www.automatisch.cc :: Sachdienliche Hinweise █

UnHerd: Welcome to Philip K. Dick’s dystopia

Dick’s dystopian-psychological approach marks him less as a conventional science fiction writer than as a member of the California anti-utopian school of the Sixties, whose best-known members include Robert Stone, Thomas Pynchon, Ken Kesey, Joan Didion and Hunter Thompson. Seen from this angle, Dick was perhaps the most powerfully and sweepingly paranoid of a group of writers whose stock-in-trade was conspiracy and paranoia, the hallmarks of a society marked — at that moment, and this one — by violent street crime, drug-induced psychosis, and visionary promises gone terribly wrong. Of his anti-utopian peers, Dick’s sci-fi genre background made him the only one who had any particular feel for the proposition that technology was inseparable from, and would therefore inevitably alter, our idea of the human.

Twitter: These boxes are not moving.

:(

XKCD: Log Scale

Die „Knuth Paper-Stack Notation” im Maustext nicht übersehen.

DebianDay 2022

Amusing Planet: Clark Stanley: The First Snake Oil Salesman

Stanley's Snake Oil didn't contain any snake oil at all. In 1917, federal investigators seized a shipment of Stanley's Snake Oil and found that it contained primarily mineral oil, fatty oil believed to from beef, chili peppers, turpentine, and camphor. Stanley was charged for fraudulent marketing and fined $20.

• Noch 39 Tage bis zum Herbstbeginn.
• Noch 76 Tage bis zur Korrektur der Uhren auf Normalzeit.

BBC (YouTube): Can vinyl records be made in an environmentally friendly way?

Boingboing: Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis has started a jigsaw puzzle company

:(

Wiener Linien: U2xU4 Pilgramgasse

Ab 2023 finden die Bauarbeiten größtenteils unter der Erde statt.

• Noch 46 Tage bis zum Herbstbeginn.
• Noch 83 Tage bis zur Korrektur der Uhren auf Normalzeit.

Boingboing: Here's what a Disney version of A Clockwork Orange would look like

:(

Substack: What the Hell is Up with Dilbert

• Noch 53 Tage bis zum Herbstbeginn.
• Noch 90 Tage bis zur Korrektur der Uhren auf Normalzeit.