(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: ‘magnetic quantum field generator’ or UFC 250? [1] ['Wafflehacker Aka Joshhacks', 'Bill In Portland Maine', 'Doctor Who'] Date: 2026-07-24 The Terminator series is an American science-fiction franchise created by James Cameron. It encompasses a series of films, comics, novels, and additional media concerning battles between Skynet’s synthetic intelligent machine network, and John Connor’s Resistance forces. The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, written by Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, and produced by Hurd. Series boilerplate for Kitchen Table Kibitzing group. belinda ridgewood Like YoYodyne and Skynet, actual things get named after sci-fi stories. No coincidence that the Terminator (5) Genisys feature film resembles UFC 250 and the rise of Palantir, because “Skynet is Genisys”. So many franchises like Rocky, and Fast & Furious, so many timelines. For those who haven’t watched these “Terminator” movies, it is always about future machines annihilating humans and humans resisting by doing the ‘kill baby Hitler’ time travel trope with all the usual technological expectations of Armageddon and deus ex machina. As with all such stories, there are cinematic continuity issues sometimes requiring multiple viewings. One might distinguish between the six Terminator feature films and the TV series as examples of the scale of “The Industry”. (1)‘The Terminator‘ (1984) (2)‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day‘ (1991) (3)‘Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines‘ (2003) ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Season 1 (2008) ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Season 2 (2009) ‘Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series’ (2009) (4)‘Terminator: Salvation‘ (2009) (5)‘Terminator: Genisys‘ (2015) (6)‘Terminator: Dark Fate‘ (2019) There is a seventh Terminator movie coming out next year. Separated at Conception: Skynet/UFC and the Genisys metaphor in technofeudalism means we haven’t gotten past bear-baiting in the entertainment future. Old, not obsolete. Construction continues at the White House to build a temporary structure for next month’s Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight as part of the America 250 celebrations, seen Friday, May 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) AP When the 2nd time machine, built in 1984 out of scavenged Ataris or something, turned up in Terminator Genisys. Congratulations to them I guess for managing to make a Terminator film – the time travel franchise – that broke my suspension of disbelief about time travel 👏👏👏👏👏 https://t.co/kfeWQNF4rX pic.twitter.com/OS815GuoEA — Samplo Corvodina of Streatham (@TreborRhurbarb) May 14, 2023 Cyberdyne Remember the company in the Terminator franchise named Cyberdyne? The one that builds Skynet, a computer network that tries to wipe out the human race? Well, a robotics company in Japan decided it might be a good idea to name their company after the fictional company. Yes, there’s a real robotics company called Cyberdyne. And do you want to hear the real kicker? Their most popular product is an exoskeleton suit called the Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL. Remember HAL from Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey? This Cyberdyne company really seems to be tempting fate. Yoyodyne is a fictional company featured in Thomas Pynchon’s novels, most prominently in The Crying of Lot 49, and humorously referenced in various other media. Yoyodyne was an Internet-based direct marketer, founded by Seth Godin and later joined by Mark Hurst, and acquired by Yahoo! on October 12, 1998.[10][11][12] Godin took the name from the company in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.[13] A.I.s other than SkyNet in the Terminator main installments, we’ve got: John Henry (Sarah Connor Chronicles) Legion (Dark Fate) Misaki (Terminator Zero) Kokoro (Terminator Zero) https://bsky.app/profile/icarus3000.bsky.social/post/3mmmdjgqis22j Mark and I were given plenty of previously unseen concept art from Van Ling at Lightstorm to help visualise the story including Skynet exterior and interiors, arachnid hunter killers, and concept art for the proposed time machine [seen in Genisys many years later] 2/ — Gary Erskine (@garyerskine.bsky.social) 2024-08-05T12:25:18.421Z Then there are the IRL implications: DOGE, Palantir, Oracle and the Sovereign Cloud Much larger plans at work: Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space TERMINATOR GENISYS: a film with a promising start that falls off a cliff. @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss planning for a trilogy without making a successful film, how turning Skynet into consumer tech impacts the narrative's politics, & why ‘Genisys’ is spelled that way. — TAKE ONE ███zine 📽️🎞 (@takeonecinema.net) 2026-05-27T09:30:35.335Z Does the is mean Skynet is going to send a Terminator back in time to kill his mother? https://t.co/2NABXDoMmh — Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 6, 2022 This explanation, while compelling, will make your head hurt. More contemporary songs discovered via the Fasnacht covers by brass bands. “The Code” is a song by Swiss singer Nemo. It was written by Nemo along with three other songwriters and was released on 29 February 2024 through Better Now Records. It represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, where it won the contest with 591 points. In the process, the song became the first victory for the country since “Ne partez pas sans moi” by Celine Dion in 1988 and the first winning song in the history of the contest by a non-binary artist. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/24/800063777/community/magnetic-quantum-field-generator/ Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/