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Kevin Forbes

@kevinforbesarts.bsky.social

Whelp. Tech Bros invented The Island #dontcreatethetormentnexus

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · Mar 25

A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow ‘Organ Sacks’ to Replace Animal Testing

Humans that have all their other functioning organs but lack a brain?

Aren’t they just describing the Fox News audience?

A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow 'Organ Sacks' to Replace Animal Testing

R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term goal, says a cofounder, is to make human versions.

www.wired.com

March 25, 2026 at 1:57 AM

Matt

@mattlibrarian.eurosky.social

Sci-Fi authors have often played the role of prophets foreseeing the future. Sadly many of them, much like Cassandra were ignored by their contemporaries.

These are some of those books whose plots have shaped the future

jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

#DontCreatetheTormentNexus

The Wicked Prince
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The War of the Worlds
The War in the Air
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
We
Metropolis

January 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM

sglibrary.bsky.social

@sglibrary.bsky.social

Explore the future. Ignore the warnings. Just kidding—read the warnings. Our sci-fi section is stacked with cautionary tales, intergalactic adventures, and maybe a few Torment Nexuses.

#SGLibrary #AlbertaLibraries #SciFiReads #DontCreateTheTormentNexus