“You put another lock on the door and call it democracy.”

—Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed

#Reading #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dispossessed #UrsulaKLeGuin #LeGuin

“Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.”

—Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed

#Reading #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dispossessed #UrsulaKLeGuin #LeGuin

“Oh, I see...But what do working people do on Anarres for a bit of jollity, to escape the woes of the world together for a night?”

Shevek looked blank. “Well, we ...I don’t know. Perhaps our woes are inescapable?”

“Quaint,” Pae said, and smiled disarmingly.

—Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed

#Reading #LeGuin #Dispossessed #UrsulaKLeGuin #Quotes

There's no disambiguity of any kind here when it comes to genre - goes straight to @lpl's #SaturDoom:

#Dispossessed: Dêmocide

https://album.link/i/1842588834

#DeathDoom

FFO #BodyVoid #Egregore #Solothus

Very good, very nice and very interesting #SciFi novel:

#UrsulaLeGuin #Dispossessed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed

LITOVSK – Dispossessed
#France #Litovsk #Noise #Punk #band #brest #dispossessed #lofi #postpunk #psych
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://moncul.bandcamp.com/album/dispossessed

#FactCheck:
Are #White #SouthAfrican ‘#refugees’ fleeing #racialpersecution?

#Afrikaners, a #Whiteminority who ruled #SouthAfrica with an #oppressive grip, #dispossessed the #Black majority during the #colonialera and #apartheid.

https://theemancipator.org/2025/05/20/sections/politics-and-policy/fact-check-white-south-african-refugees-fleeing-racial-persecution/

It's not how it's generally used, but In my head canon #eutopia is distinguished from a #utopia by the dynamic change. As a utopia is stagnant unchanging, perfect and final, the eutopia keeps changing. I'm calling #UsrulaLeGuin #dispossessed an eutopia because it was defined by the infinitely burning #revolution within a revolution.

An eutopia might be easier to write because it can have its own 'character arc'. I think this approach can unlock a lot of the #solarpunk creativity. Writing utopia is hard.

#solarpunk #dispossessed #UrsulaKLeGuin #HainishCycle

I am reaching the end of the Dispossessed and have loved reading it. On my bookshelf to read next is (order not decided) The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz, The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow, and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. My question is would it be worth it to read the other books in the "Hainish Cycle"? Do any of the others have solerpunk or hope punk vibes/themes?

What might Ursula K. Le Guin’s Utopia look like on Earth? Antillia’s Utopia - https://peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/p/antillias-utopia
#utopia #dispossessed #solarpunk

What a big new Supreme Court decision could mean for homeless Americans | Vox

#USPol #SCOTUS #unhoused #homeless #homelessness #HousingFirst
#classism #PropertyOwners #dispossessed #VanLife #CarCamping

https://www.vox.com/homelessness/357861/homelessness-encampment-grants-pass-supreme-court-housing

Armenian vs Palestinian keys

@photography
#Armenia
#Palestine
#dispossessed
#keys

#leguin #dispossessed #literature #becomeungovernable

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ The Day Before the Revolution ✧

"The Day Before the Revolution" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin (pictured). First published in Galaxy in August 1974, it was republished in Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975). Set in her fictional Hainish universe, the story has strong connections to her nov...

#LocusAwards #HugoAward #Odo #Galaxy #Dispossessed #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Before_the_Revolution

Evacuation

A young Palestinian girl walks towards Khan Younis with the few belonging they could take as Israel warned people to evacuate Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, ahead of attacks on May 06, 2024 [Jehad Alshrafi/Anadolu Agency]

@palestine
#Gaza
#Rafah
#displaced
#dispossessed
#homeless
#children

New Legislation Would Expand Access to Disaster Relief, Provide Help With Titles for Large Number of Black Landowners

https://www.propublica.org/article/heirs-property-black-land-loss-disaster-relief-legislation-fletcher

#Dispossessed

Cansu Yıldıran, from the Dispossessed series, 2021 ★ Turkey ★ https://cansuyildiran.com/the-dispossessed ⦾ https://www.platform.gapo.org/cansuyildiran #CansuYildiran #contemporaryart #contemporaryphotography #socialphotography #blackandwhitephotography #groupportraits #blurred #defocused #dispossessed #Turkishartists #2020s

#laughable
#EU's #AI #regulation will be as efficient as the #bank and #bigcompanies regulation.

AI doesn't need regulation.
AI needs to be #expropriated and be returned to the hands of all of us who created the #data on which LLMs are based.
Big companies need to be #dispossessed by #LLMs.

EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/eu-agrees-historic-deal-with-worlds-first-laws-to-regulate-ai?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other