Scott Jennings
Harvest of Shame
Trump Administration Wants To Decide What Food SNAP Recipients Will Get - NPR
We're in the William Gibson version of the future.
No flying cars (unless you're Elon Musk). No post-scarcity space communism a la Star Trek. No democracy.
Instead, corporations will supply, to an ever-increasing
FISA, FISA, FISA!
So, let's talk Nunes memo for a moment. Dig in, we're going to go into some detail. Pretend it's a 500 tweet twitter thread, but you know, actually readable.
Essentially, the point of the memo is that the FBI used a FISA warrant to
A Brief History of 30 Years of Objectification of Commander Deanna Troi
I've always enjoyed this cartoon flaying of Star Trek: The Next Generation (a show I dearly love) which among many other things called out the show for having a character who was a woman who was empathetic towards what other people felt as if she was some sort
Let It Go - A Modest Proposal
I gave this presentation as part of a series of microtalks for the Austin IGDA chapter in 2014. Just found it and realized I never posted it here, so enjoy!
I am here to propose a simple heresy for online game developers.
But first, some background.
Online games are really
Star Trekkin' Across The Fanboyverse
Star Trekkin' across the universe, On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk. Star Trekkin' across the universe, Only going forward, and things are getting worse!
-- "Star Trekkin'", Dr. Demento
teH tlhInganpu' pIm!
I *really* like Star Trek. As a kid I watched the
The Failure of the Status Quo
I've been reading Hillary Clinton's latest this weekend. It's quite an interesting read, both for what it says and for how everyone reacts to it.
First, the reaction. There was the insta-reaction, from leaked early copies, that immediately played up where she complained that