That Spook Country/End of the World Blues genre - Present Terse? Hypernow? Realismic? Radical Speculative Presentism? ProtoMundane? Contemporary Cyberpunk? Here-and-Now Cyberpunk? - yeah, that genre. The following would come in handy if someone were interested in writing that sort of thing.

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Mirror's Edge: Makes ( Read more... )

The recent Youtube shutdown was a legitimate state-sanctioned affair, exhaustively reported and laughed at, safe, normal, recorded.

Alternatively, it was a test-run for undetermined actions done by unknown parties and covered up by panicked authorities.

So I think what we need is a much more disciplined approach, which means using the methods of the perceived ‘enemy’. It’s kind of the opposite of the ‘60s. The hippie was conceived as a kind of wilting anti-matter negative of the traditional image of the soldier. What we need now is a Don Juan role model, a shamanic soldier priest who can cope with ( Read more... )