April Fantasy & Sci-Fi Freebies

Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.

Cryonics, mind uploads, immortal jellyfish — the secular immortality menu is long on ambition, short on evidence. We've rebranded eschatology, not escaped it.

https://onlys.ky/are-we-ready-to-live-forever/

#Transhumanism #Longevity #Futurism #Bioethics #SecularHumanism

Are we ready to live forever?

Immortality would create whole new problems that we're ill-equipped to deal with.

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Free Fantasy & Science Fiction for April 2026

Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.

Solarpunk Cities: Notes for a Manifesto | Reckoning

Solarpunk activism is an organic blend of traditional practices and high-tech in service of social and environmental justice. The solarpunk cities we imagine are centers of collective action, governance and sharing of resources rather than of individualistic consumption. They are places where individual sufficiency is ensured and public abundance is available to all. We want

Reckoning | creative writing on environmental justice

RE: https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/735a2029-2069-e8e2-83d7-809174286851

Would you wear an eye you never owned? At best you can rent it monthly. They can change the clarity and type of vision you have at any time. They can sell that business and the new owners do not have honour your existing contract. They can raise the price, without warning. They can keep a copy of everything you see. They can edit, sell, use derivative variations of everything you see. They can cancel your eye at anytime if what you see offends them or violates the TOS. Even on a paid eye plan they will alter images sent to your visual cortex to be more in keeping with what their investors want. The will insert ads into your vision. They will place suggestions in your visual field to help you make better decisions. They will remove individuals or competitors they find in violation from your vision. If you try to alter, remove, override, or in any other way change the input/output of your eye they can remove it along with other punitive organ removals.

And, at all times, your only recourse is to remove the eye and cancel your contract. If you can figure out how to legally do that without losing other organs.

THIS is the future we have supported from the beginning of Capitalism.

#futurism #capitalism #failedsystem #billionairessuckass

2/2

Seems like everything is going according to plan.

Use the employees data to train MaiRK,
so Meta can finally become a synonym for MaiRK.
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/116402482806274908

Eventually we will only see his superintelligence controlling everything.
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/115871208581092120

#Narcissism 2026 version 😋

#Meta #Future #Futurism #Dystopia #Dystopian #Surveillance #capitalism #news #artificialintelligence #tech #it #MarkZuckerberg #Zuckerberg

🤖 Honestly you can't make this up:

Human Robot #Zuckerberg is gonna put an #AI based smart keylogger on his employees computers.

Nothing says we don't trust you and don't appreciate you like a regular screenshot of your work screen.

No more NSFW!
Welcome to the future baby!

Guess them employees are gonna get a taste of their own medicine for once.

Part 1/2

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-track-everything-workers-type-click-train-ai

#Meta #Future #Futurism #Dystopia #Dystopian #Surveillance #capitalism #news #artificialintelligence #tech #it

Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI

Meta will use tracking software on all of its US-based employees' computers that can track mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models.

Futurism
"Alignment Surcharge. Universal Inference Fund Distribution" #designfiction #futurism #AI #ephemera #debris #NearFutureLaboratory generalseminar.com/seminar/s07/...

Listening to Dreaming Against the Machine (Episode 1: Futurists, with Reo Eveleth): https://www.dreamingagainstthemachine.com

Welcome to our debut show! This week, Adam talks with Reo Eveleth, journalist and podcaster, about who gets to imagine the future, the power that comes with that role, and why certain visions of the future have endured in American culture.

#Podcast #Technology #Futurism

Dreaming Against The Machine

Exploring ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist, Dr. Adam Becker.

Dreaming Against The Machine

Doomism feels like realism. It's actually a cognitive bug — vivid scenarios read as probable ones. Adam Lee by @daylightatheism.bsky.social dismantles the fallacy.

https://onlys.ky/against-doomism/

#CriticalThinking #Doomism #Humanism #Futurism #Skepticism

Against doomism

Doom-laden scenarios get the most attention, but slow, bumpy progress toward a better world has always been more likely.

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