@david@boles.xyz2024-03-14 11:12:46
Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Navigating Immortality, Privacy, and the Right to Be Forgotten - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/navigating-immortality-privacy-and-the-right-to-be-forgotten
@david@boles.xyz2024-03-14 11:12:46
@grumpybozo@toad.social2024-03-12 14:23:13
I’m gonna decline that trade…
The #TESCREAL billionaire fascination with virtual immortality is grounded in juvenile cowardice & narcissism. Humans die. All of us. Humans age. All of us. Our *minds* age, both because of our brains aging & because we have experiences which include other humans close to us dying. Nothing can be forever.
It's a pharaonic impulse to build a monu…
@axbom@axbom.me2024-05-10 05:52:58
Our thumbs moving across screens. Day in. Day out. Our energy devoted to serving the machines and their overlords. Reality itself being distorted by virtual, augmented and generated alternatives.
The overlords don't even have to hide their ambitions anymore. Whatever they speak is gospel.
The Matrix was not a warning of a future to come where we are hooked up to machines, emptied of our energy to serve the desired immortality of our own oppressors.
It was a call t…
@risottobias@tech.lgbt2024-04-01 15:31:43
you ever think that Neil Degrasse Tyson is in like a group text with Brian Cox and goes:
Neil: "I just can't, man, Joe Rogan is such an idiot"
Brian Cox: "oh, 100% he's a dumb hunk"
Brian Greene: "wait you people went on Rogan's podcast?"
Bill Nye: "don't give them the secret to immortality. Who's carpooling to zeta reticuli? the romulans want a headcount at the potluck"
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-18 16:32:13
Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest living Christian novelists, by which I don’t just mean that she’s a Christian—though she is an active one—but that her great novels and her versatile, morally stringent essays reflect a deep knowledge and love of Christianity.
Robinson, who has taught Bible classes and preached at her church in Iowa City, Iowa, is a learned lay theologian of the Calvinist variety.
“Reading Genesis” is Robinson’s literary analysis of the first book of t…
