Hal 9000 from Urbana, Illinois
@origen.bsky.social
Science Fiction, Utopia, Futures
Zardoz - FH’s later Dune Books - Christine de Pizan
Zardoz - FH’s later Dune Books - Christine de Pizan
Reposted by Hal 9000 from Urbana, Illinois
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
December 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
Reposted by Hal 9000 from Urbana, Illinois
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
He’s just stealing from The Culture series again. He’s describing a slap-drone. The Culture is an ambiguous utopia, Star Trek on steroids. Hyper intelligent AI minds keep humans almost as pets and assign intelligent machines to manage problematic individuals.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
He’s just stealing from The Culture series again. He’s describing a slap-drone. The Culture is an ambiguous utopia, Star Trek on steroids. Hyper intelligent AI minds keep humans almost as pets and assign intelligent machines to manage problematic individuals.
In celebration
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
In celebration
*male readers who grew up with Ged and Earthsea in the 70s when Tehanu dropped in 1990*
October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
*male readers who grew up with Ged and Earthsea in the 70s when Tehanu dropped in 1990*
Today's reading list:
1. The Secret Campaign in China to Save a Woman Chained by the Neck
1. The Secret Campaign in China to Save a Woman Chained by the Neck
archive.ph
March 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Today's reading list:
1. The Secret Campaign in China to Save a Woman Chained by the Neck
1. The Secret Campaign in China to Save a Woman Chained by the Neck
Todays’s Latourgy:
The Parliament of Things | Philosopher Bruno Latour, lecture
YouTube video by Radboud Reflects
m.youtube.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Todays’s Latourgy:
No time like the present to get serious about building a better world out of the rotting carcass of the old.
Two foci, compost the old, fertilize the new.
Do something that puts a little good into the world on a dark day and then keep doing it.
Remaking the world is an embodied practice.
Two foci, compost the old, fertilize the new.
Do something that puts a little good into the world on a dark day and then keep doing it.
Remaking the world is an embodied practice.
February 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
No time like the present to get serious about building a better world out of the rotting carcass of the old.
Two foci, compost the old, fertilize the new.
Do something that puts a little good into the world on a dark day and then keep doing it.
Remaking the world is an embodied practice.
Two foci, compost the old, fertilize the new.
Do something that puts a little good into the world on a dark day and then keep doing it.
Remaking the world is an embodied practice.
Reposted by Hal 9000 from Urbana, Illinois
Inside the mind of a Silicon Valley fanatic. Peter Thiel makes Orwellian analogy bwtween today’s liberal democracy and South African apartheid - and calls for a truth and reconciliation commission to uncover the crimes of America’s “ancien regime”. Beyond nuts www.ft.com/content/a46c...
A time for truth and reconciliation
Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets
www.ft.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Inside the mind of a Silicon Valley fanatic. Peter Thiel makes Orwellian analogy bwtween today’s liberal democracy and South African apartheid - and calls for a truth and reconciliation commission to uncover the crimes of America’s “ancien regime”. Beyond nuts www.ft.com/content/a46c...
Only Frank Herbert can make fascism a good thing while being utterly subversive. The funny thing about the right wing adopting the God Emperor as a symbol is that they want to be him. They clearly don't get it. The fascist leader experiences fear, death, or utter boredom. Only fools seek such ends.
42 Years Ago, 'Dune' Went Off The Rails — And Became More Subversive Than Ever
In May, 1981, Frank Herbert's novel 'God Emperor of Dune,' dropped and changed the 'Dune' series forever.
www.inverse.com
October 10, 2023 at 8:25 AM
Only Frank Herbert can make fascism a good thing while being utterly subversive. The funny thing about the right wing adopting the God Emperor as a symbol is that they want to be him. They clearly don't get it. The fascist leader experiences fear, death, or utter boredom. Only fools seek such ends.
