Holy smokes I just read maybe the best #SciFi short story ever. Written in 1959 by Stanislaw Lem, "The Friend" (newly translated into English) seamlessly moves from human to AI narration and back in a dizzying, psychedelic explosion of language, imagery, and metaphor that breaks all narrative convention and feels a century ahead of its time.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675976/the-truth-and-other-stories-by-stanislaw-lem-foreword-by-antonia-lloyd-jones-and-kim-stanley-robinson/

Holy smokes I just read maybe the best #SciFi short story ever. Written in 1959 by Stanislaw Lem, "The Friend" (newly translated into English) seamlessly moves from human to AI narration and back in a dizzying, psychedelic explosion of language, imagery, and metaphor that breaks all narrative convention and feels a century ahead of its time.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675976/the-truth-and-other-stories-by-stanislaw-lem-foreword-by-antonia-lloyd-jones-and-kim-stanley-robinson/

Time for a new #introduction post after the move!

I'm Sar, a 50yr old nerdy guy from Northern Ireland. I love IT, and am into tech and all things computing.

My hobbies include playing #WorldOfWarcraft, reading about World Of #Warcraft and thinking about #WoW

Seriously though, my *other* hobbies also include:
#Astronomy
#Linux (alternating between #Bazzite & #ArchLinux)
#Gaming on #Steam, #PS5 & #Switch (mainly on PC though, see above!)
#SciFi such as #StarWars, #Startrek, #Babylon5, #Marvel & #DC etc
Also a screenshot junkie #VirtualPhotography

I'm also awaiting the results of my #Autism diagnosis as I write this, and am also fairly confident I have #ADHD as well, giving me the #AuDHD super-deluxe wombo-combo 😂

I decided to make the jump to this self-hosted instance at the end of 2025 after many happy years on masto.ai/@sar, and have no regrets.

Yet.

I'm still in binge eat, walk and books mode... latest read is this... by eck I am in awe of Sci-Fi writers who can hold such complexity in their noggins. This tale has an epic cast that all have numerous bodies iterated with connected minds. Darn complex. #scifi #bookstadon

Time for a new #introduction post after the move!

I'm Sar, a 50yr old nerdy guy from Northern Ireland. I love IT, and am into tech and all things computing.

My hobbies include playing #WorldOfWarcraft, reading about World Of #Warcraft and thinking about #WoW

Seriously though, my *other* hobbies also include:
#Astronomy
#Linux (alternating between #Bazzite & #ArchLinux)
#Gaming on #Steam, #PS5 & #Switch (mainly on PC though, see above!)
#SciFi such as #StarWars, #Startrek, #Babylon5, #Marvel & #DC etc
Also a screenshot junkie #VirtualPhotography

I'm also awaiting the results of my #Autism diagnosis as I write this, and am also fairly confident I have #ADHD as well, giving me the #AuDHD super-deluxe wombo-combo 😂

I decided to make the jump to this self-hosted instance at the end of 2025 after many happy years on masto.ai/@sar, and have no regrets.

Yet.

✨️ Speedpainting 01122025 ✨️ won a Daily Deviation award today. 🤗 Many thanks Ellysiumn 💚☀️ .

#art #mastoart #fediart #speedpaint #scifi #fantasy #krita

#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!

I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃

I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.

I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!

My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.

I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here

#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon

I'm still in binge eat, walk and books mode... latest read is this... by eck I am in awe of Sci-Fi writers who can hold such complexity in their noggins. This tale has an epic cast that all have numerous bodies iterated with connected minds. Darn complex. #scifi #bookstadon

✨️ Speedpainting 01122025 ✨️ won a Daily Deviation award today. 🤗 Many thanks Ellysiumn 💚☀️ .

#art #mastoart #fediart #speedpaint #scifi #fantasy #krita

#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!

I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃

I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.

I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!

My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.

I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here

#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon

Generative AI mixes up Homo Sapiens & lizard facts while writing biology textbooks, causing mass hypothermia death in robot-run hospitals! Now that's a killing in 'cold blood'. (Screenshots from Neofeud 2) NF 1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud #scifi #indiegame #indiedev #noAI #noAIart

Remember #people..

Together we can change this future. Turn things around, and twist them right again. Just by bringing our alternative intelligence to the table.. our own #AGI:

Abundantly available our #human wit and spirit, boundless #creativitity, and above all our ability to play. It requires some #playfulness and a whiff of #scifi and #fantasy.. Just enough to #imagine different worlds, and #dreamwalk towards their 👁️realization.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/sci-fi-labs-federated-worldbuilding/95

💃🕺 Happy #cocreation in 🍒 2026 !!

Remember #people..

Together we can change this future. Turn things around, and twist them right again. Just by bringing our alternative intelligence to the table.. our own #AGI:

Abundantly available our #human wit and spirit, boundless #creativitity, and above all our ability to play. It requires some #playfulness and a whiff of #scifi and #fantasy.. Just enough to #imagine different worlds, and #dreamwalk towards their 👁️realization.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/sci-fi-labs-federated-worldbuilding/95

💃🕺 Happy #cocreation in 🍒 2026 !!

@Greguti

Attention, affirmation non étayée, erronée ou hors contexte :

"Plusieurs cas de discrimination sexiste ou raciale par l’IA..."

Le reste du post indique alors qu'ils s'agit de l'IA de META... et non de "l'IA" en tant que science globalement développée depuis les années 60 par des informaticien.ne.s qui elleux peuvent êtres fières de leurs collaboartion à la création d'R2D2 et de C3PO dans quelques milliers d'année..

#SciFi #science #business

John Connor'ing ATMs isn't 'easy money' no more! Neofeud 2 is a #cyberpunk game where a social worker for homeless robots, an ex-con & rogue princess fight post-human CEO / Kings. NF 1 is 70% off now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/
https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
#gamedev #indiedev #scifi #retrogame #SteamWinterSale

Breaking news: twenty-thousand monkeys at typewriters on strike -'AI took our jobs.' https://inkican.com/uncanny-valley-dont-worry-about-ai-writers-gpt-3 #AI #scifi #writing

Breaking news: twenty-thousand monkeys at typewriters on strike -'AI took our jobs.' https://inkican.com/uncanny-valley-dont-worry-about-ai-writers-gpt-3 #AI #scifi #writing

The Gods are Watching (2025)

This image is about surveillance society in a roundabout way. It's about the fact that it feels like wherever you go, even if it is in the middle of nowhere, there they are, our overlords, watching.

I wanted to illustrate how the surveillance society is a bad idea, so that even a moron could understand.

Knowing morons well, I know that I have failed.

#gods #1984 #scifi #sciencefiction #art #fediart #mastoart

How often you think I should post stuff like this?