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ONCE upon a time, way back in the innocent year 2008, I founded a blog about science and science fiction called io9. It was a fun job, where I worked with eight or so full-time writers who were, as far as I know, completely human. After I moved on, io9 continued to thrive under the stewardship of some fine biological entities – until last month. That’s when I opened the site to discover one of the most terrible posts ever written, entitled simply “A chronological list of Star Wars movies & TV shows”. Reader, it was neither chronological nor was it a complete list. …