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#AI #IA #robot #cyborg #BladeRunner #replicant #humanoid #Rachael #android

#AbominableIntelligence #Heretechnica #Hereteknica #GrimDark #Replicant #MachineLearning #LargeLanguageModel #GenerativeAdversarialNetwork #AIDoesNotUnderstand #DoesNotThink #NotConscious #replicate #simulate #probabilistically bsky.app/profile/math...

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@postmarketOS@treehouse.systems @postmarketos@lemmy.ml @linmob @murena @replicant @fsf

I'm not sure the future of #aosp distributions is safe, @fdroidorg must stay with g**le new rules, that's why I prefer to focus on #linux #phones

But for incompatible models, other solutions are better that nothing, IMHO

I tried them already, see photo: replicant, /e/OS, cleaned android

#fdroid #linuxmobile #linuxphones #Murena #replicant #postmarketos #floss #freesoftware #linuxonmobile #gafam #android #customroms #bootloaderunlock

From left to right:
- Samsung S3 i9300 with replicant 100% free software displaying RepWifi its special app
- visible midnight usa phone with cleaned android, a lot of crap is replaced or deactivated
- xiaomi redmi S2 with postmarketos
- Samsung S9+ with murena

Harrison Ford Says Ridley Scott Got Blade Runner Wrong (& 43 Years Later, He Might Be Right) – CBR

Harrison Ford…

By Ashley Land, Published 1 day ago

Ashley is a Rotten Tomatoes–approved critic and CBR MTV writer specializing in pulp comics, the DC Universe, and genre storytelling. With a passion for westerns, sci-fi, horror, and thrillers, he brings both critical analysis and fan enthusiasm to his coverage. A lifelong pop culture fan, Ashley writes features, reviews, and commentary that highlight the best fiction has to offer.

In 1982, Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford changed the face of science fiction forever when they made Blade Runner, a dystopian cult classic. Having been left open to interpretation, the film has sparked debate among sci-fi fans for decades. Perhaps the most interesting among these is between Ford and Scott themselves, each holding onto wildly different versions of the story.

As the movie that defined the cyberpunk sub-genre of science fiction, Blade Runner has stood as one of the greatest sci-fi films of its decade. Having been released as a box office flop, it took years to gain the respect it deserved, and is today considered one of the best stories ever told in the genre. Created to serve as an exploration of what it means to be human, it’s a great combination of dystopia, thriller, and character drama. As with all the best sci-fi movies, Scott left certain aspects of the story open to interpretation. Although he has a strong opinion on the film’s most burning question, Harrison Ford’s take is a much better treatment of the story.

Blade Runner’s Biggest Mystery, Explained

From the outset, Blade Runner sets up its big mystery and central premise: the question of who is and isn’t a replicant. In the movie’s continuity, replicants are artificial human beings manufactured to be stronger than real people, allowing them to be used as off-world slave labor. Designed to have a limited lifespan of just four years, they soon began rising for their own rights. It falls to elite detectives known as blade runners to hunt them down and “retire” them. When a replicant named Roy Batty leads five others to Earth, the role falls to Rick Deckard to find them. When he’s assigned the task, he soon heads over to the Tyrell Corporation, where he meets a new generation of replicant named Rachael.

As Batty and his friends search for a way to extend their lives, Deckard ruthlessly hunts them down, only for an infatuated Rachael to work her way into his life. As he begins to care for her, his encounters with the replicants become tougher, especially as he also has to look out for his new love. When he finally comes face-to-face with Batty himself, he has a moment of reckoning as he finally understands and accepts his adversary’s humanity. Now in love with one, he has no choice but to go on the run, which would later lead to the story of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.

Ridley Scott made a point of trying to imply to viewers, much to Harrison Ford’s chagrin, that Deckard is himself a replicant. Since it’s incredibly difficult for people to discern replicants from humans, Blade Runners have to use tests and analyze small details for proof. It’s this ambiguity that made it almost impossible for anyone to ever be sure about Deckard until another screenwriter stated it as a matter of fact.

Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott Disagree on Blade Runner

Over the years, Ridley Scott has made it clear he believes Rick Deckard is a replicant, something he even snuck into the movie through editing and clues. One of the things fans often point to is a brief glimpse on screen when his eyes appear to have the same glimmer as a replicant. For many fans, the best proof comes from the character Gaff, an older Blade Runner who fans believe had his memories implanted in Deckard to continue his work. This is made particularly plausible as Scott connects Gaff’s origami to Deckard’s dreams. Towards the end of the film, his cryptic statement, “You’ve done a man’s job,” is interpreted to be him tacitly calling the younger man a replicant, commending him for impressive work.

Contrary to Scott’s vision, Ford remained adamant that his character was human all along, even going so far as to try and keep the set free of the director’s clues. In his mind, the twist would have undermined Deckard’s emotional journey and humanity, undercutting the ending. In being rescued by Batty, he finally understands the humanity of the replicants, something essential for both sides’ story. If it’s simply a film about a man who doesn’t realize he’s a replicant identifying with his own kind, it doesn’t feel nearly as poignant as a real man learning to empathize with those he hunts. It also makes his relationship with Rachael all the more powerful, crossing boundaries on both sides.

In a sense, the disagreement between Ford and Scott is actually a great match for the themes of the movie itself. The confusion it sews in viewers as they become almost paranoid about what’s real and not, and keeps them on guard about every character. If the director and leading actor can’t even agree, the mystery will never be settled until someone spells out plain and simple that Deckard is a human.

It should be noted that Ford isn’t alone, and actually has the backing of the film’s screenwriter, Hampton Fancher, who has confirmed he wrote him as a human. It’s actually a testament to Scott’s direction that, in spite of the script and acting, he was able to cast so much doubt on the main character’s nature.

Deckard as a Human Works So Much Better

As much as many fans love the theory that Deckard is a replicant, the story actually feels much more poignant if he isn’t. The central theme of its message is the question of what makes a human being, the question of souls, and the rights of sentient beings. If Deckard is human, his journey is that of an ordinary man whose job relies on the dehumanization of replicants, growing to understand their struggle and recognize their humanity. If he’s a replicant, that story carries considerably less weight, especially as it basically served as the basis for Ryan Gosling’s story in Blade Runner 2049.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Harrison Ford Says Ridley Scott Got Blade Runner Wrong (& 43 Years Later, He Might Be Right)

Tags: Blade Runner, CBR, Cinema Debate, Deckard, Fiction, Harrison Ford, Replicant, Ridley Scott, Screenwriter, Update

#BladeRunner #CBR #CinemaDebate #Deckard #Fiction #HarrisonFord #Replicant #RidleyScott #Screenwriter #Update

It suddenly occurs to me that #replicant 's pure-data-only model for Hiccup means that one could get server-side rendering 'for free' if their view functions are pure, by say, running them through #chasis.

This wouldn't handle hydration, but this accidental convergence really shows how data-oriented tech naturally flows together.

#clojure #clojurescript

@codepo8
> Keep Android Open

Some folks working to make it freedom-respecting too, for about 15 years so far;

https://replicant.us/

#MobileOS #Android #Replicant

@paw

@jbz lolwuot?

Is this them trying to copy #PostmarketOS the same way they failed with their #Android distro known as #Replicant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VoVjNlL_FI&t=77s

@Sascha #TLDW: #Replicant ist die #FSF-endroste #Android-Rom die nur #2G & #3G-Geräte kann, also weder #LTE noch #5G.

Viel Spaß mit #EDGE oder gar #CSD bei 9600bit/s (!!!)…

@GrapheneOS / #GrapheneOS unterstützen extrem wenige Geräte weil extrem auf Sicherheit geprügelt, #eOS von @e_mydata unterstützen ein paar mehr und @LineageOS / #lineageOS ist die einzige halbwegs maintained #Aftermarket-#ROM die mehr als nen dutzend (z.T. obskure Geräte) unterstützt.

@Sascha also so'n dysfunktionales #ROM alla #Replicant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VoVjNlL_FI&t=77s

Having missed the #FSF 40 anniversary live stream, all we can find out about #Librephone is

'Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments. The LibrePhone Project is a partnership with Rob Savoye, a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980s. "Since mobile phone computing is now so ubiquitous, we're very excited about LibrePhone and think it has the potential to bring software freedom to many more users all over the world."'

