Stefan Tiron
@tironstefan.bsky.social
Scheerbartian central planner//ostblock SF shlock theory//pluriverse//sinophile//
Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
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Stefan Tiron
@tironstefan.bsky.social
· Sep 9
#sciencefiction #SFintranslation #vladimircolin #article #Chinese #imagination
I have a new article contribution in Chinese publ in the 30th issue of Zero G zine. Much thx to RiverFlow (Heliu) for the kind invitation to contribute, and (as always) big thx to Zixuan for translating. Very happy.
I have a new article contribution in Chinese publ in the 30th issue of Zero G zine. Much thx to RiverFlow (Heliu) for the kind invitation to contribute, and (as always) big thx to Zixuan for translating. Very happy.
Hope I can soon review Escape from the 21st Century
从21世纪安全撤离 - directed by Li Yang. One of my favorite #movies I've seen this year.
letterboxd.com/film/escape-...
从21世纪安全撤离 - directed by Li Yang. One of my favorite #movies I've seen this year.
letterboxd.com/film/escape-...
Escape from the 21st Century (2024)
Three friends discover that they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hope, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving ...
letterboxd.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Hope I can soon review Escape from the 21st Century
从21世纪安全撤离 - directed by Li Yang. One of my favorite #movies I've seen this year.
letterboxd.com/film/escape-...
从21世纪安全撤离 - directed by Li Yang. One of my favorite #movies I've seen this year.
letterboxd.com/film/escape-...
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Ein warmes Zuhause sollte kein Luxus sein. Doch wegen hoher Heizkosten und schlechter Wärmedämmung alter Immobilien müssen viele Mieter frieren.
Heizkosten: Politik und Vermieter lassen Millionen Mieter im kalten Zuhause sitzen
Ein warmes Zuhause sollte kein Luxus sein. Doch wegen hoher Heizkosten und schlechter Wärmedämmung alter Immobilien müssen viele Mieter frieren.
www.surplusmagazin.de
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Ein warmes Zuhause sollte kein Luxus sein. Doch wegen hoher Heizkosten und schlechter Wärmedämmung alter Immobilien müssen viele Mieter frieren.
Sadly rhymes with my Exogensis review on letterboxd.
Extremely uncomfortable reading www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Sadly rhymes with my Exogensis review on letterboxd.
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The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Dimming the Sun Is a Terrifying New Industry
Solar geoengineering, a bunch of techniques that aim to mask some effects of climate change by blocking sunlight, isn’t on the agenda for this month’s COP30. It ought to be. A record-breaking funding ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
#anticapitalist #podcast #history
Here's an excellent list of #podcasts recommended by The Syllabus.
Link below.
Here's an excellent list of #podcasts recommended by The Syllabus.
Link below.
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
#anticapitalist #podcast #history
Here's an excellent list of #podcasts recommended by The Syllabus.
Link below.
Here's an excellent list of #podcasts recommended by The Syllabus.
Link below.
#philosophy #Chinese #freepdf #openaccess #new
The Joy of Chinese Philosophy
Michael Beaney, De Gruyter 2025
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Joy of Chinese Philosophy
Michael Beaney, De Gruyter 2025
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Joy of Chinese Philosophy
This book introduces some central ideas and themes in ancient Chinese philosophy through a detailed analysis of one famous passage – the happy fish dialogue – in the Zhuangzi , one of the two founding...
www.degruyterbrill.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
#philosophy #Chinese #freepdf #openaccess #new
The Joy of Chinese Philosophy
Michael Beaney, De Gruyter 2025
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Joy of Chinese Philosophy
Michael Beaney, De Gruyter 2025
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#movie #korea
Just discovered Veteran II, I, the Executioner, but there's apparently a Veteran one exceptional Korean procedural.
www.thechinesecinema.com/veteran-2-i-...
Just discovered Veteran II, I, the Executioner, but there's apparently a Veteran one exceptional Korean procedural.
www.thechinesecinema.com/veteran-2-i-...
Veteran 2: I, the Executioner (Ryoo Seungwan, 2024)
I couple days ago, I wrote about the upcoming film The Shadow Strays and introduced it by hyping up all the incredible action movies we’ve seen coming from around the world over the last several years...
www.thechinesecinema.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
#movie #korea
Just discovered Veteran II, I, the Executioner, but there's apparently a Veteran one exceptional Korean procedural.
www.thechinesecinema.com/veteran-2-i-...
Just discovered Veteran II, I, the Executioner, but there's apparently a Veteran one exceptional Korean procedural.
www.thechinesecinema.com/veteran-2-i-...
