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Implausipod
by Dr Implausible
Art, Technology, Gaming, and PopCulture
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Grats 2025
The third time is definitely charming, as we take a brief moment this Festivus for some thanks and shout-outs to those who've followed along on this journey, and a quick recap of 2025 on the Implausipod. Thanks for visiting us along the way. :) The Newsletter and the archives are here:...
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E0055 Fallout season 1 - part 2
With season 2 of Fallout about to arrive in New Vegas, let's have a quick roundtable with our impressions of the first season. This is part 2, as I don't like the episodes getting too long. Season 2 awaits on December 17th, 2025. Listen to part 1 here: Reach out to the show Support the show
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E0054 Fallout season 1 - part 1
With season 2 of Fallout about to arrive in New Vegas, let's have a quick roundtable with our impressions of the first season. This is part 1, as I don't like the episodes getting too long. Reach out to the show Support the show
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E0053 WYCU Part 2 Bladerunner(s)
We continue with our look at the WYCU, stopping at the Bladerunners, and figuring out how they fit within the timeline? Let's journey to the dark... future(?) of 2019 and find out what happened on those off-world colonies, as we look at Blade Runner (1982), iRobot (2004), Soldier (1998), and…
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E0052 WYCU Part 1 Predator(s)
Welcome to Phase 1 of the WYCU, as we start our look at the Weyland-Yutani Cinematic Universe. We've been talking about this over the last few months over on the blog, but with the three new titles released in the shared universe in 2025, it's time to get caught up on one of the original CUs, one...
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E0051 Tron(s)
Welcome to the Implausipod, where we are looking at one of the more influential franchises in both cyberpunk and science fiction, as we use the recent release of Tron:Ares (2025) to look at the impact of the franchise as a whole - including Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010) - on the ideas and...
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E0050 Streets Ahead
Welcome to the Implausipod, where a wrong turn and a 20 minutes detour due to poor signage led to an inquiry into the evolution of autonomous vehicles. We'll examine how the idea has appeared in popular culture, both within and outside science fiction. Turns out when it comes to self-driving…
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E0049 Spirit of the AI-dio
A look into the rise of ghost artists on Spotify, both AI generated and not, and what the history of Performer's Rights Organizations mean for art and creativity in the 21st century, and how that may make us question the very nature of creativity itself. Reach out to the show Support the show
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E0048 Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Week 4
Andor concludes! (and Rogue One awaits?) Join us as we wrap up the second and final season of Star Wars: Andor with the fifth in our five-part series looking at the show. We'll recap the final three episodes, released on May 13, 2025 (titled "Make It Stop", "Who Else Knows?" and "Jedha, Khyber,...
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E0047 Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Week 3
Star Wars: Andor, part 4 of 5, looking at the three episodes released on May 6th, 2025, titled "Messenger", "Who Are You" and "Welcome to the Rebellion". Things are heating up as the new Media Reality of the Star Wars universe begins to unfold, with more dangerous actors and actions coming to the...
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E0046 Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Week 2
Part 3 of our 5 part look at Star Wars Andor, with week 2 of season 2 and the three episodes released on April 29, 2025 ("Ever Been to Ghorman", "I Have Friends Everywhere" and "What a Festive Evening"). We'll continue following the threads as they weave together, mirroring the first season in…
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E0045 Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Week 1
We return to Star Wars Andor over the next 4 weeks, starting with first three episodes released on April 22, 2025, titled "One Year Later", "Sagrona Teema" and "Harvest". Join us for a recap of the three episodes, and commentary on the themes we see within, and that have carried over from Season…
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E0044 Star Wars: Andor Season 1
What can we learn about the Star Wars universe from the lives of its regular inhabitants? What is life like under an authoritarian Empire? How does the resistance form, and who is behind it? And how can a show that first aired in 2022 capture the current age in 2025? Join us for a recap of the...
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E0043 Appendix W 99 - Terminus Est
In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, some things come to and end. Join us as we look at the impact of the Appendix W on real world events through a look at one of the most iconic blades in fiction: Severian's Terminus Est from Gene Wolfe's 1980 novel The Shadow of the Torturer. But much...
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E0042 Incipient Diaspora
What happens when a change is on the horizon, one that is approaching that will force you to move but is outside your control? When a community knows it will be disrupted, it may be facing an Incipient Diaspora. For the US denizens of the TikTok app, facing a ban in that country on January 19,...
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E0041 Dr Who Xmas 2024
Joy to the World, the 2024 Dr Who Christmas Special, gets a deep look in this episode of the Implausipod. This is the part two of our Dr Who double header. If you haven't already, check out our discussion of the 14th series, or 1st Disney series in the previous episode. Our cyber-series will...
