Well-written (duh) analysis by Alex Wellerstein (of nuclear history and NUKEMAP fame), of slow disasters as viewed through the lens of Gibson's "Jackpot" trilogy: https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-the-jackpot

[bitprophet@social.coop]

Well-written (duh) analysis by Alex Wellerstein (of nuclear history and NUKEMAP fame), of slow disasters as viewed through the lens of Gibson's "Jackpot" trilogy: https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-the-jackpot

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@bitprophet my hole, made for me, etc.

[bitprophet@social.coop]

@SnoopJ I don't like that his blogs are Substack based now, but he's still a great pleasure to read, even his "so here's my life now as an American living in Paris for a year or more" life update bits.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@bitprophet it is also reminding me that there's intended to be a third Jackpot book, and I would very much like to read it.

[bitprophet@social.coop]

@SnoopJ anyway I was semi pleasantly surprised to hear maybe the third book is out this year? but hopefully it's more like The Peripheral than whatever the second one was called, you know, the one that was not good. lmao

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@bitprophet "Agency"! I liked it well enough as a story and what it says about the exploitation of the forked worlds

but I do agree that it wasn't *quite* as compelling to read.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@bitprophet and I'm sure it gets a whole patina of ick when considered from inside of the "this pile of statistics will become god" noosphere