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Too Many Frankensteins

Why does no one ever read the end of the story? Or if they do, why don’t they pay attention?

Ever since Mary Shelley gave us Frankenstein, laying out a moral of a story proving that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, there seems to be a preponderance of ignorance running alongside the obvious capabilities our current day Dr. Frankensteins possess. It feels like the story is playing on an endless Youtube Short or TikTok or Reel without ever reaching the end and the story’s point. The only thing coming close to the volume of ignorance is the overdose of hubris that someone must be selling somewhere on some street corner. Or maybe it’s testosterone injections.

Whatever it is, whether in tech and AI, politics, sports, media, or fill in the blank for any field that can issue a press release and attract attention like flies to rotting flesh, it’s past the epidemic stage and has spread like a plague.

The fever stokes flames on Wall Street, which seems content to fuel them further until it all melts down. As long as they make their fees. Makes one wonder how the prediction markets on any number of popping bubbles are doing?

Between AI companies climbing over each other to fight over which model can cause more damage when they break free, companies creating horror movie-like robots to do damage control in dangerous circumstances, companies working to create AI powered glasses that will be used for mass surveillance — much less trouble making privacy violations, the tech sector seems to be outrunning the rest when it comes to the mad scientist wannabe game.

Politicians aren’t far behind, lagging only by their inability to keep up with and understand the changes happening around them as they count the cash being stuffed in their pockets. Sports teams intent on winning today don’t seem to care that they may be permanently damaging their game.

And there’s a media that doesn’t actually care who wins and who loses as long as they have access to the story of the rise and the story of the fall. Imagine if today’s media had covered Dr. Frankenstein’s efforts the way they cover Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, or any of the others.

It’s too broad a generalization to say these stories never end well, even though many fail whether the consequences are intended or not. But in a world seemingly being driven by a bunch of geeks who profess a love for science fiction, and those who can’t help but take their money to drive their own ambitions, you’d think someone along the way would understand that they don’t get to write the end.

But that would require more than reading a summary.

Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.

Too Many Frankensteins

Why does no one ever read the end of the story? Or if they do, why don’t they pay attention?

Ever since Mary Shelley gave us Frankenstein, laying out a moral of a story proving that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, there seems to be a preponderance of ignorance running alongside the obvious capabilities our current day Dr. Frankensteins possess. It feels like the story is playing on an endless Youtube Short or TikTok or Reel without ever reaching the end and the story’s point. The only thing coming close to the volume of ignorance is the overdose of hubris that someone must be selling somewhere on some street corner. Or maybe it’s testosterone injections.

Whatever it is, whether in tech and AI, politics, sports, media, or fill in the blank for any field that can issue a press release and attract attention like flies to rotting flesh, it’s past the epidemic stage and has spread like a plague.

The fever stokes flames on Wall Street, which seems content to fuel them further until it all melts down. As long as they make their fees. Makes one wonder how the prediction markets on any number of popping bubbles are doing?

Between AI companies climbing over each other to fight over which model can cause more damage when they break free, companies creating horror movie-like robots to do damage control in dangerous circumstances, companies working to create AI powered glasses that will be used for mass surveillance — much less trouble making privacy violations, the tech sector seems to be outrunning the rest when it comes to the mad scientist wannabe game.

Politicians aren’t far behind, lagging only by their inability to keep up with and understand the changes happening around them as they count the cash being stuffed in their pockets. Sports teams intent on winning today don’t seem to care that they may be permanently damaging their game.

And there’s a media that doesn’t actually care who wins and who loses as long as they have access to the story of the rise and the story of the fall. Imagine if today’s media had covered Dr. Frankenstein’s efforts the way they cover Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, or any of the others.

It’s too broad a generalization to say these stories never end well, even though many fail whether the consequences are intended or not. But in a world seemingly being driven by a bunch of geeks who profess a love for science fiction, and those who can’t help but take their money to drive their own ambitions, you’d think someone along the way would understand that they don’t get to write the end.

