• Swing and a miss

    First pass for The Kingdom of Nod. For every pass, a new query goes out that day.

  • Emma Thompson

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  • Everyone is Lying to You For Money

    It is remarkable to me how cryptocurrency continues to hang around. Sane people have known crypto is a slickly marketed Ponzi scheme for nearly a decade. Line Goes Up, an incredibly entertaining explanation of how NFTs were full of shit and, tangentially, how all crypto was full of the same shit, was released over four…

  • Enshittification, Episode 1

    This evening I was looking for a link to a simple web developers’ resource, a listing of all the native html elements. I know a listing like this exists, though I haven’t had to look for one in a few years. So, I entered the following search term into Google: “full listing of native html…

  • Arcane: League of Legends

    We don’t get to choose our families. We don’t get to choose the times in which we live. The best we can hope is that the times bind us closer to our brothers or sisters rather than cleave us apart. At the heart of Arcane: League of Legends (Netflix 2021-2024) is a story of a…

  • Man with Beard

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SCIENCE FICTION – DOUBLE FEATURE

Reality is weird. The science that reflects our understanding of reality is weird. The very mission of science fiction is to reflect that weirdness in ways that fill the reader with wonder. Science fiction writers aren’t here to repeat comfortable tropes. We’re here to make the reader confront the unabashed nuttiness of reality and their place in it.

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