Solid article. A lot of sci-fi writers have themes that they come back to, time and time again, as a method of working out some innate neurosis over a state of being in humanity. I find your case for Ridley Scott having a similar struggle in his depictions of human spirituality and a relationship with a “creator” to…

Imagine trusting your character arc to a massive, monopolistic and destructive megacorporation and then being shocked when they treat you as an empty token to fulfill a committee-derived quota.

Don’t go looking for nuance in a den of oligarchic ghouls, you won’t find any.

Boyega’s willingness to step out of the…

There’s a lot of punching down, normalization of exploitation, and attempts to cause strife between people in these comments who should be standing together in solidarity against those - like Ellen - who see ‘crumbs from the table’ as something people should be grateful for, rather than evidence of the out-sized…

This post is effectively just an advertisement for a exploitative practice that is not only destroying the integrity of the games industry, but also reads as a sort of “oh, well I know it’s bad, but I like it” article.

This isn’t some ‘unhealthy indulgence’ like chocolate ice-cream - this is $100 for an arrangement of…

Have the writers of this show ever developed emotions in concert with other humans? I’m increasingly skeptical.

There are so many assumptions, clipped emotional development, and rushed-through plotting and characterization that it makes me wonder whether everyone in the federation has turned into hyper-reactionaries…

I was impressed with the less-than-subtle nod to technology-as-witchcraft or occult that the first extrapolation scene presented. That, perhaps, what is at stake here isn’t so much an ability to ‘objectively perceive’ the universe (whether many worlds or not), but instead how these perceptions - and the technology we…

Don’t let the class traitors and brainwashed, ‘temporarily-embarrassed-millionaire’ wage slaves get you down. Keep it up with the praxis. Great article. We need more people advocating for radical land tenure reform in high-profile spaces.

“If ever there was a roomful of ego-inflating weirdness that could use a healthy reminder of its actual place in the world, the Oscars are it, and newly minted Grammy winner and creator of one of the ten best records of 2019 the ideal candidate to do the reminding”

Saying this while she up there, a millionaire,…

Wow, I didn’t think I could be brought around on my disappointment in the lack of optimism in the ‘new’ Starfleet and ‘new’ Star Trek in general, but this was fantastically written and has broadened my perspective. I’m still, perhaps, a bit disappointed, because I would argue that the unique optimism of Star Trek is…

Today in “Leopards Ate my Face.”

“There’s a waxy Marwen vibe to some early shots of De Niro, who rarely looks—and never moves—like the star did during his New Hollywood heyday. That said, maybe the uncanny valley isn’t such an inappropriate setting for the story of a old man trying and failing to remember what he was like when he was young.”

Grea…