But that would require more than reading a summary.

Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.

Too Many Frankensteins

Why does no one ever read the end of the story? Or if they do, why don’t they pay attention?

Ever since Mary Shelley gave us Frankenstein, laying out a moral of a story proving that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, there seems to be a preponderance of ignorance running alongside the obvious capabilities our current day Dr. Frankensteins possess. It feels like the story is playing on an endless Youtube Short or TikTok or Reel without ever reaching the end and the story’s point. The only thing coming close to the volume of ignorance is the overdose of hubris that someone must be selling somewhere on some street corner. Or maybe it’s testosterone injections.

Whatever it is, whether in tech and AI, politics, sports, media, or fill in the blank for any field that can issue a press release and attract attention like flies to rotting flesh, it’s past the epidemic stage and has spread like a plague.

The fever stokes flames on Wall Street, which seems content to fuel them further until it all melts down. As long as they make their fees. Makes one wonder how the prediction markets on any number of popping bubbles are doing?

Between AI companies climbing over each other to fight over which model can cause more damage when they break free, companies creating horror movie-like robots to do damage control in dangerous circumstances, companies working to create AI powered glasses that will be used for mass surveillance — much less trouble making privacy violations, the tech sector seems to be outrunning the rest when it comes to the mad scientist wannabe game.

Politicians aren’t far behind, lagging only by their inability to keep up with and understand the changes happening around them as they count the cash being stuffed in their pockets. Sports teams intent on winning today don’t seem to care that they may be permanently damaging their game.

And there’s a media that doesn’t actually care who wins and who loses as long as they have access to the story of the rise and the story of the fall. Imagine if today’s media had covered Dr. Frankenstein’s efforts the way they cover Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, or any of the others.

It’s too broad a generalization to say these stories never end well, even though many fail whether the consequences are intended or not. But in a world seemingly being driven by a bunch of geeks who profess a love for science fiction, and those who can’t help but take their money to drive their own ambitions, you’d think someone along the way would understand that they don’t get to write the end.

But that would require more than reading a summary.

Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.

Too Many Frankensteins

Why does no one ever read the end of the story? Or if they do, why don’t they pay attention?

Ever since Mary Shelley gave us Frankenstein, laying out a moral of a story proving that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, there seems to be a preponderance of ignorance running alongside the obvious capabilities our current day Dr. Frankensteins possess. It feels like the story is playing on an endless Youtube Short or TikTok or Reel without ever reaching the end and the story’s point. The only thing coming close to the volume of ignorance is the overdose of hubris that someone must be selling somewhere on some street corner. Or maybe it’s testosterone injections.

Whatever it is, whether in tech and AI, politics, sports, media, or fill in the blank for any field that can issue a press release and attract attention like flies to rotting flesh, it’s past the epidemic stage and has spread like a plague.

The fever stokes flames on Wall Street, which seems content to fuel them further until it all melts down. As long as they make their fees. Makes one wonder how the prediction markets on any number of popping bubbles are doing?

Between AI companies climbing over each other to fight over which model can cause more damage when they break free, companies creating horror movie-like robots to do damage control in dangerous circumstances, companies working to create AI powered glasses that will be used for mass surveillance — much less trouble making privacy violations, the tech sector seems to be outrunning the rest when it comes to the mad scientist wannabe game.

Politicians aren’t far behind, lagging only by their inability to keep up with and understand the changes happening around them as they count the cash being stuffed in their pockets. Sports teams intent on winning today don’t seem to care that they may be permanently damaging their game.

And there’s a media that doesn’t actually care who wins and who loses as long as they have access to the story of the rise and the story of the fall. Imagine if today’s media had covered Dr. Frankenstein’s efforts the way they cover Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, or any of the others.

It’s too broad a generalization to say these stories never end well, even though many fail whether the consequences are intended or not. But in a world seemingly being driven by a bunch of geeks who profess a love for science fiction, and those who can’t help but take their money to drive their own ambitions, you’d think someone along the way would understand that they don’t get to write the end.

