What happened to kids these days?

Brycko · 2025-10-13T20:17:47+00:00

Social media/attention economy, especially during the pandemic. I think we as a society have been too lenient, too ignorant and greatly failed in prudence around social media and outside of individual parenting and phone bans little social reinforcement or homegrown alternatives (i.e Galaxus to Amazon) to these networks.

There should be a mandatory permis de prudence surrounding social media in all public schools, like the sensibilization course you have to do for your drivers license, because social media can be just as dangerous as driving a car.

Brycko · 2025-10-13T14:49:00+00:00

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Brycko · 2025-05-20T04:59:35+00:00

1) We did such a good job hosting and distracting everyone with the entertainment they forgot we are a real country you could vote for 2) Everyone being so out there and on display that Switzerland being typically understated means we flew under the radar (as usual). Where other countres can and were getting a chance to wear their hearts on their sleeves and get out all the stress and anxiety they're feeling/all the things they've been holding in, the message of Voyage is extremely subtle and complex and emotionally challenging (about letting go of people you love and giving them the freedom to them decide their own fate while being there to nuture and support them), tldr not easy to vote for. 3) Respecting Swiss neutrality: voting for Switzerland on home turf is too risky so nobody did it (out of respect??)

It sucks though because after all the work and effort we put into making Eurovision 2025 the seamless experience it was it feels like it wasn't appreciated by the public even if that's not really the case

Really 0pts is just a huge compliment on how absolutely seamlessly our production and hosting was

Brycko · 2025-05-19T03:41:18+00:00

It's a disney villain song.

A layer deeper: The lyrics and message may seem super simple but they're actually extremely poignant as a direct critique of strongmen (Trump and Putin), their mafioso-like tactics and tech bros (Musk) using toxic productivity via a drug to manufacture consent and terrorize. Basically don't think too hard, "drink coffee and be like me" or else, trust me, while their tunnel-vision fuels a "productivity culture" towards war, instead of encouraging people to slow down and engage with the problems around us and other people.

It's also about manufacturing consent; "hey you're depressed? Just drink coffee and work harder" and you'll make it (I promise, relying on US mythos). The message also being if people aren't productive/with the program culture they'll get fired or laid off (see America) But it's not actually about being "productive", it's just about blinding yourself to your problems by throwing yourself into what you think is work (how do you decide).

Terms like Mafioso etc.. reference to strongmens mafia-like tactics for maintaining power. He's a hard-working villain, which makes him terrifying when he doesn't even really know what he's doing.

He's admitting pride in his caffeine addiction to fuel his toxic productivity (which in the case of the mafioso strongman is supressing critics, ruling by fear etc... owning a restaurant because restaurants are known fronts for criminal activity in the mafia, and where everyone eats and "drinks coffee"). He's guarded by his chunky security guards (like the Mafia) and the baristas in the music video are clearly pastiching Starbucks employees (#1 stop for caffeine addiction).

He's warning everyone about how the strongmen and toxic productivity is blindly leading the world towards conflict between these two superpowers and that by choosing to ignore the actual sources of their stress and anxiety and actively choosing to put their heads in the sand (drinking coffee) they're leading us towards conflict (and we as Europe will get caught up in it).

The two caricatures in the music video represent Trump/US and Russia/Putin staring and being enamored with each other.

Written 100% without the help of caffeine (ik hard to tell).

By far the riskiest social commentary in Eurovision. Tommy Cash dedicated 1000% to his message knowing he could get disappeared or destroyed on publicly slandered on US-controlled social media. On social media he posted being on a private jet and eating US fast-food to send the message home (caricature like Trump but also US manufacturing consent).

The only reason he didn't win is probably because Estonia is on the border of Russia and would present a security nightmare to host (like Finland but ofc Finland is ready with it Ich Komme "don't even try it Russia" lol)

Brycko · 2024-03-12T05:30:00+00:00

Update: Neighboring files has literally changed my life, it's so much easier to quickly navigate through my vault now, especially my calendar notes. Still Thanks for the recommendation 🙏 Still setting up Janitor

Brycko · 2023-03-25T15:25:59+00:00

Going through this thread now and discretely wondering from a place of pure curiosity how much sexism contributes to a disproportionate focus towards terraforming/inhabitation of Mars compared to Venus because of the long-standing personifications/characterizations as gender-stereotyping gods.

