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SFRuminations, (edited ) to scifi
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New SF esoterica for the collection!

yunchtime,
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@SFRuminations

not familiar with this book. it looks good!

chriswho, to random
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yunchtime,
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@chriswho

subvertising and agit-prop are the only solution to the dialed in advertising nightmare we live in.

cstross, to random
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Today's writing: what if Doctor Phibes murdered and impersonated Max, owner of the KitKatKlub, in order to run an elaborate sting against Doctor Mabuse—film recap, starring Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rampling, and Peter Cushing.

yunchtime,
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@cstross

yes, please!

yunchtime, to random
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Apparently Facebook and Meta have a blanket policy to block articles about our ongoing climate change crisis. See the latest from Kansas:
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

yunchtime, to random
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“gentrification”, in the 1960s, [was about] replacing the squalor of urban rented housing with a new class of younger owner-occupiers. Today it connotes the ritualistic slaughter of social housing and the elimination of the urban poor.

Early gentrification was offset by radical councils such as Lambeth aiming to achieve a surplus of high-quality social housing in order to abolish the need for waiting lists and qualification criteria.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-landlords-surprisingly-simple-solution-to-uk-housing-crisis

SFRuminations, to scifi
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Short Story Review: Kōbō Abe’s “The Flood” (1950, trans. 1989) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/03/22/short-story-review-kobo-abes-the-flood-1950-trans-1989/

Rachel S. Cordasco, of SF in Translation, also contributes a review!

yunchtime,
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@SFRuminations

the two on the left are my favorite books by Abe, after Woman in the Dunes, which is fantastic.

SFRuminations, to art
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Artist Carlos Ochagavia (1913-2006) was born on this day. List of covers: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26115

L, 1979; R, 1977

yunchtime,
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@SFRuminations

Ochagavia was always a favorite. The first cover I saw by him was in 1979 when Plague of Demons came out from Pocket. That really knocked me out! Thirty years later, in 2009, I was fortunate to track down his family member and verify that he was the same "Carlos Victor" who painted the original Illuminatus trilogy covers for Dell. Great artist!

adapalmer, to random
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Hugo Noms close today! Reminder:

You can nominate awesome 2023 indie films, like Poor Things, Lola, Mars One, Plan 75, Aporia, & The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future!

Ditto graphic works in translation, like Junji Ito's Soichi, and Mo Xiang Tong Xiu & Luo Di Cheng Qiu's Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation!

And since people have asked, yes my essay on the cross-influence of Anglophone & Japanese SF was 2023 and is eligible in Best Related: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/a-mitfreude-of-anime-and-mangas-relationship-with-anglophone-science-fiction-or-this-essay-will-not-try-to-get-you-into-anime-and-manga/

yunchtime,
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@adapalmer

if I was a worldcon member I would vote for this wonderful article! everyone should read this galaxy of mitfreude fun.

also, btw, not mentioned in the article is the International Manga Museum, which is a great place to visit if you are in Kyoto. https://kyotomm.jp/

jtlg, to random
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Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet.

In the last few months, the constant flood of algorithmically generated junk content has kicked into an AI-powered overdrive, and it is cutting a swath of destruction as it overwhelms search engines, filters, and moderation systems

Call it Gresham's Law 2.0: bad content drives out good.

I'm starting this thread to document it, because there is a lot happening all at once.

yunchtime,
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@jtlg

while the Internet is being compromised and ruined by AI content, this would be a great time to start our own local radio stations and small presses.

https://www.radio4all.org/micropower-broadcasting/

https://centerforfiction.org/essays/so-you-want-to-start-your-own-micro-press/

yunchtime, to random
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Cambridge Town Hall
Saturday 2 Mar 2024
2pm - now

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cstross, to random
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New blog entry: A Wonky Experience: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/03/a-wonky-experience.html

yunchtime, (edited )
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@cstross

The Fyre Festival seemed bad, but Whiteinch Wonka has triumphed! Very curious to see who was the mastermind of this.

SFRuminations, to scifi
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New purchase. Partly due to the cover….

yunchtime,
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@SFRuminations

McQuay wrote an interesting cyberpunk / Arab culture novel "Jitterbug." Doesn't really stand up to the work by George Alec Effinger along the same lines, but it has some edge to it for sheer inventiveness. A bit too violent for my tastes, and I seem to have similar recollections for Lifekeeper.

aramba, to random German
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Berlin today against fascism!

video/mp4

yunchtime,
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@aramba

2024 is cooking up to be the antifa year! thanks to all thinking beings!

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that countries need to shift some $7 trillion in direct and indirect annual subsidies for fossil fuels to help finance the fight against .

Georgieva told the World Economic Forum that the total include $1.3 trillion in direct government subsidies as well as indirect subsidies that include failure to price carbon emissions, adding that this price needs to be set at $85 per ton by 2030."

