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u/KantCancelMe Feb 23 '25
"The Wired is just a medium for communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse it with the real world."
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u/adpop Feb 24 '25
Instantly what I thought of after seeing the second slide.
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u/HeroBut Feb 24 '25
Same! The stills of electricity wires in the anime with the music left a mark in my mind. I wanted to share one of those stills, but thought nobody will recognize.
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u/adpop Feb 24 '25
Please recommend me other shows or movies like lain. Nothing feels the same.
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u/HeroBut Feb 24 '25
Watch Texhnolyze for the same creator, then maybe Ergo proxy and psychopass.
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u/adpop Feb 24 '25
Oooh I forgot about Texhnolyze! I've had it on my watch list for a while.
I've seen both ergo proxy (not a fan) and psycho pass, which I loved. Such a shame the second season sucked.
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u/MkUltaBeauty Avant-Tarde Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25
When I left San Francisco, my friend was helping me move out. I asked him to park my rental car closer to my place. Along the way, he honked at someone who was blocking a side road and the driver immediately started to threaten to kill him and followed him for like four blocks. He got freaked out and went home, leaving me to do a lot of disposal work solo. I finished around midnight and decided that I didn't want leave the car outside overnight, all things considered, so I just drove straight to SFO. Arrived at 1:00, had my flight at 10:00 and was just having thoughts like these when I waited as I ate shitty lounge food (as well as thinking that I gained the ability to feel individual atoms)
People say Pheonix is a monument to man's arrogance or whatever, but the Bay Area might give an even stronger reaction due to how much natural beauty is mixed with some truly evil companies and people.
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u/FunLove3436 sensitive young schizo Feb 23 '25
This is how it feels to read poststructuralist theory
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u/TheTempleoftheKing Feb 24 '25
It's all true. look up the SOLOMAN (Simultaneous Operation Linked Ordinal Modular Network) computer. Parallel processing is what makes AI possible and it started with an inspiration from goetia.
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u/peridoti Feb 24 '25
I was crazyposting this exact topic ten years ago because of my at-the-time crippling mega man addiction so this brought on a strange calm and nostalgia.
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u/_Little_Goose_ Feb 23 '25
What is this aesthetic called? I love it
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u/softerhater latina waif Feb 23 '25
Schizo? Idk
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u/platos-raveman Feb 24 '25
Posthumanism? For some substance to go with the style big up Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/transnational/haraway-cyborgmanifesto-1.pdf
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u/Shoxidizer Feb 23 '25
Whenever I see the first image all I can think of is that whoever made it is definitely not aware of what transistor symbols look like or they would have used those instead of a circuit board.
https://www.matidavid.com/electronic_components/04_files/4-02.gif
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u/harkton Feb 24 '25
extremely good post, my housemate felt like it built up nicely to the last image
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u/CommercialDiver1044 Feb 24 '25
engineers found a way to strip quantum mechanics of all it's unknowable beauty. semiconductor industry is the closest we have to tangible mass produced magic and it is miserable and stifling. the nanofabrication clean room is the closest room to hell and heaven that man constructed- when much more beautiful and holy places were already given to us in nature.
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u/Salt-Guess-3542 Feb 23 '25
2021 called
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u/_Little_Goose_ Feb 23 '25
Why 2021?
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u/sand-which Feb 24 '25
your desire to categorize everything you see is part of the call of this entity
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u/Sutibum_ Feb 24 '25
the municipality has been cutting off unapproved fiber optic cables off electric posts and there are literal coils of fiber optics laying all over town. they remind me of lain every time
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