... which is not much. Given previous efforts, and the fact F-Droid was also represented, this is very likely to be some kind of #Replicant https://replicant.us/ reboot, which (for obvious reasons) saddens me a bit.

Edit: See @eliasr's post below. It's highly likely my speculation was totally off.

@heiseonlineenglish reminds me of #Replicant and how they only support #EoL'd devices that only do #2G & #3G…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VoVjNlL_FI&t=77s

Ritual Mass – Cascading Misery Review

By Kenstrosity

It’s difficult to enter a conversation about death doom without thinking, at least once, of Incantation. Or Autopsy. Or Asphyx. Or any number of other acts in between. But not many of them choose “Christian Mysticism” as their primary theme. Here enters Pittsburg death doom upstarts Ritual Mass, primed to unleash their debut slab of biblical horrors Cascading Misery upon this God-fearing world. One can only wonder what fresh Hell this tome holds.

Thankfully, I know what fresh hell this holds, and it is nasty. With serrated tones and a cavernous boom, Cascading Misery reeks of the same rotted death Incantation made a sensation, doomed and dour in pace and attitude. Yet, it is monstrous, bloodthirsty, and quintessentially evil at the same time, in the same way Replicant often is (“Frozen Marrow”). In six songs spread across 40 minutes, Cascading Misery portrays Ritual Mass as a capable, confident purveyor of anguish trained in the ways of olde death, twisted by the corrupted lore of hellish origin. A lack of distinct identity holds them back, though, as much of this material feels and sounds all too deeply rooted in methods and modes trademarked by the aforementioned legendary acts. Maybe this lands Ritual Mass into the worshipping class of modern revivals, but there’s much potential here for growth and distinction as they develop their sound further.

Much of this potential lies in funereal closer “Disquiet” and blistering tear “Cascading Misery.” In the former—a 14 minute epic of glacial, stripped down doom book-ended by vicious death freakouts—Ritual Mass showcase an unexpected tenderness that belies the violence of the beast that raged relentlessly for 30 minutes prior. This tenderness brings in a new voice, an unexpected dynamic that pulls me into a deep void of sorrow, a kind of sorrow that changes my entire perception of what this record seemed to be up to that point. Consequently, when it breaks in the third quarter into a desperate, screeching howl, I’m not stricken with fear and terror. I’m instead flooded with sympathy and a desire to hold close this wounded creature before me. On the opposite side of the same coin, “Cascading Misery” shreds through flesh, bone, and gristle with a maddened fervor, mercilessly terrorizing everyone and destroying everything around it. A ferocious spirit possesses that track, one that nobody on Earth or in any afterlife could ever hope to quell or heal.

This duality roiling within a single tortured entity is the core of Cascading Misery to these ears, and it’s what Ritual Mass needs to capitalize on further in order to stand out in a crowded musical space. Outside of an outstanding drum performance that routinely elevates every moment of Cascading Misery, it simply takes too long for this debut to showcase something remarkable. The first three tracks lack distinguishing characteristics, both from the cavernous genre that they occupy and within the microcosm of the record itself. Generic riffs, monotonous song structures, and relatively dull doom passages conspire to undermine those great ideas and ample substance contained inside Cascading Misery’s strongest material. This, ultimately, is an issue of consistency. In many ways, Cascading Misery is a perfectly competent, even good record based solely on what’s offered in the first half. However, in light of the presence and clever creativity that characterizes the second half, that perfect competence doesn’t feel so perfect anymore. Instead, it feels like more than just a few missed opportunities.

All things taken into account, Cascading Misery is difficult to rate. On the one hand, Ritual Mass offers a nasty slab of doomed death that deviates modestly, but still notably, away from the stereotypical subject matter. On the other, they don’t take full advantage of their creative juices, choosing to saturate the second half with killer ideas and leaving the first half a bit malnourished. The optimist in me believes wholeheartedly that this only means Ritual Mass left plenty of room for them to grow for their sophomore effort. Let us pray that this turns out to be the case!

Rating: Mixed
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Website: ritualmass.bandcamp.com/music
Releases Worldwide: September 5th, 2025

#25 #20BuckSpin #2025 #AmericanMetal #Asphyx #Autopsy #CascadingMisery #DeathDoom #DeathMetal #DoomMetal #Incantation #Replicant #Review #Reviews #RitualMass #Sep25