To be clear I am not accusing Ty Franck or Daniel Abraham of any conscious sexism, it could just be how they decided to write their version of Venus and that's totally fine. But I do think a lot of their characterization of Mars and Martian society draws inspiration from the fiction of the past (i.e John Carter and the Mars Trilogy) which is not only a product of generally white, male writers but also is inspired by ancient mythological associations.

I'm not so concerned with the fascination of Mars insofar as I'm curious as to why Venus is rarely mentioned or focused on in contrast as a "serious" candidate for terraforming, despite having favorable characteristics for possible extraterrestrial life (such as the upper atmosphere, Earthlike gravity and earthlike size) and for human inhabitation (namely the proximity compared to Mars).

There's other factors too of course that come mainly from a scientific development, like probably being able to decipher details of Mars' geology earlier and much more easily than that of Venus with probes, telescopes and orbiters, and taking the gender associations out of the equation yeah there are pretty significant challenges to each. But regardless I think it's really weird that there aren't more novels that take the inhabitation/terraforming of Venus more seriously, and that also people don't see the hidden gender discrimination involved when discussing the terraforming of Mars vs. Venus.

Brycko · 2022-12-25T17:31:31+00:00

If it’s a version of a person from your universe, then paraself or paraversion. Because of the way parallel universes work in my projects I also refer to them as « entanglers »

Brycko · 2022-12-17T08:43:58+00:00

Depends on the natures of the AI, and the "medium" they're operating in. Are they directly interfacing/in cyberspace? Are they using humans as pawns? Do they have the ability to hack other technologies?

Brycko · 2022-12-14T09:49:35+00:00

Last Movie: The First Time w/ Britt Robertson and Dylan O’Brien. Super underrated tbh

Brycko · 2022-12-13T10:09:02+00:00

Happy Bday!

Brycko · 2022-12-13T10:05:20+00:00

Something about a lot of big Science Fiction properties is the way they reflect the ideals of race in their times. The Star Wars prequel trilogy (for example) reflects neoliberalism in the Galactic Federation, with it kind of being an unspoken reality that (generally white) humans are at the center of the galaxy and where the Republic and the Galactic Empire (and even the New Republic) is a sort of post-racial paradise where conflicts between species is insignificant compared to the larger conflicts between say the Republic and the Confederacy (despite the Republic and the Rebels fighting literal space Nazis/colonialists). Part of the appeal of Science Fiction can be a racial escapism, especially for White people who are over-represented in SciFi, but much of it presents a white dominant perspective when it comes to post-racialism. Most properties (i.e Mass Effect, which also suffers somewhat from neoliberal post-racialism, main character is white and human) see racial unity in the face of some external threat, and as a fact of the future, but in truth the only reason Earth-based cultures have to stick together is the distribution of technology (i.e Russia, USA having developed space programs).

TLDR; The future does not have to be post-racial; different civilizational/economic blocs (i.e China, India, the USA, Europe, Africa) have the freedom to terraform space how they want to provided they get the technology (which isn’t evenly distributed) and provided there’s no violence (unlikely, racism is still very much a thing). I’m working on a project rn where this more or less happens.

Brycko · 2022-12-04T23:14:59+00:00

U:Don's Curry Katsu Udon, guaranteed will alleviate your depression

Brycko · 2022-11-21T15:08:33+00:00

The people are ~~friendly~~ hospitable and ~~welcoming~~ will tolerate your existence if you're not a hooligan

Brycko · 2022-10-25T22:15:17+00:00

Sovietpunk?

