It terrifies me. As a voracious reader with a wretched short/long term memory, I have no idea where most of this ::waves hand in general head area::: comes from. What if I accidently commit plagiarism? Or I'm completely full of bullshit most of the time. What if someone takes an off-the-cuff comment I made seriously?

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From Is this Great Overlord Nick Denton's vision at work?
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My knee jerk response is no. But reading this article, to paraphrase some quote misremembered on Pinterest, life is being able to entertain a thought before automatically rejecting it. And then shades of grey sunk in. Would I support authors, artists, and others who are Republicans? Pro life? Religious? Atheists?…

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From Can you support an artist whose opinions you find hateful?
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Thank you for this. This is probably the best, most honest article I've read on io9. It reminds me of the line from Matilda: "So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world likes ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a…

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From How science fiction helped me through my grief
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