337719643
Ahh, good thing I saw that he was moving over from Twitter. We're still doing this thing in Seattle in July
Things are falling apart over there, too. We may have to consider migrating as some point as well. 😬
https://www.meetup.com/tezos-seattle/events/313542493/?eventOrigin=your_events
