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This Interview is a Mistake: A Conversation with R.U. Sirius

jzellis 4y ago
I wrote for Mondo in my late teens and Ken was my friend and mentor. A remarkable man and extremely worthy of recognition and celebration. And a much kinder person than his rep might suggest.
- antiterra 4y ago
  Judith was the same way when I corresponded with her as a youth. Amazed she made the time and had the patience to treat angsty teen me with kind respect.
criddell 4y ago
This is almost unreadable in Windows/Firefox. It's fine on iPad/Safari.
- andyjohnson0 4y ago
  On Firefox/Android the start and end of every line of text is clipped. And the browser isn't offering me reader mode. Basically unreadable.
calrain 4y ago
Right Click, Inspect, Disable Font Style Read article
- mdp2021 4y ago
  ? The font from here is a "folioLight 16px" (after a number of overrides in a horridly messy CSS), remarkably neat, and no special treatment. What was wrong at your site?
  - cecilpl2 4y ago
    This is what it looks like to me in Firefox 99 on Windows. https://imgur.com/a/ohIYfqL https://imgur.com/a/ohIYfqL
  - ricardobayes 4y ago
    The letter 'a' looks weird
  - NikolaNovak 4y ago
    For me, it's unreadable on Firefox. It's annoying but readable on Edge. https://imgur.com/a/jP7SYe4 https://imgur.com/a/jP7SYe4
    - mdp2021 4y ago
      The odd part is that the user fixed it through changing font «style», unless calrain meant the font-face.
- cronix 4y ago
  In Firefox I just disable all custom fonts and resizing. > [General/Language and Appearance/Fonts/Advanced][uncheck] Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above
- genericacct 4y ago
  ctrl-a ctrl-c move to text editor, new. ctrl-v (or shift+ins) also works well. I must say even though it's hard to read that it reminds me visually of a 20th century badly xeroxed zine, which may be appropriate in this case.
neonate 4y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20220509164023/https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles%2Finterview-mistake http://web.archive.org/web/20220509164023/https://spikeartma...
photochemsyn 4y ago
Side note: I don't think 'cyberpunk' really described the work of William Gibson. A better term would have been cybernoir. Take a look at the work of French director Jean-Pierre Melville, or late 1940s American film noir. For example, many "Le Samourai" characters would fit right into a Gibson novel. Maybe it fits a little in that the characters in Gibson novels were generally not the 'leaders of society' that featured so heavily in what is commonly called 'space opera' science fiction, and so his writing style was perhaps as revolutionary in the sci-fi genre at the time as punk was in the pop-music genre.
- na85 4y ago
  The "punk" in cyberpunk comes from the misanthropic nature of so many characters in the seminal works, just like in Neuromancer, and embodied in the trite phrase "high tech; low life"
- uxp100 4y ago
  IIRC the punk in the term cyberpunk was not inspired by the musical genre, which Gibson was not particularly familiar with, but of course they both share common origins in referring to a person as a punk. (and also IIRC at the time the line between punk and new wave was not as clear, patti smith, the ramones, and the Sex Pistols shared little other than an attitude, everything seems clearer in retrospect, it’s a long time since I read londons dreaming or American hardcore or pattis memoir, and anyway, I wasn’t there.)
- mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
  The "punk" in "cyberpunk" basically just refers to the protagonists being punks (i.e. a scumbag) and doesn't really refer to the ideals of "punk" as a subculture. That is to say it's tied to "punk" as a pejorative to mean sleazy lowlifes who are probably drug addicts or criminals or both. Case is a hacker who got busted and Molly is muscle for hire in a very illegal way.

I wrote for Mondo in my late teens and Ken was my friend and mentor. A remarkable man and extremely worthy of recognition and celebration. And a much kinder person than his rep might suggest.

antiterra 4y ago
Judith was the same way when I corresponded with her as a youth. Amazed she made the time and had the patience to treat angsty teen me with kind respect.

criddell 4y ago

This is almost unreadable in Windows/Firefox. It's fine on iPad/Safari.

andyjohnson0 4y ago
On Firefox/Android the start and end of every line of text is clipped. And the browser isn't offering me reader mode. Basically unreadable.

calrain 4y ago

Right Click, Inspect, Disable Font Style Read article

mdp2021 4y ago
? The font from here is a "folioLight 16px" (after a number of overrides in a horridly messy CSS), remarkably neat, and no special treatment. What was wrong at your site?
- cecilpl2 4y ago
  This is what it looks like to me in Firefox 99 on Windows. https://imgur.com/a/ohIYfqL https://imgur.com/a/ohIYfqL
- ricardobayes 4y ago
  The letter 'a' looks weird
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  For me, it's unreadable on Firefox. It's annoying but readable on Edge. https://imgur.com/a/jP7SYe4 https://imgur.com/a/jP7SYe4
  - mdp2021 4y ago
    The odd part is that the user fixed it through changing font «style», unless calrain meant the font-face.
cronix 4y ago
In Firefox I just disable all custom fonts and resizing. > [General/Language and Appearance/Fonts/Advanced][uncheck] Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above
genericacct 4y ago
ctrl-a ctrl-c move to text editor, new. ctrl-v (or shift+ins) also works well. I must say even though it's hard to read that it reminds me visually of a 20th century badly xeroxed zine, which may be appropriate in this case.

neonate 4y ago

http://web.archive.org/web/20220509164023/https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles%2Finterview-mistake http://web.archive.org/web/20220509164023/https://spikeartma...

photochemsyn 4y ago

Side note: I don't think 'cyberpunk' really described the work of William Gibson. A better term would have been cybernoir. Take a look at the work of French director Jean-Pierre Melville, or late 1940s American film noir. For example, many "Le Samourai" characters would fit right into a Gibson novel. Maybe it fits a little in that the characters in Gibson novels were generally not the 'leaders of society' that featured so heavily in what is commonly called 'space opera' science fiction, and so his writing style was perhaps as revolutionary in the sci-fi genre at the time as punk was in the pop-music genre.

na85 4y ago
The "punk" in cyberpunk comes from the misanthropic nature of so many characters in the seminal works, just like in Neuromancer, and embodied in the trite phrase "high tech; low life"
uxp100 4y ago
IIRC the punk in the term cyberpunk was not inspired by the musical genre, which Gibson was not particularly familiar with, but of course they both share common origins in referring to a person as a punk. (and also IIRC at the time the line between punk and new wave was not as clear, patti smith, the ramones, and the Sex Pistols shared little other than an attitude, everything seems clearer in retrospect, it’s a long time since I read londons dreaming or American hardcore or pattis memoir, and anyway, I wasn’t there.)
mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
The "punk" in "cyberpunk" basically just refers to the protagonists being punks (i.e. a scumbag) and doesn't really refer to the ideals of "punk" as a subculture. That is to say it's tied to "punk" as a pejorative to mean sleazy lowlifes who are probably drug addicts or criminals or both. Case is a hacker who got busted and Molly is muscle for hire in a very illegal way.