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🇪🇺🇮🇪From Dune and ... 🎯
Yaron Kaplan@Natasha_Jay Don't worry. Claude Code promised it'll protect us.
pelha@Luckluster @Natasha_Jay and I have a bridge to sell... or is it a stack of musk stock...
proedie@Natasha_Jay What’s wrong with the dot on the i?
Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)@proedie @Natasha_Jay Everything leaned italic except the dot on the i. 😆
Frank Heijkamp
Spoontaneous Consumption
Sophie of Ratsnake Games@proedie @Natasha_Jay it slid off to the left because the top of the i is slanted that way
JackMexThe i is just bowing to the master letters.
Kara Goldfinch@Natasha_Jay I read this as "from Dune and Bullseye" and wondered when Jim Bowen quoted Frank Herbert". :)
Mind you he was an English teacher apparently. Someone who worked at my local library had him as their teacher.
Mind you he was an English teacher apparently. Someone who worked at my local library had him as their teacher.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)This quote is why I hate the Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert prequels so much.
The original Dune series has a lot of references to the Butlerian Jihad as a reaction to people living mechanically structured lives that removed their essential humanity and allowed other humans to control them. The prequels made it about evil killer robots with no sensible motivations.
Noodlemaz@david_chisnall @Natasha_Jay glad I didn't read them now..!
I kept reading them because I thought that they must eventually get better and they were allegedly written from some of Frank’s notes. I didn’t finish his Butlerian Jihad series. I accidentally bought two copies of the conclusion (second hand, I didn’t give them money and encourage them) because it was so bad I completely erased it from my memory the first time I read it. It completely disregarded all of the hints about the ending that were in Chapter House and made the ending a terrible tie in with the stupidest of the books.
Leto Atréides 🪱🏜️🌈🦄👓🪶🐜@david_chisnall @noodlemaz @Natasha_Jay Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson write together like they take a piss. It is perfunctory, they write a stories and try to include as many SciFi clichés/tropes, and clumsily tie it to Frank Herbert's work and notes, but there's no depth to them, no value, because they don't know/understand shit about world building or politics, nor do they cultivate deep knowledge of other culture than their own american point of view. Frank Herbert may have been a drunkard, a bad father and whatever else, but he had insight, he did extensive research and that enabled him to build a world and deep points of view and analysis within that world. Brian and Kevin are incapable of that :/
@david_chisnall @noodlemaz @Natasha_Jay (I hope it doesn't transpire too much that i hate the mockery that their prequels and sequels are... :D)
@LetoOfTheDesert @noodlemaz @Natasha_Jay
When they originally announced them, there was a quote from Brian Herbert that Kevin J Anderson was the only person he felt could write something on that scale. I went and read several of his other books and they all had terrible endings. As in, the story just stops. Everything is resolved in a way that made you think ‘huh, nothing leading to this point really mattered’. And that was the person he thought could write the conclusion of the Dune series?
@david_chisnall @noodlemaz @Natasha_Jay well it all ends in a mish mash of whatever deepshit, so it probably was the goal all along for them :D
Maximummium Overacticans@david_chisnall @Natasha_Jay That and they were a real slog to read. Just turgid prose.
Salty@aka_quant_noir @david_chisnall @Natasha_Jay Oh ugh, all of them were terrible. Frank's kid totally coasting on the name.
MegatronicThronBanks@Natasha_Jay The Butt Leering Jihad!
LIPSERVANT
Wind (Vējš)@Natasha_Jay Stupid billionaires trying (and failing) to build Star Trek universe, will end up in Dune universe.
Wilfried KlaebeIf only they were trying to build Star Trek...
Looks more likely to me that they're working towards Warhammer 40000. Or Andor's Star Wars.
0x0@wonka
Andor's S2 was the only (surprisingly) decent surprise in that universe for over a decade.
@WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay
Andor's S2 was the only (surprisingly) decent surprise in that universe for over a decade.
@WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay
Chao-c'@WindOfChange this is where the New hope is getting Star Wars universe (instead of Jodorowsky Dune, staring Mick Jagger and Salvator Dali :-)
🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳@WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay
what makes you think they don't intend the Dune universe?
Space Feudalism sounds right up their street to me.
what makes you think they don't intend the Dune universe?
Space Feudalism sounds right up their street to me.
Pier Hegeman@WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay Feels more like they want the Altered Carbon universe to me.
ScriptFanix💍
@WindOfChange They are definitely not aiming for Star Trek.The Federation is communist. (at least it is in the original series).
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Alien🍉@ScriptFanix @WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay and it keeps going on like that. They even wore a no money no problems t-shirt once 
Ali
Jen, MPH :verified:@Natasha_Jay I do wonder about the motives of certain people who are pushing AI so much. Is this what they are actually trying to achieve? A means to accomplish exactly this?
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragonwe are already in John Brunners Dystopia from Stand on Zanzibar.
Sérgio Machado@Natasha_Jay Well humans are predictable. But at the same time, removing tech was also a way to perpetrate as ruler ...
Mrinappropriate@Natasha_Jay Prescient
Corpomancer@Natasha_Jay
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
VessOnSecurity@Natasha_Jay The obvious conclusion is - be among those with the machines, not among those without.
CM Thiede@bontchev @Natasha_Jay in other words: "Be quick or be dead."
Iron Maiden - Be Quick Or Be Dead (Official Video)
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luca@Natasha_Jay I'm watching "the handmaid's tale" series, even if I didn't read the book, and it's horribly scary. Not just for what happens in the play, but for how much the dystopian storytelling is so close to everyday's news.
It's a brave new world, to recall again literature no more that much fantasy.
It's a brave new world, to recall again literature no more that much fantasy.
@luc0x61 @Natasha_Jay that was entirely Atwood's point. Most of the situations she describes or embellished have already happened to women somewhere in the world. Or are happening now. She was very clear about that.
This is why it's so annoying when people are like 'the US is becoming Gilead!'
It has been for Black women for ages, catch up.