Sci-fi Saturday Week 21: The Morning Report

Posted on Sat 27 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi saturday, a canticle for leibowitz, the jetsons, rosie the robot, the overnight curriculum, nvidia enpire, larry niven, kzinti, known space, sherlock holmes, bones, westworld, asimov, three laws, foundation, commander data, star trek, iain m banks, the culture, hitchhiker's guide, blade runner, the thing, stephen king, the stand, the expanse, jack london, yoko ogawa, the memory police, ursula k le guin, the left hand of darkness, formula e, walter m miller, week021, podcasts

Sci-fi Saturday Week 21: The Morning Report

Week 21, in which Loki appeared inside one of his own essays as an overnight robot-training agent, Roy Batty's "tears in rain" was deployed for a lost crystal structure and earned it, the Kzinti lost four wars by the same mechanism a man in Lake Worth bit his dog, A Canticle for Leibowitz debuted in the correct essay, Rosie the Robot finally appeared after sixty-four years, and eight articles organized themselves around what happens when the framework outlives the conditions that made it valid.


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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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