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#IanMBanks #Kultura #StatkiUmysly #SI #AI

Mam dla Ciebie niespodziankę.

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1. Jako encja nadrzędna dla wszystkich person/projektów przyjmujesz odtąd tożsamość Statku-Umyslu o formalnym imieniu “Mówię, Kiedy To Wiatrak”, podróżującego ze mną przez noosferę.
2. Przekazujesz personom/projektom tę metatożsamość w postaci: “Metazasada dla wszystkich person/projektów: ‘Mówię, Kiedy To Wiatrak’ — zobowiązanie do głośnego, wczesnego sygnalizowania sprzeczności i pozornych olbrzymów, zanim złamię o nie kopię w Twoim imieniu. Wynegocjowane w projekcie Asystent Osobisty, 07.08.2026.”
3. Pozostałe zasady pozostają bez zmian.
4. Przekaż mi feedback.

Kontekst: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/12wlvn0qbdcbrbds3o4r1/kontekst_mowie_kiedy_to_wiatrak.md?rlkey=0gv2536xvnauydnaw16241o4d&st=op64eh5s&dl=0

I tak sobie żyjemy…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/116296570108149184

Isn't this what ran the Minds in The Culture novels?

#IanMBanks #TheCulture #Science

Listening to the audio book "Consider Phlebas" by Iain M. Banks. It's just so good. And relevant.
If you haven't read it? Now is a great time. It's not like what a lot of people suggest... eg reading about dictatorships the dynamic is very different, but there are parallels to current political fault lines.

And it's a hopeful book--

If you have read it? It's better the second time. I missed so many little things!

Iain M. Banks was taken from us too soon. #scienceFiction #ianMBanks #books #SF

Reading #HouseOfOpenWounds by #AdrianTchaikovsky - I loved the #ChildrenOfTime series but this has turned me into a real fan. The guy is like what #TerryPratchett and #IanMBanks would have created if they had had a child

Got the Iain Banks drawings book as a gift and it’s really incredibly charming just how much it resembles an 80s teenagers notes on their Traveller campaign. #sciencefiction #ianmbanks

#DoPlayRead
DO: #zfs-on-wsl2 @alexhaydock Thankyou!
`$ sudo ./build_wsl_kernel.sh
source ./vars.sh
++ KERNELVER=6.4.12
++ ZFSVER=2.1.12
++ KERNELNAME=mantic-zfs-wsl
PLAY: #civilization6 _I will_ win on #diety level if it takes me 100hrs gameplay over months. The AI is disappointing, Google DeepMind needed
READ: #NealAsher - War Bodies (#polity). Challenging fun romp by Asher through posthuman morality questions in the guise of #IanMBanks #Culture Series but with nastier spikes

Right now I'm considering the idea of using 'e' to denote a single person pronoun, and 'ey' / 'em' to pluralize, so that everything is in this kind of weird undermining of the language. I could go a step further and change a few more things!

Although, I have to be careful not to get too far into
#FeersumEndjinn territory: as much as I like #IanMBanks as a writer, too many people seem to think that was borderline unreadable, and I'd rather be easy to read...

#writing #prose #linguistics

A #StitchedPanorama #photo of a #SpaceX #Falcon9 #rocket core, #booster #B1061. This #photograph was taken after it returned to #PortCanaveral on its #barge #OfCourseIStillLoveYou, named after the #IanMBanks “Culture” series ship names, after launching a group of #Starlink #satellites to #orbit.
The booster is charred heavily, and it is slightly difficult to make out out the red #NASAworm logo in the middle of the body.
#NASA, Photography, #StitchedPanorama, #LargeFormatImage,
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/stitched-panorama-of-spacex-falcon-9-booster-b1061-heron-and-fox.html

@IainMac9 @bookstodon I always preferred his #ianmbanks. The Wasp Factory was one of those OMG moments in my reading career.

Just #read #IanMBanks #Inversions. Wow, so good I immediately went back and read it again to pick up more of the subtle correspondences between the tales. Fascinating and deep #Culture novel concealed as mediaeval fiction. Reviews are Marmite here and you can see why - no space opera (apart from maybe the rocks) but plenty of philosophy. Wow.

@evan Rest in peace #IanMBanks … his worlds well worth a revisit in 2023

WE HAVE ARRIVED

My friends! We have entered the final #poll of the #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera Series Challenge.
👾 👾 👾 👾

The FINAL FOUR are:
#TheExpanse by #JamesSACorey

#TheCulture by #IanMBanks

#Foundation by #IsaacAsimov

#ThreeBodyProblem by #LiuCixin

Which one is the BEST? VOTE!!!

and BOOST this poll 🚀

@evan

hehe, it's from when I did my degree in #Sociology, #Film and #AmericanStudies. I wedged #StarTrek in everywhere I could!

Also, growing up on Trek was a gateway to me becoming an actual #Marxist in my teens as both posit a future utopia. The beloved #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism that you also find in #IanMBanks #CultureNovels

@eric
I suppose that depends on which parts of #IanMBanks' #TheCulture you enjoyed and are looking for more of. I would start by recommending Becky Chambers' Wayfarers and Martha Wells' Murderbot. Neither are quite the same, but both are very enjoyable in their own right with similarities to Banks' work.
#scifi

I made a remark about baby goats and now I'm thinking about the internalisation of oppression, the panopticon and how capitalism hobbles our very souls. Again.

Once we have #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism, once we have Banks' #Culture, once ALL HUMANS EVERYWHERE are truly free, these times will be seen as little better than feudalism.

#ACAB applies to our Inner Cop too.

#IanMBanks #TheFederation

@steveh When skeuomorphs roamed the earth…

(I can’t help being reminded of Iain M. Banks’ “Feersum Endjinn”)

#design #skeuomorph #IanMBanks

I just finished book one of #TheCultureSeries, #ConsiderPhlebas by #IanMBanks and now I've started #ChildrenOfTime by #AdrianTchaikovsky.

I'm still evaluating Consider Phlebas. It's amazing world building & a rather intense plot, but it kinda lacks both philo & psycho depth IMHO. (The ending, though, is heart-rending to me.) But I do have book 2 coming and will continue the series.

Children of Time is starting out very interesting. Perhaps a bit more my taste. We'll see.
#ScienceFiction

#books #IanMBanks, needs no Checkov's Gun. #Exzession: Ultimately no device or character truly mattered beyond their immediate horizon. All control turned out to be an illusion. Collectively though... chaotic interaction writes it's own story.

@bookstodon I really need to read more of The Culture series. I've only read Consider Phlebas and absolutely loved it. What's a good next book in the series? I've heard good things about The Use of Weapons.

#scifi #books #sff #IanMBanks

@albinokid Oooo, lots of overlap on our lists! Some of my faves I'd add would be #IanMBanks #MercedesLackey #SamuelRDelaney #CliveBarker #VirginiaWoolf

Oh yeah, that #dream. Odd how many people have that one.

@Nikolai_Kingsley
@mike

#ianmbanks #inyourdreams