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E0040 Dr Who Goes Boom
We welcome a special guest back to the podcast to discuss the 14th series of the new Dr Who era, which aired in May and June of 2024, and highlighted the adventures of the 15th Doctor played by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday. This is the part one of a Dr Who double header, as we'll...
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Grats 2024
Twice is enough for it to be a tradition, right? Yeah, I think we'll go with that. Welcome to our second annual end-of-year holiday thank you episode, something to offset the Festivus celebrations you may be having on this day before the day before Christmas. Thanks for stopping by whenever you…
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E0039 The California Ideology
What do you think of when you heard the word California? What do you think it's "ideology" might be? If you work in or on high technology, that California ideology may be shaping the way that you work, the projects that you work on, and the business models that high technology pursues. What does…
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ICEBreaker 004 - Opti-minus
Was the reveal of the Tesla Optimus 3 at the recent We Robot event a miss? How can you fail when unveiling a potentially groundbreaking technology? By using it to fake the appearance of a different tech, one that you're not even close to bringing to market. Reach out to the show Support the show
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ICEBreaker 003 - Joker 2 Joke Harder
Is Joker 2 "anti-content", or is it just a challenging watch? Join us for a quick ICEBreaker to discuss our first impressions of the film, and some thoughts that have crossed my mind in the day since. Consider this a spoiler warning. Reach out to the show Support the show
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E0038 AI Refractions
Looking back in the year since the publication of our AI Reflections episode, we take a look at the state of the AI discourse at large, where recent controversies including those surrounding NaNoWriMo and whether AI counts as art, or can assist with science, bring the challenges of studying the…
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E0037 Soylent Culture
What is Soylent Culture? Whether it is in the mass media, the new media, or the media consumed by the current crop of generative AI tools, it is culture that has been fed on itself. But of course, there's more. Have a listen to find out how Soylent Culture is driving the potential for "Model...
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ICEBreaker 002 - Excession
Whoops! Somehow the details of an Excession - an Unknown Unknown - got cut from Episode 36. Fans of Irony will be enjoying this, I'm sure. Kick back for another Icebreaker in this bonus episode, an addendum to Nescience and Excession, with an actual explanation of the thing that was in the title....
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E0036 Nescience and Excession: Jameson and Nostalgia
Further detail looking at The Nostalgia Curve from Episode 35, and comparing it with the Fredric Jameson's "Nostalgia for the Present" (1989) to see what the established literature says about the topic. We go into Jameson's writing on science fiction and Philip K Dick's "Time Out of Joint"…
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E0035 The Nostalgia Curve
The box office for the summer of 2024 has been driven by titles relying heavily on the audiences nostalgia, with titles like Deadpool and Wolverine and Alien: Romulus leading the charge. But nostalgia as a driver for the movies isn't new, and we're seeing nostalgia across all areas of our society...
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E0034 Dial-up Pastorale
What is behind the recent trend seeking a wistful return to a more idyllic age of the internet, real or imagined? We'll call this the Dial-up Pastorale. The trend became apparent in a number of papers and blog-posts that have popped over the last few months (or at least came to my attention).…
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E0033 TikTok Tribulations
What happens if your community disappears? How do online groups deal with the challenges of maintaining their social ties across fickle and fleeting platforms? And are there lessons to be learned by the TikTok creators from the online MMO communities that were shut down in the early 2000s?...
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E0032 Baked In: Social Media and Tech Determinism
How much of your experience online is dictated by the environment you're in, and how it was constructed? What is you rebuild Twitter, and it still ends up being toxic? Did you fail, or succeed without knowing it? These are the kinds of questions that arise when we look at technology from a...
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E0031 GPT Squared
Are the new GPTs - Generative Pre-trained Transformers - powering the current wave of AI tools actually the emergence of a new GPT - General Purpose Technology - that we will soon find embedded into every aspect of our lives? Earlier examples of GPTs include tech like steam power, electricity,...
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E0030 Appendix W 04 - Dune
With the release of Dune part 2 in cinemas, we return to Appendix W with a look at Frank Herbert's original novel from 1965. Dune has had a massive influence on the Warhammer 40000 universe in many ways, especially when looking at the original release of the Rogue Trader game in 1987, in…
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E0029 Why is it always a War on Robots?
Why does it always come down to a Butlerian Jihad, a War on Robots, when we imagine a future for humanity. Why does nearly every science fiction series, including Star Wars, Star Trek, Warhammer 40K, Doctor Who, The Matrix, Terminator and Dune have a conflict with a machinic form of life? With…
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E0028 Black Boxes and AI
How does your technology work? Do you have a deep understanding of the tech, or is it effectively a "black box"? And does this even matter? We do a deep dive into the history of the black box, how it's understood when it comes to science and technology, and what that means for AI-assisted…
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E0027 The Old Man and The River
The parable of the Old Man and the River tells us it isn't now deep the water is, but how swift the water flows when it comes to looking at pop culture. There's magic in how crystal clear those swift waters flow. Join us for a review of the theories underpining the value of studying pop culture…
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Implausipod E0026 - Silicon Dreams
Silicon Dreams are those glittering visions of mythic intensity that inspire the continued development of revolutionary technologies. Listen to this episode of the Implausipod to learn more about where they come from, and how the mythic imagination has been behind the development of virtual...
