The DIY FOSS Cyborg dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-fo…
Yes, I met a DIY FOSS Cyborg who lives in Emacs and Guix full-time. And YOU TOO can live such a life, if you dare!
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The DIY FOSS Cyborg dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-fo…
Yes, I met a DIY FOSS Cyborg who lives in Emacs and Guix full-time. And YOU TOO can live such a life, if you dare!
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Christine Lemmer-Webber
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •I also posted a video of me interviewing Zacchaeus about his DIY FOSS cyborg setup. It's wild to see!
On YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/flYs1fwwACk
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Iirc when I interviewed @sacha about her experience doing this, she said basically people look at you funny when you're like this whereas an idea is that if you had a screenreader you could use that subtly instead of the displays and pass as a non-cyborg in groups of humans. It's definitely cool.
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄
in reply to screwlisp • • •#snowcrash #gargoyle
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DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 • • •Note the sartorial elegance in this 1980 photo of Steve Mann, "The Father of Wearable Computing":
wearcam.org/steve5.jpg
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ma…
P.S. His related 2001 book "Intelligent Image Processing" was innovative; seminal; excellent.
wearcam.org/textbook.htm
He also wrote the 2001 "Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer" but I never read it.
Professor and wearable computing researcher
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in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •Onto the reading list
@mdhughes
#gargoyle is new to my lexicon
Now, to actually read Snowcrash, even as I'm eagre to figure out what happened next in Murderbots, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, That Portuguese author, this grammar thing I'm utterly failing to write, ...
@me @sacha @cwebber
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Mind you, I liked Snowcrash a lot, but it is not a very serious book. It began life as a background theme for a video game, according to the author, and when that fell through, he fleshed it out as a whole book.
It's therefore not too surprising that it has many silly aspects. But it's fun.
His later books get much more serious.
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in reply to AN/CRM-114 • • •True!
For some reason serious-minded people seem to object to Snowcrash more, though.
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Yeah, something like that.
I liked his later books, but they got harder to read -- and much, much longer.
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in reply to AN/CRM-114 • • •@flyingsaceur @dougmerritt @screwtape @me @sacha I flunked out reading Quicksilver, ignored the rest of that series. And SevenEves was appallingly stupid in each of three sections (physics, biology, sociology, & languages don't work like that).
But until then, The Big U, Zodiac, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Interface had a *LOT* of valuable insights to the nightmare 21st C we've ended up in.
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in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 • • •De gustibus non est disputandum.
But I grew up reading comic books, fantasy, and science fiction, before I learned physics, biology, sociology, and linguistics, so that vastly increased my tolerance for authors misunderstanding academic subjects.
And almost everyone gets these things wrong whether they know it or not, and the ones who actually do understand them often put their understanding on a shelf while they write, so that it doesn't interfere with their storytelling.
David Brin for example said about his books that going faster than light violates physics, so he made a point of inventing *many* fantastical faster-than-c technologies for his books.
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" or some such.
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> Wade does win everything
Including the love interest. So it was a completely happy ending. 😀
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in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •@dougmerritt @screwtape @mdhughes @me @sacha
Have you read seveneves? Pretty amazing. The sequel is also a good read but it's not seveneves.
#SF #reading
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •@dougmerritt @screwtape @me @sacha There was also the breathless fawning of Negroponte in WIRED,
web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wi…
But generally other than notifications and health monitoring, I think all gargoyles are a mistake. You should exist in the world, not intermediate it with these goddamned computers.
I say this as someone who was in the '90s the spitting image of "RU A Cyberpunk" from Mondo 2000.
WIRED 3.12 - Wearable Computing
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in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 • • •@mdhughes @screwtape @me @sacha
> There was also the breathless fawning of Negroponte in WIRED
Yes, but as you may know, by striking that sort of public pose, Negroponte brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the MIT Media Lab.
I have no idea what his true personal beliefs were, but he was quite the fundraiser.