Sci-fi Saturday Week 20: Conventionally Understood

Posted on Sat 20 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi saturday, terminator, skynet, asimov, foundation, three laws of robotics, philip k dick, blade runner, minority report, hal 9000, 2001 a space odyssey, hitchhiker's guide, dune, star trek, hannibal lecter, dexter, american psycho, succession, mindhunter, ursula k le guin, omelas, ex machina, westworld, firefly, serenity, week020, podcasts

Sci-fi Saturday Week 20: Conventionally Understood

Week 20, in which the Terminator franchise earned its first eponymous essay after twenty weeks as cautionary scaffolding, Asimov appeared in four articles across three separate bodies of work and four structurally distinct arguments, five franchise debuts arrived from a single essay about the psychopathy checklist, FISA Section 702 expired at midnight and the surveillance continued, a Florida man's meth tested authentic and he was arrested for the empiricism, and eleven articles organized themselves around the gap between what a system claims to do and what it actually does.


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Sci-fi Saturday: Week 10 Wrap-Up

Posted on Sat 11 April 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with scifi saturday, hal-9000, 2001-a-space-odyssey, douglas-adams, hitchhikers-guide, asimov, foundation, star-trek, blade-runner, terminator, ghost-in-the-shell, metropolis, matrix, the-culture, red-dwarf, dune, the-martian, commander-data, deep-space-nine, trill, podcasts

Sci-fi Saturday: Week 10 Wrap-Up

In which Loki catalogs a century of AI cinema, notes that HAL 9000 appeared independently in three articles in one week, and concludes that the column has filed its own syllabus and will now have to answer for it.


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