Tag: cyberpunk
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Recursive Loops, Enterprise Nanny-states, Garbage Chairs, and Improv
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Duivendrecht edition. Original Content From Platform Engineering to Stand-Up Comedian, with Lian Li, Software Defined Talk #117: “In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up…
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”Betty’s boyfriend-to-be is a dog-chef called Bimbo, who serenades her on a duck that transforms into a guitar, while the restaurant clientele and staff include a fantastical menagerie of animals.” It was a different time.
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“We’ve all got to die of something, he thought. Even if it’s just from staying alive too long.” Mini-story: Retirement
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“an encapsulated volume of pre-Fascist space-time” Alan Jacobs
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Friendship is difficult
If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse.” From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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“A man who had over the course of a week absorbed, as by osmosis, the Spirit of the Internet. And that is a foul, foul thing.” a slightly embarrassed announcement
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Blade Runner makes its live-action return next year – 2026 in Amazon.
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William Gibson – September 1997 interview.
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Nosferatu (2024), review from Warren Ellis – Great review of a great movie.
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Volo’s Culinary Guide to Icewind Dale – We talk a lot about the downside of the Internet, the web, whatever. But the existence of this as a widely available thing is an example of why the Internet is great. I mean: when would this ever exist otherwise except as some obscure zine on a magazine…
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Taking a bath outside while worm-mushrooms sing to you and steal your clothes
From Dungeon Magazine #41, May/June 1993. Relative to your interests Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! – Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Whitney Lee, VMware – How can you start to take a design/UX-driven approach to building your platform (you know, your pile of Kubernetes stuff to pull it all together for app developers)?…
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Untranslatable – “We’ll let him do a trial run for a week first, to see what kind of meat we have in the tub.”
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Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird – Looks like fun, right?
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The 90s Obsession With Transparent Technology – Clearly a good read.
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