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Estonian he/him. Currently writing an MA thesis about Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men" (1930) subtly implying that his 'message from the future' was real, actually.

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I see all that has gone before me and let it pass over me and through me. Where the context has gone there will be nothing. Only I remain.

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Doing something while sitting, so, not with standing?

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Someone's interstellar overlord was destroyed so thoroughly they even blew up the star system they hailed from.

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Oh, good, the riot police are here. We'll get fucked up on soma gas and dance to Anti-Riot Song Number Two on the Synthetic Music Box, right? Right? (Surely they're not going to use tear gas and shoot my eye out with a rubber bullet...)

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Yup, this is Ned City (on Youtube).

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If hide the pain Harold was reborn as a dainty asian lady.

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Maybe it's like Youtube fighting agains adblockers and a whole lot of people suddenly realizing that's even an option.

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First impression: Claudia must be the brunette in the center. But she is also wearing shoes.

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Some of ya'll have never been boubad and it shows.

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ece of crap to find stuff ON THEIR OWN PRODUCT. God damn it's annoying.

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Sorry to unload like this but I keep my reading notes in a Blogger blog and it used to be easy to search for stuff there with "site:http..." and then Google as if decided that it's no longer goibg to do that. Blogger is their own product, it makes absolutely no sense that I have to use a Russian pi

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I'm not proud of it but in desperariton, when I'm searching for something extremely specific and Google no longer shows it (even when it did before) I've had to turn to yandex.com in a pinch. These are unprecedented times. Google search worked perfectly for 20 years. How tf did they even mess it up

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Tfw you search a title, be it a book or a paper, on DuckDuckGo and it gives you an endless list of results, one more disconnected than the last, whereupon you enter it into Google and despite everything get at least some useful results. I switched back from DDG recently because of this. Still mad.

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Which basically amounts to saying: you're killing your brain if you don't eat anything and only drink alcohol. And that's pretty much obvious to everyone, I assume. Anyone with a brain, I guess, instead of Nvidia processors working on predictive text generation..

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It's so funky watching ChatGPT regurgitate these urban legends because they've been repeated enough times. In actual science, they found out decades ago that alcohol does indeed hamper neurogenesis, new brain cells attaching, but only kills existing ones if alcohol is the only source of nutrition.

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And the idea that some catastrophe needs to precede global spiritual awakening is part and parcel in Stapledon's thought, most vividly illustrated in his Odd John and Sirius both needing to *kill* before they realize their nature. He was very disappointed that neither WW-s lead to a New World Order.

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In my own words: What you just said is a staple in science fiction studies: some sci-fi is indeed meant to show us aspirational technology. Stapledon's deal is that the Last Men sent us a future-history to inspire us to avoid the worst, e.g. stop burning fossil fuels, and not F around in other ways.

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All the Star Trek history and interview books note that Rodenberry consulted Stapledon's works when he conceived of the Star Trek universe. I attached excerpts from John Kinnaird's *Olaf Stapledon* (1986): (1) sci-fi inspiring science, p. 42, and (2) necessity of WWIII before utopia, p. 70.

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Probably where we're headed with generative AI integration into social media. Hover over a profile image and a container lists all the stupid shit you agree and disagree on. We'll start to crave for the bliss of ignorance.

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Uh, excuse me but isn't Star Trek the one where a lone genius scientist aided by humans from the future tinkers with faster than light travel until aliens show up, lift the zoo hypothesis quarantine on our planet and just give us advanced technologies?

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Bestowing wild abduction stories upon unsuspecting amphibians.

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Son, someday all this- *motions to the cruel indifference of the universe* will be yours

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May the human species fuck up its climate with fossil fuels and go extinct but these precious rocks have to stay unharmed!

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As a non-native speaker finding out that it translates as "who let the ugly women into the night club?" made me hate it. Would like to eternal sunshine it away and never hear it again.

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I've come around on LPOTL's serial killer and famous deaths episodes. There's usually something there to learn about how things used to work in the real world - investigation, media, etc. Whereas horror is what? Tricking your reptilian brain into being scared of monsters that don't exist? What for?

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According to this, it will become less moderate, i.e. both colder and hotter, with wild fluctuations and extreme weather anomalies to boot. Europeans might get to experience tornadoes along the Baltic coast. UK, Noway and Denmark will definitely be extremely fucked.

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

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Any idea where Olaf Stapledon got the idea that eventually (e.g. in 2 billion years) there might occur some sort of physical contagion that instigates stars to expand and explode, like it happens in his "Last and Fist Men"? Were there theories about this possibility before 1930? Asking just in case.

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Check out the gospel of Thomas. Young Jesus was a little shit who killed a kid.

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I imagine it's not actually very enjoyable to gorge yourself on cellular peptide cake with mint frosting.

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Meanwhile a department at NASA regularly airbrushes cigarette shaped UAPs in Earth's orbit out of their images before releasing them to the public and some poor UI developer in their hire has to figure out how to make the character limit on their image request form even tighter.

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Originally, it's when you look at a painting and feel what the painter wanted the viewer to feel, or something like that. "Empathy" is only slightly over 100 years old (Tichener 1911). James Mark Baldwin had the better word for what we came to think of as empathy - he called it "sembling".

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This made me remember Uwe Boll uploading hundreds of restaurant "reviews" to Youtube. All are him ranting for a few minutes about the food he just ate, on a dark street, right after finishing his meal and exiting the establishment. Anyone searching for reviews of his bad movies are swamped in these.

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You mean that 13yo he raped at Epstein's place?

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If I understood this correctly then the white area over Europe, between the cold blue and hot red is going to be a tornado alley and all of Europe is going to experience wild extremes in weather and temperature.

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In a few hundred years when Pax Americana is over, English may become a magic language and characters conjure food with "cheese steak jimmy's" and a spawn a vehicle with "how do you turn this on".

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Yeah, someone posted the Internrt Archive link - it was translated in thee 1840s an does feel like it (e.g. doesn't have the long s, which was phases out in the 1820s, approximately).

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Are you sure it's 1200s, i.e. middle English? Because it reads like early modern English, i.e. circa 1500s.

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Thanks for the clarification. Had forgotten about Al Gore.

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The Blackberry one was great, it being a brand was almost incidental to the story and how well it was told. The other ones do come across as long-form advertisements with very little cinematic value.

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Hillary refusing Greenpeace pledge not to take donations from fossil fuel interests Clinton? She's the "environmentalist" in this scenario?

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Makes me suspect you haven't installed an adblocker.

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