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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38748923

Knowing that you are always watched and heard is comforting in these plus confusing times. The predictive thought comparison model the State uses preemptively stops you from thoughtcrime so you can have doubleplus purethought.

A Kessler event destroyed any overhead data collection for everyone at the onset of the Conflict. As resources dwindled, costs rocketed, and time became critical, fully mech/comp units were wasteful and their loss was a heavy burden. Wetware integration had been standard, so wettech was the natural evolution from doubleplus need. Mobile Foetal Units were prioritywise needed to gather data behind enemy lines. Foetal processors saved thousands of manufacturing hours at 1/14th the resource cost.

A pluswise classic look, the Sun Valley ansible is from a bygone time. Your grandparents would gather to hear the latest reports on labour and rations and see the vid feeds from the State. This ansible offered the first opportunity for rural locations to have instant comms with State agencies as well as friends and family. Safetywise it was also one of the first to offer constant-on monitoring to help keep everyone safe from the growing worries of wordcrime and thoughtcrime.

Foetal processors were plus commonwise across every gov. by the end of the Conflict. Wetware was less resourcewise and plus timewise. Stable working units are not uncommon finds for our team. Mem is reflashed and they are put to good use for our archive database.

A plus importantwise part to your life is communication. Ansibles have become doubleplus standard for citizens to remain in constant comms. Your security is knowing your voice is heard everywhere always. The state never misses a word you say.

Foetal Recon Unit 7147Discovered trapped in a collapsed building. Power and organics intact & functioning.

Last year I posted the previous version of this guide. Since the author just made a new version, I figured I’ll keep posting it here. I like how there’s now a ‘midtempo cyberpunk’ genre separate from the normal ‘cyberpunk’ genre.

Some of you might remember me as the guy who built CyberpunkHub.com, a small side project that tries to catalogue every cyberpunk film, series, game, book, and short out there.

Each piece has a story integral to the world they inhabit. Read them all and see more of them retech.org.

First article on our new Substack for Redline Media Institute! A Socialist think tank for the Left to centralize propagandists, strategize, and create content.

This is an extremely long article and I’ll admit I only skimmed it, but I don’t disagree with any of the items included. Also, I’m a massive cyberpunk nerd and I’ve at least heard of everything in the article (except for some authors in the ‘Global Voices, Local Futures’ section) so the author definitely did their research.

They were the ones who wanted to survive. They were the techs who created the wetware tech that dominated the frontlines of the war. It was obvious no one was going to survive. They worked in distributed cells, against the orders of the State. Siphoning tech and time in a doubleplus last chance effort to survive.

In this future, a big brother mega-state fights with two others for the planet. Doubleplus biomech wartech drains the resources for the species. The stories are told through data reports, journal entries, and sculpture. This is RETECH.

Access to Arasaka has been making cyberpunk-themed ambient music for almost 20 years now. He just released a new EP (Utility) that leans a bit more into the “glitch” genre than “ambient” but it’s still great background music. I like just queuing up his albums and letting it play.

Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre have published an insightful book that explains how Marx’s theory of value operates to explain the trends and fluctuations in modern capitalist economies. Called Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers – Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown, the title tells the reader that the book is about taking Marx’s law of value towards what they call its ‘frontiers’, namely markets and trade; imperialism and the global environmental crisis.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36716854

Over on the cyberpunk mastodon instance corteximplant.com they’re having a watch party for Who Am I and I’ve never even heard of this movie. I guess it’s a German movie but I can’t find it streaming anywhere. Anyway, I’m curious if it’s any good so I wanted to ask if anyone here would recommend it.

cross-posted from: !nin@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36714558

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36714485

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I don’t know how to embed youtube shorts into Lemmy (if there’s even a way) so I’m just going to post the links here:

Hey there! I'm a newbie author writing a cyberpunk book called Neodrius. It's ongoing (5chapters a week) with around 250 pages already. If you feel like trying something new that feels familiar, please give it a read, and possibly leave me some feedback! <3 Thank you! Link - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/127344/neodrius-a-cyberpunk-novel

Author @rek2@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/25459343

I saw a trailer for this game and was intrigued enough to look into it. It made me realize that I've never seen a cyberpunk souls-like game before. I'm no souls-like expert but every souls-like I'm aware of has a dark fantasy setting. Yet there's nothing inherent to the souls-like genre that requires a dark fantasy setting, it just seems to be where most souls-like fans tend to go. Weird.

Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo's work as "a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states [...]"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35220360

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster was written in 1909. It predates Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers by a couple decades. The light bulb was still a recent invention. Yet the world Forster wrote about is oddly recognizable.

Is Marxism a science? Flowers for Marx provides us an excellent window into this live debate, as it exists on the contemporary Left, through a series of essays that can roughly be split into two camps: Democratic Socialism as exemplified by frequent Jacobin commentators Matthew McManus and Ben Burgis, and a position somewhere between Marxist-Lenininsm and Third Worldism found in the authors Conrad Hamilton and Ernesto Vargas. For sure, these two sides differ on just about everything, from the question of continuity versus rupture between bourgeois society and any future socialism to the historical legacy of actually existing communism to their theoretical methods. Yet, strangely enough, the authors do have one thing in common: neither side seems to want to whole-heartedly defend the position that Marxism is, or should be, a science.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46425403

Bitte unterschreibt und leitet weiter. Danke!

I'm constantly torn between "I should make more of an effort to keep this cyberpunk community alive" and "I should give up on this whole Lemmy thing"... so here's a meme.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33928268