Robinson Vice

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[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

43 is a crazy age because a friend in LA will become a parent and a friend from high school will become a grandparent on the same day.

[Y'alldabaoth @FadedAfRuatha]

I am going to reduce my drug use by moving to Drug City with my close personal friend Mr. Drugs

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Matrix took its name from a 1984 novel written on a manual typewriter by a man who didn't own a computer. 42 years later, that novel finally gets its own screen.

William Gibson typed Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes portable. He coined "cyberspace" before he'd ever logged onto anything. The book swept the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick award in the same year, the only novel ever to take all three.

Then Hollywood spent four decades strip-mining it while calling it unfilmable. The Wachowskis lifted the matrix, the jacked-in hackers, the AI pulling strings behind a corporate veil. Every razor-girl assassin in sci-fi traces back to Molly. Johnny Mnemonic, an actual Gibson adaptation, flopped so hard in 1995 that studios treated his work as radioactive for a generation.

At least five directors attached and detached over the years. Chris Cunningham in 2000. Vincenzo Natali in 2010. Tim Miller at Fox in 2017. Each attempt died the same death. By the time the technology existed to film Neuromancer, audiences had watched its ideas in a dozen movies that borrowed them first.

The original became unfilmable because it looked like a copy of its own copies.

Now the timing loops back on itself. A story about a rogue AI maneuvering to escape its corporate constraints, written before the web existed, lands in January 2027 as the least speculative thing on television.

And one detail makes the whole arc perfect. When Neuromancer royalties came in, Gibson bought his first computer, an Apple IIc. Four decades later, Apple is the company putting his book on screen.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Watching The Odyssey the way
Christopher Nolan intended

[hera @shiningdaisies]

locked the fuck out,, distractionmaxxing

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

I love how everyone is appalled at the very concept of arresting the President of Israel, like we didn’t black-bag the President of Venezuela earlier this year.

[Holekage of the Hidden Bussy Village ꕤ @CAdreamboy]

The X-Men while Charles Xavier gets killed for the fifth time in Avengers: Doomsday

[Original Orange Bird @ogorangebird]

Pughsday

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

it’s called “Dunesday” because I’m going to watch Dune and then call it a day.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

what a privilege it is to be exhausted by an ambition of your own choosing

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

I swear the air gets heavier around 6pm on Sundays. You can feel the Microsoft Teams aura energy approaching.

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don't want to "join the community" of a brand that sells socks. I just want the socks. Stop emailing me about your "mission statement." Your mission is to sell socks. We both know this.

[Galdós @galdosoficial]

Dormir hasta tarde el sábado y no hacer absolutamente nada productivo no es perder el tiempo. Quítate esa culpa absurda de tener que estar haciendo algo útil 24/7. El ocio también es salud mental.

[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

Over 20 years later and the Nightcrawler White House sequence still stands as one of the greatest opening scenes in comic book movie history.

[Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible]

parents' phones make notification sounds I've never heard in my life

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

I used AI to remake Seinfeld, with peptides.

[Adam Rankin @rankintweets]

Every 3 years a new water bottle brand completely oneshots middle class white women like clockwork