"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."
#STS and adjacent people, I'm looking for reading recs on scifi + "capital S monolithic Science" as religion/pseudoreligion
not looking for the actual historical ties between religious institutions and research disciplines (tho I won't be mad if you share those too)
looking more for stuff like... how we went from early scifi tales and allegories at a time when many disciplines and methods where only starting out, to the rampant Scientism and TESCREALism of today... how that's played into technocracy and modulated colonial narratives and education and actual R&D initiatives and etc...
there's tons of individual connections to make between religious narratives and contemporary scifi-treated-as-reality, like general AI as both gods and eschatological prophecy. interested in that sort of thing too
I am currently working on an IDE for my two projects, and #Android app and my #videogame. I am making this in python as I personally love scripting, I am maintint an operating system whxuh i am really happy to do so. I am a small upcoming scripting developer, with some knowledge of python , but I know how to get around it and such. Just wondering if anyone knows if I should use KTinker (or whatever it’s called , lol) or wx.
Hey, question, I'd like to hear from people who are autistic or with ADHD, especially people of color — what are your thoughts on self-diagnosis? I've seen some insistence that self-diagnosis harms the autism community, for example, but I could've sworn I saw arguments about the opposite.
Asking genuinely because I want to learn, as I'm not autistic.
New data available:
European Commission, Brussels
(2024): Flash Eurobarometer 537 (SMEs and Skills Shortages). GESIS, Cologne. ZA8781 v1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14313
Hot take: The song Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves is about a woman who has a delusion about someone who wants nothing to do with her. #music
“I’d love to say Walking on Sunshine relates to a significant event in my life, like walking out of my front door, seeing a comet and being inspired. But it’s just a piece of simple fun, an optimistic song, despite us not being outstandingly cheery people. We were a typical young band, insecure and pessimistic. We didn’t have big hair and didn’t look anything like a Motown-influenced group. We didn’t have any credibility or a fanbase in awe of our mystique. We were a second-on-the-bill-at-a-festival-in-Germany pop band. But we had this song.” — Kimberley Rew, guitarist and songwriter
@neilhimself@ColleenDoran I note that you are using PledgeBox for fulfillment of the #GoodOmens project. Given that this is your first time using PledgeBox I hope that you are doing your due diligence to make sure that they don't do anything stupid, like giving customers a 30-minute window to download stuff, because -- DANG! -- that would sure be annoying. #WordToTheWise#Comics
In fact, the Consumer Price Index has always been a political artifact! Read more in Thomas Stapleford's enjoyable and excellently-named history THE COST OF LIVING IN AMERICA.