I feel like Netflix’s adaptation did a pretty good job of keeping that social & political focus, and even frontloading it a little bit by injecting backstory from the second and third books.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
The first book in the Altered Carbon series hews closer to standard hardboiled structure & is less ‘about’ resleeving but is very much about social inequality at scale.
I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?
The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland https://dynamicland.org/research-notes/social-dynamics-of-programming-together/
Bad idea of the day: Adversarial social graphs. 99% similar to your actual graph, but friending one guy makes Facebook think you’re actually Al Gore.
How extreme rituals forge intense social bonds | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-extreme-rituals-forge-intense-social-bonds
@leveck@leveck.us I really want to use mastodon, but I just can’t seem to come up with a use case for me. Guess I don’t really do much Social Media type stuff
Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social | … My heart’s in Accra http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/11/16/who-filters-your-news-why-we-built-gobo-social/
How socialism helped to seed the landscape of modern religion | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-socialism-helped-to-seed-the-landscape-of-modern-religion
Social Media Experts Say the Russian Trolls Suck at Facebook - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43n4pn/were-the-facebook-russian-ads-effective-good
Social network tarot cards / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/04/social-network-tarot-cards.html
Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-is-the-us-so-susceptible-to-social-media-distortion
Neanderthals With Disabilities Survived Through Social Support https://gizmodo.com/neanderthals-with-disabilities-survived-through-social-1819801216
How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities
"Key to the City: Writing Code to Induce Social Change" by Jurnell Cockhren - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Z0LGeQCWU
Not drinking or driving, teens increasingly put off traditional markers of adulthood - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/neither-drinking-nor-driving-more-teens-are-putting-off-traditional-markers-of-adulthood/2017/09/18/b46027a0-93f1-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html
Why the Media Refuses to Understand Antifa - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/social-justice/understanding-antifa?curator=MediaREDEF
Unpopular ideas about social norms – Julia Galef https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-social-norms/
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608561/first-evidence-that-social-bots-play-a-major-role-in-spreading-fake-news/
Why does U2 irk so many people? A look at their struggle for pop hits and social justice | America Magazine https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/07/17/why-does-u2-irk-so-many-people-look-their-struggle-pop-hits-and-social?curator=MusicREDEF
The Splintered Mind: The Social-Role Defense of Robot Rights https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-social-role-defense-of-robot-rights.html
Inside the extreme Facebook fandom for old rental VHS tapes http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2017/07/inside-extreme-facebook-fandom-old-rental-vhs-tapes
I recently tried to write a command like client to GNU social, but after reading the specs on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon i soon lost interest… :)
I recently tried to write a command like client to GNU social, but after reading the specs on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon i soon lost interest… :)
twtxt: The only social network where every new user starts by writing it’s own client.
twtxt: The only social network where every new user starts by writing it’s own client.
@kas@enotty.dk, @mian@miangraham.com twxt: The only social network where you’re welcomed personally.
@kas@enotty.dk, @mian@miangraham.com twxt: The only social network where you’re welcomed personally.
Felix Schwenzel über IndieWeb und reclaim social media ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1xo
The #indieweb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem Schöner Artikel von Ben Werd über das IndieWeb und Idno! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1W6
A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11V
Federating the Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/zM
OpenWeb-Notizen: Open Social, OExchange, Portable Contacts ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/wr
The Federated Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/ws