Critical Nostalgia
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Feral writer. Intergenre. Opstmodern. Hedorahgroove. Smogwave. The Hazeland books. Horror fantasy crime on the streets of 80s LA.
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Love how the Bonaventure still looks like the future. Taken in 2016.
February 11, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Love how the Bonaventure still looks like the future. Taken in 2016.
Another place you can't go to anymore. 6th floor, Hotel Figureoa. Well, you can go there, but it's all been painted white and made contemporary and brother, you can have it. I'll remember it like this, thanks.
February 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Another place you can't go to anymore. 6th floor, Hotel Figureoa. Well, you can go there, but it's all been painted white and made contemporary and brother, you can have it. I'll remember it like this, thanks.
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They don't want a new form of life. They want a slave that will say it's happy to be a slave. That's the ballgame. And once you understand that, you can understand how profoundly anti-life the project is, and how it's never, ever going to work.
The tell that the "AI is alive!" is snake oil is how many of these AI guys are also transphobic, into eugenics and misogynist. And not it's not a distraction, a person who won't believe or doesn't care about a real person saying "I am trans," "I am autistic" "I'm a woman unwelcome in STEM."
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
They don't want a new form of life. They want a slave that will say it's happy to be a slave. That's the ballgame. And once you understand that, you can understand how profoundly anti-life the project is, and how it's never, ever going to work.
Is this shit Herbalife? 'Cause all I see are paid shills holding up the pyramid.
Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.
www.cnbc.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Is this shit Herbalife? 'Cause all I see are paid shills holding up the pyramid.
Everything I've written is eligible...
...to steal your heart.
...to steal your heart.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Everything I've written is eligible...
...to steal your heart.
...to steal your heart.
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Three Robert Tinney artworks, available as Intusoft wallpapers. Not sure when Intusoft comissioned… 70sscifiart.tumblr.c...
70s Sci-Fi Art
Three Robert Tinney artworks, available as Intusoft wallpapers. Not sure when Intusoft comissioned or bought them... early 90s perhaps.
70sscifiart.tumblr.com
March 26, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Three Robert Tinney artworks, available as Intusoft wallpapers. Not sure when Intusoft comissioned… 70sscifiart.tumblr.c...
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Computer Games. Byte Magazine, December 1981. Cover by Robert Tinney.
December 24, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Computer Games. Byte Magazine, December 1981. Cover by Robert Tinney.
Did they take a bribe or what?
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Did they take a bribe or what?
Endgame capital. Own the sector and can't profit in it. You love to see it.
After 40 years of publishing, Harlequin will end its iconic historical romance line in 2027:
#Booksky
#Booksky
Harlequin Is Ending Its Historical Romance Line After Nearly 40 Years - Reactor
The publisher's decision to end its historical romance line in 2027 comes on the heels of controversial changes to its international publishing tactics
reactormag.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Endgame capital. Own the sector and can't profit in it. You love to see it.
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RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.
February 11, 2026 at 7:29 PM
RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.
"Maybe the hype is real."
Yeah, gonna frame that one and hold it up when this all bleeds out. Money only buys thrust, not momentum.
Yeah, gonna frame that one and hold it up when this all bleeds out. Money only buys thrust, not momentum.
February 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
"Maybe the hype is real."
Yeah, gonna frame that one and hold it up when this all bleeds out. Money only buys thrust, not momentum.
Yeah, gonna frame that one and hold it up when this all bleeds out. Money only buys thrust, not momentum.
It's Douthat. Come on.
February 11, 2026 at 7:08 PM
It's Douthat. Come on.
That philosopher in this morning's AI IS DEFINITELY ALIVE article makes me embarrassed for all of philosophy as a discipline. (And let's face it, there's more to be embarrassed about than not already.)
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
That philosopher in this morning's AI IS DEFINITELY ALIVE article makes me embarrassed for all of philosophy as a discipline. (And let's face it, there's more to be embarrassed about than not already.)
Honest question. You're at a show and you've picked up a book. The guy selling the book is also selling printed photograph sets of sites that inspired the book. Decent but minimal packaging, ten photos. How much do you impulse spend on it. Ten? Twenty? Twenty-four?
February 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Honest question. You're at a show and you've picked up a book. The guy selling the book is also selling printed photograph sets of sites that inspired the book. Decent but minimal packaging, ten photos. How much do you impulse spend on it. Ten? Twenty? Twenty-four?
I just find it funny that we're having to relive the drone hysteria that gripped the US right before Biden came into office and Trump promising to open all the UFO files and I'm just tired of this bullshit.
February 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I just find it funny that we're having to relive the drone hysteria that gripped the US right before Biden came into office and Trump promising to open all the UFO files and I'm just tired of this bullshit.
Pricing out possible post/art card sets as a premium thing for the kickstarter and... printing any kind of quantity makes VistaPrint about a billion times cheaper than any other option. Guess that economy of scale is a real thing.
February 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Pricing out possible post/art card sets as a premium thing for the kickstarter and... printing any kind of quantity makes VistaPrint about a billion times cheaper than any other option. Guess that economy of scale is a real thing.
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Assuming that the entirety of my estate doesn't go directly into a landfill, someone may run across a manila envelope with a set of Rooster press photos that I purchased around twenty years ago. I know there's at least two, possibly four, and I believe I have both Paul Williams and Pat McCormick.
February 11, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Assuming that the entirety of my estate doesn't go directly into a landfill, someone may run across a manila envelope with a set of Rooster press photos that I purchased around twenty years ago. I know there's at least two, possibly four, and I believe I have both Paul Williams and Pat McCormick.
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Honestly if you made PONTYPOOL into a video game I'd imagine it having sections like this
word invasion, screenshot, apple II (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/157965/...
February 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Honestly if you made PONTYPOOL into a video game I'd imagine it having sections like this
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The Car (1977) Elliot Silverstein
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The Car (1977) Elliot Silverstein
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"This hard-SF masterpiece"
Bored. I'm bored already.
Bored. I'm bored already.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
"This hard-SF masterpiece"
Bored. I'm bored already.
Bored. I'm bored already.
Oh. Wikileaks. Like it was ever a good-faith actor.
Come. The. Fuck. On.
We may as well ask "Where's the good hackers in Anonymous?"
It was all ego-stroking and agendas.
Come. The. Fuck. On.
We may as well ask "Where's the good hackers in Anonymous?"
It was all ego-stroking and agendas.
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Oh. Wikileaks. Like it was ever a good-faith actor.
Come. The. Fuck. On.
We may as well ask "Where's the good hackers in Anonymous?"
It was all ego-stroking and agendas.
Come. The. Fuck. On.
We may as well ask "Where's the good hackers in Anonymous?"
It was all ego-stroking and agendas.
I have been threatened with a good time and it is not being delivered.
February 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I have been threatened with a good time and it is not being delivered.
ALL OF THESE AIRSPACES ARE YOURS BUT FOR EL PASO
February 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM
ALL OF THESE AIRSPACES ARE YOURS BUT FOR EL PASO
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