Interesting Links for 28-10-2022

[andrewducker]

1. I have no idea how Meta spent this much money on VR nonsense

(tags:vr Facebook MarkZuckerberg wtf )

2. AI generated Warhammer figures of politicians is as glorious and horrifying as you'd hope!

(tags:viaMyBrotherMike Warhammer politics ai awesome )

3. What Do Blind People Dream About?

(tags:dreams blindness )

4. Coverage of the debate on the Scottish Gender Recognition Act (reforming how transgender people can get a gender recognition certificate)

(tags:Scotland transgender law politics )

5. You may have heard of Stanislav Petrov, but have you heard of the *other* Russian whose choices averted World War Three?

(tags:nuclearweapons history Russia USA epicwin viaPatrickHadfield )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Thank you, I've long wondered!

Edit: Although clearly not hard enough to actually go and look it up!

[original_aj]

It 's worth a read, it's very different to (and much weirder than) the film. They essentially took some of the background and key concepts and wrote a different story with different characters.

[calimac]

About 15 years ago (things may be different now, with subsequently released movies) I was on a convention panel that concluded that there were movies that were more like adaptations of PKD books than anything that actually was an adaptation of a PKD book: I remember Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Man Facing Southeast cited in particular.

[alithea]

Yeah, I enjoyed the both but they are really nothing alike. I don't think I'd have guessed the film was an adaptation if I hadn't known (I saw the film years before I read the book, my High school Geography teacher used it as part of his urban geography curriculum)