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if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back….
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the UK economy was bigger than China and India combined.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back….
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
@patrickmccray.bsky.social's literary history of computers, "README," explains the essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@patrickmccray.bsky.social's literary history of computers, "README," explains the essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
Imre Lakatos said that labeling any field as a pseudoscience is always done post hoc, and that it is more fruitful to instead take the science *as it was* at the time it was promulgated, so that we can understand better its arguments and why it was convincing to people when it was.
NOW, it's a pseudoscience because it's been debunked & is no longer mainstream scientific thinking. Calling historical eugenics a pseudoscience lets science & scientists of the past off the hook (Also, PS is more of a modern-day term. We had terms like "quackery" but eugenics was not that)
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Imre Lakatos said that labeling any field as a pseudoscience is always done post hoc, and that it is more fruitful to instead take the science *as it was* at the time it was promulgated, so that we can understand better its arguments and why it was convincing to people when it was.
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This article on how 1930s Technocrats "formed part of the transnational impulse to invent a new abundancist economic paradigm" looks v interesting journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Paradigm of Plenty: The Global Technocratic Moment - Simon Dowsett, 2025
Although it has loosely come to mean government by experts, ‘technocracy’ entered the vernacular through its association with a specific movement of the 1930s. ...
journals.sagepub.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This article on how 1930s Technocrats "formed part of the transnational impulse to invent a new abundancist economic paradigm" looks v interesting journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The 3rd largest comics festival is cancelled for 2026.
2,000 authors, publishers, and unions are boycotting to protest sexism, toxic management, and misuse of public money by the company that runs it.
2023: exhibit sparked #MeTooBD
2024: employee was drugged and SA'd at festival, they fired her!
2,000 authors, publishers, and unions are boycotting to protest sexism, toxic management, and misuse of public money by the company that runs it.
2023: exhibit sparked #MeTooBD
2024: employee was drugged and SA'd at festival, they fired her!
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The 3rd largest comics festival is cancelled for 2026.
2,000 authors, publishers, and unions are boycotting to protest sexism, toxic management, and misuse of public money by the company that runs it.
2023: exhibit sparked #MeTooBD
2024: employee was drugged and SA'd at festival, they fired her!
2,000 authors, publishers, and unions are boycotting to protest sexism, toxic management, and misuse of public money by the company that runs it.
2023: exhibit sparked #MeTooBD
2024: employee was drugged and SA'd at festival, they fired her!
Masculinity on the Mat. Nice #review of Cobra Kai, a show I completly missed.
www.publicbooks.org/masculinity-...
www.publicbooks.org/masculinity-...
Masculinity on the Mat - Public Books
From Ready Player One to Roseanne, popular culture in 2018 might be looked back on as “problematic,” to use a polite academic term, in its attempts to bottle and sell 1980s nostalgia. Conservative in ...
www.publicbooks.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Masculinity on the Mat. Nice #review of Cobra Kai, a show I completly missed.
www.publicbooks.org/masculinity-...
www.publicbooks.org/masculinity-...
#cinema
Really appreciate Sean Gilman's #reviews for 2024 from the festival circuitry, some I've seen some I can't wait to to watch. Lots of good #Chinese, #HK and #Japanese treasures.
www.thechinesecinema.com/2024-festiva...
Really appreciate Sean Gilman's #reviews for 2024 from the festival circuitry, some I've seen some I can't wait to to watch. Lots of good #Chinese, #HK and #Japanese treasures.
www.thechinesecinema.com/2024-festiva...
2024 Festival Compilation
As I've done for the last couple of years, here is a collection of the reviews I wrote this year for InReview Online's coverage of various film festivals from around the world (Rotterdam, Cannes, the ...
www.thechinesecinema.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I found it abhorrent to deny a frequent doze of animation in my teens, when cartoons actually screened only Sundays. Campaigns against comics & D&D always had an alarmist bigoted tinge, but I totally welcome Australia's decision instead on worrying about withdrawal symptoms.
youtu.be/1DReUFE54lU?...
youtu.be/1DReUFE54lU?...
Australia introduces social media ban — will the world follow? | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I found it abhorrent to deny a frequent doze of animation in my teens, when cartoons actually screened only Sundays. Campaigns against comics & D&D always had an alarmist bigoted tinge, but I totally welcome Australia's decision instead on worrying about withdrawal symptoms.
youtu.be/1DReUFE54lU?...
youtu.be/1DReUFE54lU?...
