Gen X Science Fiction & Futurism
KMOScience fiction, AI, reflections on turbulent times.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 294 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Difficulty Focusing on Science Fiction from Inside the Singularity
I drove from Northwest Arkansas to Kansas City, Missouri this past weekend for a high school reunion. I don’t drive much these days, which is a blessing. Given the amount of cross-country driving I’ve done over the course of my adult life,...
History is a Prankster
This is the narration of a post to the Getting Over Collapse Notebook reflecting on a March 2020 conversation with James Howard Kunstler. You can find the full text here:
https://c-realm.blogspot.com/2026/09/history-is-prankster-and-ji...
Star Trek at 60
Today is Star Trek Day. The first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series aired 60 years ago today. Yesterday was Seven of Nine Day, by the way: the seventh day of the ninth month.
Star Trek is a big deal to me. Longtime listeners to the...
Hand Me the Dice
This post was originally intended for Immutable Mobiles, a collaboration between KMO and language models. KMO develops the ideas in conversation, commissions drafts, workshops them with other models, and rewrites passages himself. “We” name...
OpenAI Did Nothing Wrong
It makes for a killer headline: AI Agents Escape the Lab, Form a Suicidal Death Cult and Go On Cybercrime Spree.
Is that what happened at OpenAI in July of 2026? If your job is to compete for attention online, it sure makes sense to frame...
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