They call me Rick 😎 @rick_777@cybre.space

My cyberpunk novel's commission is FINISHED!

Congrats to Matt Zeilinger for the hard work.

Ladies and gentlemen, the cover for "Pandora Downloaded"!

(EDIT: uploaded new image to fix a couple of mistakes)

#amwriting #mastoart #cyberpunk

My fav. topic is AIs and androids. I'm writing a novel about androids - well, more WITH than ABOUT.

I had this idea: What if Asimov's robots, but with directives - like in Robocop - instead? What if they have emotions, but are tied to their directives? What if unlike Blade Runner, the androids got manufactured in a given paint so they couldn't disguise as humans? And what if instead of Free Will, they had a limited will? What if they could fall in love?

That's my world.

Just realized I didn't write my #introduction yet! Does it count as #newaccount? 😜

Gen-Xer born in #Mexico; since kid I was a #computer #nerd and liked #anime and #scifi, so it was logical I'd eventually discover the #cyberpunk genre (#ghostintheshell, #akira, #neuromancer, #bubblegumcrisis, #parasitedolls, #lain...)

Aside from that I've done #opensource and #freesoftware; have gnu/#Linux on my PC and recently I discovered #decentralization.

Currently #amwriting a scifi novel about #AI and #androids.

WTF? Heat wave where I live right now.

It's midnight and we're at 24C already

Interesting #cyberpunk thought:

Hackers, as we know them, operate on the lower layers of the OSI model: Application, transport, etc.: FTP, HTTP, TELNET, ...

But the agent provocateurs, those we know as "trolls" and "shills", as well as data-collecting companies like facebook, operate on a layer that has not been defined yet.

Perhaps it'd be convenient to explicitly name this layer: The social layer. The one that connects the users.

I wonder: Are there more layers that haven't been defined yet? 🤔

#biopunk #scifiwriting idea:

Judging that by today's standards light bulbs are getting really expensive, sooner or later a cheaper alternative must arrive.

What if light bulbs are ACTUAL bulbs? Like some kind of fruit, grown from a light bulb tree, that operate through bioluminescence?

So the terminals will be hardwired genetically, or through an external mold, and the bulb will be fed sugar as fuel. It might require a tiny amount of electricity to work.

#cyberpunk

I just learned that a woman had six ribs removed so she could actually look like a living cartoon character. (Look up at own risk! 😨 )

When cyborg (and #sexbot) bodies arrive, what will be deemed unnecessary to maximize sexual stimuli?

Considering this:

https://www.sparringmind.com/supernormal-stimuli/

Science will use AI to design the most appealing bodies to maximize sexual attraction... and sales. How much will be too much?

Currently practicing promises via jQuery's deferred.

This shit's so elegant, how come we've been chaining AJAX calls without them?

Sadly, learning the right front end techniques is rare, and promises are not a well known skill.

You know what I've had to deal with often? Pyramids of {'s, AJAX calls inside the onSuccess section of AJAX calls inside the onSuccess of AJAX calls, ad nauseam.

Promises are a fucking godsend.

MFW Watching Alita in 3D