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0 pointsCamperBob26mo ago0 comments

The other thing is that the missing books can be created on demand and published in a couple of hours, using the same tech that mistakenly added them to the list in the first place.

They'll suck, of course, but so do most of the books on any given "Summer Reading Guide."

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throwway1203856mo ago

So it's a sort of "reverse memory hole" where things that never existed contemporaneously to the list can now be given life to invalidate fact checking.

CamperBob2OP6mo ago

Which just reminds us that the committee who awarded the Nobel Prize to Kissinger and Arafat is the same one that overlooked Borges and Eco.

addaon6mo ago

No. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, while the Literature prize and the other prizes defined by Nobel’s will are awarded by the Swedish Academy.

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