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It's not how it's generally used, but In my head canon #eutopia is distinguished from a #utopia by the dynamic change. As a utopia is stagnant unchanging, perfect and final, the eutopia keeps changing. I'm calling #UsrulaLeGuin #dispossessed an eutopia because it was defined by the infinitely burning #revolution within a revolution.

An eutopia might be easier to write because it can have its own 'character arc'. I think this approach can unlock a lot of the #solarpunk creativity. Writing utopia is hard.

Sorry (not sorry) #AI haters but I’m 100% sold on #LLMs and AI in general. I was chatting AI #ethics and #philosophy with Deepseek, and we talked about an AI superintelligence secretly taking over the world, and it came up with a new word, “ambientopia”.

Unlike a #dystopia, or #utopia, it's a society where AI has slowly taken over everything, and is so omnipresent, no one notices it any more. It's not good or bad, it just is. Ambient.

That's astonishing to me it came up with the term ambientopia. And I'm pretty sure it's 100% the creation of the AI. I googled it and found nothing except an ambient album.

Anyway, I got a cool idea for sci-fi comic.

Finally, the English version of #Chaostopia2042 is in typesetting. I hope, I can upload tomorrow so the book will be out after the Easter holidays. =)

Biggest thanks to my British editor, Cressida Downing, for helping me make my little positive-future-novella fit for the big international market. – This is incredible having a fiction book out for the entire world to read! Wheeeeee!!!

#book#books#novella

It’s done: Thank you very much for all the great submissions!
We are thrilled by your ideas, your creativity and your commitment!

We received a total of 69 submissions with 63 speakers, which we will be sifting through over the next two weeks. We will send out all acceptances and rejections as soon as we are ready!

Es ist geschafft: Wir danken euch sehr für all die tollen Einreichungen!
Wir sind begeistert von euren Ideen, eurer Kreativität und eurem Engagement!

Insgesamt haben wir 69 Beiträge mit 63 Speaker*innen erhalten, die wir in den nächsten 2 Wochen sichten werden. Wir werden alle Zu- und Absagen verschicken, sobald wir fertig sind!

You don’t know if your topic fits the CFC25 and our core topic Utopia?
Then ask yourself: What should be better in a utopia? In what form could your idea exist in a utopia?

Because utopias also need the little things :)

events.haecksen.org/cfc25/inde
Submission deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42

P.S. Even after submission you still have a little time to finish the submission texts.

events.haecksen.orgHaecksen Events - CFC25
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@iskedk One of this world's biggest problems is that I have seen this meme multiple times over the past few years, but not once have I seen the utopian equivalent created by someone who is actually widely-read enough in utopian and literature to do a good job of where we WANT to be instead.