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Dec 29, 2021

It seems that in any world, no matter the number of eyes, Jason Momoa is king. We watched Apple TV's See and had a good look see at what it says about the social model of disability and the potential limits of that model. 

Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_(TV_series)

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Dec 22, 2021

Secure your gas-masks and your racial privilege, we're taking a look at one of the earliest pieces of proto-Afrofuturism, Du Bois's short story The Comet, from his book Darkwater: voices from within the veil. We discuss how it relates to CRT, Afrofuturism, black marxism
 


Dec 15, 2021

In keeping with the genre, the first half of this episode is just fighting noises and then the second half is philosophical monologues. We go all galaxy brained and there's a bit of shading into Matrix Three.
 
Matrix Reloaded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Reloaded
 
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Dec 8, 2021

Just like we bridge the gap between movies, we must bridge the gap between the meat and machine. For both, we turn to the Animatrix, some of the best animated sci-fi there is. We cover several of the episodes and a couple issues around the alignment problem and awakening.
 


Dec 1, 2021

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuune. Part One! We go into the deep desert and discuss the decolonial dream. What do we owe the Fremen? What does it mean to decolonize Arrakis?
 
Philosophy: Postcolonial Science Fiction "The Desert Planet by Gaylard
 
Dune 2021: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/
 
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