March 17, 2025

I find it ironic that Elon Musk named one of SpaceX’s drone ships (the “Of Course I Still Love You”) after a starship in a book (The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks) in which the humans of the galactic society frequently change their gender just for the experience of it, and there is only a single genderless pronoun for all sentient species. Oh and the main baddies are an alien race with 3 genders.