At the end of 2022 I published a post about changes in my social media strategy. At the time, I intended to transition off of Twitter, where I had several accounts. It was already obvious that Elon Musk had no understanding of how to manage a social media platform, and probably did not care in any case, because he had (and still has) other motives. As we can all see, Twitter’s reliability and functional integrity […]
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Silverdale Academy is a spin-off book from New Society. As is usual, Rupert dreamed up Silverdale, and then Belem rubbed his hands in glee and said “I’m going to write about this place”. So off he went, and was soon typing. Now there is a novel in work. In this prologue from Silverdale Academy, Patrick, until recently a run-of-the-mill, bored primary care physician in South Monterey, heads off to his new primary day job at Silverdale. However, it
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I am going to be transitioning off of Twitter as my primary social media platform for myself and Belem Knight. The reasons are somewhat obvious. Elon Musk is busy dynamiting his own business, by encouraging toxic actors and driving away advertisers by arbitrary, capricious and nonsensical decisions. (He is also busy expelling and driving away employees, who are a lot less replaceable than he thinks). The results are already visible, via the re-appearance of assholes
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I have a number of social media accounts on several platforms. I have Facebook accounts (which are currently inactive due to my general dislike of Facebook’s way-too-indulgent approach to insurrectionists, fascists and misinformation promoters). I have accounts under another name at counter.social, a new-generation social medial platform that is a paid project with no spam and no bots. (Yes, this is really true). I have multiple Twitter accounts. One is under this name, one is
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For several years I (Rupert) have been working on a futuristic novel series, with the working title of The New Society. It is set in California and other exotic locales in the time period 2026-2035. During this time period, a mysterious pandemic wipes out 90% of the men in the world. At the same time, the USA splits into three new federations. The society that emerges from the resulting upheavals is rather different. Firstly, it
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