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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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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"; and more!
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Inside: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/lov…
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Today (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series
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On Weds (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @IFTF's "Changing the Register" series:
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On Weds (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @IFTF's "Changing the Register" series:
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Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk": Why today's Luddites should be smashing apps.
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Jim is starting his morning. He's going to upload a few things and make announcements. Also a promo thread and a few other things. Most excited for the Like I Give A BLEEP #GMless and #solorpg. It was too much fun to playtest.
My solo test runs were more or less #BackToTheFuture with #RickAndMorty time cops, #DrMephisto (from #SouthPark) in #Heinlein's #NumberOfTheBeast, and #DoctorWho as written by @ChuckTingle. My group run was #DoomPatrol set in a @TimRobbins1 universe written by #AnaisNin. #TTRPG
The solo runs were especially benefited by a rule that says fill in whatever later. Character creation can be done during play. Which is good because there's a lot of bits for a lite system. Plus making things up on the fly to fill in the blanks boosted the mad scientist theme.
