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How Many People Think Things Are Doing Well? Go Ahead and Guess — There are numbers, and then there are numbers. I came across one lately that should have made more waves. What percentage of people would you say think the economy’s in excellent shape? Go ahead, guess. Now guess again. Just 1%. That’s not a typo, that’s a real finding. Go ahead…

We’re testing our first version of Pokère and all adventurers get a seat at the table. No Exemplar necessary! — Shuffle’st thine cards and deal! May Mayhem is finishing with a bang, and for Mirandus, get ready for a Tavern Games 48-hour tech test! The main update is our first iteration of Pokère, and we also have a concept of the Wheel of Fate where players can test their luck by winning — or losing…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Today in tyranny we’ve got three stories on the rapidly increasing authoritarian abuses in western “free democracies”. Let’s dig in. 1. Grayzone reporter detained by British counter-terrorism police for doing journalism. The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg was detained by “six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers” who “grilled him for over…

How the World Is Changing — And Will Change — As We Cross Into the Next Phase of Extinction — So the other day on Twitter I asked people what they wanted to ask me, what they wanted me to talk about. Question: Ok — so, like it or not, you haven’t been wrong about what’s happening to the world right now. I’m begging for a timeline of predictions for…

Today we announce the expansion of our substance use disorder grants through an additional $5.7 million in awards. Each grant will address substance use disorder, focusing on at least one of the following themes: access to care, quality of treatment, and youth prevention and early intervention. This second phase of…

How to not get blindsided by your literary agency dropping you — The most explosive news seems to happen when authors are traveling. It also seems to occur in real-time on Twitter. I couldn’t even find a source on this story until a few weeks into the story. I’m going to link my sources throughout the story from YouTube, Locus Online, and…

California Just Became Uninsurable. Are We Getting the Message Yet? — There are headlines, and then there are headlines. I was scanning the news this morning, and this jumped out and slapped me right in the face: The insurance giant State Farm, America’s biggest car and home insurer by premium volume, will halt the sale of new home insurance policies in…

No publisher will ever beat ad-tech at spying, but no tech company will ever understand a publisher’s content better than they do. — Tonight (May 31) at 6:30PM, I’m at the MANCHESTER Waterstones with my novel Red Team Blues, hosted by Ian Forrester. Then it’s Edinburgh, London, and Berlin! Big Tech steals from the news, but what it steals isn’t content — it steals money. That matters, because if we create pseudo-copyrights over…