Strypey
activity timestamp 6 days ago
"Written shortly after Ronald Reagan won the US presidency in 1980, Atwood's novel imagined a future in which the extreme religious right established a totalitarian regime in the aftermath of a civil war in America, amid plummeting worldwide fertility rates."

#YasmineJeffery, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/tv/didn-t-finish-watching-the-handmaid-s-tale-here-s-why-people-stopped-watching

#TV#SciFi #dystopia#TheHandmaidsTale
Strypey
activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
In the classic H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine, the time-hopping protagonist meets the Eloi, who live in a state of childish innocence. Everything they need is provided by invisible machinery. Maintained by the subterranean Morlocks, who eat the Eloi like farmed animals.

This is a wonderful metaphor for what hyperscale datacentres turned much of the net into.

#novels#SciFi#HGWells#TimeTravel#TheTimeMachine#DataFarming
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"Some of what you're thinking about Ghormans, at this very moment, exists because we put it there."

"Hasn't there always been something slightly arrogant about the Ghor? Oh, we all feel it, what is that?"

"Last year, when the shipping lanes had to be shut down, how hard would it have been to simply allow the Imperial inspections that most other planets welcome?"

Dee Shambo, Nisus Osar, Ministry of Enlightenment, Andor, s02e01

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"You guys had a riot? On account o'me? My very own riot?"

Jayne Cobb, , s01e06
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"And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill'em right back.

Look, wife or no, you are no one's property to be tossed aside. You got the right, same as anyone, to live and try to kill people. I mean ... you know ... people that are ...

... That's a ... that's a dumb planet."

Mal Reynolds, #Firefly, s01e06

#TV#SciFi#WomensLiberation#SelfDefence