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Attack Surface is out!: It's my book-birthday!

SF as intuition pump: Optimistic disaster stories for the future!

Beyond Cyberpunk: What it means to write technorealistic, post-cyberpunk literature.

Half-Life's G-Man performs "Once in a Lifetime": Where does this machinima go to?

This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019

Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth: Quantifying the market-power abuses of Amazon's platform.
Thomas Hawk's Talking Heads: Judy's in the bedroom inventing situations.
Orwell prize winner trapped in orwellian nightmare: Jessica Johnson's predicament puts the "kafkaesque" in "orwellian."
Spikey: Infering key geometry from the sound of lock-entry.
Hedge fund won't return Citi's accidental $175m deposit: No backsies.
Yale admin: "Prepare for death": It's not quite "boola boola."
Austerity breeds Nazis: Analyzing Weimar election data.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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