Beneath Halloween’s commercial gloss, I still feel its ancient magic: harvest’s end, wandering spirits, memories of the dead. The future is uncertain, but the earth turns. The magic is now.
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From Linotype to AI: what can printing’s past teach us about media’s future? @jeffjarvis joins Plutopia to discuss Hot Type, Mark Twain’s costly bet on typesetting, and the possibilities for media built around communities. https://t.co/NTUoed0SRc
@Acyn The actual claim in circulation is about an 8–12% annual growth rate, not GDP being multiples larger, and even that more modest claim is several times higher than anything the U.S. economy has sustained in decades, made at a moment when inflation is already running hot.
* In Memoriam Jim Rutt: Complexity lover, GameB pioneer, worldview explorer. A obituary and honorary profile of his legacy, by Rufus Pollock
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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: If the invading enemy in a film is an alien from outer space, as in "War Machine," does that make it science fiction? Or is it an explosive, mindless action film? https://t.co/1a9sexAjIJ
Marc Abrahams discusses the Ig Nobel Prizes, awards that honor real achievements that make people “laugh and then think.” Also the “Annals of Improbable Research,” a journal that highlights unusual but meaningful work. https://t.co/WXYi5iuknz
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: “Project Hail Mary” sends a mission from Earth to Tau Ceti to solve a cosmic mystery threatening our sun. The fate of two civilizations may depend on an unlikely interstellar partnership. https://t.co/ORPhTPF5f5
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Paradise" season 2 begins on the post-apocalypse surface of earth, where there are a few survivors, and where Xavier Collins has gone to search for his wife Teri. Mayday! https://t.co/1HWVeKPTzb