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Implausipod E0025 - Echanger
Echanger - a French verb meaning to trade, to replace, or to swap, is a metaprocess of translation, that covers three main factors contributing to technological unemployment - automation, virtualization, and agentrification, the replacement of workers with generative AI tools. Join us for our...
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E0024 The 15th Doctor - Xmas 2023
In our final episode on the 2023 Dr Who specials, we take a look at the 2023 Christmas Special and the introduction of the 15th Doctor as played by Ncuti Gatwa. We'll take a quick take at some of the larger themes of the show, and how it connects with the past and the (possible) future(s) of Dr...
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Grats 2023
Not quite a full Festivus message, just a few quick tidings of joy and a message of gratitude here as 2023 draws to a close. All the best to you and your loved ones, and we'll chat again soon. Reach out to the show Support the show
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Implausipod E0023 - The Giggles
Join us for the final of our three episodes on the 2023 Season of Specials for Dr Who, with the return of familiar nemesis (both within the show and to yours truly as well) and the introduction of the 15th Doctor through an unique turn of events. We're joined by our guest Dr. Aiden Buckland to...
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Implausipod E0022 - Wild Blue Yonder
While I can't say I'm a sci-fi fan who hasn't scene Doctor Who any longer, my experience is still on the lower end of the scale, so we'll bring back our friend and guest Dr Aiden Buckland an academic and Dr Who fan to help guide us through some of the intricacies of the "Wild Blue Yonder", the...
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Implausipod E0021 - Postcard From Earth
We continue with part two of our three part look at The Sphere in Las Vegas, this time with a review of the film on the "screen", Darren Aronofsky's "Postcard From Earth". We look closer at whether the film can be separated from the theatre, and if Postcard, and the experience at the Sphere...
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Implausipod E0020 - The Sphere Before and After
In the first of episode of a two-parter, we visit The Sphere, in Las Vegas Nevada with a before and after personal reflection of my first encounter with the site, and how my expectations meshed with the reality of the experience. We ponder the site both inside and out, and whether The Sphere is…
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Implausipod E0016 - Spreadable Media
Spreadable media is a theory of how media is distributed in online culture, but is the theory, originally proposed in 2013, still relevant in 2023 when everyone is trying to "go viral" online? We take a deep dive at the theory, and look at how at it's core it is really a question of value, and…
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Implausipod E0019 - The 14th Doctor
What does a sci-fi fan who's never seen Doctor Who think of their first exposure to a full episode of the series? Can you even be a sci-fi fan if you haven't? Well, we're about to find out. Welcome our guest, an academic and Dr Who fan Dr Aiden Buckland who helps guide yours truly Dr Implausible...
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Implausipod E0018 - Appendix W E03 - The Game of Rat and Dragon
In episode 18 of the Implausipod we return to Appendix W with a little known but pivotal short story for both science fiction generally and Warhammer 40000 specifically, and the creation of the Warp, and the daemons that dwell within: Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon" from 1955.…
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Implausipod E0017 - Not a Techno-Optimist
If you had asked me on October 15th, 2023, how to self describe myself, I might say I was a techno optimist. But on October 16th, Mark Andreesen, the founder of Netscape, released the Techno-optimist manifesto, and I can no longer say that I'm a techno optimist. In this episode we'll walk through...
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Implausipod E0015 - EEE Embrace Extend Extinguish
EEE, or Embrace Extend Extinguish has been making the rounds again in 2023 as a number of silicon valley tech companies have been coming under the spotlight for their business practices, and some striking similarities are showing to a strategy outlined by Microsoft in an internal memo back in the...
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Implausipod E0014 - Dumpshock
What happens when you're forcibly ejected from Virtual Reality? You may experience "dumpshock" - a bewildering disorientation from the rapid change in context, and you may experience something similar on the internet if you shift from an ad-saturated to an ad-free environment. Like a fish out of...
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Implausipod E0013 - Context Collapse
Tiktok has a noise problem, and it's indicative of a larger issue ongoing within social media, that of "context collapse". But even context collapse is expanding outside its original context and evidence of it can be seen in the rise of generative AI tools, music and media, and the rise of the...
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Implausipod E0012 - AI Reflections
AI provides a refection of humanity back at us, through a screen, darkly. But that glass can provide different visions, depending on the viewpoint of the observer. Are the generative tools that we call AI a tool for advancement and emancipation, or will they be used to further a dystopic control...
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