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A.k.a. Galactic Nutjobs Quarterly
From the Autumn 4197 edition of Memetic Toxin Watch: A rising threat in the Aris Delphi region is the AI group identifying itself as the Unghosted. At first sight they may appear to be one of the many...
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Nice Labcoat
Gentlesophs, I have noted with interest several papers published in recent issues of the Journal, and in the Journal of Cliodynamics, addressing the widely observed increasing correlation between...
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Trope-a-Day: Fisher Kingdom
Fisher Kingdom: The Empire is a moderate example of the first type; while not involving any actual mental modification, or other self-integrity violations (unlike the mind-warpers of the Equality...
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Trope-a-Day: Genre Savvy
Genre Savvy: This is what the science of memetics (applied) will do for you. (And as has occurred to me more than a few times since starting this project, TV Tropes itself is a pretty good example of...
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Epistolary Experiment (11/30)
…we’ve got a hot soup spill in section 31, lead mops report immediately. Section is status yellow, caution… …spallation debris approaching starport orbital, get a laser grid on it… …can’t clear those...
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Trope-a-Day: Manipulative Bastard
Manipulative Bastard: The right (or wrong) kind of professional memeticist (or related professions, such as lawyers – the technical term for one kind, for example is nomomach, freely glossable...
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Trope-a-Day: Mind Manipulation
Mind Manipulation: The entire science of sophotechnology, which is to say, the science of mind, both natural and artificial – and the laundry list of technologies derived therefrom: artificial...
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Trope-a-Day: The Nondescript
The Nondescript: It’s not as powerful as a Perception Filter, or even enough to overcome the truly Genre Savvy, but applied memetics has been used from time to time to put certain intelligence...
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Questions: Persistent Memetic Weapons and Machine Learning
1. Referring specifically to The Laws and Customs of War: What exactly is the difference between persistent and non-persistent memetic / infoweapons? It’s obvious that the big distinction is...
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Nice Labcoat
Gentlesophs, I have noted with interest several papers published in recent issues of the Journal, and in the Journal of Cliodynamics, addressing the widely observed increasing correlation between...
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Mind Plagues
cultural contamination (n.): The passage of memes and their sociotypes between cultures, often with associated unrest, due to contact between them. Attitudes to cultural contamination vary widely...
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Irony/Indoctrination
(Today, two words for the price of one!) The fragrant smoke of jernja cigars drifted across the fantastically carved wooden balcony of the building, one of the many in the Repository of All Knowledge’s...
View ArticleAt The Ending Was The Word
Thirty-Six Paths of Illumination, the (n.): A memetic mystery cult designed for the Imperial Exploratory Service by the Word of Command, ICC, the Thirty-Six Paths are designed as a means of handling...
View ArticleThe Order of Defenders
A reader pointed out on this Discord that this (go read it there) has a vaguely eldraeic flavor. Which it does. Not something a direct analog to which would exist *there* , mind you, inasmuch as...
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Item: In fresh cognitive threats this month, the Bureau of Internal Memetic Defense reports that the popular song “And A Plan I Found Atemporal” is the first known example of a memetic...
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From: Tiryns Anandonos (AIB)To: Academician Iliys Roquentius; Academician Meris TarisiaSubject: Incident 7922/0011867 Gentlesophs, It is certainly the case that research into self-concealing patterns...
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Gentlesophs, I have noted with interest several papers published in recent issues of the Journal, and in the Journal of Cliodynamics, addressing the widely observed increasing correlation between...
View Articleahn-kel seeks ahn-ros for discreet encounter
No discussion of approaches to gender in the Associated Worlds would be complete without mention of the peculiar customs of the mourcalt of the Trailing Assembly. The mourcalt‘s biology gave them an...
View ArticleForce Not Required
“Always remember: memetics is no more and no less than the science of ideas. Applied memetics, therefore, is no more and no less than advanced persuasion. Memetics cannot impose ways of thought....
View ArticleMemetic Waste Disposal
[Based, obviously, upon this.] This inscription is a warning and a safeguard. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a wise culture. Though we may...
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