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“it’s not surprising that Reason editor Nick Gillespie say ‘we’re all living in one or more of [Dick’s] stories.’ Public life, he says, feels like ‘Dick #novels all the way down’.” #PKD #PhilipKDick #AI #IChing open.substack.com/pub/millersb...

Who Really Wrote Philip K. Dic...

i feel like lately in my daily mundane life legit communication is just lost in a sea of #noise/spam. Is it that i'm getting old and no longer have the energy or will to sort through the #datasmog that's always been there or has it really gotten so much worse, in the last, i dunno, 5 years or so? I feel like I can't get simple things accomplished because it's so hard to find the email threads that represent those digital errands.Like simple customer support stuff about orders or bills or events or whatnot, just drowned in a sea of attempts to #scam and trick me. trick us all.

What science fiction author or filmmaker predicted this kind of #end to our #civilization? That we'd just be swamped in our own digital trash and eventually unable to cope. Seems like a #PKD story but I cant recall which or whether he really wrote something like that... I keep thinking of the part in #Ubik where the protagonist is trapped in his apartment because he can't afford to pay the autonomous pay-per-use door out. This is what's happening but even worse, because the problem is not even connected to any physical situation. Machines and systems just idiotically bewildering us all to death.

Something else on déjà vu I remembered, what PKD theorized about it:

“..we are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs.” -Philip K Dick

Dick thought that the alterations in our reality feel like déjà vu, a sensation that proves that “a variable has been changed”, and those are the times when “an alternative world branched off.”

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/philip-k-dick-theorizes-the-matrix.html

And this great (wild) interview with Rizwan Virk made me remember it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG8l4GvjiLs

#DejaVu #SimulationTheory #simulation #simulations #FreeWill #multiverse #science #PKD #PhilipKDick #RizwanVirk #physics #QuantumComputing

Recently I finally saw the 1973 #Canadian #horror / #comedy / #shlock #film #CannibalGirls, directed by #IvanReitman. I was pleasantly surprised to discover it has #WeirdTown elements. I wrote about #weirdtowns a couple of summers ago. doncurren.blogspot.com/2023/07/welc... #weird #PKD #Lovecraft

Finally got to Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Next on the list is William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy.

gemini://yuturna.com/~bori/read/electric_sheep.gmi

https://yuturna.com/~bori/read/electric_sheep.html

#electricsheep #pkd #scifi #bookstodon

Finally got around to watching Blade Runner (1982) after reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I definitely expected them to cut the whole Mercerism stuff out, and move away from the absurdist attitude of the book. Pretty good movie all around. I found the "father" edit appropriate, though I do see the point in preserving the original line.

#electricsheep #pkd #bladerunner #ridleyscott

Apparently, the UK is creating a pre-crime division. I have only one comment to make: "A decision taken by a majority implies the existence of a minority report".

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

#dystopia #UK #pkd #PhilipDick #humanrights #privacy #scary

Apparently, the UK is creating a pre-crime division. I have only one comment to make: "A decision taken by a majority implies the existence of a minority report".

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

#dystopia #UK #pkd #PhilipDick #humanrights #privacy #scary

Apparently, the UK is creating a pre-crime division. I have only one comment to make: "A decision taken by a majority implies the existence of a minority report".

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

#dystopia #UK #pkd #PhilipDick #humanrights #privacy #scary

Apparently, the UK is creating a pre-crime division. I have only one comment to make: "A decision taken by a majority implies the existence of a minority report".

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

#dystopia #UK #pkd #PhilipDick #humanrights #privacy #scary

Apparently, the UK is creating a pre-crime division. I have only one comment to make: "A decision taken by a majority implies the existence of a minority report".

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

#dystopia #UK #pkd #PhilipDick #humanrights #privacy #scary

Právě dočteno.

Stará škola sci-fi od legendy v tomto žánru. Dvoudílná sbírka povídek od Philipa K. Dicka, Planeta, která neexistovala 1 a 2, obsahuje povídky z autorova ranného období, tedy z 50-tých let minulého století.
Většina povídek jsou tématicky pro tvorbu PKD běžné : definice lidskosti, člověk vs. technologie, cestování časem, život přeživších po atomové válce, lidstvo vs. mimozemšťané, paranoia, dystopické světy, telepatie atd.
Vzhledem k tomu, že všechny povídky jsou cca 70 let staré, tak některé jsou dnes už spíš jen úsměvné.
Každopádně se tu najde pár velmi povedených kousků.

@knihy #kniha #knihy #povidky #horror #horor #SciFi #dystopia #dystopie #pkd #pkdick #philipkdick

Silicon Valley's ventures into the film industry have produced some good ones.

Amazon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)

Netflix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror

What are a few of your favorites?

#pkd #books #movies #ContentDelivery #streaming #screenwriting

Researchers have shown that dangerous #cysts, which form over time in #polycystic #kidney disease (#PKD ), can be prevented by a single normal copy of a defective #gene. This means the potential exists that scientists could one day tailor a gene therapy to treat the disease.
#Genetics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2024/04/gen04042402.html

Introduction

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-3265-8e67-d2a5-bf1331151414

Here, we see each other…

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-7965-8d12-0f5f-b40744602445

Freedom

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-4065-8c0f-ad1c-510527405921

In the Spree

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1765-8bf1-dc10-f83879307038

For God's sake

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1965-8bf0-4861-b96372696658

Introduction

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1465-8bae-5cbf-8d9258507344

Introduction

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-7265-8bac-cd9c-664160105608

📣 📣 📣 There are less than nine months remaining until Cilia2024, happening from September 10th to 13th in Dublin! 🇮🇪 :happy:

Remember to mark your calendars! What an amazing lineup of programs and speakers!

