Leigh Barlow
@leighbarlow.bsky.social
Likes challenging and reflective ideas, art, and sci-fi books and films. Podcast addict, cyclist, runner. Gets people engaged with initiatives. Often •NC• Optimist. Friendly. Somewhere in the future.
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Leigh Barlow
@leighbarlow.bsky.social
· Aug 8
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“The problem is the way the sun goes around the building.”
“Let’s be clear, the building is going around the sun.”
“The problem is the way the sun goes around the building.”
“Let’s be clear, the building is going around the sun.”
I’ve been revisiting the theories and concerns behind TESCREAL. Mainly because it still seems like all the best space opera ideas put in one place. 😀🤔🤷♂️
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
To understand the divide between AI boosters and doomers, one must unpack their common origins in a bundle of ideologies known as TESCREAL.
www.truthdig.com
September 12, 2023 at 4:39 AM
I’ve been revisiting the theories and concerns behind TESCREAL. Mainly because it still seems like all the best space opera ideas put in one place. 😀🤔🤷♂️
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
More excellent horror discussion with Monstrous Flesh. This time about the three Fear Street films. Followed by actual urban legends about haunted towns.
pca.st/episode/e1f1...
pca.st/episode/e1f1...
Summer Screams - Episode 5: Fear Street 1978 (Janiak, 2021) - Monstrous Flesh
"No one gets out of this town, not even Miss Perfect. I'm sorry but I can't save you. One way or another, you're gonna die tonight."
Join hosts Megan Kenny and Clelia McElroy as they discuss witche...
pca.st
August 30, 2023 at 6:15 PM
More excellent horror discussion with Monstrous Flesh. This time about the three Fear Street films. Followed by actual urban legends about haunted towns.
pca.st/episode/e1f1...
pca.st/episode/e1f1...
If you’re interested in nuclear fusion, this is a project to follow over the next few years: youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38?...
A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion
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youtu.be
August 28, 2023 at 7:06 AM
If you’re interested in nuclear fusion, this is a project to follow over the next few years: youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38?...
Catching up with Monstrous Flesh podcasts. This, on film Sleepaway Camp (1983) is excellent: https://pca.st/episode/4a6010c8-1192-40f7-865e-f5745d1cc5a3
Perfect if you like folk horror discussion with a feminist slant.
Perfect if you like folk horror discussion with a feminist slant.
Summer Screams - Episode 2: Sleepaway Camp (Hiltzik, 1983) - Monstrous Flesh
"Eat shit and live, Bill!'
Join hosts Megan Kenny and Clelia McElroy as they discuss pervy chefs, sleazy camp directors, neglectful counselors, brutal campers and.... that ending!
Beware, spoilers a...
pca.st
August 16, 2023 at 6:05 PM
Catching up with Monstrous Flesh podcasts. This, on film Sleepaway Camp (1983) is excellent: https://pca.st/episode/4a6010c8-1192-40f7-865e-f5745d1cc5a3
Perfect if you like folk horror discussion with a feminist slant.
Perfect if you like folk horror discussion with a feminist slant.
Spent a long weekend at We Out Here festival and got to listen to The Sun Ra Arkestra. Like the music, art and afrofuturist world Sun Ra created and The Arkestra have carried on.
August 15, 2023 at 8:33 AM
Spent a long weekend at We Out Here festival and got to listen to The Sun Ra Arkestra. Like the music, art and afrofuturist world Sun Ra created and The Arkestra have carried on.
On my second read of this article, and then I’ll need to search for explanations, because I’m not that clever. 😀
https://aeon.co/essays/our-simple-magic-free-recipe-for-quantum-entanglement
https://aeon.co/essays/our-simple-magic-free-recipe-for-quantum-entanglement
Our simple, magic-free recipe for quantum entanglement | Aeon Essays
Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our simple, four-step explanation (no magic needed)
aeon.co
August 9, 2023 at 8:02 PM
On my second read of this article, and then I’ll need to search for explanations, because I’m not that clever. 😀
https://aeon.co/essays/our-simple-magic-free-recipe-for-quantum-entanglement
https://aeon.co/essays/our-simple-magic-free-recipe-for-quantum-entanglement
Finished Mexican Gothic by
@silviamg.bsky.social and it was good. Thank you. 😊 It was exactly what I needed to accompany an English July that has been infected by the cold fingers of autumn.
@silviamg.bsky.social and it was good. Thank you. 😊 It was exactly what I needed to accompany an English July that has been infected by the cold fingers of autumn.
August 8, 2023 at 6:32 PM
Finished Mexican Gothic by
@silviamg.bsky.social and it was good. Thank you. 😊 It was exactly what I needed to accompany an English July that has been infected by the cold fingers of autumn.
@silviamg.bsky.social and it was good. Thank you. 😊 It was exactly what I needed to accompany an English July that has been infected by the cold fingers of autumn.
OH
“The problem is the way the sun goes around the building.”
“Let’s be clear, the building is going around the sun.”
“The problem is the way the sun goes around the building.”
“Let’s be clear, the building is going around the sun.”
August 8, 2023 at 5:28 AM
OH
“The problem is the way the sun goes around the building.”
“Let’s be clear, the building is going around the sun.”
“The problem is the way the sun goes around the building.”
“Let’s be clear, the building is going around the sun.”