Mastodawn

S.A. Wilson Jun 16, 2023

@anotherwest omgosh what? Thank you for this I had no idea!!

S.A. Wilson Jun 16, 2023

I've shocked myself for ending Chapter 8 (live now) of #RoboNomics on a note of hopelessness. Given the current advances around generative AI, can you relate with this sense of hopelessness or do you feel hopeful about what the future holds? I would love to discuss it with you and read your thoughts once you #read the chapter: https://www.wattpad.com/1353255118-robonomics-chapter-8 #bookstodon #scifi #ai #amwriting

RoboNomics - Chapter 8

Read Chapter 8 from the story RoboNomics by sawauthor (S.A. Wilson) with 1 reads. technology, dystopia, fiction. Remem...

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S.A. Wilson Jun 16, 2023

Tom Capuder Jun 16, 2023

#Science adjusts its view based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that #belief can be preserved.
—Tim Minchin

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an #atheist vs #faith

S.A. Wilson Jun 15, 2023

Frantz Fanon Jun 15, 2023

Let me be clear, capitalism and racism are twin born. Anti-racism is Anti-capitalism.

S.A. Wilson Jun 14, 2023

Nicole Rust Jun 14, 2023

Favorite metaphors for how science works?

I dislike the idea of a key unlocking a door - in part because it feeds the false narrative that progress happens when some genius finds the right key. It's a community effort (and many keys to many doors doesn't make so much sense - where are the doors going?).

What to replace it with? In her recent book, Nancy Cartwright uses the metaphor of a Meccano set and I had to look that up (https://www.meccano.com/en_us/products). It's a kid's building set and it's closer (but I've never heard of it).

How about Legos? The gist that a community contributes pieces to building something. Everyone knows Legos, right?

Or is that too engineering (building as opposed to discovering)? Any other ideas?

Meccano

S.A. Wilson Jun 14, 2023

Skaly Jun 13, 2023

Time is not a resource. You don't have or lack time. You are time. It's an inseparable part of existence and life, and you are not outside of it, not controlling it, giving or taking it. This concept of time ownership is an illusion, perhaps made by or enforced by capitalism. This idea that you are just giving a system your time when, in fact you are giving your own existence in that time frame. Respect your time as much as you respect yourself or know you should. There's no you without time.

S.A. Wilson Jun 14, 2023

#foundation is coming back in July!! I will resubscribe to Apple TV+ just for this show, and I will be re-watching season 1. It’s that good. Love scifi, but it’s been a looooong time since I’ve been this excited about scifi on film: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi582076185

Foundation - Season 2 Offical Trailer | IMDb

The Second Crisis is coming. Foundation returns for Season two July 14 on Apple TV+.

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S.A. Wilson Jun 13, 2023

@HernanLG you might be right about Heidi, guess I didn’t pick up on it. Definitely agree about Jessica Wild, she’s rocking it. The last episode or two I did notice that after a rocky start Alexis Michelle does seem to be the season’s underdog… I’m excited to see what she’ll do next! ☺️

S.A. Wilson Jun 13, 2023

I just posted my first #bookreview on #Bookwyrm - making it the first of many. I reviewed Janika Oza's "A History of Burning", a sweeping family epic taking place in India, Kenya, Uganda, Britain, and Canada over 100 years: https://bookwyrm.social/book/708514/s/history-of-burning

History of Burning - BookWyrm

Four generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India, Uganda, England, and Canada, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family and their search for a place of their own. Named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick, and a most anticipated book of 2023 by the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, OprahDaily, and Goodreads. India, 1898. Pirbhai is the thirteen-year-old breadwinner for his family when he steps into a dhow on the promise of work, only to be taken across the ocean to labour on the East African Railway for the British. With no money or voice but a strong will to survive, he makes an impossible choice that will haunt him for the rest of his days and reverberate across generations. Pirbhai’s children go on to thrive in Uganda during the waning days of British colonial rule. As the country moves towards independence and military dictatorship, Pirbhai’s granddaughters—sisters Latika, Mayuri, and Kiya—come of age in a divided nation, each forging her own path for the future. Latika is an aspiring journalist with a fierce determination to fight for what she believes in. Mayuri’s ambitions will take her farther away from her family than she ever imagined. And fearless Kiya will have to bear the weight of their secrets. Forced to flee Uganda during Idi Amin’s brutal expulsion of South Asians in 1972, the family must start their lives over again in Toronto. Then one day news arrives that makes each generation question how far they are willing to go, and who they are willing to defy, to secure a place of their own in the world. A masterful and breathtakingly intimate saga of colonialism and exile, complicity and resistance, A History of Burning is a radiant debut about the stories our families choose to share—and those that remain unspoken.

S.A. Wilson Jun 13, 2023

Watching this rundown is making my blood boil. I knew there were allies’ secrets in the mix, but it’s chilling to see it in print… and that he knew what he was doing. As a citizen of a country allied the USA, I feel like screaming that America is too powerful to be this much of a messy bitch. #trump is a traitor who needs to be imprisoned until he perishes for exposing the US and allies to potential danger. My country should prosecute him: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7KRceywz-rU&feature=share

Trump's Bombshell Federal Document Indictment

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