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Shufei 🈳 (shufei@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jul-2018 23:25:49 EDT Shufei 🈳

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia
This really is a delightful takedown of Ready Player One and the entire California Ideology undergirding it.
When societies slide from Horatio Alger to Orphan Annie / Slumdog Millionaire fantasies, it's an oft missed warning sign that the elites themselves have even given up on working things out.
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1. If you want to know how we ended up in a cyber dystopia, read Ready Player One
  
  from The Verge
  
  The 2011 book wants to have it both ways — just like Mark Zuckerberg
1. Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 14:06:51 EDT Blake C. Stacey
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  @Shufei This reminded me of a thought I had when /Armada/ came out: what if a story took Ernest Cline's fantasies and played them absolutely straight, like /Evangelion/ did for the conventions of giant-robot anime or /Madoka Magica/ did for the magical-girl genre?
  CW for PTSD mention: https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=1974
  In conversation Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 14:06:51 EDT from icosahedron.website permalink
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    "And Half the Seed of Europa"
    
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    “And Half the Seed of Europa”

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