Phil Thane ✅ · @pthane
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Fixed a fallen curtain rail. Walked to local shops. Now out of . Had planned blackberrying, jam-making, cooking. Maybe after lunch...


#spoons #pkd #anaemia #sotired

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Cliff Jones Jr. (author) · @cliffjones
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Dave Mackey · @davidshq
977 followers · 1774 posts · Server hachyderm.io

PKD writing presciently about our current information age?

"It is like information theory; it is noise driving out signal. But it is noise posing as signal so you do not even recognize it as noise...If you can float enough disinformation into circulation you will totally abolish everyone’s contact with reality, probably your own included."
- Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

#quotes #ai #llm #generativeAI #dystopia #reality #pkd

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Steven Randolph · @RocketJockey
18 followers · 132 posts · Server sfba.social

@mrundkvist
In my own head canon the Philip K. Dick short story infects the logic of the movie which leaves you with two very different interpretations.
1 - The reality of the situation is so fantastic that no conventional story logic can invalidate it (anything that you would interpret as clues are just independent coincidences or reversed logic)
2 - If you can't accept #1 then absolutely nothing can be trusted
Viewed this way it's a superior experience imho

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

#pkd #scifi #movies #totalrecall

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Dave Mackey · @davidshq
973 followers · 1748 posts · Server hachyderm.io

"The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them."

- Philip K. Dick, , pg. 154

#valis #pkd

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Recycle Bookstore · @RecycleBookstore
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Phil Thane ✅ · @pthane
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Dave Mackey · @davidshq
915 followers · 1583 posts · Server hachyderm.io

"How many worlds do we exist in simultaneously?" - , , Chapter 7

#pkd #valis

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Dave Mackey · @davidshq
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Satchel 🎲💼 · @satchel
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I just finished Larry 's *Ringworld* and it involved a similar concept of subtle, universe-shattering psionics to 's *Ubik*. I don't know what it says about middle-aged male writers penning 20-something women with unlimited psychic powers, but I am willing to look past that and/or take it at face value.

#niven #pkd #scifi

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ゆらのふ · @eulanov
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「つまりこうなんだ結局。人間が塵から作られたことを、諸君はよく考えてみなくちゃいかん。たしかに、元がこれではたかが知れとるし、それを忘れるべきじゃない。しかしだな、そんなみじめな出だしのわりに、人間はまずまずうまくやってきたじゃないか。だから、われわれがいま直面しているこのひどい状況も、きっと切りぬけられるというのが、わたしの個人的信念だ。わかるか?」
『パーマー・エルドリッチの三つの聖痕』

#pkd

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Dave Fischer · @davefischer
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Amazing comment from Philip K Dick to Stanislaw Lem. (That 1972 essay by Lem being discussed was my introduction to PKD, back in my mid teens.)

#scifi #pkd

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Dom · @dom
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@honze_net Du gehst davon aus, dass nur *dystopische* Werke die Zukunft treffend beschreiben können? 🥺

Na gut… mein Vorschlag: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch von Philip K. Dick

#pkd

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Cliff Jones Jr. · @cliffjones
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Jim DeVona · @anoved
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I drew this portrait of Philip K. Dick a few years ago. I'm reading A SCANNER DARKLY now, and it is by turns sad, funny, and, in some ways, as relevant as ever. Most of all, though, I marvel at how clearly PKD writes scenes of confusion. The most deranged situations and experiences are conveyed with lucidity. What a trip!

#portraitdrawing #portraitart #art #authorportraits #fanart #pkd #philipkdick #books #amreading

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Stan Carey · @stancarey
1023 followers · 608 posts · Server mastodon.ie

Fans of Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick might enjoy this book, which explores their weird (and weirdly similar) experiences in the early 1970s: the McKenna brothers' La Chorrera experiment, Wilson's Chapel Perilous, and PKD's 2-3-74

#books #erikdavis #pkd #terencemckenna #robertantonwilson #weirdness #esoterica #1970s #mysticism

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Cliff Jones Jr. · @cliffjones
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Theo Watson · @theowatson
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@n1ckfg @kcimc yes! It’s not his most highbrow book but was the one that got me to read the rest of his work. It reads like a movie and I could totally picture it on screen.
Btw check out Galactic Pot Healer if you haven’t, really weird and really good.

#pkd

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Nacho · @nacho
348 followers · 2108 posts · Server frankenwolke.com

34. Ubik (Philip K. Dick). Cando tiña vintepoucos anos deume moi forte por Philip K. Dick, pero moito. Leín compulsivamente case todo o que había en castelán e además cada verán durante varios anos relín a marabillosa biografía de Emmanuel Carrère sobre PKD. E de todo o que lin del Ubik está nun top 3 canda Valis e The man in the high castle do que non podería escoller un favorito. Coa escusa da nova tradución ao galego decidín reler Ubik cun certo medo. E se a tiña idealizada e agora xa non a desfrutaba tanto? Afortunadamente non foi tal. Agora nos meus corenta e tantos Ubik é tan disfrutábel ou máis. E neste mundo de hoxe as constantes teimas dickianas sobre que é a realidade son máis actuais ca nunca.

#booktodon #cienciaficcion #ubik #pkd

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