Mona Lisa Overpod

And the movies will be worse.

We're choosing to jack back in to the Matrix this week, as we discuss the third and fourth films, Revolutions and Resurrections! #cyberpunk #TheMatrix
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Holograms in your home...a TV star wants to be President...and Jim Belushi is hot?! This week, we look back at a quirky yet deadly serious vision of Hollywood's alternate future with the #cyberpunk soap opera of the '90s: Wild Palms!
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Pop a mañanacillin and strap on your punk-kickin' boots, 'cause this week we're cracking open the 1980's comic book #cyberpunk satire "American Flagg!"
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Absolutely. Until AI is actually self-aware (and we're decades from that if it *ever* happens), there'll never be artistic intent, and no "why"...no art.

This week, we sit down for an interview with Melissa Scott (@blueterraplane.bsky.social) about her fundamental novel Trouble and Her Friends and seeing #LGBTQ and marginalized voices in #cyberpunk fiction!
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Another weak Snowcrash- ass subplot IRL:

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Had a great conversation today with author @blueterraplane.bsky.social for an upcoming episode; Melissa is a curator of a StoryBundle pay-what-you-like collection of LGBTQ sci-fi & fantasy books, available right now at storybundle.com/pride. So many great books for a great price! Check it out!

"Controversy and rage-bait comedy marketing" is my entire business model.

Craigslist DC listing for warm bodies. Payment in crypto.

You're gonna wish you had three ears 'cause this week we're talking Total Recall, the Philip K. Dick space #cyberpunk action thriller!
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The latest book in Elizabeth Bear's White Space series is out Tuesday, June 17th! Space opera, alien AI, maniacal pirates, and more! Pre-order now to get on board for a new adventure!

New #Cyberpunk: Metroplex supplement has some crazy realistic artwork

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Get ready for a podcast about Total Recall!
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People ride motorbikes next to a car burning in flames during a standoff between police and protesters following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in the Los Angeles County city of Paramount, California, U.S., June 7, 2025 (REUTERS)

What a photo. Paramount, California, U.S., June 7, 2025 @reuters.com

Happy Pride! Check out the Pride StoryBundle put together by Catherine Lundoff and @blueterraplane.bsky.social, that I, as well as many amazing others including Melissa Scott and @bogiperson.bsky.social, are part of... storybundle.com/pride

Part of the proceeds go to Rainbow Railroad!

Do Androids Dream of Electric Chairs? #cyberpunk

Lionsgate Boss Says Studio Can Use AI to Adjust a Movie’s Rating and Create Kid-Friendly Cuts: ‘Do It Anime, Make It PG-13. Three Hours Later, I’ll Have the Movie’ Lionsgate says its pact with AI company Runway can be used to adjust a movie's tun to create kid-friendly versions of their library titles.

Can they make their movies good? Is there a setting for that, or is that beyond current technology?
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Martha Wells's The Murderbot Diaries is now an #AppleTV+ series and this week we're diving into the novella series where it all started! #Murderbot
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MLOP 24: Murderbot Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today! Humans: can't live with them...can't kill them all because you need their TV shows. Martha Wells's The Murderbot Diaries series of novels and novellas stars the titular "bot", a well-armed cyborg who has hacked its restraining bolt, but will be scrapped on sight if its freedom is discovered. The award-winning series is an thrilling interstellar cyberromp, but what deeper things does it have to say about security, capital, identity, and life for the leashed?   In this episode, we discuss Murderbot's explosion onto the literary scene, the series's uniquely unreliable protagonist, the panoptic dystopia that's becoming all too familiar, living as a robotic underclass, how Wells's own fandom influenced the series, emotional antagonists, and the importance of seeing yourself in media even if you're a killer robot. We also talk about building your own Voight-Kampff test, reading hot and fresh sci-fi, "being a paladin", keeping your robot slaves down, telempathy and reverse cyborgs, visualizing leaking, explaining your fandom to your humans, honoring the social contract with a robot, spying for "work", millennial robots, Metabot, and the importance of data security in your universe! RIP to Peter David, Writer of Stuff. Please consider supporting Peter's wife Kathleen at this time: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-peter-david The new edition of Lyda's book, Ressurection Code, is out now! https://wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/books-by-lyda-morehouse/resurrection-code/ Join Kaliban on Twitch weekdays at 12pm for the Cyber Lunch Hour! http://twitch.tv/justenoughtrope MLOP is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord! http://www.twitter.com/monalisaoverpod http://www.justenoughtrope.com http://www.instagram.com/monalisaoverpod https://discord.gg/wB9gWyUU8M Put Just Enough Trope merch on your body! http://justenoughtrope.threadless.com Buy us a coffee on Ko-Fi! https://ko-fi.com/justenoughtrope

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YouTube video by More Perfect Union We Chased Driverless Trucks In Texas. What We Saw Will Scare You.

I see somethinnng...autonomous
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YouTube video by Trent Lenkarski Scientists when they build a perfect robot

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We're going rogue, so this week's episode about Martha Wells's Murderbot Diaries is going to be a little late. See you soon, meatbags!

This week, neither robot nor human is safe as a shadowy killer stalks Astro Boy and the world's greatest robots in "Pluto"!
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