Mike Murphy-Burton

Watching Mickey17 because I really enjoyed Mickey7, and it bothers me that nobody caught that this movie is set 30 years from now. The universe of the book really doesn't work as a near future story. Tells you right off the bat there's little interest in the sf worldbuilding of it all.

I'll tell you what wasn't on my 2025 bingo card: random senior citizens making thinly veiled violent remarks. I knew there'd be one, of course. But he should apparently watch his ass next time he's on the shuffleboard court.

Sure there's regular old enshittification available on every digital street corner, but if you want the Ultra Pure High Grade stuff, Cineplex's app now plays ads before they let you watch movie trailers.

Another day, another 30 pages of mss review. It ain't always easy - and it's usually painful - to look at something you've made and admit it's fundamentally flawed, but it's necessary work all the same.

Even as someone who's much closer to neutral in the overall use of AI and even genAI, this particular suggested use case is just crazy.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

Random friend boost: If you, like me, just finished @naominovik.bsky.social's lovely story Buried Deep and were looking for another fantasy tale rooted in classical civilizations and mythologies, may I recommend @leeburton.bsky.social's excellent Speaker series, particularly The Lion.

Seize the means of production, distribution, and monetization, m i rite.

Been doing engagement bait without getting maximum payage out of it? Not gonna get the filthy lucre if you keep this up.

Loki was LOSING HIS MIND last night. I spent like 2 hours trying to calm him down. Ludo did not GAF.

Yer gonna regret that, skipper.

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Literally watched a video before I went to the movie where NdGT was talking about how relativity tells us there is no way to tell the difference between force of gravity and force due to acceleration.

Not just TTRPG designers, but...yes.

I just remembered that as soon as the F4 rocket ship started accelerating away from the bad guy, everyone was floating in zero-g, and I spared a thought for poor @neildegrassetyson.com, because that's not how that works.

The most unrealistic part of Fantastic 4 is that nobody ever feeds that baby.

From the most recent CMHC communication. Universal Basic Housing now, please. Developers who can't make money in our most hyper-inflated housing markets don't deserve to be in business.

Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt You can now Venmo the government to try to reduce the massive national debt.

Donald Trump dealing with the US debt the way US citizens deal with medical debt, but also the way that megachurches deal with Getting Money is...something. Very big "Men will do anything to not go to therapy/tax the ultrarich" energy.

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I don't know if it can be done, but every time this happens I'm reminded that it seems necessary to try.

Infrastructure, operations, and payment processing owned by the creators themselves, with a budget for operations (and thus a payment percentage) built around what those creators determine, and policies collectively decided on by the creator-owners.

I will once again bring this up:

The only way I can imagine the itch.io situation not repeating itself forever across the world is for the affected folks - all of them, collectively - to build a collectively-owned operation themselves.

Happy anniversary! My wife and I just celebrated 6 years on the 18th.

D, but also learn from Charlie Day's example and don't drink straight ink, Remy.

I propose more Eganian conflict, where all of life's issues must be solved by inventing a new physics.

I don't love shows like Love is Blind and all that, but I think Dirty Laundry fills that space for me.

Also worth noting - despite my ultimate interest in and hope for the field as a whole - that this guy is another Extremely Rich Dude who got involved with a Brain-Computer Interface company (Kernel, in this case), which probably says something miserable about where things are headed there.

One of the things I have in my backlog is to work on a system that more explicitly supports streaming play. Sort of an AP-first system. I think there are a lot of AP creators playing with different systems, but I don't know how many designers are building for them.

I'd also forgotten, or maybe never realized, how much the "testimony" bits remind me of the Halo ad campaigns.

I'd forgotten how much DNA the first hour of Interstellar shares with Idiocracy. I never know how to feel about that, aside from thinking it is very SFnal.

Oh nooooo.