"When Mike moved them closer together and Jill put her arms around her, her tears increased, but her cries were the gentle sobs of happiness."
-- R. A. #Heinlein, Stranger In a Strange Land
#heinlein
After trying desperately to find this via the 'search unjin' I discovered to my delight that I'd bookmarked it!!
Fuck you Robert Wanker Heinlein and fuck ppl who disparage bookmarking!!
:blobcat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAkplrZci0
#heinlein
#wanker
#libertarians
#nazis
#misogyny
#scifi
#hippies
#homophobia
#badscifi
Bradbury, Heinlein, & Dice - Michael Saylor on JP #mit #gaming #sciencefiction #games #heinlein
Folks, I suffered for #Heinlein's sins. Won't you commiserate with me? #ScienceFiction
https://galacticjourney.org/june-10-1970-i-will-fear-i-will-fear-no-evil-july-1970-galaxy/
L.A. this morning.
Best of luck to the protesters.
Be safe, hydrate, we love you.
❤️
#LA
#Fascism
#StarshipTroopers
#Heinlein #RobertHeinlein
I do more traveling than I like – for all the mess, #ChaosManor is a pretty comfortable place – but there is one advantage. No one has yet found a way to telephone me on a train or in flight.
Alas, I suppose it's just a question of time: Mr. #Heinlein's 'Between Planets' has teenagers carrying personal telephones on backpacking expeditions, and #GeoffGoodfellow has been carrying a personal telephone to the Hackers' Conference deep in the Peninsula Hills for severals years; someday, I just know I'll get saddled with one. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
In "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", published in 1966, the Warden is presented as foolish for allowing his home thermostat to be remotely controlled by a large central computer.
I'm delighted with Heinlein's foresight.
And it's a good reminder, in today's age when every device wants to be online.
I have to admit that the discussion of "the alt-right" in the present tense here made me skeptical at first. Apart from that, though, this is an interesting interview and looks like a worthwhile book.
Re: 'Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right' by Jordan S. Carroll (2024)
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Q: As you explain in the intro, science fiction can serve as a “blueprint, warning, forecast, wish-dream, and counterfactual” (8). How does the alt-right, as part of its interpretive project, reconceptualize the purpose of science fiction? Can it be self-critical?
A: The alt-right often sees science fiction as a prefiguration of the destiny that white men must realize. They have a very crude view of culture: it either moralizes or demoralizes white people. They’re therefore only interested in science fiction insofar as it either inspires them to greatness or stands in the way of their greatness. For all their sophistry, it’s a very crude way of thinking, one that precludes any kind of critical self-reflection or openness to the kinds of thought experiments that science fiction so often affords.
Q: How is fascism connected with historical science fiction fandom?
A: We tend to think of fascists as outside agitators who are not real fans, but they have been here since the earliest days of fandom. The first major Neo-Nazi leader in the US was James H. Madole (1927-1979), who got his start in the science fiction community. In his writings describing the National Renaissance Party’s philosophy, he often drew upon science fiction images of a scientifically advanced cognitive elite who would rule the world and ultimately transcend their humanity to become “homo superior.” Instead of thinking of science fiction as inherently progressive, we need to think of it as an ongoing struggle between competing ideological tendencies. The left seems to be winning this war within literary science fiction, at least, but it was a hard-fought battle carried out over many decades.
#AltRight #fascism #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Asimov #Heinlein #AynRand #AtlasShrugged
Jetzt online: "OpenCloud vs Nextcloud: lohnt sich der Umstieg?"
#linuxguides #heinlein #opensource #opencloud #nextcloud #clouds #linux
A quotation from Robert Heinlein
Politics is just a name for the way we get things done … without fighting. We dicker and compromise and everybody thinks he has received a raw deal, but somehow after a tedious amount of talk we come up with some jury-rigged way to do it without getting anybody’s head bashed in. That’s politics.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Podkayne of Mars, ch. 4 [Tom Fries], Worlds of IF magazine (1962-11)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/76…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #heinlein #robertheinlein #robertaheinline #bargaining #compromise #peace #politics
Secure Linux Administration Conference 2025
IT-Experten treffen sich zum Erfahrungsaustausch und Wissens-Update auf der SLAC in Berlin. Im Mittelpunkt stehen der sichere und professionelle Linux-Server-Betrieb sowie die Herausforderungen im Admin-Alltag.
#Konferenz #SLAC #Heinlein #Linux
https://gnulinux.ch/secure-linux-administration-conference-2025
@65dBnoise More Farmer in the Sky than The Green Hills of Earth ;)
Robert A Heinlein's #SF novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is rather good, very good for its time, and one bit occurred to me: the protagonist notes that engineering controls should not be centralised.
I like my house and garden robots and other gadgets, and I don't mind that I can control or monitor them from a distance, but I don't like that that has to go through someone else's central computer and that the details are kept secret.
A new Alternative to Nextcloud? OpenCloud presented and local Installation
#linuxort #freesoftware #opensource #opencloud #clouds #nextcloud #heinlein
@thoralf Ich fände interessant ob #heinlein den #ownCloud Client aktiv ausgesperrt hat, oder ob es bereits so kurz nach dem Fork Inkompatibilitäten gibt. Ehrlich gesagt hätte ich vermutet, dass der Client funktioniert. Bei #oCIS war die Konfiguration aber auch nicht ganz trivial um das zum Laufen zu kriegen.
#Heinlein
I'd prefer the #Fosterites to the #Christofascists but neither is good or even neutral for the world or their local continent and state.
Let someone say #sciencefiction is unrealistic...
Robert A. #Heinlein foresaw the decline of American #democracy in "Revolt in 2100" (from the early 1950s!) with frightening acuity (and set the presidential election of the quite Trumpesque "prophet" only four years too early, at 2012): https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-back-at-heinleins-future.html#:~:text=%22Throw%20in,majority%20in%20Washington.%22
(via @davidbrin)
Let's hope he's not also right about the ensuing 90 years of theocratic dictatorship...
Sage einer, #ScienceFiction sei weltfremd ...
Robert A. #Heinlein hat den Verfall der amerikanischen #Demokratie schon in "Revolt in 2100" (aus den frühen 1950ern!) erschreckend treffend beschrieben (und die Präsidentenwahl des durchaus trumpesken "Propheten" nur 4 Jahre zu früh auf 2012 angesetzt): https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-back-at-heinleins-future.html#:~:text=%22Throw%20in,majority%20in%20Washington.%22
(via @davidbrin)
Hoffen wir, dass er nicht auch recht behält, was die folgende 90jährige theokratische Diktatur angeht ...
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