Derek Caelin @Argus@mastodon.technology

My talk, "Tools of Empathy and War, #games and Peacebuilding" is up: https://youtu.be/3ik00x7LiJI?t=249

My lithium battery is failing. 😔

It's almost as if he is totally unaware of how the ongoing wars and instability of the MENA region are the direct result of U.S. policy.

“There’s a lot of sand they can play with,” Trump said of the region. “It’s possibly never going to be very stable.”

He is awful.

House passes resolution condemning Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. military from northern Syria -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tries-to-distance-us-from-chaos-in-syria-says-kurdish-allies-are-no-angels/2019/10/16/7b6c5ac8-f037-11e9-b2da-606ba1ef30e3_story.html

Are China's Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?

China is supposed to be savvy. So why is it throwing a fit about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?

#hongkong

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/10/why-does-china-care-about-daryl-moreys-hong-kong-tweet/600001/

Current #writing challenge - making my character's bureaucratic tendencies sympathetic...

I played about 15 minutes of NeoCab and it seemed to have all the #cyberpunk trappings that get me going. But it also seemed like a experience designed to unsettle me (job loss through #automation, #corporatesurveillance, #depression, etc). I've opted for admiring from a distance now.

Neo Cab video game review
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/reviews/neo-cab-video-game-noir-its-best/

How video #games became an entertainment juggernaut
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/sports/launcher/how-video-games-became-an-entertainment-juggernaut/2019/10/15/251dac87-a670-4ec5-bcd4-868cec317d22_video.html

Chinese app on Xi’s ideology allows data access to 100 million users’ phones, report says
https://wapo.st/2VA8r7v

#surveillancetech

Very odd. Both Psiphon and Tor have stopped transferring data on my phone. Happens both on Wifi and LTE.

This is a stock photo that popped up when I searched for "hackathon". 😂

17,400 words in the book! Our heroine stands before a door out of time.

#writing

It Is Time for the United States to Stand Up to China in #HongKong

Tweets aren’t enough. Washington must make clear that it expects Beijing to live up to its commitments—and it will respond when China does not.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/03/it-is-time-for-the-united-states-to-stand-up-to-china-in-hong-kong/

Oh to be a writer like that.

"Moths dance around the flames. Satellites blood above us. The red landing lights of planes, visible through the crown of the forest looming around and over us."

"Philip Larken famously proposed that what will survive of us is love. Wrong. What will survive of us is plastic, swine bones and lead-207, the stable isotope at the end of the uranium-235 decay chain." - Robert Macfarlane