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March 30, 2021
Review: Agent G – Infiltrator
“The International Refugee Society has twenty-six cybernetically enhanced ‘Letters,’ and for the right price, they’ll eliminate anyone.” Agent G: Infiltrator by C. T. Phipps is a science fiction espionage thriller with underlying themes of cyberpunk trans-humanism. The book description reminds me of the Hitman franchise, but initially Agent G comes across as more of a […]
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March 25, 2021
Facebook: Publishing Platform?
On Tuesday, March 16th, the news broke that Facebook plans to launch a platform for writers to publish content and earn income through monetization tools such as subscriptions. Here’s how Engadget summed up Facebook’s initial offering: “It’s reportedly a free-to-use system that will tie in with Pages, letting you publish live videos, Stories and other […]
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February 15, 2021
The Aftermath of the Other Job
I often joked that the Other Job was eating my life, and that’s why my presence as an author was slowly fading. I did an undeniably poor job of keeping up with friends, staying active in writing groups, and staying on top of schedules for my blog and Patreon– not to mention actually writing books. […]
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January 30, 2021
The End of the Other Job: Escape & Loss
I left the Other Job nearly three months ago. At the time I had immediate plans to write a blog post as a sort of wrap up to the saga of corruption, disaster, and misery that I’ve been chronicling for the last couple of years. I thought it’d be cathartic. I thought I’d know exactly […]
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January 21, 2021
Review: Alpha Bots
Bi-curious Stepford Wives + femme Fight ClubIn a small town where all the women are AI, a corrupt policewoman picks a fight with a drug-cooking housewife, igniting a provocative rivalry that could wind up killing all the men. I stumbled across Alpha Bots on Twitter, and it immediately caught my eye. Interesting author: check. Eye-catching […]
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January 4, 2021
2021 Writing Goals
2021 was a rough year, but in November things began looking up. Among other things I finally left the Other Job, a workplace so incredibly, dangerously, dysfunctional that I wouldn’t have believed it could stay in business if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. I spent November and December coping with residual rage […]
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November 23, 2020
What It Was Like To Be Wild
Not all of us remember what it was like before, but I remember what it was like to be wild. We slipped through the underbrush, searching for berries and stalking plump grouse. We paused, still has death, waiting for the telltale rustle of our prey. The smells of the forest and the whisper of the […]
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October 25, 2020
Facebook: Biased Purveyor of Political Misinformation?
Recently the Wall Street Journal (not exactly a bastion of the left-leaning press) broke the news that when Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of political news, the company’s engineers intentionally designed the system to disproportionately impact left-leaning news outlets. While assuring Mother Jones editorial director for growth and strategy […]
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October 11, 2020
A Shadow Of A Rumor
The whispers in the docks, fairways, and corridors of KEL Port were darker tonight. Up near general intake, where new arrivals to KEL26 were processed, Port Security officers were clustered in small groups muttering amongst themselves. In the cozy noodle shop on Sub-Level B, the little family of Tau-Ceti immigrants weren’t greeting customers with their […]
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September 13, 2020
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
Hello. My name is Leland, and I’m a poor quitter. I’ve worked a string of abusive jobs, and stuck with them far longer than anyone should. My first full time job gave me exactly 4 days off per year; I worked there for eight years. The second is essentially a meat grinder that operates on […]
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