boopity2025

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by boopity2025 11mo ago
Because class is an actual construct where as age is not? I think your point is somewhat disingenuous
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by boopity2025 11mo ago
appreciate it thanks
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The Invisible Hand of Gerontocracy(terminaldrift.substack.com)
7 points by boopity2025 11mo ago|6 comments
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Virgin Births, Vegas Odds and Voter Fraud(terminaldrift.substack.com)
2 points by boopity2025 1y ago|3 comments
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by boopity2025 1y ago
yeah fair take on the vibe shift. to a lot of younger folks tech isn’t mystic anymore, it’s HVAC. the shiny stuff from old cyberpunk reads like “engineering backlog,” so the romance bleeds out my point is a bit orthogonal: even if cyberpunk
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by boopity2025 1y ago
Yea while i dont disagree with you, i think the japanification of the future as scene in the 80s and 90s is actually the core issue at play. We used japan because it was booming until it wasnt, and we dont use china as the future because it
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Why our cyberpunk futures still look Japanese, not Chinese)(terminaldrift.substack.com)
6 points by boopity2025 1y ago|5 comments
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by boopity2025 1y ago
• Why our cyberpunk future stayed frozen in 1980s style Akira Japan: genre inertia + a safe, marketable form of techno-Orientalism. • Why Neo-Shanghai is missing: China market incentives (censorship), reality outpacing fiction (surveillance
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by boopity2025 1y ago
Lol, very good.
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Blade Runner's New Jews – China, the diaspora, the future Hollywood won't show(terminaldrift.substack.com)
7 points by boopity2025 1y ago|6 comments
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by boopity2025 1y ago
So where the hell is our Chinese dystopian future? Where are the Hollywood blockbusters set in Neo-Beijing? Why does every sci-fi movie still fetishize the same tired Tokyo aesthetic that peaked when Reagan was president? The answer involve
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Money and Other Fairy Tales(terminaldrift.substack.com)
1 points by boopity2025 1y ago|0 comments
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by boopity2025 1y ago
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by boopity2025 1y ago
Feels like visual programming keeps trying to be “code, but with pictures” instead of asking what problems pictures are actually good at solving. We’ve basically been drawing the same boxes and arrows since the 80s and wondering why it stil