Editor and writer at Inverse, contributor at the Beaverton, words in Wired, the Toronto Star, etc. Previously editor and columnist at Cracked. Writer of Shadowrun and BattleTech fiction. Original fiction: amzn.to/3CWFRSI. Rep: Aevitas.
People complain about the beat writers a lot but at least they got addicted to drugs and alcohol like cool people
KotakuYouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green
Good luck to this op-ed writer trying to score with their friend, I assume
Calgary HeraldOpinion: On Friendship Day, reassessing what makes a 'friend' calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Not me. All of my movie write-ups are going to be in the second person from now on.
Manisha KrishnanAuthors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
Tried to have a few deep thoughts on 15 years of Cowboys and Aliens, the movie where there are Cowboys, and also Aliens
15 Years Later, A Forgotten Sci-Fi Flop Accidentally Predicted The Future Of BlockbustersWe laughed at Jon Favreau's 'Cowboys & Aliens,' but every movie looks like it now.www.inverse.comCan't wait for the Bet365 World Cup to have a scandal of some sort, possibly betting related
The GuardianFifa accused of ‘selling the soul of football’ over $20bn plan to sell World Cup commercial rights
I wrote about 🚗🚨🚗MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE🚗🚨🚗, so drop whatever lame thing it is that you're doing and read about 🚗🚨🚗MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE 🚗🚨🚗
40 Years Later, The Worst Stephen King Thriller Is Even More Ridiculous Than You Remember'Maximum Overdrive' asks who made who, but the real question is why anyone made it.www.inverse.comMy proposed solution is that people are allowed to wear them but they all have to look like those giant novelty sunglasses
FuturismToo little, too late?
First Neuromancer teaser looks promising:
I WANT ROOM SERVICE!YouTube video by neonblue2www.youtube.comObviously just parallel thought but I'm proud to be working along the same lines as America's finest cartoonist
Climate crisis: Popsicle consumption no longer looks erotic“I never thought of myself as a public popsicle eater, but now I’m double fisting just to get a few minutes of relief. The only guy to approach me just wanted to know where I bought them, there wasn’t...thebeaverton.comStan KellyDemand Climate Justice!
I wrote about dinosaurs, if you are dino-inclined:
Star Trek Just Murdered The Dinosaurs, But What’s The Real Science?Let's go back to the distant past... of 1980.www.inverse.comThere’s an alternate reality where Mark Carney is putting on a Blue Jays hat right now and he’s trying to look excited even though he’s been torn away from a simulation of his own devising where he explores the impact of making small changes to interest rates
Grant Brisbeewe're dead and this is hell, i know it's not an original thought, but just look at this shit and tell me i'm wrong
Just realised there’s going to be a scene where he eats a humbug for the first time, doesn’t like it, and says, “Bah… what is this?” before someone tells him
Mark HillFinally, a look at earlier moments in Scrooge's life, which A Christmas Carol stubbornly refused to show us
Finally, a look at earlier moments in Scrooge's life, which A Christmas Carol stubbornly refused to show us
DiscussingFilmFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”