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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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”
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
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”
The most hated philosophy
Ah, yes, POSTMODERNISM The most hated of all obscure philosophies. The “postmodernists” like Lyotard, Baudrillard, Foucault etc were big in the 80s then drifted out of fashion… …only to be Streisand effected back to life by their haters, not least Jordan Peterson, who shrieked about the Evils of Postmodernism so long and so hard thatContinue reading “The most hated philosophy”
Hauntology
Which future from the past haunts your now? If you’re alive and watching this in 2026 you are likely haunted by one of two great stories of the future. The future of the space rocket, the warp drive, the starship. Human technology will take us to the stars, to strange new worlds, to meet theContinue reading “Hauntology”
Talking sh*t
How did Ursula K Le Guin become the most famous science fiction writer of her generation? I have a theory. By the 1960s science fiction had decided that the future was in space, and the Space Race sealed the deal. A generation of SF writers focussed all their attention on how space exploration would becomeContinue reading “Talking sh*t”
The Toilet MEMBER PREVIEW
Last year a member of the Science Fiction community jokingly asked my opinion of Skibidi Toilet, a Gen-Alpha brainrot “kids show” on YouTube with billions of views. And by far the most watched science fiction narrative of the 21st century. “Good” and “bad” don’t have a place in critical thinking about culture. Skibidi Toilet is.Continue reading “The Toilet MEMBER PREVIEW”
The myth that made Interstellar
Longterm members of our community know about myth, but new members might be scratching your heads. Myth is old stories about why the sun rises etc. Science fiction is the extrapolation of scientific FACT. They are NOT the same. Let’s talk. In fact that idea about myths being stories to explain the sun rising (etc)Continue reading “The myth that made Interstellar”
Woke Marxist Social Justice Warrior Space Hippies….With Guns
I don’t remember if the Culture was my first experience of trans charcters, but it must have been close. I read the books at around the same time as The Sandman when I was about fifteen. So it was probably one of those. Trans characters barely existed in UK media of the early 90s. TheContinue reading “Woke Marxist Social Justice Warrior Space Hippies….With Guns”
