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@rtw
There was some work recently published, or at least let out into media, about patterns on cars and suchlike that caused mechanical recognition devices to ignore them.
In WW2 the #photographer #LeeMiller's husband #RolandPenrose, a #surrealist artist, worked on camouflage, some of which was #dazzle, intended not so much to hide the presence of a ship on the sea, as to confuse about how big far fast whence it was travelling, and so on.
#GreatDismal #SciFi author invented the #UglyTShirt
@astronomerritt
#SciFi #GreatDismal 's novel #ThePeripheral , first of 3 #Jackpot volumes introduces an online app/service #Badger which displays to your contacts your current state.
He wrote #Neuromancer
@DeliaChristina
#WilliamGibson #SciFi writer going by #GreatDismal placed his #TuringPolice HQ in Geneva, in #Neuromancer.
"Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead".
Where are the Turing Police?
@researchbuzz_firehose
#SciFi : that's (also) a piece of world building in one of the sequels to #GreatDismal's #Neuromancer.
@MicroSFF
cf Altered Carbon and The Peripheral.
Richard Morgan and #GreatDismal
Neuromancer, chapter 17:
One foot bare, the other in a velvet slipper.
There's your obligatory Dhalgren reference. #SamuelRDelany #sciencefiction #GreatDismal
"He had his cash money, but you couldn’t pay for food with that. It wasn’t actually illegal to have the stuff, it was just that nobody ever did anything legitimate with it."
(#WilliamGibson, #countzero 1986)
#GreatDismal
"The sky over the city of Vancouver was the color of a television tuned to a Prince concert."
#William #Gibson
Vancouver is, I suppose, a port city.
reference #GreatDismal
Revisited some #williamgibson #greatdismal … Spook Country .. excellent, love his prose, so much more .. something .. then the run of the mill #scifi