S. R. Thompson

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

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Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.

the recent Jurassic Park movies have all lost sight of the fact that the original movie was about the impossibility of insuring a theme park full of dinosaurs

OpenAI: China stole our tech!!

Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place

OpenAI: 😡

There's no better demonstration of the astonishing breadth of human experience than coming across someone actually, sincerely typing out a post that includes the statement that there is in fact no humor whatsoever to be found in the Murderbot books.

Project Hail Mary is great. Sci fi based in real science and mostly stuff that already exists, with a very human story at the center.

I went in without knowing anything besides that, and liked that everything was a surprise for me, so I won't say more, but it really hit the spot. I recommend it.

At a point in my life where I watch the extended editions of LotR and think to myself “no yeah, this scene should have been cut, this exposition adds nothing.”

A Very Batman Christmas