So BoingBoing — in an effort to stave off the boredom caused by posting the same damn thing over and over again, presumably (it’s a japanese paper iPhone watch — made of unicorns! Today on BoingBoing Ocho.) asked noted b-list transhumanist Charles Platt to be a guestblogger. All good times, until Charles Platt unleashed the LATE NIGHT GLOBAL WARMING DENIALISM BLITZKREIG!
Witness: the great BoingBoing war of 2009:
In the crazy-ass denialist corner we have noted non-expert and science fiction author CHARLES PLATT! Aaaaaand he’s coming out strong:
Boom!
Blaow!
Ker-flap! (oookay a little heavy on the self-published books by loons, Chuck, but I like your aggresion)
OH! And nobody expects the WHAP!
AND in this corner, wearing the NERD PURPLE trunks, we have noted non-expert and science fiction author CORY DOCTOROW with his UNDEFEATED RECORD on HIS OWN BLOG:
Pow!
Bang-o!
Slam-a-lam!
Hrrrrumph!
WHO WILL EMERGE TRIUMPHANT? Only Gregg Easterbrook knows for sure.
One thing’s for sure: it won’t be Bangladesh! Hahaheehoohahoohah, heh, woo.
Seriously, much as I’m irritated by global warming denialism, you have to kind of love Charles Platt’s tactical instincts. That man has played some Starshipfleet Battles, mark my words.
February 4, 2009 at 6:42 am
Starfleet Battles??!!! Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time. You’ve just put a hop in my step for the rest of the day.
February 4, 2009 at 10:49 am
cory doctorow is the kind of guy who annoys me even as he is on “my” side, if by “my” i mean the side of people who are not total fucking clueless fucktards.
of course, this is standard discovery institute bullshit he allowed a forum for.
starfleet battles was fucking awesome on the vax system at UMASS in teh late 70s.
February 4, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Is Chaz the same dipshit guestblogging there that ran a pro-Walmart fluff (“anyone can work here it’s so great!”) post?
February 4, 2009 at 1:34 pm
The very same.
February 4, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I would have predicted the transhumanism as a trifecta if I hadn’t already been alerted above. I wonder when he first bookmarked Tech Central Station.
So glad to know he writes for Wired.
February 4, 2009 at 5:02 pm
The real message here of course is:
“Masked man sticks up convenience store with a Klingon sword.” — C. doctorow
Klingons, as we all know, are native to Bangladesh. I have noticed many Bangladesh emmigrees working in the local pizza joint; clearly this Klingon being driven from his ancestral home by g.w. was in turn driven from his job by native Americans who were in turn driven from THEIR jobs by the economic depression and had to make do the only way he knew how; the way he learnt on the hard streets of Klingon Prime (Bangladesh for you culturally unsophisticated out there)… The dots were hard to connect, the ‘plans within plans’ hard to see, until I found the awesome Al Gore/Evul Gov’t flow chart in one of your links. This is an bit of insightful work, Thwifu. I fear for intargalach civulization…
February 4, 2009 at 5:41 pm
BoingBoing is Sweden’s hottest all-lady, chimp, disco-rock band.
February 4, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Yeah, add in the cryogenic storage stuff (which I guess goes along with the transhumanist stuff) and you’ve got one of those tech-as-religion guys.
Robert Green: I agree. Even when (or especially when) he’s right you just want to punch him in the face. I was so pissed off after reading “Down and Out” because 1) the main character is clearly him, and 2) he’s a total douche, making asshole move after asshole move and expecting sympathy for it in the end because it came from the heart or some such bullshit.
February 6, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Guys, I was all over that. It was so much fun.
(hi andy)
February 6, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Signing off
Posted by Charles Platt, February 6, 2009 9:05 AM | permalink
I’ve decided to wind up my guest blogging a couple days early, but I want to thank Mark Frauenfelder for offering me the unique and wonderful opportunity to post here. Thanks Mark.
February 6, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Hi.
February 7, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Um I am a little late to the party here, but did you notice this has a nice tie into your previous post? A guy who not only smokes but admittedly sold dope once can also be a Super Bowl MVP.
And Rothle…Rothiles…Rothelisbu..Big Ben rocks. He is an amazing talent. For instance, who was the guy last year that failed to bring his team back at the end of the game? People say he’s pretty good, don’t they? Cinch Hall-of-Fame, it’s believed. Given that failure, how can they hate on Ben, who actually succeeded behind maybe the worst O-line to ever enter the playoffs.
February 16, 2009 at 8:38 am
Boingboing’s masters, for all their faith in the much-vaunted moderation skills of Teresa Neilsen Hayden, have forgotten Rule One of online forum moderation: Do Not Feed the Troll. Charles Platt has been a troll, online and off, for more than forty years.