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By popular demand, video stories are here at Jenna McKenna dot com! “I’m here now” is a 500-word speculative fiction. Set in a near future Florida city, a person with nothing to lose takes a chance on Nowhere.
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Here it is in English Here it is like he wrote it OMFG
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There are Chuck Will’s widows in the cemetery in the spring but it’s usually too loud to hear them. When I do hear them, I know they’re calling me. In north Florida they sing into June. But today might be the only day this year I hear one in Tampa. Here’s the Wikipedia. Here’s a…
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In case you were worried that lives would be lost in the war to destabilize the Middle East and so forth, it turns out that production shocks are the real problem. ‘“One legacy of all this has been the nightmare scenario of the oil that flows through the Gulf being interdicted by an extended and…
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Oh lord folks are mad that Timothée Chalamet told Matthew McConaughey that opera and ballet are irrelevant. Talking about trying to make serious art in film and then worrying if shorter attention-span audiences will buy tickets, Chalamet said he felt torn between the different directions of moviemaking, where you might want to do something slow…
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If you’ve even heard of remittances, maybe you only think of Mexican workers or Cuban exiles sending money home from the United States. But diaspora workers are all over the world and for all the reasons people leave home to find work, the money they send home has a significant impact on the national economy…
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Did you know how precarious water supplies are in the Arabian peninsula? You will. What happens to desalination plants will greatly impact the outcome of the war, but obviously have massive downstream effects all over the world, including here. I invite you to speculate all the ways that could happen.
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Thinking about the US and Israel attacking Iran with no clear (to me) or no clearly communicated end goal, timetable, or strategy obviously makes you speculate. Clearly regime change is one goal even if we say it’s not. Killing the supreme leader in the first round of strikes makes it evident that, as just confirmed,…
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Here’s an industry press release the Sarasota Herald-Tribune ran completely unedited, almost like it was journalism. It’s basically a corporate press release intended for an industry trade publication, but in a general interest publication like a newspaper, it’s like an ad without a target. The fascinating thing about it is the way you can weave…

