Hello, hello! Humans Meeting Humans is a free IRL meet-up open to the public that happens every 3rd Thursday at Stonecloud in OKC. It's been going since late last summer or so, and having been to a couple of them, I can attest that it's a chill time! I usually forget to share it here, but this month, I'm a guest co-host while the regular hosts are out on tour. We usually have some activities, art stuff, games, snacks, etc plus nameless name tags to help break the ice. (you just put what your interests are, like in the graphic here) 7 PM until close this Thursday, March 19th, if you're available & feeling the draw to connect with some folks outside of the algorithm.

For some reason, I can't add this book to my shelf, but I'm about a quarter of the way through Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. I get that it's a classic of science fiction for how it imagines the immense enlightenment of second, third, and fourth dimensional space, and it's my go-to allegory on the subject. So far, I really dislike it, though. I know it's old, but it's still shockingly sexist and classist to my sensibilities. It also creates lore wholecloth that isn't necessary to underscore the point of the thought experiment, and unless our author Edwin Abbott explains himself later on, I'm convinced he hasn't thought it all the way through to its many conclusions. If the isosceles people are so prevented from achieving the ranks of the polygons, but equilateral people are so easily graduated into having more sides, the middle class of Flatland is going to disappear in only a handful of generations, and not into the lower class, as is the case in my reality today, but into the circle realm, which just doesn't stand to reason given the power dynamics of the revered yet gatekept circle class. Flatland is revolutionary in its base concept, but for me, it's the epitome of not throwing out the baby with the bathwater in short novel form. And this bathwater stinks.

How are you guys doing?

.Floating City

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