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Propstore.com is back with another amazing scifi auction – they’ve been around since the late 90s and I love browsing through their collection to remember (and dream!). Next month, this auction goes live. I’m posting some my favorite pieces – you can bid on them and take them home (or buy them for your favorite...

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Today kids, we’re going to talk about the difference between parasocial and genuine social relationships. We need a way to connect without feeling manipulated. Genuine social connection is the antidote to our modern Influence-Industrial Complex. Man, I sure know how to pick ’em.  My oddly prescient comments about toxic parasocial relationships were the perfect backdrop...

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Pleased to say that Jeremiah and I are working on a new project – Inkican Audio Production services. Read more now! What’s in it for you? Easy – we’re a concierge audio production service that’s been successfully transforming awesome stories into amazing audio books since 2022! We’re now making our secret sauce available to other...

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Pleased to say the Call of the Void is now available in Chinese – the first simplified Chinese translation of my short stories. As I’ve mentioned in the past – I have many visitors to the website from China and I want them to feel welcome. To that end, I’ve made an adjustment on the...

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Time to talk about Brave New World as a novel – and everything I hated about it. I find myself compelled to talk about BNW because something occurred to me as I re-read it for the first time since high school. I’m sitting there, reading and it hits me: “It’s been … thirty five years...

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Let’s smash together some learnings from two different articles – turns out, our universe isn’t a simulation, but you can simulate the universe. Deep implications for the Matrix crowd and other tinfoil tale-induced hijinks. Taking some time out from re-writing Mesh to talk about this. It’s an interesting series of ideas. After all, does the...

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Been thinking more about Mesh and my vision of mobilizing artisans and makers. Mesh celebrates maker culture, but why would I be so concerned about that? What do I care? The answers to those questions came to me as I realized that I need to re-write this novel (I know, *again*???). Let me explain. I...

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Continuing from the previous Mesh and Mobilizing Artisans and Makers post, Maker / artisan / creative culture is at the heart of Mesh. makers are a community of people who define themselves by their work, not by their community. It’s vital for makers and artisans to know who they are, know their value, find their...

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Happy to announce a new video essay: The Three-Card Monte of Tech Predictions based on the STL blog post I released a few months ago. Watch the essay – read by our own Jeremiah Jones – and then let’s discuss: I’m happy that this is available, since wild predictions on the future of AI keep...

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Ignore the ignominious happenings of the media world – let’s talk about why you pay writers. Writers? Pay? What? Yes, a lot of times movie and other media have this weird idea that writers don’t need to eat or sleep under a roof. Harlan ‘The Problematic Scifi Guy’ Ellison explains in succinct detail what he...

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