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Part 3 of our 5 part look at Star Wars Andor, with week 2 of season 2 and the three episodes released on April 29, 2025  ("Ever Been to Ghorman", "I Have Friends Everywhere" and "What a Festive Evening").  We'll continue following the threads as they weave together, mirroring the first season in some ways and charting new territory in bringing the most cyberpunk Star Wars story seen to date.  And if you want to catch up, feel free to catch the previous two episodes on the Implausipod dot com website.

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We return to Star Wars Andor over the next 4 weeks, starting with first three episodes released on April 22, 2025, titled  "One Year Later", "Sagrona Teema" and "Harvest".  Join us for a recap of the three episodes, and commentary on the themes we see within, and that have carried over from Season 1 (which we recapped in Episode 44).

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What can we learn about the Star Wars universe from the lives of its regular inhabitants?  What is life like under an authoritarian Empire? How does the resistance form, and who is behind it?  And how can a show that first aired in 2022 capture the current age in 2025?  Join us for a recap of the first season of Andor as a refresher before the second one airs beginning on April 22, 2025.

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In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, some things come to and end. Join us as we look at the impact of the Appendix W on real world events through a look at one of the most iconic blades in fiction: Severian's Terminus Est from Gene Wolfe's 1980 novel The Shadow of the Torturer.  But much like the blade, there is much, much more hidden below the surface of this episode.

Bibliography

Chris Hables Gray- “There Will Be War!”: Future War Fantasies and Militaristic Science Fiction in the 1980s. (n.d.). Retrieved September 3, 2023, from https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/64/gray.htm

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Heather Cox Richardson interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDX0hxyYcJw

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What happens when a change is on the horizon, one that is approaching that will force you to move but is outside your control?  When a community knows it will be disrupted, it may be facing an Incipient Diaspora.  For the US denizens of the TikTok app, facing a ban in that country on January 19, 2025, we can observe how they reacted and prepared, and what lessons can be learned from the ongoing situation.

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Joy to the World, the 2024 Dr Who Christmas Special, gets a deep look in this episode of the Implausipod. This is the part two of our Dr Who double header. If you haven't already, check out our discussion of the 14th series, or 1st Disney series in the previous episode.  Our cyber-series will continue in 2025. 

Thanks to Dr Aiden Buckland for joining us once again. They can be reached at [email protected]  

Dr Implausible can be reached at [email protected]

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We welcome a special guest back to the podcast to discuss the 14th series of the new Dr Who era, which aired in May and June of 2024, and highlighted the adventures of the 15th Doctor played by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday.

This is the part one of a Dr Who double header, as we'll discuss the 2024 Christmas Special in the next episode.  Our cyber-series will continue in 2025. 

Thanks to Dr Aiden Buckland for joining us once again. They can be reached at [email protected]  

Dr Implausible can be reached at [email protected] 

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Twice is enough for it to be a tradition, right?  Yeah, I think we'll go with that.  Welcome to our second annual end-of-year holiday thank you episode, something to offset the Festivus celebrations you may be having on this day before the day before Christmas.   Thanks for stopping by whenever you do. :)

The Newsletter and the archives are here: https://implausi.blog/newsletter/

Dr Implausible can be reached at drimplausible at implausipod dot com

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What do you think of when you heard the word California?  What do you think it's "ideology" might be?  If you work in or on high technology, that California ideology may be shaping the way that you work, the projects that you work on, and the business models that high technology pursues. 

What does it all mean?  The thinking that is driving the pursuit of certain developments in technology, such as robotics and artificial intelligence, and the rise of accelerationism need to be understood by looking at the underlying philosophies.  Join us as we dig deep to find out what's going on.

Bibliography

Altman, S. (2024, September 23). The Intelligence Age. https://ia.samaltman.com/

Barbrook, R., & Cameron, A. (1995). The Californian Ideology. Mute, 1(3). http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/

Bell, D. (1973). The coming of post-industrial society: A venture in social forecasting. Basic Books.

Daub, A. (2020). What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Hayles, N. K. (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1 edition). University Of Chicago Press.

Hu, T.-H. (2016). A Prehistory of the Cloud (Illustrated edition). The MIT Press.

Manovich, L. (1996). On Totalitarian Interactivity. https://www.manovich.net

McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The New American Library.

Schumpeter, J. A. (1962). Capitalism, socialism and democracy (First Harper Torchbook ed). Harper & Row.

Tribe, M. (2001) "Introduction" in Manovich, L. (2001). The language of new media. MIT Press.

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Was the reveal of the Tesla Optimus 3 at the recent We Robot event a miss?  How can you fail when unveiling a potentially groundbreaking technology? By using it to fake the appearance of a different tech, one that you're not even close to bringing to market.

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