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Is there anything that Doctorow actually enjoys and likes? I used to read his blog but it's constant negativity. He is not wrong at all but it's just not good f

• hn_acker 8mo ago
  He enjoys writing [1], takes pride in making his collages [2], reviews sci-fi books every once in a while [3][4], and oh wow what is he doing [5]: > Oh, nothing, just individually locating and downloading 9.5gb worth of (200+) high-rez (3600px wide) scans out of a 16th C book of extremely satisfying machine from the Library of Congress, one at a time, labeling them, and putting them in a folder for future collage work. [1] https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/ [2] https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/03/cannier-valley/ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/03/cannier-valley/ [3] https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/04/slice-bees/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/04/slice-bees/ [4] https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/02/constant-reader/ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/02/constant-reader/ [5] https://bsky.app/profile/doctorow.pluralistic.net/post/3mgpzqqxly22t https://bsky.app/profile/doctorow.pluralistic.net/post/3mgpz...
• zombot 8mo ago
  He calls out the things that need to be called out. It's in the nature of those things that it's not unicorns and rainbows.