From Dune and ... 🎯

[proedie@mastodon.green]

@Natasha_Jay What’s wrong with the dot on the i?

[karalg84@dragonscave.space]

@Natasha_Jay I read this as "from Dune and Bullseye" and wondered when Jim Bowen quoted Frank Herbert".
Mind you he was an English teacher apparently. Someone who worked at my local library had him as their teacher.

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@Natasha_Jay

This quote is why I hate the Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert prequels so much.

The original Dune series has a lot of references to the Butlerian Jihad as a reaction to people living mechanically structured lives that removed their essential humanity and allowed other humans to control them. The prequels made it about evil killer robots with no sensible motivations.

[megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay The Butt Leering Jihad!

[windofchange@mastodon.online]

@Natasha_Jay Stupid billionaires trying (and failing) to build Star Trek universe, will end up in Dune universe.

[ali@river.geek.nz]

@Natasha_Jay Found on here some time ago

[tweetsjen@hear-me.social]

@Natasha_Jay I do wonder about the motives of certain people who are pushing AI so much. Is this what they are actually trying to achieve? A means to accomplish exactly this?

[wonka@chaos.social]

If only they were trying to build Star Trek...

Looks more likely to me that they're working towards Warhammer 40000. Or Andor's Star Wars.

@WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay

[thebratdragon@mastodon.scot]

@Natasha_Jay

we are already in John Brunners Dystopia from Stand on Zanzibar.

[pasmac@atmasto.com]

@Natasha_Jay Well humans are predictable. But at the same time, removing tech was also a way to perpetrate as ruler ...

[corpomancer@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

[xchaos@f.cz]

@WindOfChange this is where the New hope is getting Star Wars universe (instead of Jodorowsky Dune, staring Mick Jagger and Salvator Dali

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Natasha_Jay I'm watching "the handmaid's tale" series, even if I didn't read the book, and it's horribly scary. Not just for what happens in the play, but for how much the dystopian storytelling is so close to everyday's news.
It's a brave new world, to recall again literature no more that much fantasy.

[syntaxseed@phpc.social]

@proedie @Natasha_Jay Everything leaned italic except the dot on the i.

[0x0@hachyderm.io]

@wonka
Andor's S2 was the only (surprisingly) decent surprise in that universe for over a decade.
@WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay

[krypt3ia@infosec.exchange]

@Natasha_Jay Butlerian Jihad, now.

[hollyolly@universeodon.com]

@Natasha_Jay Written in 1979, too.

[noodlemaz@mstdn.games]

@david_chisnall @Natasha_Jay glad I didn't read them now..!

[duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk]

@WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay
what makes you think they don't intend the Dune universe?
Space Feudalism sounds right up their street to me.

[noodlemaz@mstdn.games]

@luc0x61 @Natasha_Jay that was entirely Atwood's point. Most of the situations she describes or embellished have already happened to women somewhere in the world. Or are happening now. She was very clear about that.

This is why it's so annoying when people are like 'the US is becoming Gilead!'
It has been for Black women for ages, catch up.