@bodil@social.treehouse.systems
Post #3186402
2026-01-07 12:53 UTC
And speaking of which, it's funny how everyone talks about the Butlerian Jihad as if it isn't just another Torment Nexus.
The Butlerian Jihad led to a world where people were regularly shooting up on debilitating smart drugs to do maths for their feudal overlords because their ancestors decided that pocket calculators were the Devil's work.
As much as we love to make fun of the tech bros confusing the dystopias of Gibson and Stephenson with utopia, we do so love to have a little blind spot about Herbert when it suits us.
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@log@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-01-07 18:24
@bodil@social.treehouse.systems Dune was an entire torment galaxy, held between the twin claws of CHOAM capitalist urfuckery and imperial aristocratic twisted dulskuggery. I bet Elon would have stained lips from slurping up all that sapho juice, too--desperately trying to finally be the genius, instead of just buying their jobs.
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@marlies@tacobelllabs.net 2026-01-07 20:58
@bodil@social.treehouse.systems i just want a Judith Butlerian jihad