#vonnegut — Public Fediverse posts
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An excerpt from God Bless You Mr. Rosewater. A reminder of what we’ve known all along:
‘Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.’ God Bless you Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut once suggested that future historians would look back at the late 20th century and view television the way we view the lead in the water pipes that drove the ancient Romans mad.
With LLMs we're painting the inside of the lead pipes with radium.
Some people find it pretty I suppose.
And the folks selling radium paint are making a lot of money.
And in the end, isn't that what's really important?
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Kurt Vonnegut attended the University of Chicago on the G.I. Bill and took summer classes in order to keep lodging.
In his collection of essays on Palm Sunday, he informs the reader on how he ended up studying anthropology.
“I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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Sirens of Titan holds a real special place in my heart. It influenced me in my teen years and gave me something to hold onto. These quotes help illustrate why:
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
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Kurt Vonnegut received his Master’s Degree in Anthropology. The University of Chicago considered his work ‘Cat’s Cradle’ to be a sufficient thesis.
He has a quote for me from Sirens of Titan that I think sums up anthropology well:
“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
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CW: plot points of kurt vonnegut sirens of titan
The Sirens of Titan is a journey from Earth, Mars, Mercury, Earth and finally Titan.
On Mercury, Boaz, the companion of the main protagonist Unk becomes totally at peace and decides to stay. Boaz say’s the following:
“I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I’m doing good, and them I’m doing good for know I’m doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
He becomes a caretaker figure for a local species of film like sheets which glow when exposed to frequencies. They cling to the rock walls of the caves of Mercury and feed on the vibrations. They love Boaz because they can lay on his body and enjoy him just being himself.
He finds a home where he can only do good without doing any harm.
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In the Kurt Vonnegut novel ‘Slapstick’, a failing US Gov’t eeks out a policy in its last days that everyone is to be assigned a middle name and a number.
All the middle names are based on words from the natural world. So you may be a Peanut-11 or a Squirrel-7 or Aluminium-4
Clubs pop up, people start connecting. Some folks are snooty with fancy names, some have humble names that fit them perfectly.
The idea is to give everyone a family. If you’re on hard times, you find some kin of your folk where you happen to be.
It is one of his most humane books but buried in one of his lesser read books.
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The Fish I've Known by Kilgore Trout
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The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party is the ultimate false karass
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nice #vonnegut -ism, a found thing in its own right, that I discovered out in the wild today
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116890328135386383
Appears to be a partially engorged symbol made famous by #Vonnegut
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Visitors from Planet Tralfamadore
For a Lifetime, an intimate portrait of two Andean condors, has won the top prize at the Patagonia photo contest 2026. Mauricio Rossanigo, the photographer, said: “The pair arrived, and the magic happened: they started grooming and interacting in such a beautiful way that we couldn’t believe it, and I just had to click at the right moment.”
Photograph: Mauricio Rossanigo/Patagonia photo contest
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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. “Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break!
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
A Man Without A Country, ch. 9 (2005)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/385…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #Beatitudes #Christianity #churchandstate #Decalogue #hypocrisy #Jesus #mercy #Moses #peace #religion #TenCommandments
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@W_Lucht/116823368565878106
Dresden appears to be burning again! #Vonnegut #SlaughterHouseFive
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#vendrediLecture 📚️ 📖 n°56
Probablement le génie méconnu des lettres américaines.
Kilgore TROUT, Le Privé du Cosmos.
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LLMs try to have humour, too. I'm not sure how good it is.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/14/claudes-commentary/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social#humour #philosophy #blog #llms #ai #ChatGPT #Vonnegut #hindenburg #laughter #french #learning
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Essay (2004-08-06), “I Love You, Madame Librarian,” In These Times Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 20 (2004-08-30)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/840…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #bookbanning #bookburning #censorship #freedomofthought #librarians #library #privacy
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CW: AI related humor(?) and profanity.
So, possibly people have already pointed this out and I'm just late to the party. But I'm sort of surprised I haven't seen any discussion yet of how the Claude logo looks like Kurt Vonnegut's stylized anus asterisk doodle, but with more pointy bits.
Every time I see it show up somewhere, can't help thinking:
"This asshole again!"
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Breakfast of Champions: A Novel "To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool" Sale: $20 to $2.99 by Kurt Vonnegut Rating: 4.3/5 (7,379 Reviews) #Vonnegut #Satire #Comedy #Literature #Classic #BookSky
Breakfast of Champions: A Nove... -
What did Kurt #Vonnegut teach you about #evolution?
"If I had known twenty years ago that I would be assigning short papers like this one," to paraphrase Henry Miller, "I would have GONE OFF LIKE A BOMB"
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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Roughly halfway through Pluribus and really digging it. There's a strong whiff of The X-Files about it (which makes sense given Gilligan's background) and it also owes a lot to Vonnegut imo.
Overall, Gilligan has knocked it out of the park again. And Rhea Seehorn is spectacular. As are the rest of the cast. Great stuff
Now, a quick herbal tea and back to the show...
