Today in Labor History February 15, 1933: Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami. He failed, mostly because he was too short to see over the crowd. However, Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who was shot in the attack, later died, in part from his wounds and in part from medical malpractice. Zangara confessed to the crime in jail, stating “I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.” He was executed in Old Sparky, Florida’s electric chair in March, 1933. Philip K. Dick’s novel, “The Man in the High Castle,” is based in part on the premise that Zangara succeeded in killing FDR.
Oh my God! Oh fck! I wake up to this big news and all I can say is fck! I went to bed having read something about Philip K Dick Awards (I can't even remember what I read about it!) and I wake up to learn that my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, has been nominated for this and its a big deal to me and all I can day is f*ck! What a way to start the year!
@dilmandila
I love #PhilipKDick and in particular #SecondVariety is more relevant than at any earlier time in history.
Congrats for being nominated.
But even with the "*" I cannot possible boost your post for language issues, in particular you being an author.
I am in passport control. I can see my face on a screen. The technology recognises me and lets me through. I scan codes showing my vaccination status and recent Covid test results. The machines assess the data regarding my health and microbiology. Through into the waiting room, people are staring into little screens. A strangely large number have the camera flipped, and are capturing their faces at different angles, as if they've forgotten what they look like. I open my laptop and join in. I give my details to a company to enter the digital realm. Adverts tailored to my personality pop up. They know me better than I know myself.
@MeeMee #HighStrangeness
Reality turns into a Philip K. Dick narrative.
In 2006, Philip K. Dick's android was sent to Mountain View, California, to meet with Google employees, when it vanished. It was apparently lost by an airline.
An #Android animated mannequin of #PhilipKDick goes rogue. 😂
... ihre größte Bedrohung? Der Mensch! - Mit seiner rücksichtslosen Erderwärmung und der daraus resultierenden Zunahme an Extremwetterereignissen, insbes. Hurricanes.
Zudem ist die Menschheit der größte Konkurrent, wenn es um "Futter" geht: Energie und Wassser.
Was läge also näher für diese #AGI ähnlich zu handeln, wie dies #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety tat?
Es ist absolut logisch.
HE AWOKE--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like...
Had a mad idea again and threw out the entire 6th module of my Intro to World Lit class (last minute again, because I live on the edge)
Making it pure SF this time, so because I'm thinking of including #PhilipKDick's short story #WeCanRememberItForYouWholesale on the roster, I'm rewatching #TotalRecall with Arnold Schwarzenegger
(not the soulless 2012 remake, thanks)
I did a #ComicCon panel last week on my favorite author #PhilipKDick! This happened on Sunday afternoon, July 23, 2023. Lots of people were taking photos and video. It looked like one mounted camera was recording the whole thing. Does anybody know how I can track down these videos? I'd love to see myself up there.
"No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.”
Another article -- this one from 2009. I remember this one. I've been into sci-fi and stuff for a lot of years (the Terminator stuff in this article, Philip K Dick stuff, etc), but I've never wanted to obsess with it or have it make me paranoid or doomy. I even had to back off on a lot of it, other than Star Trek, etc, because it IS so dark, and no sci-fi will ever perfectly predict anything. But this article from 14 years ago is interesting. This kind of talk has been going around for a lot of years and again, NOBODY knows how all of this is gonna end up. And that's what's so weird about it. Anyway. The article from 14 years ago: https://archive.ph/pgDyv
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - Philip K. Dick, the inspiration for Total Recall (philosophy.as.uky.edu)
HE AWOKE--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like...