For more information, visit http://cilia2024.ie/

Registration opens in February.

@cilia @cellbiology @cellbio
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #DevBio #Nephrology #Ciliopathies #cilia #Science #Conference #RareDiseases #Kidney #Biology #Flagella #PCD #ADPKD #BBS #NPHP #CKD #PKD

📣 📣 📣 There are less than nine months remaining until Cilia2024, happening from September 10th to 13th in Dublin! 🇮🇪 :happy:

Remember to mark your calendars! What an amazing lineup of programs and speakers!

For more information, visit http://cilia2024.ie/

Registration opens in February.

@cilia @cellbiology @cellbio
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #DevBio #Nephrology #Ciliopathies #cilia #Science #Conference #RareDiseases #Kidney #Biology #Flagella #PCD #ADPKD #BBS #NPHP #CKD #PKD

📣 📣 📣 There are less than nine months remaining until Cilia2024, happening from September 10th to 13th in Dublin! 🇮🇪 :happy:

Remember to mark your calendars! What an amazing lineup of programs and speakers!

For more information, visit http://cilia2024.ie/

Registration opens in February.

@cilia @cellbiology @cellbio
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #DevBio #Nephrology #Ciliopathies #cilia #Science #Conference #RareDiseases #Kidney #Biology #Flagella #PCD #ADPKD #BBS #NPHP #CKD #PKD

📣 📣 📣 There are less than nine months remaining until Cilia2024, happening from September 10th to 13th in Dublin! 🇮🇪 :happy:

Remember to mark your calendars! What an amazing lineup of programs and speakers!

For more information, visit http://cilia2024.ie/

Registration opens in February.

@cilia @cellbiology @cellbio
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #DevBio #Nephrology #Ciliopathies #cilia #Science #Conference #RareDiseases #Kidney #Biology #Flagella #PCD #ADPKD #BBS #NPHP #CKD #PKD

Hoy cumpliría 95 años el gran Philip K. Dick, y este es uno de sus grandes #cuentos: en un mundo distópico, una visión de lo divino.
https://www.lashistorias.com.mx/index.php/la-fe-de-nuestros-padres/
#CienciaFicción #distopía #distópico #PKD #cuentos #literatura #fantasía #LiteraturaDeImaginación

Someone has stolen all my #spoons
One of these guys:
#PKD
#LiverCysts
#prostate
#radiotherapy
#TongueCancer
#anaemia

@ruialves

(2/n)

"... #PKD's #SecondVariety, and not even #TheMatrix, but just as #surveillance technology has surpassed what was possible in #Orwell's #1984, in particular in the #PRC, we are moving beyond #Fahrenheit451, too.

👉The biggest trouble is that the ancient #Viking #Norns seem to be weaving all those #dystopian fates of humanity into one.👈

In the May 15th #TheEconomist's Editor's Picks podcast, they were looking historically at the impact on productivity growth...

@FeralRobots @futurebird

That is true. He often leaves you thinking, maybe even shaken.

I can really recommend this AI-themed audiobook/podcast mini-series of #PKD #SecondVariety, which we also boosted promotingthe #hashtag #SciFiSaturday:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110137012669606938

Fans of Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick might enjoy this book, which explores their weird (and weirdly similar) experiences in the early 1970s: the McKenna brothers' La Chorrera experiment, Wilson's Chapel Perilous, and PKD's 2-3-74

#books #ErikDavis #PKD #TerenceMcKenna #RobertAntonWilson #weirdness #esoterica #1970s #mysticism

finally: the #Exegesis-scraps that litter #VALIS are almost unreadably dull, but i'm tempted to see their undigested presentation as shrewd #mimesis--they make no sense *in a novel* any more than in a mind, so #PKD presents them as cognitive/narrative intrusions, chewing up precious brain-cycles and readerly saccades alike, posing the same problem for readers that they did for Dick during and after 2-3-74.

he can't go back to being the novelist he was, is part of the point.

finally: the #Exegesis-scraps that little #VALIS are almost unreadably dull, but i'm tempted to see their undigested presentation as shrewd #mimesis--they make no sense *in a novel* any more than in a mind, so #PKD presents them as cognitive/narrative intrusions, chewing up precious brain-cycles and readerly saccades alike, posing the same problem for readers that they did for Dick during and after 2-3-74.

he can't go back to being the novelist he was, is part of the point.

there's a jarring move in the last 1/3 of #VALIS, an extension of its epistemological pushing/prodding, where #PKD drops the Phil/Fat setup via SF/theo-plotstuff--then back it comes as Fat returns.

the book's treatment of this collapse (back into #strangeness) as Just One of Those Things is maybe its most #phildickian quality: 'clinically crazy' is, in PKD's worldview, one more reality to be 'locked into' (318 in the LoA omnibus). structure perfectly, skillfully(!) mirrors content here...

More about me (#introduction continued?)

#PolycysticKidneyDisease #PKD #BipolarDisorder #ADHD basically a walking mess of #disability and #ChronicIllness

Raised but not born in #Hawaiʻi (#Oʻahu #Honolulu #Mānoa #808State), #UHManoa grad, now living in #Tennessee (#TheNorth?)

#AsianAmerican #ChineseAmerican #JapaneseAmerican #Hawaiian #Indigenous #MixedRace #Hapa

Enough of an #introvert/#ambivert to want to say hi but not necessarily all the time?