Christopher Grayson

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Kendyl Pool was born with malformations in her inner ears leaving her deaf. Her mother first discovered @Hearview_ Smart Glasses from Chrissy Marshall's TikTok video (video attached in quoted post), and gave her a pair for her 10th birthday:

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Chrissy Marshall, deaf TikTok'er and her speech-to-text & closed-caption, @Hearview_ smart glasses.
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@tobiasdupree @EzeSecOps I agree.
There is also an opportunity to get him into The Whitehouse:
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Just curious, what is the premise of mine that you reject?

Let’s consider this from a strictly business perspective: women are by far the largest buyers / readers of book. Forget the culture war stuff for a moment—if you are purely profit driven, who do you want to expand your market with?

Also, I kind of cannot bring myself to care. Why? Because the book publishing industry has never had less power, and independent / self-publishers have never had more power.

Yet none of the crybabies in these comments are stepping up.

Don’t think enough books are being written for boys?

Then go write a book.

Want to write for Kindle?
Kindle Create is Amazon’s free book authoring software:

What to write for Apple Books?
Apple’s iBooks Author was rolled-up, and is now a feature within Apple Pages, free with all Macs:

There are also numerous cross platform, free open source ebook authoring packages.

YOU PREFER PHYSICAL BOOK?

There are literally dozens of companies competing in the Print-Books-on-Demand space, that will print one book at a time, as they sell.

Don’t think there are enough good books written for the interests of young men?

Write some.
You have agency, you know.

You don’t have to ask for anyone’s permission, you can just go do things.

There is no excuse.

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@Martuinz @Hamzaonchain 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

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@admcollingwood So the guy who was to be the peace maker in the Middle East—cough, cough—is going to hold a European peace summit in Abu Dhabi, the heart of the Middle East, in the crossfire of the ongoing war with Iran?

I’m highly skeptical of this plan.

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The book publishing industry, like news media, is highly concentrated in NYC, which vote left even harder than SF, and in that regard is only bested by DC.

If it constitutes a “captured institution” (or captured industry), then everyone understands the solution is not to attempt to fight that institution, it is to build a parallel industry or institution.

Individualist?

Even better. Why build a new centralized institution or industry when you can decentralize and build for yourself.

If people feel that good fiction is not being written for young men, then they should write some.

The tools to do so have never been more readily available at everyone’s disposal.

If this is a culture war issue that so many people in these comments feel strongly about, it is not going to be won by kvetching out on social media.

People need to learn to act with agency. Nobody needs to ask for permission.

You can just do things.

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@PhntmWhsprs @Wraithbane @upstatefederlst No, I’m saying that men historically were never heavy fiction readers to begin with, and the one sub-genre where they were—science fiction—changed largely due to cultural changes due to the tech industry, not the publishing industry.

Go read a book.

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@elonmusk @Rothmus What if you’re not rich, or famous, and she’s a 10?

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Everything I wrote is backed up by publishing industry readership data, so no.

Yes, women are now the majority readership for SciFi.

In the 1950s SciFi was 90-95% male readership. Each decade since, the genre picked up more women readers, but ~20 years ago was still heavily male dominated 65%+ male readers.

By 2020 female readers overtook men with 55% of the SciFi readership market, and has continued to skew female readership in the years since.

Hard-science fiction has been in decline, and Cyber-punk near-future SciFi lost a lot of “edginess” because we are literally living most of it (VR, AR, AI, Robots, surveillance society, and hey, Tesla just debuted a flying car!).

Contemporary top-selling SciFi—particularly those focused on young readers—is much more fantasy-fiction (or thrillers) in a science fiction wrapper.

@Grok is welcome to opine.

Below is what Brave had to say:

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Was (past tense).

It’s not “poor logic,” it is backed up by the readership data.

Women completely dominate in fiction readership. They are now even the larger readership for new release contemporary SciFi. Meanwhile, hard-science fiction and near-future SciFi have largely died as sub-genres, and been replaced with SciFi-ish fantasy fiction.

Nonfiction / fact-based, and hard-news coverage periodicals have massive male dominated readership (and the sports section). History books, business books, science book as nonfiction sub-genres are the male dominated readership in nonfiction. That is not anecdotal, that is hard data.

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@BTanglock @Missmamas142852 @Aaronbennett @Av8r07 You’re a bitter woman, and a bigot.

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@unaliveolives @Bunagayafrost Chinese are not “brown” 🙄

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@ISniffElonsMusk @bscholl Hey man, I worked in NYC advertising for years, and had his annual “Winners & Losers” in my calendar.

I don’t know what happened to the guy.

Maybe he was always like this, but didn’t behave this way when wearing his business face.

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@bscholl @profgalloway Thank you, Blake.