First, HAAAAPPYYY BIRTHDAAAAY, STAR TREK! WOOHOOO! The following is an essay I wrote for part of my sociology degree. Obviously, it’s a little dry and academic but I think you can still get my love…
... my entire life, I have worked in one way or another to try and make the Trek / Culture future come true. And now I'm chatting to you, on a platform based on something *you* created that is a seed of that future. I find that incredible.
#TheFederation / #Fediverse / #Culture is sooo close, so damned close. The free association of sentients as equals, beyond all our ridiculous, pernicious -isms.
In terms of my job, I'm looking very closely at #Funkwhale which I didn't even know about till coming here from... there.
There *has to* be a better way than Spotify - it has all my listening data but the recs are still ridiculously bad. Not a whiff of #AI there, or it's a baby one if there is.
Evan Prodromou
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Jyoti Mishra
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WOAAHHH! THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME!!
oh myyyy!!!
And thank you. I was shy dressing up at first but got into it properly. I love it now!
Would you like to read my essay on #StarTrek and the need for utopic visions? 🤤
OF COURSE YOU WOULD:
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2016/09/08/happy-50th-birthday-star-trek/
#SociologyOfStarTrek #MediaStudies #Sociology #Utopias #Dystopias
Happy 50th Birthday, Star Trek!
Bzangy GroinkEvan Prodromou
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Jyoti Mishra
•hehe, it's from when I did my degree in #Sociology, #Film and #AmericanStudies. I wedged #StarTrek in everywhere I could!
Also, growing up on Trek was a gateway to me becoming an actual #Marxist in my teens as both posit a future utopia. The beloved #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism that you also find in #IanMBanks #CultureNovels
Evan Prodromou
•Jyoti Mishra
•Look, it's late and I'm a silly old fool but...
... my entire life, I have worked in one way or another to try and make the Trek / Culture future come true. And now I'm chatting to you, on a platform based on something *you* created that is a seed of that future. I find that incredible.
#TheFederation / #Fediverse / #Culture is sooo close, so damned close. The free association of sentients as equals, beyond all our ridiculous, pernicious -isms.
We need our dreams!
Evan Prodromou
•Jyoti Mishra
•Awwhhhh!
In terms of my job, I'm looking very closely at #Funkwhale which I didn't even know about till coming here from... there.
There *has to* be a better way than Spotify - it has all my listening data but the recs are still ridiculously bad. Not a whiff of #AI there, or it's a baby one if there is.
I feel #discovery is gonna be a core of future #AIPersonalAssistants which we'll run ourselves, decentralised.
Jyoti Mishra
•Isn't it weird that we only know each other because of
#FairchildSemiconductor ?
I stg, that company has a lot to answer for...
Evan Prodromou
•Jyoti Mishra
•Me too. I sense something in the air. Everything feels a bit Russia 1905 or Paris 1871. Or, here in the UK, 1926.
If only I had #HariSeldon's brain so I could work out which domino would lead to the least apocalyptic toppling of tyrannies.