I am mad familiar with DS9! I've published widely on Afrofuturism and DS9 is crucial in the pop culture construct. Wormhole aliens are contactable though. And don't worry about the translation, honestly. I'd just read Solaris regardless. Tarkovsky's film is also excellent, adds another dimension..

Another fantastic read. Don't want to ruin it for you. Much of LeGuin's series includes anthropology-like figures who hide out on planets as (secretly) embedded participants, waiting to reveal themselves as interplanetary beings (and representatives).

Point being I taught these books and others (Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Ursula L LeGuin) to address philosophy of alterity, race, time, ontology, phenomenology, deconstruction, Afrofuturism/music/film, etc. good stuff for cultural anthropological insights

Well worth it. Story then movie. Also, 3 Body Problem. It’s a book trilogy. I taught Philosophy, SF Studies, Comms etc at Quest U for years.

Assuming they “speak,” not sure if Chomskian deep grammar is transpecies. While ARRIVAL did some neat work around that, the “Solaris” encounter could also be likely. But ya we’ll need all kinds. Buddhist Monks, I suspect, all the most. Indigenous Elders. SF philosophers.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no...

Son, I have a doctorate, been teaching on it since ages. You, anonymous internet troll with a bullshit Star Wars handle, are just yet another brownshirt fanboy. Go crawl back to your videogames.

Meanwhile, the CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, has resigned. I guess presiding over an outright fascist propaganda site is even a bit too much for her at this point. I mean who wants to be second to the second reincarnation of Goebbels, anyway?

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Consumer AI is nothing less than Fascist Big Brother. It's all about straight-up white supremacist propaganda at this point. Don't like the facts? Create your own whiteboy brownshirt fantasy. No point in even hiding it on Musk's Roman-salute orgy known as X

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As we become unprotected from corporate malfeasance, climate change, fraud, ill-health, horrific accidents, and toxic chemicals — all so that big corporations and their top executives and major shareholders can make even bigger profits — more of us will take a stand.

They also can’t be fixed. It’s a terminal illness.

So banning guns is what makes Nzis? So Canada is a Nzi country but your own country’s ICE concentration camps, armed raids by Amazon militias and Marines on the streeta deporting US citizens— all to make what Miller calls a white ethnostate— nah that ain’t NAZI FASCISM at all 😂