But that would require more than reading a summary.

Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.

Too Many Frankensteins

Why does no one ever read the end of the story? Or if they do, why don’t they pay attention?

Ever since Mary Shelley gave us Frankenstein, laying out a moral of a story proving that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, there seems to be a preponderance of ignorance running alongside the obvious capabilities our current day Dr. Frankensteins possess. It feels like the story is playing on an endless Youtube Short or TikTok or Reel without ever reaching the end and the story’s point. The only thing coming close to the volume of ignorance is the overdose of hubris that someone must be selling somewhere on some street corner. Or maybe it’s testosterone injections.

Whatever it is, whether in tech and AI, politics, sports, media, or fill in the blank for any field that can issue a press release and attract attention like flies to rotting flesh, it’s past the epidemic stage and has spread like a plague.

The fever stokes flames on Wall Street, which seems content to fuel them further until it all melts down. As long as they make their fees. Makes one wonder how the prediction markets on any number of popping bubbles are doing?

Between AI companies climbing over each other to fight over which model can cause more damage when they break free, companies creating horror movie-like robots to do damage control in dangerous circumstances, companies working to create AI powered glasses that will be used for mass surveillance — much less trouble making privacy violations, the tech sector seems to be outrunning the rest when it comes to the mad scientist wannabe game.

Politicians aren’t far behind, lagging only by their inability to keep up with and understand the changes happening around them as they count the cash being stuffed in their pockets. Sports teams intent on winning today don’t seem to care that they may be permanently damaging their game.

And there’s a media that doesn’t actually care who wins and who loses as long as they have access to the story of the rise and the story of the fall. Imagine if today’s media had covered Dr. Frankenstein’s efforts the way they cover Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, or any of the others.

It’s too broad a generalization to say these stories never end well, even though many fail whether the consequences are intended or not. But in a world seemingly being driven by a bunch of geeks who profess a love for science fiction, and those who can’t help but take their money to drive their own ambitions, you’d think someone along the way would understand that they don’t get to write the end.

But that would require more than reading a summary.

Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.

Yikes! I just had a #Booksalanche! All of a sudden, my pile of books became unstable and tumbled down! Titles involved? #TheHandmaidsTale (placed at the bottom, which made the pile unstable), #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival, Collected tales of #MaryShelly, #EarthForAll, #TheFarmersAlmanac, and #MovingMars! (I was looking for the Power book). Hmmmm....

#AmReading #TooMuch! #PilesOfBooks

Yikes! I just had a #Booksalanche! All of a sudden, my pile of books became unstable and tumbled down! Titles involved? #TheHandmaidsTale (placed at the bottom, which made the pile unstable), #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival, Collected tales of #MaryShelly, #EarthForAll, #TheFarmersAlmanac, and #MovingMars! (I was looking for the Power book). Hmmmm....

#AmReading #TooMuch! #PilesOfBooks

Yikes! I just had a #Booksalanche! All of a sudden, my pile of books became unstable and tumbled down! Titles involved? #TheHandmaidsTale (placed at the bottom, which made the pile unstable), #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival, Collected tales of #MaryShelly, #EarthForAll, #TheFarmersAlmanac, and #MovingMars! (I was looking for the Power book). Hmmmm....

#AmReading #TooMuch! #PilesOfBooks

Yikes! I just had a #Booksalanche! All of a sudden, my pile of books became unstable and tumbled down! Titles involved? #TheHandmaidsTale (placed at the bottom, which made the pile unstable), #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival, Collected tales of #MaryShelly, #EarthForAll, #TheFarmersAlmanac, and #MovingMars! (I was looking for the Power book). Hmmmm....

#AmReading #TooMuch! #PilesOfBooks

Yikes! I just had a #Booksalanche! All of a sudden, my pile of books became unstable and tumbled down! Titles involved? #TheHandmaidsTale (placed at the bottom, which made the pile unstable), #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival, Collected tales of #MaryShelly, #EarthForAll, #TheFarmersAlmanac, and #MovingMars! (I was looking for the Power book). Hmmmm....