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New blog entry, on Philip Pullman: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2004
Philip Pullman – The Pinocchio Theory
www.shaviro.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
New blog entry, on Philip Pullman: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2004
#movie #sciencefiction #blockbuster #predator
Many might say meh to this Predator but for it felt important that the fitness & predation didn't work out and making kin was essential.
Here's my #review about what do the Badlands actually harbor
letterboxd.com/tironstefan/...
Many might say meh to this Predator but for it felt important that the fitness & predation didn't work out and making kin was essential.
Here's my #review about what do the Badlands actually harbor
letterboxd.com/tironstefan/...
A ★★★ review of Predator: Badlands (2025)
The only explanation of why I gave it 3 stars is that I think it went against the Darwinian Huxleyan "survival of the fittest" logic of the other movies (altough cunning and camouflage, I guess, in th...
letterboxd.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#movie #sciencefiction #blockbuster #predator
Many might say meh to this Predator but for it felt important that the fitness & predation didn't work out and making kin was essential.
Here's my #review about what do the Badlands actually harbor
letterboxd.com/tironstefan/...
Many might say meh to this Predator but for it felt important that the fitness & predation didn't work out and making kin was essential.
Here's my #review about what do the Badlands actually harbor
letterboxd.com/tironstefan/...
" #Technology is a means of making manifest a conceptual world or a cosmology just as much as it is about building tools for a world that is right in front of us"
~Ben Woodard (Uninhabited, Zero Books 2025)
~Ben Woodard (Uninhabited, Zero Books 2025)
December 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
" #Technology is a means of making manifest a conceptual world or a cosmology just as much as it is about building tools for a world that is right in front of us"
~Ben Woodard (Uninhabited, Zero Books 2025)
~Ben Woodard (Uninhabited, Zero Books 2025)
Looks like Angoulême comic book festival is not going to happen next year but this is no surprise in an industry event that's been plagued by sexism, nepotism and commercialism. Good time to make some welcome changes.
youtu.be/G7xGrQGsbK8?...
youtu.be/G7xGrQGsbK8?...
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Looks like Angoulême comic book festival is not going to happen next year but this is no surprise in an industry event that's been plagued by sexism, nepotism and commercialism. Good time to make some welcome changes.
youtu.be/G7xGrQGsbK8?...
youtu.be/G7xGrQGsbK8?...
#Comics #bandedesinee #graphicnovel
I'm sure there's much more out there (my list from the last years ia still brim fulll) and I usually depend on the kindness of friend to share their discoveries.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
I'm sure there's much more out there (my list from the last years ia still brim fulll) and I usually depend on the kindness of friend to share their discoveries.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
The best graphic novels of 2025
Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco return; plus Black Country cowboys, vengeful gods and an angling classic reimagined
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#Comics #bandedesinee #graphicnovel
I'm sure there's much more out there (my list from the last years ia still brim fulll) and I usually depend on the kindness of friend to share their discoveries.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
I'm sure there's much more out there (my list from the last years ia still brim fulll) and I usually depend on the kindness of friend to share their discoveries.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
#swordandsorcery #movie #comedy
#horror
My praise & #review of Konstanski's recent feat - truly remarkable. Not just a reboot of Corman but something I've found heartwarming with zest & material/splatter fun in an age of AGI & VFX to make such a movie!
timespacewarps.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/2...
#horror
My praise & #review of Konstanski's recent feat - truly remarkable. Not just a reboot of Corman but something I've found heartwarming with zest & material/splatter fun in an age of AGI & VFX to make such a movie!
timespacewarps.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/2...
2719 – Deathstalker (2025)
timespace coordinates: The Kingdom of Abraxeon J Director: Steven Kostanski (Frankie Freako, PG: Psycho Goreman, Astron 6) Interview with Steven Kostanski “The Kingdom of Abraxeon is under siege fr…
timespacewarps.wordpress.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
#swordandsorcery #movie #comedy
#horror
My praise & #review of Konstanski's recent feat - truly remarkable. Not just a reboot of Corman but something I've found heartwarming with zest & material/splatter fun in an age of AGI & VFX to make such a movie!
timespacewarps.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/2...
#horror
My praise & #review of Konstanski's recent feat - truly remarkable. Not just a reboot of Corman but something I've found heartwarming with zest & material/splatter fun in an age of AGI & VFX to make such a movie!
timespacewarps.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/2...
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"We have to put our lungs up in exchange for profit."
Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk's Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick
Residents of Boxtown, Tennessee say Elon Musk's xAI "Colossus Supercomputer" is turning the air into a noxious chemical brew.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"We have to put our lungs up in exchange for profit."