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Since nothing in this community is about technology we might as well talk about science fiction. (lemmy.world)
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All the stories on the FP are about labor relations and corporate shenanigans. So anyway, do you like Star Trek or Star Wars better? Anybody still ike to read old school sci fi, for example I really love Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League stories - the swashbuckling adventures of intersteller trador Nicholas van Rijn and his Solar Spice and Liquors company, David Falkayne, et al. Good old basic space opera.

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.

Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.

I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.

This has me envisioning a literature community filled with stories like "Random House and Penguin merging" (I know, old news), "Layoffs at PRH", etc.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Yeah I prefer a post about coffee_drudge version 0.12 being released than what we have now.

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml -1 points 12 hours ago

Technology cannot be disentangled from society and the economics that create and develop it. Technology is social process, it is not a technical matter.

The idea that technology is a thing on its own, maybe even with its own agency, is an ideological stance pushed first and foremost by the people you don't want to hear about exactly for the purpose of obscuring their role in the whole deal.