Jay Blanc @jayblanc@awoo.space

Oh, hey, I'm now totally free to re-write The Great Gatsby as a transhumanist space opera. Only I'd have to read The Great Gatsby first. I mean, it probably doesn't take much work to turn the now public domain Gatsby into an interstellar traveling cat-girl right?

Why do I keep getting sucked back into buying the new version of Civ, despite knowing that playing it gives me a headache.

Here's my thoughts on what Unified Memory APU designers like Apple and AMD might be looking to next... With limited ability to add in PCIe lanes on the die, will they start using the Unified Memory as a Massive Mailbox?

Wondering if the Arm Mac Pro might have the same chiplet design with memory soldered into the die, but give you a bank of unpopulated dimms so you can upgrade with really fast OS managed swap memory.

My brain as I was slowly waking up today: Why didn't they make an ALIENS Christmas Special?

What if it's the Creepy Forest Clowns who keep moving the Monolith around?

In a distant future one archeologist will call over to another, "I found another data cache, can you use your file decoder to identify it?", so they'll spend an hour hooking up the decoder to scrape the data from the device, and then she'll push the button and the tinny sound of 'never gonna give you up' will start, and they will be so annoyed because it's the eighth time today.

Wanted to sleep. Now all my neck muscles are hurting. Blargh.

Welp. Majo No Tabitabi - The Journey of Elaina, seemed to be a pleasant Traveling Witch story. And then Episode Three took a sharp turn into "Whoops I got someone killed but guess there's nothing to be done" and "Well, forcing your affections onto a slave girl is okay actually".

Your good news today is that a defunct satellite did not collide with a discarded booster rocket to trigger a catastrophic kessler cascade.

I reorganised my iphone homepage, and I feel so accomplished, I did something today!

Best beans?

Imagine if you made a co-op zombie defence game, and then when no one bought it you turned it into a Battlegrounds game with a hat based economy, and then suddenly you had someone perform a concert in your Battlegrounds game, and now you're a social media platform. And this is all producing horrendous amounts of money so you can never admit you don't know what you are doing. And the giant terrifying multinational that owns you is asking, demanding you make more money. So you sue Apple.

I just realised that in the not too distant future, someone will eventually end up writing a video game patch notice that includes "Fixed: Breast feel haptic feedback exploit that could crush users fingers."

The impending horrors of the Near-Future VR Anime Tiddy Hackable Threat Vectors are not my fault.

Dear Millennials,
We're all very tired, and we're might get cranky once in a while, but we're okay with you just taking over now. Just keep us supplied with updated remakes of our nostalgic media, and we'll be happy. We love you, please take care of the world.
- Gen X

Happy Bastille Day, and remember there's only one way to check if the 1% are made of cake.

As I do the last minute catch-up reading on the Hugo awards shortlist, I am pondering a way of deciding zero-or-more Laurel awards for science fiction writing. Perhaps approval voting on the combined short lists of the Nebulas and Hugos?

It may come as a shock that it was not possible in 2015 to get a broadway production that outright called the founding fathers slave owners.

But I don't want to see white people telling black people they weren't brave enough to talk about slavery.