#AmReading #TooMuch! #PilesOfBooks

Have to say, really enjoyed #frankenstein #film
Beautifully filmed, very true to the book, and quite melancholy #MaryShelly #guillermodeltoro

Have to say, really enjoyed #frankenstein #film
Beautifully filmed, very true to the book, and quite melancholy #MaryShelly #guillermodeltoro

Have to say, really enjoyed #frankenstein #film
Beautifully filmed, very true to the book, and quite melancholy #MaryShelly #guillermodeltoro

Have to say, really enjoyed #frankenstein #film
Beautifully filmed, very true to the book, and quite melancholy #MaryShelly #guillermodeltoro

Have to say, really enjoyed #frankenstein #film
Beautifully filmed, very true to the book, and quite melancholy #MaryShelly #guillermodeltoro

@blockforest That was so AMAZING! And such a tribute to #MaryShelly's novel! Even word-for-word at times!

@blockforest That was so AMAZING! And such a tribute to #MaryShelly's novel! Even word-for-word at times!

@blockforest That was so AMAZING! And such a tribute to #MaryShelly's novel! Even word-for-word at times!

@blockforest That was so AMAZING! And such a tribute to #MaryShelly's novel! Even word-for-word at times!

@blockforest That was so AMAZING! And such a tribute to #MaryShelly's novel! Even word-for-word at times!

I thought the great council of scifi nerds that I just made up agreed #MaryShelly inventend the #SciFi #Genre 🤔😁

@galacticwriters @books
@writers @writingbooks @keepwriting
@aiop

#WritingMemes #Memes
#Author #Authors #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

I thought the great council of scifi nerds that I just made up agreed #MaryShelly inventend the #SciFi #Genre 🤔😁

@galacticwriters @books
@writers @writingbooks @keepwriting
@aiop

#WritingMemes #Memes
#Author #Authors #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

I thought the great council of scifi nerds that I just made up agreed #MaryShelly inventend the #SciFi #Genre 🤔😁

@galacticwriters @books
@writers @writingbooks @keepwriting
@aiop

#WritingMemes #Memes
#Author #Authors #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

I thought the great council of scifi nerds that I just made up agreed #MaryShelly inventend the #SciFi #Genre 🤔😁

@galacticwriters @books
@writers @writingbooks @keepwriting
@aiop

#WritingMemes #Memes
#Author #Authors #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

Ich Liebe die #Buecher von #BramStoker und #maryshelly

#Dracula und #Frankenstein

Aber gibt es auch eine #Werwolf Geschichte, die DIE #Werwolf Geschichte ist die man gelesen haben sollte ?

Hamburg hat derzeit einen Theaterspaziergang über #MaryShelly und unheimliche Geschichten von Frauen: https://taz.de/Spazieren-auf-Autorinnen-Spuren/!6024926/

Hamburg hat derzeit einen Theaterspaziergang über #MaryShelly und unheimliche Geschichten von Frauen: https://taz.de/Spazieren-auf-Autorinnen-Spuren/!6024926/

Hamburg hat derzeit einen Theaterspaziergang über #MaryShelly und unheimliche Geschichten von Frauen: https://taz.de/Spazieren-auf-Autorinnen-Spuren/!6024926/

Jon Greenaway und sein »#Capitalism: A #Horror Story« (2024) erinnern mich an wunderschöne Stelle aus »Frankenstein, oder der Moderne Prometheus« (1818) von dieser Teenagerin, na, der #MaryShelly halt.

AUS LEICHEN GEMACHT UND TROTZDEM DA
KREATUREN ANTIFA!

#Phantastik #Marx

Jon Greenaway und sein »#Capitalism: A #Horror Story« (2024) erinnern mich an wunderschöne Stelle aus »Frankenstein, oder der Moderne Prometheus« (1818) von dieser Teenagerin, na, der #MaryShelly halt.

