Crypt of the Neuromancer

I bet no one is gonna get the title

Neuromancer, the tale of AI's, hacking, poison and plot details that get lost because its super hard to read.

Case gets poisoned- This is like the best way to torture someone. You take away what made them happy and gave them a purpose, so now they go around looking at familiar faces, worn out places, and worn out faces. Like a bird with no wings or feet, they sit there until they get run over or a bgger bird eats them. He goes to drugs and suicidal tendencies, but its weird how when he find out they're out to get him he goes out all over the place trying to protect himself.

Case gets the toxin removed, and replaced with the toxin- Nice a of getting someone to do something for you. Armitage for boss of the year. But the boss wasn't Armitage at all, it was me, Wintermute. If theres one thing I've learned fro this, its to not trust your superiors. Corto got hecked up when the govnmet didnt need him anymore, and Wintermute rules everything and I would trust a jenga tower with only one block at the base more than I would Wintermute. Case gets hecked up by his employer, and then he gets fixed, but it still under the threat of the toxin sacs. Then the only guy with the "get out of poison sacs free" card dies. I would say he gets a happy ending butit could b argued that it's not even him getting the ending.
At the same time the book also teaches the value of connections, however awkward they are.
Shoutout to the unused shuriken with millions of dollars worth of sentimental value. We will never forget you. Another shoutout to the very naughty scene that was as dry as a raisin.

Mirror Eyed Molly-

Thanks Jaden

The AIs-

The Neuromancer- AI's are hecking crazy. I like how they're always different in each of the stories we've read/watched. In Star Wars, they're helpful dudes who go around with messages. In 2001, Hal tries to kill everyone. In the I Robot story, "Reason", he goes around being rebellious no believing his creators. Here we have AIs who are like... Holograms and all powerful but only in their realm. The facts that he can bring a being that is basically a new copy of a person is awesome.

Finally, you know how when people try to hack AIs they go boink because of how crazy complicated it is? The book is an AI and we're the daring cowboys, who are lost in complexity.

How memes will change the future

What is the change?
Memes have changed the world. The harmless internet frog, Pepe, was turned into a political force in the past election. Memes have evolved from random cute pictures of cats to representing the ideas of millions of people and communicating their experiences.

Why and how does this change arise?

This change arises naturally, through the use of social media. Memes develop almost monthly, and people spread them all over until they die out and they come up with a new meme. Even advertising companies use them on their social media. Bagel bites being one dank example. 

 

What do you see in the world to make you think this change might be coming?

Memes have been banned in certain schools and even countries, some schools banning the mighty pepe and other things, Russia has banned memes that depict a public figure in a negative way, and a Mexican lawmaker proposed a ban on memes that mock Mexican lifestyle. I don't know how it went over in Russia (thousands of meme makers were probably found dead next to their body pillow waifus), but in Mexico it was met with laughter and memes being made of the persons how proposed it.

Im gonna put links so the power of memes can be seen

Spain moves to ban memes:

Russia:

Mexico:

Everyone knows memes. You show someone a rage comic, they'll be confused as to why you're showing them a meme from 2009. Everyone knows bad memes like damn daniel, or Joe Biden memes. Many people will call dogs “doggos”, the meme term for them. And by people, I mean younger people. Like really young, first half of your twenties young. Older people have no idea how memes work, and then you get cringy moments like Hillary Clinton dabbing or saying the Pokemon “go to the polls” thing. People won't get it because they didn't grow up with it. maybe this is a good thing. You wont get the government using memes to control us or something, because everyone there is too old.

Is this largely beneficial, or detrimental for human beings? Who benefits, who is hurt?

I think it depends on the way that they are used. They could be used to spread propaganda, or be harmless. Memes can take the form of internet rumors and hoaxes. For example, we have the many 4chan pranks. We have #cancelFathersDay, convincing people to drop their phones, microwave their phones,and rick rolling people.But a meme itself isnt that powerful until it is given power (like pepe). Never forget the time he became the center of attention in the election.

How likely do you think this is to actually happen?

I don't think you're gonna get scifi stories about a guy who makes memes or something. But we have scifi like Necromancer, a guy who goes around hacking. I'm on the part with the panther guys, so I'm not that far in. But memes like pepe (I've mentioned pepe like 20 times) become a rallying force for people. Once the whole pepe-nazi-symbol thing started, people went wild from
a) confusion as to why he was being labeled a hate symbol even though the year before people were posting "rare pepes"

b) laughter bc they thought it was silly

c) even more confusion because they didnt know what a meme was

Another example would be Harambe. The gorilla that died and then went on to live in meme kingdom. Over the summer you saw Harambe all over the place, and then when the meme died you saw "this meme is dead all over the place. So due to the flexibility that memes have to be symbols and spreaders of ideas, it is very likely that memes wil coninue to have a deep impact in our lives.

Who wore it better

The running of the blades

I feel like Blade Runner could the the title to a movie about ice skating

Anyways, onto the post.
I've seen Blade Runner before in American Film and the thing that gets me the most is the setting. It just makes me feel so weird. In the beginning, there was always smoke in the air and it was never clear. Everything was dark, and the whole city feels like a dark alley. The neon lights instead make the whole thing creepier rather than brighter, and the whole movie just seems gloomy.

Animal Planet
I didn't know this until we read the paper we got at the end but apparently animals are super rare. I wonder how the dove got there, and how it managed to stay clean. Maybe it was a fake one that escaped. Who knows

The "kiss"
Yo what the heck was that he just forced himself on her
Then she just rolls with it like what the heck
Then they fall in love
80s man

The ending
So he was a replicant the whole time. What a twist. Did they know that when they hired him to be a blade runner, can only blade runners beat other blade runners.