From Dune and ... 🎯

[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.

[manu@freiburg.social]

@proedie

Ooh! What a good catch!
Can never be unseen...

@Natasha_Jay

[pier@infosec.exchange]

@WindOfChange @Natasha_Jay Feels more like they want the Altered Carbon universe to me.

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@proedie @Natasha_Jay it slid off to the left because the top of the i is slanted that way

[funkdoctor@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay

[abmallgren@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay Ah, I see that you are getting into social contemplation. Yes, AI can automate discussions of Dune with a female. This particular excerpt is quite interesting, as it seems to imply that men are better enslaved by the conversation of females than by machines, which may be faulty logic. Would you like to hear more about the history of conversation etiquette?