AUS LEICHEN GEMACHT UND TROTZDEM DA
KREATUREN ANTIFA!

#Phantastik #Marx

Jon Greenaway und sein »#Capitalism: A #Horror Story« (2024) erinnern mich an wunderschöne Stelle aus »Frankenstein, oder der Moderne Prometheus« (1818) von dieser Teenagerin, na, der #MaryShelly halt.

AUS LEICHEN GEMACHT UND TROTZDEM DA
KREATUREN ANTIFA!

#Phantastik #Marx

Jon Greenaway und sein »#Capitalism: A #Horror Story« (2024) erinnern mich an wunderschöne Stelle aus »Frankenstein, oder der Moderne Prometheus« (1818) von dieser Teenagerin, na, der #MaryShelly halt.

AUS LEICHEN GEMACHT UND TROTZDEM DA
KREATUREN ANTIFA!

#Phantastik #Marx

I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

#MaryShelly #Frankenstein #Monster #SciFi #Author #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

#MaryShelly #Frankenstein #Monster #SciFi #Author #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

#MaryShelly #Frankenstein #Monster #SciFi #Author #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

#MaryShelly #Frankenstein #Monster #SciFi #Author #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

#MaryShelly #Frankenstein #Monster #SciFi #Author #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

Nur wer ihn am eigenen Leib erfahren hat, kann den Reiz ermessen, den die Wissenschaft ausübt.
— Victor Frankenstein.

#MaryShelly #FrauenLesen #Klassiker

Was #Lovecraft a racist & antisemitic asshat? Yes, yes he was. Does that stop my desire for someone to write a story about Frankenstein's Creature taking on Herbert West: Reanimator? No, no it doesn't. Of course H. P. wouldn't be writing it because the asshole is dead.
#Reanimator #Frankenstein #FrankensteinsCreature #Shelly #MaryShelly #HPLovecraft #Horror #HerbertWest

Was #Lovecraft a racist & antisemitic asshat? Yes, yes he was. Does that stop my desire for someone to write a story about Frankenstein's Creature taking on Herbert West: Reanimator? No, no it doesn't. Of course H. P. wouldn't be writing it because the asshole is dead.
#Reanimator #Frankenstein #FrankensteinsCreature #Shelly #MaryShelly #HPLovecraft #Horror #HerbertWest

Was #Lovecraft a racist & antisemitic asshat? Yes, yes he was. Does that stop my desire for someone to write a story about Frankenstein's Creature taking on Herbert West: Reanimator? No, no it doesn't. Of course H. P. wouldn't be writing it because the asshole is dead.
#Reanimator #Frankenstein #FrankensteinsCreature #Shelly #MaryShelly #HPLovecraft #Horror #HerbertWest

Seit langem mal wieder a bissi geknickt vom Reclam Verlag. Hab mir die schöne Taschenbuchausgabe von »Frankenstein« besorgt, und im Nachwort wird mir zwei Mal reingerieben, dass #MaryShelly|s Landschaftsbeschreibungen nix taugen, ihr Stil überhaupt unterdruchschnittlich ist.

Zudem hochinteressant, dass es das Nachwort von 1986 auf 34 Seiten schafft, mit Landnahme der Allmende/Commons oder Industrialisierung oder heroische Phase des Kapitalismus komplett ausblendet.

Seit langem mal wieder a bissi geknickt vom Reclam Verlag. Hab mir die schöne Taschenbuchausgabe von »Frankenstein« besorgt, und im Nachwort wird mir zwei Mal reingerieben, dass #MaryShelly|s Landschaftsbeschreibungen nix taugen, ihr Stil überhaupt unterdruchschnittlich ist.

Zudem hochinteressant, dass es das Nachwort von 1986 auf 34 Seiten schafft, mit Landnahme der Allmende/Commons oder Industrialisierung oder heroische Phase des Kapitalismus komplett ausblendet.