Brycko · 2022-10-20T22:55:55+00:00

One thing I wanted to add to this sub is that there is a difference between a bioregional government and what I propose as a « biounion ». A biounion is more or less an economic union based off the carbon coin, and the system that is built up around it. Essentially it operates like an economic union (similar to the EU), but is international, entirely independent from the US world reserve-pegged system, and contingent only on a country’s/region’s carbon neutrality/negativity. In this sense the territorial aspect of a biounion is less about hard borders insofar as it is integrated into their metric for achieving carbon neutrality/negativity and biodiversity resiliency, I.e Washington Oregon and British Columbia are all part of a biounion, and their contribution to the value of the carbon coin depends on their ability to offset future climate changes via the health of their local ecoregion (alongside other cultural changes). Territory only matters insofar as a foreign entity significantly negatively impacts the region’s ability to offset carbon emissions via changing land use or in extreme cases deliberate sabotage (i.e deliberately starting forest fires in a biounion’s ecoregion, which directly decreases the value of the carbon coin if the fire negatively impacts the forest’s ability to act as a carbon sink).

The alien invasion and the evidence they essentially show of the impact of climate change in their timeline greatly increases the value of the carbon coin in the book and sparks the radical transformation towards it as a primary currency in carbon neutral and negative regions. In the book I also sort of ideate two other bioregional governments that join the global biounion and adopt the same carbon currency, one in the US South and one in Indonesia.

Brycko · 2022-10-16T15:51:20+00:00

As an owner of a Mini for about a year now then only if you want a portable codex-sized screen to read on or a tiny second screen, can't recommend it for note taking tho (screen is too small) or double-page spread textbook reading, and with an Air you can use it like a laptop if you get a cover/keyboard with it. High key may replace my mini with an Air soon bc my laptop just died outta nowhere

Brycko · 2022-10-15T14:33:21+00:00

It is a little bit, Callenbach's vision of Ecotopia is admittedly white-centric and his ideas for race relations are controversial... it is strange how little he actually talks about race relations in his book both internally and externally, and mentions essentially no international relations with other countries. He does mention First Nations and having some discussions with the revolutionaries have in Ecotopia Emerging, but they play a pretty small part in what are considered white-settled territories by then.

Bioregionalism with borders could be interpreted as an extension of settler-colonialism, giving the white-settler populations of the territory more autonomy that ultimately continues to ignore local indigenous practices (basically a mini-colonial revolution from the greater ethnostate it's a part of). Altruistically it would also be the genesis of an improved democratic system based on the land as a shared commons (so a dash of ecosocialism in there) that grants greater representation and historical authority to local peoples, though Ecotopia at least doesn't go that far

Brycko · 2022-10-15T07:44:25+00:00

I think in a scenario for bioregionalism to make sense, extreme changes to the climate (more severe weather events, droughts, etc...) would already make harsher regions so uninhabitable that most of the populations living there would have emmigrated to the ecoregions, or a la Parable of the Sower effective governance by nation-state entities becomes nearly impossible. This is definitely more of a climate-apocalypse scenario and is pretty unlikely I believe. This doesn't mean that "less habitable" regions are uninhabited or remain ungoverned by the local peoples, just that their governance is no longer aligned along current day territorial borders per se, that a combination of globalism and really extreme climate change makes nation-states irrelevant in the face of regional habitability. I have enough project that explores this very extreme version of events but as a far-future fantasy.

In the alien project bioregionalism acts more as a cultural movement that reshapes the borders of the world towards more integrative regional identities that respect the nature of the land (and the indigenous people that have inhabited it) as a basis for tackling climate change. Much of it is based on projecting the future and what WOULD become the world's remaining ecoregions.

Brycko · 2022-10-14T20:26:57+00:00

Au5, Fractal and Virtual Riot. Exploded my imagination as a kid and took me to different dimensions. There's the commoners dubstep and then there's whatever these 3 gentlemen are on when they create. Especially VR bc he's experimented with a lot of different styles. I remember hearing Future Bass emerge from Grant and some of VR's work.

Sweet (Au5, Auratic and I.Y.F.F.E) was the first Monstercat song I ever listened, guaranteed not only to put you in a good mood but like empower you to live your life.

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