Going to be livestreaming tomorrow 12 PM Pacific Time, talking about my William Gibson interview, our current status being near the active volcano, and my plan to get Keanu Reeves on the podcast next. 😀😂
Going to be livestreaming tomorrow 12 PM Pacific Time, talking about my William Gibson interview, our current status being near the active volcano, and my plan to get Keanu Reeves on the podcast next. 😀😂
@seanl That would be an interesting, and certainly positive use of blockchain. Especially as the evaporation of trust was at the core of a lot of the 08/09 meltdown, and blockchain removes trust between parties and puts it into mathematics, as far as I understand it.
An illuminating deep-dive into "cyberpunk" and the atemporal torch-passing of subversive sci-fi mindfuckery from British New Wave to CP to Black Mirror and Ned Beauman. #cyberpunk#scififri#scifi
The "techno-shintoist" I spoke of in the William Gibson interview is @sophia who is very interesting, do check her out. (Gibson hasn't considered whether his iPhone is sentient, but finds it quite touching)
An illuminating deep-dive into "cyberpunk" and the atemporal torch-passing of subversive sci-fi mindfuckery from British New Wave to CP to Black Mirror and Ned Beauman. #cyberpunk#scififri#scifi
Consider how many children are being scud-missiled, how many teacher strikes are un-noticed, homeless remain invisible, how many amendments are being rolled back, how much of your data is being stolen and auctioned again by Zucky etc. while everyone is watching hyper-sensationalized fake-news "volcanic apocalypse" porn in a tiny 1/10,000th of Hawaii
I live <10 miles from the lava flow. It sucks, but we're alive, we're safe, the situation is closely monitored, we're dealing. Don't be hoodwinked.
My interview with William Gibson, edit-in-progress! Cyberpunk as co-optable movement vs subversive tendency, misfit matchmaking, Neofeud, Ray Bradbury in sleeveless jean jackets and more, from the master himself.
Alienation from one's social world -- i.e. ex-Kansasians fleeing "Jesusland" to sexual freedom and then-techno-revolutionary San Francisco. Alienation from one's promised future -- jobless teen/tweens in New York City suffering Reaganomics circa 1980 patching Ramones badges into old torn biker jackets with safety pins between squatting warehouses and fits of ear-blistering moshpit catharsis-