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Cool Filmz: Stargate (1994) – A Great Idea Lost in Space
Some movies are better ideas than they are movies. Stargate may be the perfect example. When I reviewed it for CoverUps.com in 2007, I was fascinated by its premise and frustrated by what it did with it. Revisiting that review now, I still feel much the same way: the portal remains irresistible, but the adventure waiting on the other side is not nearly as imaginative as the doorway.
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Cool Filmz: Wag the Dog (1997): Because It Says So on TV
Some old movies age. Others sit patiently until the real world catches up with them. Wag the Dog belongs to the second group. Barry Levinson's political black comedy came out in late 1997, but when I reviewed it for CoverUps.com in 2007, it already felt less like a farce than a field manual for manufacturing reality. Revisiting that review now, the machinery looks dated. The idea behind it does not.
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Quantum Soup: Did We Just Hear Dark Matter Knock?
One strange particle interaction is not a discovery. It might, however, be the most interesting knock on the door in a century-long search.
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Bingham's Notebook: Chapter File — Midas Protocol - Chapter 5 "Book Lovers"
“Book Lovers” begins with Hank trying to decide how to spend a New Year’s weekend he does not particularly want to spend at a party. He considers Seven Springs with Sam Friday, a neighborhood bar for the Steelers playoff game, his brother Jeremy’s keg party, or simply a Blockbuster video and a six-pack. Instead, he wanders into a downtown Waldenbooks looking for a Dean Koontz novel and a quiet way to pass the time.
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The Scratching Post: The Joy Is in the Doing
This past weekend reminded me why I build any of this in the first place. It was the kind of weekend where there were never enough hours in the day, but somehow that did not feel exhausting. It felt energizing. I bounced from football to old friends, from Across Pittsburgh to Scratch Writing, from tinkering with editorial workflows to sitting down behind a microphone and reading another chapter of The Midas Protocol. None of those things, taken by themselves, qualifies as some monumental life event. Put them together, though, and they reminded me of something I have probably known for a long time and occasionally forget: the joy is in the doing.
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The Funny Newz: Claude to Add "Skidmarks" to AI Slop Videos
New AI quality-control system will stamp a literal poop stain on obnoxious, poorly made content so viewers know when they're about to waste 45 seconds of their lives
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Bingham's Notebook: Character Profile — Caroline Friday In The Midas Protocol
Caroline Friday is twenty-one years old in December 1989 and lives with her family in Pittsburgh’s North Hills. She comes from a relatively comfortable upbringing, but she is broke, directionless, and determined to prove that she can build a life without relying on her father or the expanding family restaurant business.
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AI: Would That Be a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
One of Hank Raglan’s favorite expressions in The Midas Protocol is, “Would that be a good thing or a bad thing?” Lately, I have found myself asking essentially the same question about artificial intelligence, particularly as I experiment with using it to expand the world of the Midas Files. My answer is increasingly that AI is neither inherently a good thing nor a bad thing. It is a tool, and like most tools, what comes out of it depends heavily upon the intent and skill of the person using it.
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 2: Misbegotten Fortune | Live Reading
The Midas Files: Live Readings continues with “Misbegotten Fortune,” Chapter 2 of The Midas Protocol. Watch the complete chapter, read by author Matt De Reno from Midas Files Mission Control.
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 4: Auspicious Occasions | Live Reading
Join me for this week’s live reading of Chapter 4 of The Midas Protocol, titled “Auspicious Occasions.”
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- The Midas Protocol — Chapter 3: Burger Empire | Live Reading
- The Midas Protocol — Chapter 1: The Gold Box | Live Reading
- Bingham's Notebook: Character Profile — Hank Raglan In The Midas Protocol
- Bingham's Notebook: Character Profile — Addison Moore In The Midas Protocol
- The Scratching Post: I Survived My First Ever Live Stream – But Just Barely!
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