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   anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 04:13:09 JST anderbill

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   • John Abbe (aka Slow)

   @slowenough Midgley, Mary (1992). Science As Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning. Routledge.
   Link: https://worldcat.org/en/title/24430307 is a good history of these notions. it changed how i think about science

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     John Abbe (aka Slow) (slowenough@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 04:13:10 JST John Abbe (aka Slow)

     Role of science fiction in the mindset of tech robber barons, and those enabling them. (I say - more solarpunk!) https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/ #sciencefiction #science #culture