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Bruce Sterling @bruces
Half Cocked Law@bruces Got any bubble gum?
My camera shoots fascistsScreencap of my feed. Sometimes Endless Screaming bot really delivers.
Lost Objects@bruces
My instinct is to laugh & cry at the same time.
My instinct is to laugh & cry at the same time.
Fubaroque@bruces A full venn diagram of four sets should have sixteen regions. How many has yours? 🤔
Mr. Teatime@fubaroque
With 4 bits, there are 16 combinations, but 0000 is outside of all of them (present), and the two combinations of categories opposite each other (that's 1010 and 0101) are impossible with convex shapes in 2D (...I think? Topology is not intuitive)
That makes 14 regions if we include the region outside of the circles.
That said: nobody claimed that this was a full Venn Diagram!
@bruces
@Mr_Teatime @bruces Nobody said that indeed. But somebody did say it isn’t. 🤣
Oh and yes it is possible.
@fubaroque
I see that you like set theory :)
...and a quick search later, I see you are indeed correct:
https://de-academic.com/pictures/dewiki/118/de08063e16f43662f1c63546d458e2c0.png
So it's just circles that are impossible, but ellipses still work (though they don't look quite as elegant here). They only stop working at n=5
Martijn Vos@fubaroque @bruces Want to make a diagram that also shows Brave New World + Idiocracy without the others, and 1984 + Hunger Games without the others?
Jeff Zugale - Z Factory@bruces yep, pretty much
Mr Huffle@bruces this is what I love and hate about good SF authors: they tend to be right.
In Search of a Better World@bruces Population full of people with faces, all big fans of the face eating leopards social projects.
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ghostdancer@morph Except for Hunger Games, that I've seen only one of the movies, so I don't have a formed opinion, the rest are fantastic.
@ghostdancer Haven't seen that.
@morph It looked like another teen book saga that were in fashion some years ago after Harry Potter, this one in a dystopic future.
@ghostdancer I've been always amazed how much of Huxley's predictions appeared to become non-fiction. Still waiting for Soma hand out after my workday though.
@morph When people say we live in 1984 I always say that is a mix of Brave New World with details of 1984 and Farenheit 451
SM@bruces missing Handmaid's Tale
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Daniel M Karlsson@bruces So dark. Very good.
🇺🇦🌻@rogue_corq🌻🇺🇦
David G. SmithCAPTION 1: Dazed scientist with hand on head stumbles out of time machine and says to operator, “I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care.”
CAPTION 2: Venn diagram of four overlapping circles, segments listing books/movies of various apocolyptic visions, with center pin labelled “YOU ARE HERE”
synlogic@bruces I'm making a game set in a world thats like a mix of a few of those films on the right. (Slartboz -- see my bio, if anyone who sees this is curious!)
murks@bruces Nice recommendations, I like what I saw and read out of those but some are new to me.
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