It’s debatable whether the destruction of the Death Star is a military action. Either way, as GenX will remember, the movie CLERKS had the final say, civilian contractors taking on military construction work know the risks! But by the time we get to Andor the proto-Rebel Alliance are clearly terrorists. The word terrorist has beenContinue reading “Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist”
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The prophetic visions of Philip K Dick
We are living in strange times. Politics. Society. Culture wars. Things have gone weird. We’re looking for knowledge and wisdom to guide us in strange times.
I can think of no better guide to the year 2022 than Philip K Dick.
The author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the inspiration for Blade Runner, is best known as a science fiction writer. But after his infamous spiritual awakening and the events of 2-3-74, Philip K Dick became something more….a visionary prophet who saw our strange times coming.
Who killed Star Trek Wars?
Star Trek and Star Wars are both dying. Star Trek turns 60 in 2026 with nothing in production. Star Wars just posted its lowest box office opening ever. So. Who killed Star Trek Wars? HINT: it’s not JJ Abrams, “woke” or Rey!
Featuring: Star Trek at 60, Star Wars, Andor, Disney, Paramount Skydance, Rey, the Prime Directive, Romulus and Remus, and the Pledge of Allegiance.
Prompted by @FeralHistorian’s video on Star Trek at 60 – https://youtu.be/TQEIHGM-EyQ?is=oSTnY8_V681sd0xH
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ChatGPT is made of people!
In 1973’s Soylent Green, Charlton Heston discovers the miracle food is made of people. In 2026, we’re being sold something similar.
There is nothing artificial about artificial intelligence. The name was a branding exercise, invented at Dartmouth in 1956 by a man who didn’t want to argue with Norbert Wiener about cybernetics. Strip out the god and what’s left is the accumulated cognitive labour of humanity, compressed and sold back to us for twenty dollars a month.
Not artificial. Collective. Which changes the question from “will the machine wake up” to “who enclosed the commons this time?”
On Dartmouth, the Enclosure Acts, Marx’s Fragment on Machines, and Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus.
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Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI
This is how a god dies, not with a cosmic explosion, not with a descent into eternity, but with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks. If five years ago you had asked me for a single symbol to express the first meeting of Humanity and AI, IContinue reading “Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI”
The 7 levels of meaning in Frank Herbert’s DUNE
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“F*** you, pay me.” Welcome to techbros feudalism
“A government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.” — Bernie Sanders What does it mean when Apple CEO Tim Cook makes a personal donation of $1 million dollars to Donald Trump’s inauguration? Or when Disney CEO Bob Iger comes out to virtue signal that the hypercapitalist entertainment corporation reallyContinue reading ““F*** you, pay me.” Welcome to techbros feudalism”
Aldous Huxley gave away the game of Transhumanism
Silicon Valley billionaires like Peter Thiel are obsessed with living forever, making transhumanism the unspoken ideology of the 21st century. From the cyberpunk dystopias of Altered Carbon to the real-world data empires of Palantir, the push to upgrade our biology and upload our consciousness isn’t just science fiction—it’s the blueprint for a techno-feudal nightmare. As the technocratic elite increasingly treats the human body as a depreciating asset to be engineered away, what is the ultimate, mind-expanding philosophical answer to the transhumanist trap?
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Why Elon Musk can never understand Iain M. Banks
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What does the NEUROMANCER trailer tell us?
After 42 years we have 1 minute and 10 seconds of Neuromancer on a screen. What does it tell us? Now on the Science Fiction channel 🔗👇👇👇👇👇 Listen to the podcast audio here
The most overrated director VS the greatest myth
Science Fiction with Damien Walter is a search for the 21st century mythos. You can watch some of the channels best episodes here :
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Those Transhuman Bast*rds SCRIPT PREVIEW
The shooting script for Those Transhuman Basta*rds came in at 4500 words 😱 I also decided to add a location shoot for this video, as one of the texts I reference is actually set in Bali! So the video essay will now be released on the channel a week later, on Saturday 11 July. ButContinue reading “Those Transhuman Bast*rds SCRIPT PREVIEW”
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