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@evan

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
I love the Culture novels!
@evan

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!
we'll get there! I know it. Glad to be working on the dream with people like you.
@evan
Awwhhhh! :ablobmeltsoblove:

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.
@evan

Isn't it weird that we only know each other because of
#FairchildSemiconductor ?

:ablobcool:

I stg, that company has a lot to answer for...
I know, right? I'm glad though.
@evan

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.
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