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

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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.

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"

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.)

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.

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.

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? 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?

This is what it looks like to me in Firefox 99 on Windows.

https://imgur.com/a/ohIYfqL

The letter 'a' looks weird

For me, it's unreadable on Firefox. It's annoying but readable on Edge.

https://imgur.com/a/jP7SYe4

The odd part is that the user fixed it through changing font «style», unless calrain meant the font-face.

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

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.

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

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.

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