This Thursday (May 12), I'm participating in an @imaginationASU workshop called "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech"
At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust: Listening to "those who have experienced firsthand the effects of mergers and acquisitions beyond antitrust experts."
My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
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You know what the stupidest part about Musk wanting to reinstate Trump is? It actually violates Musk's stated goal for Twitter: to make a place where there are transparent rules that are fairly applied.
The problem with Trump's social media bans is that they landed after he had repeatedly, flagrantly flouted the rules that the platforms used to kick off *lots* of other people, of all political persuasions.
Musk's whole (notional) deal is: "set some good rules up and apply them fairly." There are some hard problems in that seemingly simple proposition, but "I would let powerful people break the rules with impunity" is totally, utterly antithetical to that proposition.
Elric – board game of war in the Young Kingdoms, Kenn Nishiuye cover for Avalon Hill’s 1984 edition, game design by Greg Stafford and Charlie Krank, originally released by Chaosium in 1977 as Elric - Battle at the End of Time oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/683892290…