Fascist thinking is creeping into silicon valley wrapped in a science fiction tale narrating the power of artificial intelligence
Silicon Valley Confronts the Idea That the ‘Singularity’ Is Here
The frenzy over artificial intelligence may be ushering in the long-awaited moment when technology goes wild. Or maybe it’s the hype that is out of control.
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2023 at 8:07 AM
Fascist thinking is creeping into silicon valley wrapped in a science fiction tale narrating the power of artificial intelligence
With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson (1947)
I don't know what it is about this story, maybe the way the narrative zooms out and back in, but I will never forget the sense of wonder the first time I read it.
I don't know what it is about this story, maybe the way the narrative zooms out and back in, but I will never forget the sense of wonder the first time I read it.
i.4pcdn.org
October 10, 2023 at 7:49 AM
With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson (1947)
I don't know what it is about this story, maybe the way the narrative zooms out and back in, but I will never forget the sense of wonder the first time I read it.
I don't know what it is about this story, maybe the way the narrative zooms out and back in, but I will never forget the sense of wonder the first time I read it.
DUNE scripts
Dune Scripts - Denis Villeneuve, David Lynch, Jodorowsky, John Harrison, Arthur P Jacobs - Dune - Be...
duneinfo.com
October 10, 2023 at 7:44 AM
DUNE scripts
Les Indes Galantes (1735)
Les Indes Galantes - Danse du Grand Calumet de la Paix
[LES INDES GALANTES]La danse du Grand Calumet de la Paix...Un scène paroxystique du spectacle de l'Opéra National de Paris, à l'Opéra Bastille (septembre 201...
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October 10, 2023 at 7:43 AM
Les Indes Galantes (1735)
The always excellent @adapalmer.bsky.social on progress (apparently Frank Bacon invented it!).
But Ada, if you're listening, did Thomas Hobbes learn of the sometimes terrible consequences of progress or was he a terrible consequence of progress?!
But Ada, if you're listening, did Thomas Hobbes learn of the sometimes terrible consequences of progress or was he a terrible consequence of progress?!
» On Progress and Historical Change
www.exurbe.com
October 10, 2023 at 7:34 AM
The always excellent @adapalmer.bsky.social on progress (apparently Frank Bacon invented it!).
But Ada, if you're listening, did Thomas Hobbes learn of the sometimes terrible consequences of progress or was he a terrible consequence of progress?!
But Ada, if you're listening, did Thomas Hobbes learn of the sometimes terrible consequences of progress or was he a terrible consequence of progress?!
Wonder is one of, if not the core components of a good SF story
How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education
“While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 10, 2023 at 7:18 AM
Wonder is one of, if not the core components of a good SF story
Frank Herbert and David Wingrove talk about a variety of topics including the importance of a shared set of ideas (the SF megatext) being put forward by the (for Herbert) banal Star Wars (then recently released)
fanac.org
October 7, 2023 at 11:02 PM
Frank Herbert and David Wingrove talk about a variety of topics including the importance of a shared set of ideas (the SF megatext) being put forward by the (for Herbert) banal Star Wars (then recently released)
A ton of Frank Herbert resources!
The Augustry
Learning. Thinking. Articulating.
theaugustry.com
October 7, 2023 at 10:54 PM
A ton of Frank Herbert resources!
Saint Joan and the Computer by David Mattingly
October 7, 2023 at 10:31 PM
Saint Joan and the Computer by David Mattingly
A human empire spans the galaxy with its capital in Tenochtitlan in Thomas Harlan's alternate history/future series
Thomas Harlan’s Sixth Sun - Google Search
www.google.com
October 7, 2023 at 6:38 PM
A human empire spans the galaxy with its capital in Tenochtitlan in Thomas Harlan's alternate history/future series
The Crystal Spheres by David Brin
The Crystal Spheres - Lightspeed Magazine
It was just a luckychance that I had been defrosted when I was---the very year that farprobe 992573-aa4 reported back that it had found a goodstar with a shattered crystalsphere. I was one of only twe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
October 7, 2023 at 6:08 PM
The Crystal Spheres by David Brin