Make it Ghibli: Howl’s Moving Castle and GenAI SlopBack in 1986 my grandmother — the late, great Diana Wynne Jones — wrote a book called Howl’s Moving Castle. Years later, it was adapted by…20h ago20h ago
Data Center 2035: Sam Altman and “Intellectual Capacity”Is AI getting “smarter”? Are we getting more stupid?Feb 9Feb 9
Telling stories of rapid transitionHuman beings depend on stories. We create meaning by narrativising information and sharing it with others in the form of written texts…Dec 22, 2024Dec 22, 2024
Climate change in contemporary SF games and graphic narrativesClimate change operates on a timescale we’re not good at planning for. Four-year policy platforms aren’t going to cut it.Dec 21, 2024Dec 21, 2024
Another Year of HaikusBecause I began writing haikus in August a couple of years ago, I’m now stuck with an annual retrospective that falls at an odd time.Aug 27, 2021Aug 27, 2021
Reading Ayn Rand in the 21st centuryI’m not a fan of Ayn Rand. Her rejection of altruism, collectivism, and statism in favour of a kind of virtuous selfishness was bleak…Jul 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021
Upland: A Llama-themed Lesson in Game DesignTo Upland’s credit, it does have a certain unsettling realism to it, in part enabled by its blockchain functionality. But it isn’t fun.May 13, 2021May 13, 2021
A Year of HaikusThis year I tried to write a haiku every day. Here are some of them.Aug 27, 2020Aug 27, 2020
Post-publication: the nips, the tucks and the cut-upsPublishing your creations is a funny thing. It means sending them out into the big bad world and inviting both praise and criticism. It…Jul 3, 2020Jul 3, 2020