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“F*** you, pay me.” Welcome to techbros feudalism
“A government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.”
— Bernie Sanders
What does it mean when Apple CEO Ti…
8 hours ago
The world’s worst people have a plan
“The nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this. That we are in process of developing a whole series of techni…
6 days, 15 hours ago
Why Elon Musk can never understand Iain M. Banks
It’s a standing joke that tech billionaires read science fiction warnings and use them as handbooks. They build the Torment Ne…
1 week, 2 days ago
What does the NEUROMANCER trailer tell us?
After 42 years we have 1 minute and 10 seconds of Neuromancer on a screen.
What does it tell us?
Now on the Science Fiction channel
…2 weeks, 3 days ago
The most overrated director VS the greatest myth
Picture a boy. He’s seven years old, small for his age, standing in the sun-baked dust of an ancient palace courtyard.
He is looking at a horse. Bu…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
AI is a mass psychotic delusion
In April of 1856, a teenage girl named Nongqawuse stood by the banks of the Gxarha River in South Africa and received a message from the dead.
She …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Backrooms is avant-garde art for normies
It’s 1990. This morning I found an open door in the shopping centre of the dull commuter town I live in.
Beyond the door are a series of large empty…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Why do Leftists always lose? A (partial) defense of Contrapoints
Chess is the King of Games. It just is. It’s not Buckaroo. It’s not Kerplunk. You don’t see political strategists huddled in a bunker in the Pentago…
2 months, 1 week ago
2026 : the year World War 3 begins
To my Gen-X compatriots, to the Boomers and Millenials, and to Gen-Z who will have to clean up this mess we all made…
…can we agree that Star Trek i…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
You don’t understand science fiction
There is a single narrative technique that connects almost every multi-billion dollar science fiction franchise ever made. It is the invisible engin…
3 months, 2 weeks ago