Gate No Walls

No Gatekeepers Where There Are No Walls

My cherished Neopatrons and I were discussing the phenomenon of the indie author who goes back to signing with publishers. It's been fascinating to see this regression to the oldpub model the minute some realize the newpub model is obsolete. Falling back on the even more obsolete yet familiar instead…
April 22, 20242 Comments
Final Fantasy VII Test 0

FF7: The 1st Unfinished AAA Game?

One of the stranger zombie memes still circulating in this year of Our Lord 2023 - a time rife with zombie memes - lazily holds that video games are just toys and gaming a mere hobby. A quick look around the cultural landscape soon reveals that notion as reductive. Vdya…
December 21, 202323 Comments
Break Down

The Break Down

Reader Rudolph Harrier comments on a previous post: What makes things worse is that Zoomers have only learned how to deal with existing services. Music sites everywhere are littered with comments of “I heard a song I liked but it’s not on Spotify so how can I listen to it…
December 12, 202313 Comments
Digital Infrastructure Crisis

The Competency Crisis

Admit it. You've noticed. Once-straightforward routines are now frustrating ordeals. What used to be quick errands now stretch into weeks-long hassles. Formerly simple interactions have become convoluted, too often ineffective, exercises in hoop-jumping. Just yesterday, you could take it for granted that the software your job depends on would work…
December 7, 20239 Comments
Twitter X Ban

Burned Book Banned?

A year ago, I went on record speculating that Elon Musk may have bought Twitter to destroy it. If the latest wave of censorship on the embattled platform - including dissident account ban waves and the apparent implementation of a subtler "social credit" style policy are any indication, Twitter's demise…
October 13, 202311 Comments
pornographer

Utah, Louisiana Give Pornhub the Boot

With Satanists congregating in major cities and schools pushing to mutilate kids, it's refreshing to see Conservative lawmakers catching up to private organizations on the smut front. The adult content website Pornhub blocked access in Utah on Monday due to new state laws requiring websites with adult content to verify users' ages…
May 3, 202311 Comments
Civilizational Decay

Civilizational Decay

In the midst of this civilizational decay, it's easy to forget that the gradual but snowballing affronts to human nature that brought us here were billed as steps toward a sexy, gleaming utopia. The myth of progress is as central to the Death Cult as salvation is to Christianity. Which…
March 1, 2023
Nick Fuentes Is Back

Promise Kept

The whole Elon Musk - Twitter saga elicited a lot of comment. From the beginning you had people saying it was all a grift or a publicity stunt. I said last year that Musk's purchase of Twitter would be completed in the fall, and it would take until early in…
January 24, 20235 Comments
A.I. Art 4

Anti-A.I. Astroturf

As I mentioned last time, the upsurge in anti-A.I. art sentiment doesn't seem entirely organic to me. People had been talking about art algorithms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for a while. My friend, author David V. Stewart, even did some videos on A.I. book cover design. Sure, these algos…
December 19, 20228 Comments
A.I. 2001

The Great A.I. Art Debate

As you read this post, a debate is raging on author Twitter about A.I.-generated book covers. Some are hailing these art algorithms as the best publishing innovation since Gutenberg. Others are ... denouncing A.I. as demonic? Or something. To be honest, I can't get a read on the most emphatic…
December 16, 202246 Comments