On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Birthright part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/13/birthright-2.html
For this episode, we need to talk about dealing with emotions, racism, and (not much) more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Birthright, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/06/birthright-1.html
For this episode, we need to talk about therapy, ideas on what qualifies as intellectual, ethnic categories, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Tapestry https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/27/tapestry.html
For this episode, we need to talk about self-importance, gender roles, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

https://open.substack.com/pub/hinternet/p/here-come-the-allodidacts?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

"we are all in agreement that universities, at this point, are where intellectual passion goes to die, buried under mountains of pointless grant applications imposed on us humanists by the insane and suicidal cargo-cult of STEM worship, which in the end is just a poorly disguised worship of money and power"

The diagnosis is perfect, but the article is not about that.
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On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Face of the Enemy https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/20/face-enemy.html
For this episode, we need to talk about (mostly) international relations.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Aquiel https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/13/aquiel.html
For this episode, we need to talk about policing, treatment of minority groups, chick-lit, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Ship in a Bottle https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/06/ship-in-bottle.html
For this episode, we need to talk about professionalism, data security, the treatment of novel forms of life, and (a bit) more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Chain of Command, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/30/chain-command-2.html
For this episode, we need to talk about adversarial social progress, warmongering, ethnocentric moralizing, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Chain of Command, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/23/chain-command-1.html
For this episode, we need to talk about professionalism, international paranoia, professionalism, and (a bit) more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Quality of Life https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/16/quality-life.html
For this episode, we need to talk about gender roles, authoritarianism, professionalism, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

Saw this French comic on a Mastodon banner. Decided to put #AI to the test. #Gemini is still a bit slow on the uptake of #ComicIrony. If you ever want a wild experience with #AI, take a song that has deep meaning to you and ask #AI to do a #Hermeneutical or #CloseReading of it

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, A Fistful of Datas https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/09/fistful-datas.html
For this episode, we need to talk about security, romanticizing history, and a bit more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

@Kierkegaanks #AI can do some amazing things. #Hermeneutical or #CloseReading of #JumpTheySay by #DavidBowie

"We hear a pop song many times on the radio (or wherever), then buy it and listen to it repeatedly. Soon, we know the lyrics by heart. We force our parents to listen to it. The whole song is present to us as a single concept, more than as a narrative arc. In this way, a three-minute pop song is more like a three-second slogan than like a thirty-minute show or a short story.”

#Music #PopSongs #PaulSimon #America #CloseReading

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/12/let-us-be-lovers.html

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Rascals https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/02/rascals.html
For this episode, we need to talk about authoritarianism, bigotry, status and vanity, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, True Q https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/26/true-q.html
For this episode, we need to talk about internships, various kinds of bigotry, living with nature, gender roles, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading