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Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.

Madness in "great" ones must not unwatched go.
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Joeboys and razorgirls! Mona Lisa Overpod will be taking a Fall hiatus as the Just Enough Trope Network continues to develop other projects. As always, you can continue the conversation about tech news and #cyberpunk media on our Discord channel and right here on Bluesky. See you soon!

Second in the Sprawl Trilogy, but first in many readers' hearts, we're talking this week about William Gibson's second #cyberpunk novel Count Zero!
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This week on the pod, we go back to where #cyberpunk started with the seminal Moebius/Dan O'Bannon comic short story "The Long Tomorrow"!
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We're off this week, but we'll be back on the 27th with an all-new episode about Moebius and his proto-cyberpunk tale "The Long Tomorrow"! See you then!

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.

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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

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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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