It’s Disability Pride Month, so I thought I would take a look at books written by and for disabled people.
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TBT: Fictional and constructed religions
A Throwback Thursday post
What can fictional religions tell us about real religions? Are constructed religions just as valid as ancient ones? What about real-world religions based on fictional ones? One impetus for creating constructed religions is for use in jurisdictions where religious activity is imposed by the authorities – but people often find that their joke religion then takes on a life of its own.
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TBT: Imagining Other Possible Worlds
A Throwback Thursday post
Science fiction, particularly the writings of Ursula le Guin, explores hypothetical alternative societies, cultures, futures, and histories. I am currently watching Babylon 5 again on DVD, and would highly recommend it as an exploration of what happens when a totalitarian and xenophobic government takes over, and how people come together to resist.
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TBT: Thoughts on AI
A Throwback Thursday post.
First off, the thing that is currently being called AI is not really AI, depending on your definition of AI. It’s not conscious. It’s uncannily able to resemble consciousness because humans tend to attribute consciousness to things that science says are not conscious. I’m not even sure if it would pass the Turing Test, although that has been criticized as insufficient for detecting consciousness.
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TBT: Futurisms
As a science fiction geek, I want to know where my fully automated luxury space communism went.
I don’t want to live in the Handmaid’s Tale, aka Project 2025, though I acknowledge that all the things in the Handmaid’s Tale have already been done to Black and Indigenous women.
These are only the most obvious and visible dystopian nightmares, however. In the dank corners of the internet, other scary visions are brewing.
There are also some hopeful scenarios available.
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