A. R. Yngve

What We're Talking About When We're (Not) Talking About Extraterrestrials Our culture's complicated relationship with the Great Other

Aliens continue to exist in a cultural twilight zone - not quite respectable, never quite dismissed.

Here's my DEEP dive into the subject: "What We're Talking About When We're (Not) Talking About Extraterrestrials":
aryngve.substack.com/p/what-were-...

#ufo #uap #aliens #scifi #science #culture

Halloween: It’s one night a year. Just relax and lean into the silliness.

YouTube video by Marshall McLuhan - Topic The Medium Is the Massage (Side A)

Here you can listen to Marshall McLuhan himself - now a "digital spirit presence" on YouTube - speaking to us from the year 1967...

THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE Part 1: youtu.be/c7TKg2GGkZ0

THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE Part 2: youtu.be/c7TKg2GGkZ0

IS THIS:
A) Purple mashed potatoes
B) The dreaded basement of the sealed-off Chernobyl power plant
C) Failed Halloween cookies
D) The surface of Saturn's moon Titan
E) Cancer cells under a microscope

#funny #halloween

PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE
A collection of paranormal crime stories

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#noir #horror #mystery #paranormal #books #literature #paranormalcrime #paranormalinvestigation

A book can be colder than hell...

THE FLATTERED PLANET
20 tales of terror

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#horror #books #literature #darkfantasy #shortstories #shortfiction #scifi #sciencefiction #satire #Halloween #twilightzone

Long Live the New Flesh Notes on VIDEODROME: Media Theory as Body Horror

"Long Live the New Flesh
Notes on VIDEODROME: Media Theory as Body Horror"
aryngve.substack.com/p/long-live-...

Attention retrogamers:

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#retrogaming #retrogames #games #8bit #c64

New WIP Screenshots: "Twin Tigers" Sequel (C64) | A. R. Yngve Get more from A. R. Yngve on Patreon

Check out the new screenshots from an upcoming retrogame:
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#retrogames #retrogame #retrogaming #retro #8bitnews #8bit #indiegames #games

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YouTube video by GlobalWahrman Monsters From the Id (The Climax of Forbidden Planet (1956))

A cheesy sci-fi movie from 1956 provided a great metaphor for how the Internet can unleash not just the rational mind, but also its darker side:
"Monsters from the Id"...
youtu.be/f2BYyeS-fIU

My short fiction collection PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE contains material which has previously been published on Wattpad, plus several original stories.
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YouTube video by Sideprojects 25 Times the Soviet Union Was Absolutely Insane

Simon Whistler: "25 Times the Soviet Union Was Absolutely Insane"
youtu.be/8G6RNbONshc

Fun with Swedish license plates:
Now THAT is an ominous sign.

#cars #funnysigns #sverige #funny

YouTube video by Alberta Tech Why no AI can solve this question

Is this technically correct?
AI can’t count the number of “R”s in “strawberry”?
Are LLMs this… thick?
I honestly thought it had to be a joke.
Can you confirm it?
:-S
youtube.com/shorts/7pQrM...

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder Beware the New AI Pseudoscience.

Some people have developed close relationships with AI bots, and think they’ve “awakened” their AI partners into sentience. They have developed an entirely new pseudoscientific theory for this, which is based on five dimensional scalar resonances.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm64...

"It costs nothing to be kind!"

I'm sorry but what are you talking about, it's the most expensive and dangerous thing in the world. That's why people who remain kind in all circumstances are such heroes, they're giving of themselves and voluntarily making themselves vulnerable.

People!

Henning and Ricki from Badger Punch Games.

Terminal. Not connected.

PET

Some photos from Spillmesse 2025 in Kristiansand. Including @badgerpunch.com , a lovely PET, a terminal from Norsk Data and ... a crowd of people! Great fun.

From Post-literate to Posthuman on digital orality and post-literacy

Today, for paid subscribers, I explore whether the fact that we talk to our computers, listen to posts, and send endless voice memos matters in the conversation about the end of print culture.
default.blog/p/from-post-...

My least-hated novel is 3 bucks for the next week in ebook form, just search your device for 'This Book is Full of Spiders', it's like if the cast of Stranger Things group up and became bitter alcoholics and the town went to shit around them & the monsters kept getting weirder

Earth Becomes a Disney World? Anthropocenic Evolution may already be altering life as we know it

Essay:
"Earth Becomes a Disney World?
Anthropocenic Evolution may already be altering life as we know it"
aryngve.substack.com/p/earth-beco...

Leaked Racist Chats, Internet Realities and the Erosion of Decency Why the Young Republicans felt comfortable saying such vile stuff.

'The internet changes our sense of who we’re speaking to and how our words land. Until we confront that shift directly, we will keep circling the same argument about whether people “really mean it."'

@defaultfriend.bsky.social for @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Book review: THE FINAL EMPIRE by Brandon Sanderson
aryngve.substack.com/p/book-revie...
A book I did not enjoy.

“Our people poisoned Navalny”: Former FSB officer on surveilling opposition figures and running black ops in Russia and Ukraine For many years, Russia’s Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism (SZKSBТ), also known as the FSB’s Second Service, has effectively functioned as Russia’s...

Who are they - the men who serve the tyrants? Evil masterminds? Cackling sadists?
The real face of these thugs is both smaller and uglier than you may have imagined. Here's a rare look into the workings of Putin's terror apparatus:
theins.ru/en/confessio...

YouTube video by GlobalWahrman Monsters From the Id (The Climax of Forbidden Planet (1956))

A cheesy sci-fi movie from 1956 provided a great metaphor for how the Internet can unleash not just the rational mind, but also its darker side:
"Monsters from the Id"...
youtu.be/f2BYyeS-fIU

YouTube video by GlobalWahrman Monsters From the Id (The Climax of Forbidden Planet (1956))

Quote:
"Sometimes friends show me screenshots of things I wrote not half an hour ago, and I can’t remember having written them."
FORBIDDEN PLANET made a great metaphor for this tendency to be online but not fully awake: Morbius sleeps, and his "id" wakes up through the machine:
youtu.be/f2BYyeS-fIU

Darkland (C64) FREE by Psytronik Software A free C64 spooky Halloween treat from Alf Yngve & Psytronik Software!

Attention retrogamers:

This Halloween, try this FREE C64 chiller:

DARKLAND:
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#retrogaming #retrogames #c64 #retro #8bit #games #Psytronik

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems

Today I have a look at three major problems blocking current AI tech progress that I think are fundamentally unsolvable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=984q...

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