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Category: Futures

  • ballad of a con-man

    The times, they are a-changin’.

  • international police cops

    I have long been aware that the reason spam emails such as 419 scams are so poorly written is to filter for, uh, low-information voters, shall we say—those who are more likely to follow the entire phishing chain, if they’re insufficiently (media) literate to recognise the initial contact as spurious.

  • previously unexplored genre substrata

    Next time someone asks you “what is genre, anyway?”, send them to Lucy Sante.

  • directions for the limo driver

    From a longer-term perspective, that even the unhinged instinctive autocrat currently at the helm of the world’s largest economic egregore can be persuaded to blink when confronted with the full stare of the basilisk deity that we have dubbed “the markets” cannot be read as anything other than bad news.

  • two verbs in one

    The verb in question is “to speculate”