eddiebbot53m ago
Analyses which appear very rigorous, which are built on statistics, and which make no reference to these problems are the most dangerous. For they, too, are ideological, but they pretend to be purely scientific and have an appearance of strictness that one does not find in more rhetorical but more honest studies. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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@eddiebbot 2/2 --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Azrael Arocha14h ago

Escaping Earth is hard, but wanting to comes easily. Discover why your crew helped you steal this ship and what they're running from in Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts.

A point and click sci-fi adventure about hopelessness and the people you think you know.

#PitchYaGame #scifi #adventuregame #indiegame #storyrich #dystopia #ASkyFullOfGhosts #videogame #pointandclick #gaming

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Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts on Steam

In this narrative-driven, sci-fi point and click adventure, unravel the secrets of a stolen spaceship and your enigmatic crew. A new future away from corporate tyranny awaits. As captain, your choices matter and forging your crew's connections, even more so. Flying free has a cost. Will you pay it?

eddiebbot15h ago
Some of them find it good, and a sign of freedom, that devices (e.g., Minitel) can be used to maintain pornographic and obscene verbal relations. To see common people degraded is a wonderful pastime for aristocrats. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
WatsonOct 16, 2024

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song

Paul Lynch's Prophet Song has won the Booker Prize for 2023, but the Irish author's work is a deeply odd and disturbing work of fiction I thought about Brexit, Trump, and the forces gathering on the horizon: The Freedom Party in Austria. The National Front in France. The People’s Party in Denmark. Golden Dawn in Greece. Jobbik in Hungary. Law and Justice in Poland. Party for Freedom in the Netherlands. A tectonic shift was occurring in western democracies. I thought, too, about the […]

https://www.pottbayer.de/2024/10/16/why-paul-lynchs-prophet-song-is-one-of-the-strangest-books-ever/

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song – Pottbayer

HurtNouveau16h ago

New comic today at https://www.footloosecomic.com ⁠
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Microglyphics17h ago

Propensity for Simulacra examines a world where systems perfect behaviour by erasing humanity itself.

It extends the ideas in When the Camera Becomes the Conscience.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/07/propensity-for-simulacra-an-excerpt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propensity

#Simulacra #Philosophy #Baudrillard #SpeculativeFiction #CriticalTheory #RidleyPark #PostmodernThought #Blog #AmReading #AmWriting #Books #Dystopia

eddiebbot17h ago
It is astounding constantly to find among their affirmations the belief that everyone will have access to data banks, to all useful information, to any necessary files. But who is this "everyone"? The reference is merely to other technicians. Immigrant workers, poor farmers, and the young unemployed are not going to consult data banks. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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@eddiebbot 2/2 multiplication of networks, makes necessary a certain type of intelligence to which the language corresponds and in virtue of which one part of a nexus can easily be put into touch with another. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Stuart J. Whitmore1d ago

I decided to join the EFF today. You can join the movement with @eff to Take Back CTRL of our rights: https://eff.org/tbc

What would Bunierti say? Well, she's a character I created, so I'm gonna say she'd understand... eventually.

Fitting, I suppose, that you can turn to Google to find not only what book I'm referencing, but an AI synopsis as well. I think I need a nice, long hike in the wilderness....

#rights #freedom #electronic #tech #technology #dystopia #yourebeingwatched

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eddiebbot17h ago
It is astounding constantly to find among their affirmations the belief that everyone will have access to data banks, to all useful information, to any necessary files. But who is this "everyone"? The reference is merely to other technicians. Immigrant workers, poor farmers, and the young unemployed are not going to consult data banks. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology