Year: 2021
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New Glasses | 2136
I have two new pairs of glasses. For the first time in a long time I’ve been feeling self conscious. But this is my face now, I’ll get used to…
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Fear City x
It was the Surbiton summer fete this weekend, conveniently right outside our flat. We were really lucky with the weather.
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This Week’s Podcast | 2135
Behind today’s 5min of content is about Five hours of work, and about 4.5k words. 3.5k of which I threw away.
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Talking Mechanics and Worlding With Paul Czege | World Running
I spoke with Games Designer Paul Czege abut the emerging concept of World Running. We discuss the end of play as narrative destination + more
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I Probably Need A Stamp Card
I was joking with the endoscopist as she saw me before, back in 2019 that they should have a stamp card program for regulars.
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Power Fandoms | 2134
With Web3 enabled Permissive IP frameworks, Power Fandoms will own, produce and share the value created by their worlds. They are coming soon
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WHAT PUNK ARE YOU?
I was on a panel at Futurecon 2021 on Saturday: ‘WHAT PUNK ARE YOU? Past, Present and Future Trends in Anti-capitalists Science Fiction’
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Noticing the Little Things
It’s not that we are living in end of empire times. It’s that things are now in fact ending.
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A Napster Moment For Collective Storytelling | 2133
Experienced Future shock this week with the launch of three NFT projects: LOOT, The Logged Universe, and Lifeforms. Permissive IPs are coming. If I was a major producer/owner of culture.…
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Upcoming Events: September 2021
I’m speaking at two conferences in September: Futurecon & Ars Electronica. Both events are Solarpunk adjacent, looking forward to them!
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Kill Time
I’m really excited about the new version of Kill Team.
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The Prompt in Interactive Fiction and AI Art | 2132
Sketching out some ideas around the relation between the shared indistinguishable surface of interactive fiction games and using GAN’s to create art. What comes out when I put this thing…
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Mark’s IE6 Metaverse
I can’t belive Facebook showed off the wonders of VR by using a bland cartoon meeting room. Utterly ridiculous. The IE6 of the Metaverse.
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10 Years With a Straight Razor | 2131
Since I have been old enough to do so, I’ve hidden my face behind a beard. Shaving with a straight razor requires the sacrifice of attention.
