Hilobrow is serializing The Most Dangerous Game, a 1924 adventure story by Richard Connell that was repeatedly adapted to movies and radio. The story entered the public domain in 2020. I love the idea of re-publishing works like this in serial format online.

It’s time for the State of the World 2020 discussion at The Well. I read this every year, and its worth it for Bruce Sterling’s wry insights alone.

Nick Bostrom is a really interesting guy. His vulnerable world hypothesis has shown up in TED talks, and podcast interviews. And I just found his Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant via the surprise me… link on wiby.me.

“We’ve almost forgotten that links are powerful, and that restraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.”

These Savage Shores is a fantastic graphic novel. Its a beautifully written, gorgeously drawn, masterfully told, gothic tale of the British East India Company and the Mysorean invasion of the Malabar coast.

The NYT has a great piece on the future of the internet. Rather than wallowing in the navel-gazing negativity-morass, this article focuses on the more positive possibilites that may arise from the problems of today.

Cosmic.Voyage: A tilde community based around a collaborative science-fiction universe. Users write stories as the people aboard ships, colonies, and outposts, using the only remaining free, interconnected network that unites the dispersed peoples of the stars

Your Attention is Sovereign

Found via Warren Ellis