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This week, @scalzi let me write a guest-editorial for his blog about the themes in my new crime thriller, *Red Team Blues*; specifically, about the ways that spreadsheets embody the power and the pitfalls of #ScienceFiction at its best *and* worst:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Yes, *spreadsheets*. Marty Hench (the protagonist of *Red Team Blues*) is a 67-year-old forensic accountant who specializes in unwinding Silicon Valley financial frauds.
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I had the pleasure of taking part in this experience. The filmic quality of the scenery and the thrill of jumping off my horse to run into the dunes in search of danger. It was genuinely epic, and we learned so much from it.
You'll notice some unusual riding positions in some of the photos, that is because the Icelandic horses have the tölt gait. The aid for this speed is just to lean back. It is remarkably easy to sit to, and very fast.
The horses were amazing, and totally up for circling behind our enemies through the waves and generally being fabulous.
I get it. The deeper we get into this @GOP #christofascist #HandmaidsTale #LARP, the more it feels like we are living in a dystopian novel and the more draw on stories to understand our experience. 1/
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The idea that a cyberpunk Red State sheriff - Boss Hogg meets Robocop - would use period-tracking apps for dragnet abortion surveillance is a great setup for a novel, but it's not very reflective of reality. 3/
This week on my podcast, I read my latest @Medium column, "Against The Great Forces of History," in which I describe how @AdaPalmer's pedagogic techniques as a Renaissance historian at the UChicago has changed my view of how the world works.
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Palmer specializes in banned information during the Inquisitions, specifically in Florence. She's an authority on how the Inquisitions dealt with witchcraft, homosexuality, pornography, heresy and banned science. You should read her blog!
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People seek our advice bc of our large #playtesting pool. Real #IndieGameDev talk? It was PURE LUCK. We have no special advice. Me (Liv) and Jim went to school in the States. One of our classmates knew the Rev from LGBT and adult sex ed presentations. #TTRPG #indie #TRPG (1/4)
OK, I got permission to spew. I (Liv) am currently running the playtest rounds on a diceless/LARP version of Motif. Player facing bidding system for actions. Flat difficulties/spend costs. Similar story pool for bidding on story elements. #TTRPG #indiedev
Did not think I would like the narrator bleed. But it really works. Color me wrong. It was empowering. The resource management tactics are great too. PvP is ugly by raw mechanics (everyone autosuceeds). RP is pushed because of limited resource pools. LOVE IT.
All that to say: Picking up Jim's role on this one and project managing the manuscript for the #Motif Parlour Engine. Fine-tuned for diceless parlour games and #theaterstyle #LARP. A radical rewrite of the diceless system that ran the old Arthur's Legacy game. #TTRPG #indiedev
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Quinta-feira, dia 9, às 21:00H, joga o @FCPorto !
Aqui: footballia.net/matches/fc-por…
Quinta-feira, dia 9, às 21:00H, joga o @FCPorto !
Aqui: footballia.net/matches/fc-por…
Já não aguentamos mais sem o nosso Porto. Então inventámos:
sorteámos um jogo ao calhas, entre 1992 e 2010, e vamos vê-lo no dia da semana e no horário em que ele aconteceu. Como se estivesse a acontecer nesse momento.
sorteámos um jogo ao calhas, entre 1992 e 2010, e vamos vê-lo no dia da semana e no horário em que ele aconteceu. Como se estivesse a acontecer nesse momento.
Isso quer dizer que se o @portouniversal não “estiver” no estádio, é provável que tuíte durante o jogo. Que o @atascadosilva publicará “Um copo de 3 ao intervalo” e que o @portadezanove estará completamente out até acabar o jogo.
If you follow True Eye the Spy he's back and not mentioning his supposed drugging, child p*rn accusations over his "compendium" and now he's on the run between safe houses.
Says the account is going dark in 5 mins...
Says the account is going dark in 5 mins...
Go-bag protocol has been activated...that sounds serious and spy-like.
1) Friends, #Q post from yesterday indicates a plan to discredit #QAnon is being deployed. Here is what to watch for and expect.
They're panicked & desperate, recent events are starting to zero in on the #cabal's deepest secret. Some thoughts...
#WWG1WGA #MAGA #TheStorm @POTUS
They're panicked & desperate, recent events are starting to zero in on the #cabal's deepest secret. Some thoughts...
#WWG1WGA #MAGA #TheStorm @POTUS
2) The recent #NYTimes op-ed on #Qanon was huge. Our response was magical. Measured, fact based, not R v D, and polite. #WeThePeople did a brilliant job. At last check it was over 700 comments and very few retwteets.
#GreatAwakenening #QArmy #Q #MAGA
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#GreatAwakenening #QArmy #Q #MAGA
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