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It's called Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, you wouldn't like it anyway.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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I reverse Automated and Luxury. That way the acronym reads FLAGS-C
That is a better acronym, but you can't change word places willy nilly.
https://quillbot.com/blog/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/
If you did, you'd end up calling "Coordinated Universal Time" something like UTC, despite UTC standing for nothing actually, and being a compromise.
It's funny that these tech bros don't understand that 90% of the show is not condemning technology, but how capitalism corrupts technology.
You can have sci-fi that showcases cool technology and how it relates to society. We've done it before, and it's some of the most popular and influential sci-fi ever created. It's called Star Trek (communicators, transporters, medical scanners, replicators, holodecks, etc). But even utopian sci-fi like Star Trek is mainly centered around conflict, what it means to be human, and other philosophical and existential questions. A show that's only about how cool the tech is, really isn't a show at all. It's an advertisement.
Gadget Man is probably one of the closest
Is that like the Wish/Temu version of Inspector Gadget?
It's a show hosted by Richard Ayoade about different "modern" tech gadgets ("modern" because it came out a decade ago).
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Every silver cloud has a dark underside.
The QAA podcast recently had an episode on AI generated images and right wing movements and they said something that really stuck with me- AI "art" is so popular among right wingers and barely literate tech bros because it is truly art the way they see all art, images with only surface level literal meaning and no subtext, context, or anything actually thought provoking. The dumbest thing about this is that there are several Black Mirror episodes that are ultimately hopeful or value-neutral about the effects of technology on the future- San Bernardino and Striking Vipers come to mind. Then again, both of those are about how sexuality intersects with transhumanism, which right wingers generally see as bad things so maybe they see those as dystopian episodes as well.
I believe a similar argument is brought up in Some More News about AI.
Why don't people make movies about how cool war is? You get access to all kinds of useful natural resources and get to ki... I mean not look at brown people anymore!
Starship troopers is cool
Its also a satire of war and fascism, or maybe thats what you meant
White mirror looks scarier.
Looks like an ad too
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So basically Star-Trek ? You know what would be funny ? If leftists hijacked "White Mirror"😉
Nah, too LEFTY. We gotta make a show extolling the value of bringing automation to society.
You know, like Battlestar Galactica!!!
White mirror sounds like the best episode of a black mirror season
We have the “white mirror” thing. It’s called Star Trek.
They don't want the socialism part though. They still want to be rich.
Well then they can have The Culture instead. Every citizen of the Culture has a big house, and gets to spend all day going to parties and doing extreme sports. Every citizen is as well off as a real world billionaire.
Because they're anarchists.
That requires giving control of society over to AI though. I'm not sure we're there yet
The Minds don't control society. One guy decided that Masaq' Orbital's badlands should be covered in pylons with a gondola network to travel between them using wind power. So he convinced a bunch of people to work with him, and they made it happen. Even though Masaq' Hub doesn't like the pylons.
The Culture doesn't control its citizens. They can do whatever they want. The Minds just help out.
Huh, I thought it was made pretty clear that the power distribution in society is such that the minds run the whole show and more or less keep the humans around as pets out of good will.
Kinda like if your dog wants to go for a walk, you can take it, but that doesn't mean the dog is in charge
The Minds don't use fences or leashes. The Minds have more power, sure. They look after the factories and keep the trains running. But power doesn't mean control in a society without coercion. The Culture doesn't have laws.
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Star Trek. Tech bros are reinventing Star Trek (but presumably shit because none of that gay luxury space communism).
But its not popular, anthologies are, all of scifi is horror and hopeless, id like a fun hopeful anthology show
The funny thing is they hate Star Trek, because at its heart it’s social commentary about modern events and it has been since TOS.
When they say they want positivity about technology, what they mean is they want a combination of an Apple commercial and tech ASMR. Just straight masturbatory tech consumerism, where progress is a new toy to buy and how much everyone loves the toy.
They want stories about heroic tech barons taking humanity in hand and shaping the world to their will. So... Ayn Rand shit.
isnt there a videogame about that? maybe they should try it
They are undeserving of Factorio.
They probably think the tree farming that the space age expansion introduces (finally a way to counter your pollution!) is "some gay shit".
The factory must grow whatever the cost.
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what if we made a show that made it easier for tech bros to exploit tech to make more money? sounds super cool
It’s called Star Trek.
What Mark here wants, essentially, is an infomercial TV series.
In addition, it’s difficult to comprehend someone this ignorant of the scifi genre as a whole. It’s likely difficult for young people today to comprehend it, but we had almost no TV and movies in the genre back in the day. This current explosion of options is just that: current. Star Trek and Star Wars were unique, which is likely why they stood out.
Tech gone bad and AI run amuck are major themes even at Star Treks inception.
I feel bad for Mark, in some ways, since he’s likely never read a science fiction novel.
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The worst evils wear the friendliest faces.
White Mirror sounds like some white supremacist shit…
"White Mirror" as a name makes no sense. A screen doesn't turn white when it's off.
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