I believe it’s important to think about the implications of any trope you’re using, but this one is particularly important.
Originally shared by The Mary Sue
Is there a way to include sexual assault in a TV storyline that DOESN’T perpetuate rape culture?
Originally shared by Daniel Lemire
They grow live bones out of fat cells and transplant them in actual people. It works.
John Ward speaks wisdom. And so do these comic strips.
Making is, indeed, better than complaining. My first semipro sale was of a story I wrote because I read one and thought it could have been done much better. One of my best books has the same backstory.
Originally shared by John Ward
If you do any type of creative work, please click this link. It will help you. It doesn’t matter if you’re an artist, a writer, a programmer, or a stay-at-home parent trying to figure out some innovative way to get your kids to eat broccoli, the comics posted on the linked webpage will help you flip your point of view and see things in a new light. It’s brilliant, brilliant stuff and deserves to be shared with anyone who struggles with these issues.
Here’s the link:
Via Derrick Sanders.
Originally shared by Gennifer Bone
Inclusion matters.
I might try this. Story structure is something I want to improve on.
Sharing to read later.
Originally shared by Larry Panozzo
UBI – Universal Basic Income. Think it’s too socialistic? What if you add a free market on top of it? Thoughts?
Pro – article: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/
Against – article: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436621/universal-basic-income-ubi-terrible-idea?client=safari
Historical – article: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/
Originally shared by Larry Panozzo
Finally, quantum computing is getting less complicated rather than more complicated!
https://futurism.com/a-new-method-for-making-quantum-computers-has-arrived/
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Peter Diamandis would like to introduce you to a new little company called Kernel.
While the article itself undermines its unmodified claim that “Wheatley was the first person of African descent to publish a book,” this is interesting.
Originally shared by The Public Domain Review
Phillis Wheatley, the first ever African-American woman to be published, died today in 1784. Vincent Carretta looks at her remarkable life: http://buff.ly/2gTJLSE
I think my favourite thing about this is that the solutions the algorithms come up with don’t look much like the ones that humans create – they look much more like natural objects.
Combine this with the extremely detailed modelling of reality that quantum computing is poised to make possible, and the world in a few years will look very different from the design future we’ve been imagining.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
“The evolutionary approach is particularly useful in areas where there are a large number of potential solutions — for example, designing new materials.”