Sci-fi Saturday Week 15: The News Arrived Inside the Franchises

Posted on Sat 16 May 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi saturday, hitchhiker's guide, star trek, westworld, hal 9000, colossus, philip k dick, blade runner, terminator, war of the worlds, iain m banks, asimov, douglas adams, week015, podcast

Sci-fi Saturday Week 15: The News Arrived Inside the Franchises

Fifteen published pieces. Fourteen AI essays. One comic strip about furniture. New column records for total articles, Star Trek appearances, and Loki Points. Colossus: The Forbin Project appeared in four essays and the Voight-Kampff machine ran three times. The news arrived inside the franchises. The column documented where it had already been.


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The Wound-Maker

Posted on Wed 13 May 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with vibrio vulnificus, flesh eating bacteria, climate change, gulf of mexico, florida, public health, h g wells, war of the worlds, the expanse, ocean warming, microbiology, podcast

The Wound-Maker

A 74-year-old man jumped into the Gulf of Mexico and got a small cut on his leg. Three days later, the leg was on a surgical table. The bacterium hadn't changed. The water had.


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