Post by @fullsquare@awful.systems

2026-09-11 07:16 UTC

“there is a global far right conspiracy that attempts to reinvent alchemy, colonize space and build a machine god, which they intend to use to enslave everyone else. it’s informed by misreading of old scifi and racism, but it only took off after certain hp fanfic was written. currently it’s commanded by a californian polycule with a drug problem, but also counts in their ranks white house officials, and possibly some from russian government” unfortunately this does not make a great conversation starter. whaat? a cult took over an entire government of south korea? this could never happen here

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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-09-11 07:28

You’d be surprised. The usual icebreaker is the topic of the deep-seated unstated assumptions that people have in their mind when the construct models of evolutionary history, the future of Earth’s biosphere, and the place of biology in the universe. I am lucky enough to run in the circles with astrobiologists, evolutionary biologists interested in the evolution of complex life, and abiogenesis types, who tend to appreciate the deep importance of unstated assumptions. It is very easy to point out a set of unstated assumptions that have poisoned areas of science near them… which always points back to the god damned singulatarians because when you assume the future is Humanity’s Grand Destiny Among The Stars OR BUST, it severely constrains your notions of what is possible in a universe that looks like ours and inevitably mutilates the study of the topics they/we run in.

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