#systemic collapse

[wallblaster]

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AU8uyLPUMKs&si=CFE2lNFe8HDpJDCN

I've been thinking about this long a lot recently. Particularly the line "We pray for revolution, but we want apocalypticism". Apocalypticism is defined as a belief in an imminent end to all things on Earth. And I can attest to that sentiment. Change take effort, and years of ugly transition as mankind drags its feet into the ground. It happens with individual people as well. It seems a lot easier to just not try, and have the whole thing come to an end. There's no conflict in death, after all.

But more to the point, I think with a romantic tone about the apocalypse when I think of revolution. I don't think of the people joining together to actually rebel. I think of anarchy. I dwell too easily on a future where everyone dies. The political spectrum loses meaning as the whole country becomes a burning wasteland. Those who are left either rebuild with some sense of how to do better in the future, or they get their fascist dystopia they always wanted – until they too get the short end of the discrimination stick, and there is no one left to point the finger at. I think of Robespier's Reign of Terror against anyone who looks even remotely rich. I don't know what anyone has planned. But I feel afraid that the incoming revolution in the US, if it happens at all, will be too disorganized or (rightfully) motivated only by hatred and not a desire to bring change to the nation. The people in power have a lot to answer for. And I don't know if people will know what to do after they're gone. It is possible that someone just as bad will be flocked to to lead the masses. I am afraid of a future where nothing changes to the point that I would rather it all end instead.

[ontonix]

Investigating Next Generation Global Risks

Ontonix is seeking to build strategic partnerships with global players in order to investigate systemic risks in a totally new light. The Quantitative Complexity Theory (QCT) allows us to formulate the problem from a unique large-scale, multi-disciplinary and truly systemic perspective. The focus is in the following areas: Systemic Collapse and its prevention Critical Infrastructure monitoring,…

[verdiris]

Here to provide your regularly scheduled MB fanart 😌🤝😌

[heyitsrink]

Thinking about a young Perihelion babysitting Iris and crying forever.

[projectorthus]

System Collapse is great so far.

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

Hunger Pangs series (True Love Bites) by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn't to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he'd never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn't been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn't been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that's the problem.

Torn by their allegiances--to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves--the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

Fantasy, romance, paranormal, series, adult

[desultorydenouement]

murderbot is peak queer rep because it’s about living as an inherently transgressive form of being, it’s about the complexity of passing, or the complexity of hiding, or the nuance of never fitting binaries and not wanting to even when fitting those binaries is seen as “better”, and it’s about making people uncomfortable just by existing, it’s about measuring forms of freedom and having to decide which you’ll save and which you’ll sacrifice. but most importantly it’s peak queer rep because murderbot is free for like five minutes and it immediately attracts the nearest supposedly-rare transgressive-illegal-superbot (ART) in a hundred light year radius to be its best friend, and what’s that if not your classic Queer On Queer Magnetism

[wigglybunfish]

I know they’re the same, it’s all just Peri. That the drone will be repaired and the next time we need it, it’ll be the same. But still, when something happens like this, it scares me. I just don’t want to lose any piece of Peri, you know?

I know, I said. And I did know, and now I was having an emotion.

From System Collapse, Chapter 11.

Original line art is here

[hellofriendhawke]

Me and my mutually administration assistance

[sameboot]

Amena and her surprise bonus 3rd mom

[crispinkiss]

did you know i have to draw the characters or ill die

[ontonix]

How Much AI Can a Car Handle?

Just because something can be done doesn’t mean it has to be done. This is true especially when speaking of technology. The fact that something is technically feasible doesn’t mean that implementing it is necessarily a good idea. Remember when you could wave your hand to control the volume of a car radio? And today, what about the huge three feet long dashboard display screens? Are they really…

[riseandfallofsecunit]

SecUnit does NOT want to hear about your relationship issues.

[ghostcashewart]

how many pings will it take for secunit to stop sulking?

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

We need media, visual, audio - we'll need music - and text. We had to hit them with everything.

still not over That conversation from System Collapse. what a two-hit combo. what a scene. chefs kiss 🤌

[katebish]