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November 19, 2017

The European Pillar on Social Rights

*Without the British around, they’re getting more European. *Euroskeptics are always saying, “Oh well, the Europeans never really do what they say, it’s just symbolism”...

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No “digital media” other than the Stacks

*The ad thing didn’t work out for publishing. Online, or off it. This feels like a set of maneuvers at the last gasp. *I often...

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“Big Tech”

*They were never gonna be the darlings under a Trump Administration, but yeah, these are sinister developments for The Industry. Especially in areas outside the...

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Arduino Grandfather Clock

*That’s interestingly perverse. I wonder how long those electronic works could last, best-case scenario. Getting out the hot-glue gun on Hackaday

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November 18, 2017

Bob Lutz predicts the end of the automobile business

*Bob Lutz, author of this article, used to run product development for General Motors. Not exactly design fiction, more of a cry of doom (…)...

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So Long, Official Future

*Yeah, so much for the consensus narrative. The reasonable future is so dead that even science fiction writers make more sense now by Nils Gilman...

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V. Vale’s RE/Search Newsletter #169, Part Two

RE/Search Newsletter #169, Nov 2017 Part 2 SPONSORSHIP NEEDED! Support independent publishing. Help us keep this newsletter going. For $72 you will receive a website...

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Puerto Rican lived experience, 2017-18

*I’d surmise that the truly heavy Big Unknown is what happens after Puerto Rico gets hit by another Category 4 or 5. Could be 40...

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Sir Tim and his Frankenstein

*It hasn’t killed its Creator and everybody that he knows yet, but it’s getting lots growlier and less rational as the film rolls on. He...

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November 17, 2017

Geoff Ryman knows every African science fiction writer in the world

*Or it seems that way, anyhow. That’s an impressive feat of genre journalism. The African Speculative Fiction Society: http://www.africansfs.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/afric... http://strangehorizons.com/issue/100-... Geoff Ryman is Senior...

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