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/imf-chief-says-countries-should-shift-fossil-fuel-subsidies-fight-climate-change-2024-01-17

yunchtime,
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@CelloMomOnCars

hear, hear! yes, absolutely. "stop throwing money at the planet wreckers." think about it. we are the generation of humans who will either change course or be blamed for the extinction of life on Earth...

cstross, to random
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11 Jan: Do you use dream sequences in your work? How do you feel about them?

I do, but I try not to overdo it; I'm totally not a Freudian or Jungian, so their usual role is when some Big Boss wants to drop a very confidential briefing on a protagonist (with a hint to the reader that the Big Boss has some deeply scary abilities, b/c able to tamper with the protagonist's mind directly).

yunchtime,
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@cstross

readers of the Laundry series will find this very illuminating!

johnshirley2024, to random

[right wing politicians trying to keep women from divorcing their husbands]

A Running List of Politicians Talking About Making Divorce Harder

On the right, there is a renewed push to enshrine family values by pushing against no-fault divorce laws.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/running-list-politicians-divorce-harder-no-fault-divorce-tom-cotton-mike-johnson-jd-vance/

yunchtime,
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@johnshirley2024

Also: don’t marry any right wing sob in the first place.

yunchtime, to Russia
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"What have I done that's illegal? Read poetry?"

Yegor Shtovba

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231228-two-russians-get-heavy-prison-terms-for-poetry-against-ukraine-campaign

johnshirley2024, to VideoGames

I tried to post this last night but apparently this domain or whatever had crashed from Just too Much (I've had to crash from just too much, myself, in years past) - anyway it couldn't be gotten onto last night so here it is now:

2 Much X on Xmas Eve

by Marc Laidlaw fans will know him as co-creator/ writer of Half Life - also he's a novelist - by X he means the drug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUBkuvPNKvc&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUBkuvPNKvc&t=3s

yunchtime,
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@johnshirley2024 climbing out of the hospital window.
Def a good idea. Also not bad for a song title.

cstross, to random
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This was my childhood and adolescence:

yunchtime,
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@cstross @MishaVanMollusq

I was a 15 minute bike ride from Sandia Labs. My high school honors science class got tours of their nuclear bomb-making facilities, presumably to recruit us to work there. Didn’t do my mental state any good.

johnshirley2024, to random

This The Evergreen Review article by Robert Guffey, the latest investigation into MAGA extremism' is a big deal. I promise you. It delivers. Theocracy is coming unless we can stop it soon.

Keep scrolling down through illustrations and pull quote bars.

The Silent Civil War: The Radicalization of the Evangelical Right

https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-silent-civil-war-the-radicalization-of-the-evangelical-right.

yunchtime,
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@johnshirley2024

Must read! The writing of this piece is solid, the analysis is clear, and the conclusions horrific. We have no choice but to unite and undermine the psy-op that is trying to overthrow our reality.

enron, to threads

Blunt reminder: Meta is a for-profit entity that is beholden to its shareholders. It makes money by aggregating data and profiting off of it by selling advertisements. Their involvement in the fediverse is informed by that, and that alone.

yunchtime,
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@enron Meta, threads, anything to do with Zuckerberg is toxic. There should be a block threads instances built in to Mastodon core.

dangoodin, to random

I get why far-right people keep using Twitter, but how and why anyone considering themselves an advocate for social justice doesn't fully ostracize that platform is truly mind-boggling. And yet, news orgs and their employees, and people from places like EFF, Citizen Lab, Signal and even the Antidefamation League are still there, almost every day, posting away. 😡 😖 😕

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/media/elon-musk-antisemitism-white-people/index.html

yunchtime,
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@dangoodin

twitter, once the public square, has become enemy territory. I'm only posting there to throw a few monkey wrenches into the gears. but those are not all negative, to be sure. a positive image and a blessing are monkey wrenches to the machine of fascism that bellows non-stop on twitter now.

yunchtime,
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@dangoodin

users treated it as a public square, and the firehose was used in various analytical research projects, including public health studies, etc, based on the "real time" posts that otherwise could not be canvased from such a wide survey population.

shoq, to random
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This is why we’re all fucking insane to be helping them build Threads. Does anyone get this yet? It’s like helping Himmler build cattle cars. Are we really going to support that place? Think about your answer carefully.

Source: @nilay_patel
https://mastodon.social/@nilay_patel/111417873676182110

yunchtime,
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@shoq @nilay_patel

Threads, like anything to do with Mark Zuckerberg is poison. We are talking Zyklon B level poison.

johnshirley2024, to random

[some cyberpunk stories about elaborate transhumanist implants becoming reality]

Miniature battery-free Bioelectronics

Bioelectronic devices... can dramatically improve the health of patients...The devices are often limited by the storage capacity of an onboard battery. [Now we have] advances in alternate methods to generate, transmit, and store electrical charge that enable wireless power transfer and energy harvesting safely through and within the human body.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn4732

yunchtime,
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@johnshirley2024

Feel healthy, until the battery runs low, then jack into the mains for some juice. We are half a step from hardwired!

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