black mirror

Black Mirror Season 5: dishwashers, sex stuff, and brain image reconstruction

Striking Vipers

Human sexuality

The bright and exciting future of who does what with whom and how. Polar bears. How we might have handles this VR technology as teenagers.

Colbert is the bear


Nostalgia for days-long gaming binges with Doritos and Easy Cheese. Ubiquitous full-spectrum VR experience. Neural mapping. Popular physics plugins , game engines, and the possibility that McCallister and Striking Vipers etc run on the same software.

Bodily bacteria

Dirt subscription boxes. Maintaining your skin microbiome. Showring? Soap vs detergent. Probiotic yogurt: “one for me, one for the undercarriage.”


Knife-down safety is actually important(!). Dish detergents and plate dirtiness. Clever dirtiness-measurement technologies.


Driver Rating

“2 stars, car was clean”

Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too

Virtual performance

Virtualizing irl performers. Pepper’s Ghost. Lifelike real-time rendering technology. Real-time raytracing. Motion capture cost and complexity drops.

Brains etc

Machine learning vocal production. FMRI vs EEG vs whatever awesome thing they have in Black Mirror. Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity.


Black Mirror Season 5: Netflix
Head Like a Hole by Devo: YouTube
Human brain mapping and brain decoding by Jack Gallant: YouTube
Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity: PLOS

Black Mirror Season 3 Part 1

Black Mirror Season 3, Part 1 (feat. Liam Ginty) : Episode 73

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What: Like the Twilight Zone, but scifi.
Created by: Charlie Brooker
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Kelly Macdonald, Wyatt Russell, Jerome Flynn, Alex Lawther

Featuring guest co-host
Liam Ginty
Liam Ginty, host of Voices From L5


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What: Our combined top 5 science fiction TV shows. Spoiler-free as much as humanly possible?
How: The main criteria: “what would you recommend to someone else?”

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