Half of #Florida is
#Fallout #FL Present Day dystopia
and the other half is
#Snowcrash dystopia.
#Snowcrash
Amid prepping and playing a Cyberpunk Red session with a friend, I've been rereading Snow Crash.
At 77% through, I'm noticing a pattern of a ton of the violence having a sexualization aspect to it with many of the YT chapters having a "should we check his hard drives?" aspect to them. To use a meme, there's a lot of "writer's barely disguised fetish" going on, or at least the appearance of it. Like, "human shark" going for a crotch bite, what?
Got a Kobo Clara Color for Christmas today. Doing a reread of Snow Crash on it.
Reading 80s cyberpunk in 2025 is sure a mood. The references to videotape and CRTs as things that would still be in use adds a certain retro feel to them these days.
The corporate takeover stuff like "Judge Bob's Judicial System" as a franchise definitely still feels poignant though.
I've _finally_ finished reading #snowcrash! It only took me 3 months... Anyway I really loved the book. I can see why some people are bothered with what happens to Y.T., but I suspect disturbing his readers was exactly what the author was going for.
@snowcrash Hey, willkommen im Fediversum!
Ich mag den Roman #SnowCrash sehr gern. Was vom Autor empfiehlst du noch?
Getting some real Snow Crash vibes from this one.
#AUSA2025 #snowcrash #ratthing
first edition paperback
#nealstephenson #cyberpunk #snowcrash #terminationshock
If you're a Snow Crash fan, you might be interested in these (expired) listings of related goodies at auction. I'm linking to the artwork for the aborted graphic novel which led to Snow Crash, but check out all six lots.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/snow-crash/neal-stephenson-and-tony-sheeder-2
@screwlisp SushiK's OK, just kinda scammed by Hiro into coming to his fuzz-grunge-metal concert. J-Hip Hop is a real thing, but was very new in early '90s. It's just funny contrast of his high-tech show and lyrics, and the very low-tech knife & sword duel in the hops farm against Raven.
#snowcrash
https://toobnix.org/w/9BR6mZAhRv5iJNS6P5fnNv
#bookstodon #snowCrash #scifi #bookreview sharpsign off the cuff and tired #lisp what are the odds I won't talk about lisp. #peertube #live
sharpsign
I read #SnowCrash by #NealStephenson recently, thinking it had been a long time since I first read it. On the basis that I didn't remember any of it, I must have confused it with another of his novels.
The most unrealistic part of #SnowCrash is the suggestion that if your freelance food delivery driver is late or leaves you with someone else's order, the CEO of the place you ordered from will personally come to your house and apologise 😆
@strypey
They appear in Neal Stephenson's dystopian SF novel Snow crash.
As does much else.
I'll have to reread Snow Crash as I'm beginning to think it was prescient as to where the US is heading.
In the book the US has collapsed into various fiefdoms run by corporate entities and mafias. The Feds are just another organisation amongst others.
Well worth a read - the book is fizzing with ideas.
What was slightly disturbing was thinking which current billionaire maps the closest to L Bob Rife.
@PavelASamsonov this tooth is a Sumerian curse.
> That first impression, back at the age of seventeen, was nothing more than that—the gut reaction of a post-adolescent Army brat who had been on his own for about three weeks. His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world—samurai movies and the Macintosh—and he understood them far, far too well. It was a worldview with no room for someone like Juanita.
—Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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For me, add Godzilla movies.
#snowcrash
If these whackjobs start communicating in Sumerian, we should probably give Neal Stephenson a medal or something.
Guns, God—and Blockchain: Christian nationalists build techno-theocracy in Appalachia: http://archive.today/2025.04.08-235221/https://www.rawstory.com/christian-nationalism-2671692937/ #Dominionism #dystopia #SnowCrash
[...] Way back 15 years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of #software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and #hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write a line of code themselves. -- #snowcrash Neal Stephenson
This strikes a chord!
This line from #SnowCrash stuck out to me
> we’re working on refining our management techniques so that we can control that information no matter where it is - on our hard disks or even inside the programmers’ heads.
Seems like something big tech would stumble over themselves to get ahold of today 😬
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