You know, that the plot in Dan Simmon’s #hyperioncantos where the technocore siphons off the human brain capacity for their compute is eerie similar on how big tech is siphoning off from our input on the internet for their LLM deep learning and fine tuning social media algorithms

" On Asquith there was finger-pointing followed by the victory of the Socialist Labor Workers’ Party in the World Parliament."

#SciFiOutOfContext #hyperioncantos

@yourfutureex @Kitty The timing of this recommendation is perfect since I've just finished the whole #HyperionCantos. Thank you!
Spiders in the web: Hyperion's Farcasters and Technofeudalism

This is my house. I made these things.

I swear I'll finish my little essay on Hyperion and Big Tech one of these days! I was able to carve out an hour or so of my schedule to work on it today. What's embarrassing is that it's not that long. Probably a 10 minute read, but I just want to do a good job. I keep saying I'll find more time to write but then what should I give up to find that time? I have so many little projects I want to do.
#hyperion #blog #blogging #writing #bigtech #indieweb #floss #leftism #hyperioncantos #time
I recently finished the Hyperion Cantos series and I've been thinking about some of the ideas... Notably what happens at the end of the second book and how I see it as a metaphor to what some of us in the fediverse and indieweb are trying to do in terms of tech and healing that part of our society. I'm going to try to write a blog post or maybe do a video talking about it. I just hope it's intelligible to others. 😬
#Hyperion #HyperionCantos #reading #fediverse #indieweb #books #sciencefiction
I'm going on a picnic by the river to finish the last two chapters of the book I'm reading. I'm bringing ginger beer, veggy chicken nuggets, and dauphine potatoes AND NONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS CAN STOP ME!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
#picnic #spring #reading #hyperion #hyperioncantos #downbytheriver #nature #books #fiction
"Choose again."
We're far from that. We're far from touching The Void Which Binds, but in these (trying) times, perhaps I would adapt this to...
"Be curious."
#hyperion #hyperioncantos #reading #lecture #vendredilecture #sciencefiction #leftism #empathy #love

Fedmahn Kassad
(character from Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos)

#HyperionCantos #Palestine

Biography
Kassad was born on Mars, where he grew up in the impoverished and hostile conditions of the slums of the South Tharsis Relocation Camps as a member of a minority that still called themselves Palestinians.

(from hyperioncantos.fandom website)