Tootfinder

Plastics
“And these guys were very common,” [Gibson] went on, taking down a small plastic spaceman:
red, wearing an elaborately earmuffed helmet with an antenna on top.
“These spacemen were dime-store toys at a time
 — which I can actually remember! 
— when cheap plastics were still weirdly novel.
Like Gore-Tex or something.
You’d ask, ‘What is it made of?’ ”
He looked wistful, then thoughtful.
“I’ve decided that one of the most signif…

How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to the strange new world of the present, Joshua Rothman writes.

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can't Help. (ProPublica)
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from my link log —
JavaScript: the first 20 years. (HOPL)
http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/866
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Kyle Dion:
🎵 24/7
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WAIT! AMAZING secret footage just in of the tense negotiations at No.10 between Ker Stürmer and Bleating Streeting:
#FuckKeirStarmer

Horrible. And inexcusable. Is this really what the #GOPCongress supports? Why no hearings?
Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?

Horrible. And inexcusable. Is this really what the #GOPCongress supports? Why no hearings?
Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?

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Kurt Vile:
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Corporate platforms – Google, Meta, Amazon – that now dominate digital life
are far closer to William Gibson's original vision than to the participatory web that briefly flourished between them.
Gibson imagined cyberspace as a space of corporate dominance from the start;
Silicon Valley built the open internet first,
-- then converged on his dystopia anyway.
The difference is that, in Neuromancer, that convergence was the disaster to be resisted.
T…

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Stones Taro:
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