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From Davidson to Wake To McClennan to Chatham to Harnett To Genève to l'Ain to Wake to Louth www.jclarkpowers.ie
Listen here to Nimoyβs 1975 recording of Ray Bradburyβs 1950 science fiction short story (and chapter in βThe Martian Chroniclesβ) βThere Will Come Soft Rains,β which hauntingly envisioned one potential future arising from unconstrained nuclear testing and arms races. archive.org/details/brad...
send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me and I will free them bitch
The "Winner" in question is Langdon Winner. The piece in question is his "Do Artifacts Have Politics," which is something I incorporate into every philosophy of technology, computing ethics, or tech ethics course I teach.
Do Artifacts Have Politics? | JSTOR
Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Winter, 1980, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity?
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i'm tired, y'all@modernwebmodernwoe.bsky.social Β· 4d agoπ For those of us who would like to read Winner, who is the author?
History of Metal 1988: Lita Ford, Lita So, these are morning albums. My wife curates, and I wake up to them. Hair metalβs default is so effeminate that i was on track 3 when I realized the vocalist is a woman. Itβs basically a perfect execution of its own brief: βWhat if Pat Benatar could shred?β
Penn@penn-fp.bsky.social Β· last wk.History of Metal 1987: Guns Nβ Roses, Appetite for Destruction This basically lived in my cassette player when I found it a decade later. At 12 Iβd have told you it was a perfect record. At 41 Iβll tell you the same. I mean, what do you want? Weβre in the jungle now, baby. Weβre gonna die.
They pulled the lion by the hair They hit him with the folding chair And from his lips they drew the Hallelujah
imo it's almost certainly false that people did not have critiques and concerns with sexual violence, slavery etc that at the very least substantively overlap with modern ones. whether or not they got to write epics revered and remembered by the leaders of the slave societies of the day es otra cosa
"Those who treat Omelas as a utilitarian allegory wish to view the child as a concession, a 'gotcha' moment illustrating the ethical quandary alleged to inhere in all joys and comforts. But such a reading is erroneous."
Three Walks Back to Omelas: On Suffering and Happiness
"Meaningless" cruelty implies the possibility of meaningful cruelty.
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Superheroes are dead now, so Hollywood has no choice but to stage incredibly elaborate adaptations of unfilmable science fiction classics. The masses need The Book of the New Sun!
No commissary. No visits. No contact with the outside world. My neighbor is a cannibal who screams throughout the night.
Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social Β· 2w agoGood
if you see me at SDCC and ask for one of these i will give you one
Someone in DC set up a βlittle free blockbusterβ with DVDs inside instead of books lol
Me, looking at antibiotics: This would be better if it was a lying machine that drove me insane
Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social Β· 2w ago"AI is likely the most significant technology in human history," says Kanishka Narayan MP, the UK's new Minister for Artificial Intelligence, in a Linkedin post www.linkedin.com/posts/kanish... #techpolicy #AIpolicy #PPEOxford #koolaid
The sign that people like this lot are 100% fucked is that NOBODY LAUGHS.
badly drawn bee π@soapachu.bsky.social Β· 2w agoperfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)
perfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands youβve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
@laperry2.bsky.social Β· 2w ago
And arguably this isn't out of a sense of nostalgia but because futuristic fabrics will have to be the lowest impact ones we can devise, which may indeed mean turning again to leather and cotton and wool and linen and hemp.
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.